Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 162, Hammond, Lake County, 27 December 1907 — Page 8

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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES Fridaw Dee. 27, 1907.

OH TRACTION ORDERED SOLD Other Lines Must Go Too is Decree by Judge Grosscup.

LSE Jurist Says Settlement Means That People Have Agreed With 20,000 Interested in Old Lines. Chicago, Dec. 27. The greatest ftf-p It. the settlement of the Union Traction t&ngle was taki-n yesterday when Judge (Jrossr up entered a decree ordering the sale of the properties of the North Chicago Street Kailro;i'l company, the West Chicago Street Hallroad company, ami the Chicago T'ulon Traction company, at noon on Jan. 2", 1C0S. The .sale Is to he conduct"-,! by II AV. Jiishop, who was appointeil a special master by the court, and will be held at the south main entrance to the county court house. An order was also entered instructing the receiver of the property to execute to the Chicago Hallways company a lease of all the lines of street railways operated hy them, which lease Is to extend to Feb. 2, 1027. Wipe Out In Ion Traction. The decreo terminates the existence of the old Union Traction company, and plans for the reorganization will proceed immediately along the lines agreed upon months ago. The Chleago Hallways company expects to acquire the properties, both by lease and by purchase at the foreclosure sale, before It files Its acceptance of the franchise ordinance. It means the lines will receive Improvements made obligatory by franchise ordinance passed by council; the establishment of through routes between the North the the the now ami West and South Sides; the granting of universal transfers; new cars and the general rehabilitation of the old, worn out system. Lawyer fit Lost .ftree. . When the attorneys, who have for months been lighting and clashing in the Interests of their various clients, met In the courtroom of Judge Grosscup In the afternoon, they were for the first time a unit for the final decrees. All the clouds which obscured the traction sky so long had been swept away. In Judge Grosscup's own words, delivered at the close of the session, "The settlement on so largo a scale involving so much feeling Is one of great difficulty. Two Million Get Their Due. "The entry of these orders means that 2,000.000 people, constituting the city of Chicago, have at last come to an understanding with some 20,000 people constituting the creditors, bondholders, and stockholders of the old Union Traction system, whereby the 2,000,000 get what is due them as , community, the twenty odd thousand get what Is due them as a body, and each of the 20,000 gets what is due him as an Individual. "It was the ordinance of last February which made such a settlement possible and the extension granted last September which saved it from disaster. The agreement today practically closes It. CAPITOL WANTS HO LID District Committee Strong Against Dry Town Dry Lobby Working. Washington. D. C, Bee. 27. Prohibition at the national capital is a dead Issue, at least during the present congress, and, notwithstanding the vigorous campaign the temperance advocates will wage this winter, there will be no legislation which will make Washington a "dry" city. In appointing the committee on the District of Columbia, which formulates legislation for Washington. Speaker Cannon selected a large majority of members who live In the large cities so as to secure men with liberal ideas, and whose experience in the government of municipalities will be henolicial to this city. Committee Is I.lbernl One. When the speaker selected this committee it was done without regard to the temperance question, but the members were chosen solely for their qualification, which will enable them to give the national capital a good government. But a canvass of the committee discloses the fact that if the question of prohibition is presented it vi! bo pigeonholed by a large majority. There are nineteen members, eleven of whom are from the large cities and eight from the small towns, three of them being opposed to prohibition. Dry Lobby at Work. A large lobby is maintained here by the prohibition forces, and immediately after the holiday recess its members will begin to bombard the members of the house and particularly the Pistriet of Columbia committee, with a view of forcing some legislation. Hut the anti-prohibitionists lave thirteen votes out of nineteen of the District of Columbia committee, and. in ;s all "wet" signs fail, Washington will for two years longer. b. I High License fur Iiouisvillc. Louisville. Doc. 27. An ordinance inereasinc: the license fee for saloons in Louisville from ?lo0 to$o00 was passed hy the hoard of eouncihuen and will in ail probability be passed hy the board of aldermen and receive tlie approval of the mayor ne:it week.

J. 0. WALSH IS FLAYED

Judge Anderson Criticises the Way the Chicago National Was Run. Chicago. Dec. 27. John R. Walsh met a great defeat in Judge Anderson's court In the federal building yesterday. Nut only was the motion of his lawyers to have a peremptory verdict of "not guilty" rt turned by the court denied, but Walh was c.-riti-is.;d in a merciless manner for the way he ran the Chicago National bank. In a running tire of comment on the salient features of the case Judge Anderson hurled such shots as these at Walsh: . "It looka as if the defendant was trying to serve two masters. "When a bank president begins to deal with himself he is in danger of eeasing to be a banker and of becoming a speculator. "Thi.s court cannot be confused with forms and contracts. "What we want here is the absolute truth. "This testimony shows 'high finance.' The more explanations I hear the worse, things look to me." The day was taken up principally with the arguments of Walsh's lawyers to have the case dismissed on the grounds that the government had not proved that Walsh intended to defraud the bank when he made the loans of the bank's funds to his railroads. Sharply Halted by Court. Attorney John S. Miller began with" the plea that the money was not paid out of the bank, but from Walsh's personal credit. Judge Anderson interrupted him with this statement: "I shall instruct the jury that these credits to the name of Walsh were in reality fictitious credits, and that Walsh paid money over just as effectually as if he had taken it out of the coffers of the bank. The entry of the money to his name was a subterfuge." Mr. Miller then argued that the evidence failed to show that there was no money due these corporations. "Thin defendant had no right to serve two masters," said the court. "He was president of the bank, and it was his duty to serve its interests alone; the bylaws did not give him the right to further his personal interest in companies controlled by himself." The question of the memorandum notes brought another rebuke. Mr. Miller argued that the evidence did not show them to be fictitious. He said the bank examiners had not questioned them. STATE USJARKINGTON Trial Will be Held Saturday and no Favors Will be Shown Prisoners. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 2G. It now develops that Newton Booth Tarkington, novelist and playwright, who had a rough and tumble street fight with detectives early Christmas morning when they tried to quiet him and send him home, spent an hour behind the bars of the common cell at police headquarters where prisoners are locked up on disorderly charges. It is the rule at the station that such prisoners are rot released until after four hours' confinement, but an exception was made in Mr. Tarkington's case, according to the police, as two friends who came to look after him promised to see that there wa;i no further trouble. Detectives Manning and Famuels say Tarkington has ability as an athlete and gymnast, as well as a writer, and that they never had a harder tussle with a prisoner. Though the author trade a tierce resistance, both officers say they did not employ the usual methods a. proved of in such cases, though they were compelled to use force in subduing him. Detective Manning is still suffering from the kick administered by the author. Kvory effort possible is being made bv the attorney and friends of Tarkington to hush up the affair, but fecial and political circles are whetting their appetites for what is expected to be interesting testimony at the hearing of the case Saturday. His attorney appeared for him this morning. The police declare that under the circumstances no special favors will be shown end that the truth will be told and the matter put up to the court. WOULD DIVIDE PROPEFwTY. Valparaiso, Ind.. Dec. 27. Samuel E. Kigg et al. through their attorney, H. II. luring, have tiled suits in the Porter superior court against Sidney J. Rigg et al. The plaintiffs say that they and the defendant are the sole surviving heirs of the late William Kigg and ask for the sale of ct rtain real estate now occupied jointly by them and in which each of the plaintiffs and defendants have an interest of one-fifth.. They ask that the proceeds of the sale be divided equally among the five owners in order properly to adjust their interests. The case will come up for trial during the February term. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) (ss. Tineas County, ) Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he 1$ the sen or member of the firm of F. J. Chenev i Co.. doing business in the Citv of Tol?do. County and State aforesaid and that said firm will pav the sum" of OXF. HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and e -ery case of catarrh that cannot be c ired by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEV. Sworn to b'fore me and subscribed in mv presence, this 6th day of December, A." D. 1SS6. A. W. GLEASON. (Seal.) Notary Public Hall's Catar h Cure is taken internally, and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testir lonials free. F. J. CHENEV & CO., Toledo. O. Sold bv all druggists. 75c, Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation.

LOOK AFTER PIGS;

1YJ0I BABIES? Mothers Have Right to Demand Federal Aid For Infants. SO DR. W. k EVANS IS QUOTED Prevention of Tuberculosis as Much Government's Duty as That of Hog Cholera. Chicago, Dec. 27. "The mothers of the land have just as much right to demand that the United States government spend money on the health of the children as the farmers that their hogs be cared for," said Health Commissioner W. A. Evans yesterday afternoon In an address before the Baron Hirseh Woman's club. "The government now has 1,700 chemists and bacteriologists engaged in investigating why hogs die of cholera, and why other animals are afflicted with various diseases," Dr. Evans continued. "So long as the world shall last, apparently, the United States Is to be the food producing country of the world, and I don't mean that support should be withdrawn by the government in its expenditure in this direction. The farmers of the land have directed that money be spent in this way but the mothers of the land have their rights, too." Consider I'lann for Sanatorium. The meeting, which was hold in the "blue parlor" of Handel hall, was devoted to a consideration of plans for a sanatorium for Jewish consumptives. the club's newest venture. Heretofore large number of tubercular patients have been sent by the club to Colorado and other western states, but, in the -words of one of the members, "it doesn't seem just the right thing to send them away out there. As many die from homesickness as from consumption." The plans for the establishment are as yet only in a preliminary state, but a vigorous effort to secure funds is to be begun at once. For this purpose the club has enlisted the services of a number of persons experienced in the founding of various Jewish charitable institutions in the city. White I'lngne Greatest Menace. In referring to the sanatorium, Dr. Evans said: "Of all the menaces to our children, and to our population in general, the greatest is the 'great white plague.' Consumption and pneumonia combined are responsible for one-third of the total death rate. "As an economic factor, tuberculosis is particularly menacing. After the first two or three years of the disease, when it has attacked a father, the family unit is entirely destroyed, and the children are found in Institutions and in other less desirable ' places completely scattered." PLAN CITY HOSPITALS At Least Five Emergency Places Will be Established. Chicago, Dec. 27. There is every indication that Chicago within a few months is to have its much needed series of emergency hospitals the absence of which costs at least a score of lives annually. Better still, it is probably that some of them will be established within a few weeks. City officials have decided to remove the too often fatal necessity of hauling dangerously wounded patients across the entire city to the county hospital for treatment. Records at Central police station show scores of cases of victims of the lack of the proposed emergency hospital system. "Died in ambulance on way to county hospital," is a report found at the bottom of death reports every week. Health commissioner Dr. W. A. Evans feels sure that a large number of these lives have been sacrificed needlessly and that they may be saved with the new hospital stations. Five ow I'nder Consideration. If the plan now under consideration by Commissioner Evans and a number of aldermen are carried into execution hospitals will be placed in the following locations: City hall, for shopping and business district; to be maintained in connection with the health department offices. ft police station to be constructed at Madison street and the river, for wholesale district and emergency cases in west part of downtown district. South Chicago, near entrance of Illinois steel mills, to take care of victims of accidents in mills and other parts of South Chicago. Stock yards, near University settlement. Forty-seventh street and Gross avenue, for stockyards cases. North side, location not settled upon, investigation as to the necessity for the hospital on that side of the city to be made soon. At a meeting of members of the Iroquois Memorial association a committee, consisting of R. T. Crane, Health Commissioner Evans, and Modie J. Spiegel, was appointed to work up the plan. Not much was done during the holidays, but it is expected the plan will be worked out before the meeting of the association at Willard hall next Sunday afternoon.

Chesterfield. I have always made the best of the best, and never made bad worse by fretting. Never complain to any one of anything. V

MILLIONAIRE IS KILLED

Ernest G. Stedman Deliber ately Threw Himself Under Wheels. New York, Dec. 26. Ernest O. Stedman, the millionaire lawyer and ral estate operator, cousin of Edmund Clarence Stedman. the poet-broker, was run over and cut to pieces this morning at the Fourteenth street Subway station by a north -hound train. Charles Roufi". the motorman of tintrain and tin- onlv eve-witness to the tragedy who has been found., declared to the police that the millionaire lawyer had deliberately thrown himself under the wheels and that it was a clear ease of suicide. The tragedy occurred during the morning rush hours. Men and women rushed for the exits and dresses were torn an i.l hats smashed in the frenzied stampede to the street. The only reason for the suicide of Mr. Stedman, if suicide it was. which can be advanced by the d ad man's friends Is the recent financial trouble of the J. C. Lyons Building and operating company, of whh h he was vb-e president and treasurer. The Lyons company was placed in the hands of receivers on December 21 by Federal Judge Hoggh. Hue to TlRlit Money Market. Its difficulties were caused by the tight money market and its inability tc meet current bills owed to contractors doing the work of the company. Mechanics' liens to the extent of $100,000 had recently been filed against the concern and it was n the motion or some of these lien holders that the receivers were appointed. Intimate friends and business associates of Mr. Stedman say that his diiliculty in the Lyons company was of minor importance, because he was worth considerably more than a million in his own right, and that his wife was worth as much more. They also declared that the assets of the Lyons company are nearly $7.ooo.fioo, while the liabilities are approximately 3-1.000,000, leaving a balance of $3,000,000 on the right side of the ledger. It is known, however, that the failure of the company, of which he was the financial man, 1ms weighed heavily upon Mr. Stedman anil that he has been greatly depressed since the appointment of the receivers. Samuel Goldsticker, one of the receivers, said today that the lawyer had been completely dazed since his reverses. EX-SENATOR 111 FIGHT Thomas M. Patterson and Editor Fred G. Bonfils in Street Brawl. Denver, Colo., Dec. 26. A warrant was sworn out tonight for the arrest of Fred G. Bonfils, one of the proprietors of the Denver Tost. The warrant was sworn to by ex-United States Senator Thomas M. Patterson as the result of "an encounter between the two men at an early hour this morning, during which Senator Patterson was knocked down and painfully injured. The en counter was the culmination ot a newspaper fight which has been going on for several years between the pro prietors of the Post and Senator Pat terson, who is the principal stockholder of the News-Times Publishing com pany. Senator Patterson says Mr. Bonfils came up behind him and said: "Good morning." When he turned to see who addressed him. Senator Patterson states, he was deat a terrific blow which felled him, after which his assailant beat and kicked him before he could arise. Mr. T?onfils savs he and the senator met and a discussion arose over a threat Senator Patterson had made in the columns of the News to run Mr. v.onfils out of business or put him in the penitentiary. According to Mr Ronfils. Mr. Patterson reiterated the threat and the fight started. Senator Patterson is .0 years of age and Mr. Bonfils is about 44. AGREE TO PAY $40,000 FOR CAR WRECK CLAIMS. GroRnrup and Other Owners of Central Illinois Traction Company Offer settlement. Mattoon, Hi., Dec. 26. Upon the action of Postmaster William Checkley of Mattoon, administrator for two of the dead little sons of William Cole, and for one of those injured in the Interurban wreck last summer, Mrs. I R. Price, hinges the final settlement of the suits for damages which have been filed against the Central Illinois Traction company. Judge Peter S. Grosscup of Chicago is one of the principal owners of the company. The proposed settlement has been arranged on a J40.000 basis. For each of the Cole boys, who were 6 and S years old respectively, $500 is Sllowed. The mother, Mrs. llliam Cole, who is a nervous wreck as a result of injuries sustained in the disaster and the death of her two sons, was allowed ?1.000. Checkley demands for the deaths of the Cole boys $1,000 each, and asks $300 for Mrs. Price, an aunt of the boys, whose nose was broken in the wreck. Bi Fleet of Torpedo Boats. Newport. 11. I.. Dec. 27: The- mobili- j zntion of the larjurt fleet of torpedo j boats, torpedo boat destroyers and uh- i marine torpedo boats in the history of the United States will take place in Narracansett bay in the sprinsr and summer of 1008, the fleet containing fifty of the speedy little craft. THERE AKE SOMK JOBS HXJXTIXO VOL" IS THE VI "A AT COLUMNS TODAY.

HAS MONON BOUGHT

C.H.SD.R.R.SYSTEM? Believed That Present Close Understanding Means Consolidation Later. MAY ENTER INTO OHIO CITIES Lettering on Coaches To Se "Jlonon and C. H. & D" Erie Wants Pere Marquette. While no official statement has been made by the Monon or Cincinnati, Hamilton & Davton railroad officials, it is f V ftpersistently 1 moored that the Motion company will assume control of the greater part of the C, II. and D. system shortly after the first of the year. Local officials have been instructed to look for a change in the Monon and the matter is being widely discussed. It will nu-an much for the Monon, as it will greatly enlarge the system and V give the road a line of its own into! incir.n.iti, also Hamilton, .. and j Springfield. For a year or two the C, H. & 1). and the Pore Marquette have been in the hands of a receiver. The l. association of the two roads has been severed, the receivership is being closed up, and the receiver will be discharged f-1 it n the first of the next vear. For several years the Monon has run its passenger trains into Cincinnati over the C. II. & D. tracks. The two companies have an agreement in the handling of the passenger buslnscs between Chicago and Cincinnati. Under the new arungvments not onlv will Monon passenger trains run into Cin cinnati, but freight trains as well, and they will be crewed by Monon men and drawn by Monon locomotives. The Monon will also have trains between Indianapolis, Hamilton and Springfield, O. This will add more than 300 miles to the Monon system, making a total milage of nearly 1,000. It is understood that the Monon will come into control of all the valuable rolling stock of the C, II. & D. now used by that company between Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Springfield. O. An evidence of the proposed change is the fact that the lettering on the Monon coaches that run into Cincinnati is to be changed. When the coaches come out of the shops the lettering "Monon and C, II. A D." will be absent and the coaches will be painted in the Monon color, with the letter "C. I. & L." on them. The absorption of the C, II. & D. will make the Monon one of the greatest systems In the middle west. While It is becoming the settled conviction that the C. II. & D. Is to be controlled by the Monon, current report is to the effect that the new consolidated Pere Marquette is to be ab sorbed by the Erie after the first of the year. $50,000,000 GARS Railroads Spend Vast Sum on Rolling Stock in Year. Chicago, Dec. 27. Railroads of this iisumi.v auKi vdii.ma nave spent ap proximately nan a billion dollars for rolling stock this year. This covers only the cost of products of car building concerns and does not include cars ana locomotives constructed In the railroad shops. According to the Railroad Gazette the effect of the financial slump will be felt by the car builders next year. Orders for new equipment to be delivered during 190S have fallen off greatly. The total number of cars built In the United States and Canada this year is 2S9.C43, against 243,670 in 1'J06. Of those built this year 2S4.18S were freight cars and 5,437 passenger coaches. The output of locomotives was 7,362 against 6,932 in 1906. Freight cars cost an average ot $1,100, an inI crease of $100; passengers cars, $8,500. an increase of $500; locomotives, $16.000, an increase of from $500 to $1,0,00. Taking these figures as a basis the total expenditure for rolling stock was $477,000,000, an increase of 25 per cent over last year. H. W. SAGER RENOMINATED. Election Is Called for Jan. 6, Although the Full Ticket linn Not Vet lieen amed. C'.iicago, Dec. 27. Hiram N. Sager was renominated for president of the board of trade yesterday afternoon. He has been in the grain trade twentyfour years and is still under 50 years of age. James Bradley, the new nominee for second vice president, is a member of the Union League and Kenwood ciubs and lives at 4744 Madison avenue. Five new directors and five members each of the committee on arbitration and appeals are to be selected. The election is to be on Jan. 6. but the nominations have not been completed. Gueste of Gov. Jackson. Port of Spain. Dec. 27. The captains of the United States battleships and their stafTs were entertained at luncheon by Sir Henry Moore Jackson, the governor of Trinidad, and later Avere the priests of the governor at the horse races. The weather was 'deal. The Tree Above the False. Envy is destroyed hy true friendship and coquetry bj tru love. Eocnofoucauli

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