Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 282, Hammond, Lake County, 16 May 1908 — Page 1

(Hi i WEATHEB. rartly cloudy tonigbt and Sunday with " probable ihowert. EDITION VOL. II- NO. 282. HAMMOND,- INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 1G, 1908. DNE CENT PES COPY.

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Annual Field Games of the Northern Indiana High School Athletic Association Takes Place at Harrison Park Today. GROWN POINT WINS THE DISCUS Hunter of Hammond Wins His Heat in-Hundred Yard Dash Chances Are That Events Will Not Be Finished Until Early in the Evening. LATEST SUMMARY FOR SEVEN EVENTS. 1. Hammond 14 2. South Bend 13 3. Crown Folnt 13 4. Goshen. 8 6. Elkhart . . . 7 0. Plymouth 4 7. Laporte 3 8. Michigan City 1 0. Mlthairaka ... O Eight schools are represented, South Bend, Hammond, Crown Point, Elkhart, Goshen, Plymouth, LaPorte, Michigan City, Mlsbairaka. There Is a bis , ?rowd. of .university men present to . watch the work of the athletes. DISCUS THROW Won by Young of Crowu Point, Eckert of Plymouth, seeadj Wafcleu, "of Elkhart, third. Distance, 102 feet, 7 Inches. This breaks .the Indiana record by one Inch. , . lOO-YABlVDASH ITlrst heat, Honer, South Bend; second head, Hanersteln, 71khart; third brat, Hunter, Hammond. Best time 104. 100 YARD DASH FINALS Koenlg, South Bend, first Hauersteln, Elkhart, third. Time 10 4-5 seconds. MILE RUN KInssley, South Bend, first Vance, Goshen, second Gavlt, .IlammoaU, third. Time 4i48. , . This lowers N. I. H. S. record 11 seconds. 120-YARD HURDLES (Trial Heats) First heat, Klrby, South Bead, first Parks, Michigan City, second time, 20: Second heat, Elliott, Hammond, first Johnson, Crown Pointy second time, 1Si2. HIGH JUMP Dick Goshen, first El liott, second Zimmerman and Root of Elkhart, tie for third.. Height, 5:1. SHOT PUT Young, Crown Point, first Wahler, Elkhart, second; Eckert, Plymouth, third. Distance 42 feet 7 Inches. FINALS, 120 YARD HURDLES Elliott, Hammond, first -Johnson, Crown Point, second Parks, Michigan City, third. Time 17 seconds. All Indications are that the attend ance of the Northern Indiana High school conference meet at Harrison park this afternoon will be the largest that has ever seen an athletic event In this city. The day is a perfect one and the grounds are in splendid condition. It was feared for a time that the rain which has fallen in such quantities during the past few weeks, would make the Held soft but the warm sun of the past few days has dried up the wet spots and the grounds are now in splendid condition. The contestants In both the oratoriContinued on page 2. MISS EDITH CARTER. I 4 1 Hammond Young Lady Who Is Looked Upon as Leader In Contest Held Tonight.

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Government Official Visits Hammond Police Authorities. TOLL OF S4. IS COLLECTED Police Will Search Standard Car 1 ' District for Men Not Wanted. Chlef of Police Fred RImbach of Hammoud believes that Daniel Falkner of the Emigration Bureau In Wash ington, has offered the Calumet region a solution of Its problem of eliminating and controlling the criminal foreign element in his suggestion that the United States government is only too glad , to pay the expenses ot deporting foreigners who have committed a felony and those who may be found to have an incurable disease. Wanted Names of Foreigners. Mr. Falkner visited Hammond a few days ago and informed the chief of police that he would like to have the names of any foreigners who might be deported under these conditions. He said that he would send the chief a copy ol the law at his earliest convenience and that it would be a good way to rid the community of criminal foreigners. It appears that a toll of $4 is collected from every emigrant entering this country and is used for the purpose of paying the expenses of deporting those who are found to be not desirable after they arrive. Gets An Enormous Fund. This fund has grown to such ennormous proportion on account of the remarkable number of foreigners who have come to this country during the past few years that it now amounts to over $5,000,000. The emigration bureau is well aware of the fact that there is a large vicious and criminal element In the foreign population of every city and as long as these funds are available for the purpose of eliminating this class they propose now to use it. This Is thought to be preferable to supporting, thousands of these slough ed off humans- from foreign countries In the jails, hospitals and insane asy lums of the United . States. -; 1 - - ,-- Hereafter when a foreign? r Is con victed of a felony means will be taken to find out how long he has been In this country, where he came from, and on what boat he came over. He will then be deported instead of being sent to jail and the community will be re lieved of the responsibility of support ing him. Mr. - Falkner has gone to Michigan City to make the same report. JOINT MEETING TONIGHT. All members of the W. R, C. and G. A. R. Post are requested to be present at the meeting tonight in Memorial hall as business of Importance will be transacted. The program for Memorial day will be completed at this meeting. The officials of the city of Gary yes terday authorized Chief of Police Martin to prevent the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend lnterurban line from crossing Broadway. The work of laying the rails on this line was made temporary until the company and the officials of the road come to an understanding and the work will then proceed. The reason given by the Gary board for its action is the fact that on account of the great congestion of trafHc at this point the crossing will be dangerous. The tracks of the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend line cross Broadway at a point very near the sub way, under the elevated tracks of the Lake Shore and B. & O. railroads, which leads to the mill site north of the river; Say Crossing Will Be Dangerous. There will a union depot at this point and the large number of worklngmen who will go to and from the mills will make the grade crossing dangerous, especially In view of the fact that both the lnterurban line and Broadway approach each other at a 5 degree grade. The officials of the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend line, however, can not understand why it is that the Gary board did not discover this danger before they were as far along with the work of building the road as they are. As it is, in order to cross Broadway at grade, the lnterurban company was compelled to make a cut through sandbanks of from 10 to 20 feet in order to cross th street at grade. Could Have Added to Hill. If the company had known at the time , it was doing this work that It would be compelled to elevate it could have added to the fill and crossed at an elevation. As it is, before it could cross Broadway on an elevated roadbed it would be necessary to grade the roadbed for a quarter of a mile on either side of the street so that the grade would be one that would be properly climbed. But some reason or another the city

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Hammond Man Climbs the Ladder and Friends ' Are Glad. Mr. J. B. I Hinds, shop accountant of the Chicago, Indiana & Southern Railroad company, with headquarters at the new general office of the Chicago, Indiana & Southern railroad and Indiana Harbor Belt railroad at Gibson, Ind., has been appointed by the Cleveland auditing department as shop accountant also of the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad and will care for the accounts of the two companies, reporting to the Cleveland offle. It Is said that Mr. Hinds takes over about fifteen men who were formerly with Auditor John Stewart, who recently left the service -and which' change was mentioned in the columns of The Times. This gives Mr. Hinds a force of about thirty men who will care for the de tailed accounting for the locomotive, store, car and transportation depart ments of both companies. Mr. Hinds is a resident of Hammond, living with his family on Doty street, and his many friends in this city wish him weTt- is his new position of increased responsibility. He came to this city In the early part of 1906, from Kankakee, 111., where he was formerly in the employ of the old "Three Eye" railroad as chief clerk to Master Me chanic Flavin, who Is the present mas ter mechanic of the Chicago, Indiana & Southern and Indiana Harbor Belt rail roads. FLIPS GARS TOO OFTEN Emil Hahlweg Meets With Terrible Disaster This Morning. Emil Halweg, who has been in the habit of flipping cars . to go to his brother's home on Calumet avenue, in dulged in the pleasure once too often Last night as he was about to jump on an east-bound Michigan Central train he missed his footing and was hurled twenty feet, his, head belp laid open by the fall and his hand ' ed. JTa was stunned for a short uAie and wasstaken to one of the room In; the Huehn.-building. " His, head was bandaged after which he was able to be around again. " V FIRST D!RT IS THROWN The Sister Superior of St. Margaret's hospital at 2 o'clock this afternoon turned the first spadeful of dirt for the excavation of the new hospital. The ceremony was witnessed by but a few of the hospital staff and friends of the hospital. The building will be rushed to completion. officials did not discover the danger in a grade crossing until the grade of the road was established and it was about to begin laying the rails. . Business Man Talks. Druggist J. H. Brennan of Gary, one of the representative busines men of the city said this morning, "I do not know the particulars regarding the interference of the police with the laying of the tracks of the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend line across Broadway. I am, however, opposed to anything that will Interfere with the operation of the C. L. S. & S. B. line. I understand that this company secured a right of way through Gary before the city was laid cut and since that time they have shown every inclination to do the right thing by the city. I believe the line will be a fine thing for Gary.". Would Be Good Thing for City. Mr. Brennan went on to say, "I want to say right here that if the town board of Gary would take as much Interest In compelling the Gary and lnterurban line in which it appears to be interested, to toe the mark It would be a good thing for the city." "They seem to be overly aggressive when It comes to making the Gary Heat & Light company or any company in which the United States Steel company is interested come to time but in the case of the Gary and lnterurban line there have been unsightly piles of dirt in the streets for weeks, at a time and nothing is done to compel their removal." MOTHERS MEETING. The Parents" club of the Central school district met last evening at 8 o'clock in t,he school building for one of the most interesting v meetings of the year. Mrs,. Holland of Bloomington gave an ftddress on the line of child life, which was very much enJoyed by those present. There. was not as large an attendance as had been expected. ,

Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago Street Railway Company Will Get After New Franchises on Hammond's City Streets. ILL BUILD Hi ON COLUMBIA AVE. Company Already Controls Two of the City's Bridges Over the Calumet and Wants to Get Hold of Columbia Avenue Structure as Soon it Is Completed This Summer. The Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago street railway company has formulated a plan to make important extensions in this city, necessitating the securing of franchise rights on new streets. . The company also proposes to secure a franchise In West Hammond for the purpose of extending a line north of Burnham avenue to Hegewisch where It will connect with a new line running directly to South Chicago. I nese tacts were learned from an authoritive source and it is practically admitted by the officials of the com pany that they believe one company should have a monopoly of the traction business in this city in order to serve the community in the best possible manner. ' W'ant Franchise on Columbia. The coaipany is willing that inter urban lines should run through the city but when it come to dividing up th street foF the . cMty 4 with. 'a-competing city line the officials think the plan would be ruinous to both. It is very probable that strenuous effort will be made to secure a fran chlse on Columbia avenue. When the bridge over the Calumet river is com pleted this summer Calumet avenue will afford another means of reaching Hammond from the north. The Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago line already controls two of the bridges in the city and they want to control the third to prevent a competing line from enter ing the city by. this. means. In addition, of course, the company will build a loop line on Columbia avenue from the present terminal of its line In the Standard settlement to Junction point on its East Chicago line at One Hundred and Fiftieth street and Columbia avenue, near the FitzhucrhLuther plant. AVould Have Monopoly. It will be seen what a complete mo nopoly of the streets the local lines would have if the franchise on Columbia avenue Is granted and it will also be seen what splendid service to all parts of the city the company would be able to give if it had this franchise. It is not generally known, but for a long time the Hammond, Whiting & Esst Chicago company has had its eyes on certain streets in West Hammond which It proposed to use as an outlet to Hegewisch. The South Chicago City Railway com pany, with which the Hammond, Whit ing & East Chicago and the Calumet Electric lines are now affiliated, was compelled by the Chicago city council to make an extension from South Chi cago to Hegewisch in order to secure a renewal of its franchise. Want Loop In Business Port. It has therefore become the policy o the company to build a connecting link from the loop in the Hammond business district down West State street in West Hammond to Burnham avenue and thence north to Burnham and Hege wisch. With the completion of this connect ing link " it will be possible to take (Continued on page 2.) MISS MADGE WOODWARD. South Bend's Contestant In Oratorical Contest Tonight at Towle's Opera House. -

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Former West Hammond Justice of the Peace Dies in Minnesota. The remains of William Riley, former Justice of the peace of West Hammond who died In Minneapolis yesterday,- are expected to arrive in Hammond either this evening or tomorrow. . . Judge Riley left for Minneapolis several weeks ago to visit his brother with intentions of asking him for help and get work. .In the meantime he was taken ill and died. His family lives In Hammond at 70 Plummer avenue, and is said to' be in very destitute circumstances. There are seven children, six girls and one boy who is only twenty-two months old. The oldest daughter is IS years old and has been- thrown out of work, and for the present there is absolutely no income to the family. The mother has tried hard to find a little work for herself or one of the children, but has been unsuccessful. Those who know the family express much sympathy for them since they are very respectable and merely the vic tims of unfortunate circumstances. BIG WRESTLING MATCH War Eagle Will Try to ' Throw Carl Anderson and Warner. Hammond will have Its first pro fessional wrestling match at Huehn's hall, Monday night at 8 o'clock. War Eagle, the Blackfoot Indian from Montant, who weighs about 250 pounds in condition, will try to throw Carl Anderson and Ernest Warner three times each In one hour. Anderson is no novice at the wrest ling game. Indeed he said today that he broke into the wrestling gome be fore he did the boxing game. There will be four preliminaries and the contests will begin at 8 o'clock sharp. Malachy Hogan, of Chicago, will referee the bouth. The manage ment states that there ' will be 'noting offensive in the matches and ladies are to be welcomed. - , TRUANT OFFICERS ARE BOTH REAPPOINTED The board of county commissioners at their session at Crown Point this week elected truant officers for the coming year for the north and south ends of Lake county. The truant officer for the north part of the county is the Veteran Thos. A Muzzall of Crown Point, and for the south end of the county, C. C. Pattee of ' Lowell. Mr. Muzzall was In Hammond this morning and declared that the bulk of his work was in East Chicago. The most interesting development in the Gunness murder case at Laporte is the mysterious report that comes from a little western town in the vicinity of Los Angeles, in whih it is stated that nuns in a convent there have discovered that a girl who eame to them some time ago under peculiar circumstances bears a likeness to Jennie Olson. Prosecutor Smith will investigate this story. Nun Tells Strange Story. A nun has confided the story of a strange girl In the convent to him through a letter. He has refused to show the letter to anyone, but is quietly conducting an investigation which he believes will produce the girl within a few weeks. The letter comes from a small town in California. It is near Los Angeles. Papers seldom get there, and for this reason the sisters were long In finding out about the Gunness case. When they did learn of it they wrote here, seeking to establish the identity of the strange girl who" had recently come to them, and who resembles the pictures, published of Jennie Olson. The popular belief that Andrew Helgeleln was the last man murdered by Mrs. Helgeloin . has been somewhat shaken by a letter received today. H is" from Mrs. M. Price of Walnut Hills. Cincinnati, O. Her brother came here on Feb. 5, 1908, with a large amount of money. He disappeared, and has not been heard from. The first of the Gunness victim to be interred with - Christian rites was buried today in Patton's cemetery, on the outskirts of Laporte. The corpse was that of Andrew K, Helgelein of Mansfield, S. D., the last man to meet his death in the trap to which Mrs. Gunness lured her victims. The body was released for burial last evening after Coroner Mack had re1 celved the reports of the BertlMon ex-

SEVEN WILL VIE FOR ORATORICAL HONORS Winners of Various County Contests Compete in Hammond Tonight.

HJUHMOND HIGH IS HOPEFUL Seats Are Nearly All Sold for Eventful Program in Local . School History. Seven high schools of northern Indiana will be represented tonight In the second annual oratorical contest which will be held in Towle opera house." The schools' are: South Bend, Michigan City, Hammond, Laporte, Crown Point, Goshen and Mishawaka. Four boys and three young ladies will strive for the honor for Northern .In diana, each having come out first in their respective county contests. Judging from the titles of the orations each promises to be good one. They are of a higi order, with lofty themes giving large scope for all the fine points in oratory. Herbert LautniaA of Michigan City, son of J. M. Lautman, one of the con testants, was formerly a Hammond boy, but will hard for Michigan City tonight The Hammond high school orchestra will furnish the music this evening playing the opening and closing num bers. Chorus Will Sing. The Hammond high school male chorus will sing during an Intermission of the oration program. , The program is as follows Music Orchestra 'A Remedy for Anarchy Ren F. Drollinger, Laporte "The Mission of a Republic" Orlo Deahl. CJoshen More Regards for the Law" Hazel Smith. Crown Point "The New Patriotism" . Herbert Lautman. Michigan CityMusic Male Chorus Hammond High School "Wendall Phillips" Edith Carter. Hammona "Lafayette" " ,. , Earl Reeder, Mishawaka "Jeanne d'Arc" Report of the Judges. The Judges for the orauorlcal are as follows:, V-:; ' : -.'-: ''''-'". " Thought and composition: Prof. C. H. Gulrney, Hillsdale. ; Prof. A. T. : Belknap Franklin. : . Prof. A. F. Caldwell, De;,Pauw. Judges on delievery; Edgar W. Burrill, Lake Forrest. Albert Sabath, University of Chicago. Emory S. Bogardlus, Northewestern University. BUSINESS MEETING. The Deborah Aid society of the First Christian church met Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Norton for the regular weekly business meeting. A new president, Mrs. C. Richardson, was unanimously elected for the coming year, occasioned by the resignation of Mrs. A. Hann. Following the business meeting a short social hour was enjoyed and refreshments were served. perts, who have examined it and compared their findings with figures 'taken from the records of the Minnesota penitentiary -at Stillwater. - Two 'officials of the Michigan City prison performed this work yesterday, and Edward A. Evans of the Chicago police identification bureau did similar work today. Both reports were to the effect that it was the body of Helgelein, and on this convincing evidence the coroner ordered A. Cutler, the mortician who has had charge of the corpse, to turn it over to Fred Pitner, with whom Helgeleln's brother had left ?200 to defray the expenses of the funeral. The identification, of the piece of Jaw bone taken from the ruins of the Gunness farmhouse as a portion of Mrs. Gunness' skull bears out most conclusively the contentions of the. Btate regarding the identity of U.e bodies found in the cellar on April 28. It is the clinching bit of evidence, which should set at rest all rumora that Mrs. Gunness had escaped." Some relics showing that Mrs. Gunness had made a study of surgical lore were picked up in the ruins today. Charred leaves of books, on which sufficient print, remained to show that the folios were devoted to anatomy, were found. Another ruined book was a treatise on hypnotism.Charles Edmonds, a former employe of Mrs. Gunness, who was supposed to have been one of her victims, was found today. He has been working at a farm only a few miles away from the Gunness place. Coroner Mack again delayed returning his verdict on the Gun n ens bodies today. He said tonight that he is not at all certain as to when he will make formal return of hia findings. The report is not necessary for the purposes of the state, so far as the grand Jury proceedings next week are concerned, nor is the nature ot the verdict of supreme importance. - -

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Hammond Man Says Lake County Board of Commissioners Will Grant Licenses to Saloon Men at Gary This Term. ' BOARD IS FAVORABLE TO LICENSE GRAHT Officials Are Impressed With right Put Up Both Sides, But Are Reluctant to . Establish a Precedent Inimical to " Property Interests Throughout This District. It Is learned here today on what tm considered good authority, that the secret attitude of the Board of County Commissioners of Lake county at Crown Point assembled Is not averso to the granting of license to the saloonkeepers at Gary. MAKES STARTLING PREDICTION It Is predicted by a Hammond man who is close to the powers that he that the -BOARD OF COUNTY COMMIS SIONERS WILL GRANT LICENSES TO THE GARY SALOONKEEPERS. - The remnrkeble , statement oomina; from the. source In which it did, will create a sensation throughout Lake county. .' r . CANT I1E VERIFIED. How much there Is in the statement, it Is Impossible to say for it Is of course Improbable to verify, It with any stats-' ment from the County, C:OmmiiBeKai themselves, who' , besides .being . noncommittal as to the course they wlH pursue, have not signified the prens or public that their minds - are mi.i up as to the decision they will cnak, "OFFICIALS ARE IMPRESSED. , There is no question whatever but that the commissioners have ben forcibly Impressed with the fight put up by the saloonkeepers of Gary : and are disinclined to set any precedent which would 'rob Lake county f hna dreds of thousands of dollars a ycet-. ' (Special to Times.) Crown Point, Ind.. May 16. Th Commissioners made no decision on the Calumet township saloon question "yes terday.. Many witnesses were examined but nothing of decisive value was gained by the lawyers for either side by the questioning. It is said that the responsibility of a decision will bo partly lifted from the shoulders of the commissioners, as whicnever way: they decide the matter will be taken to the highr courts by the losing side. The saloon faction base their hope of winning out, on the present sentiment, of the voters of the township, and the Anti-saloon League "or an adverse decision of the supreme court which held in a recent case that the signature of the majority of the voters at the last election is necessary to make the remonstrance valid and not of some future election. MEET MANY LAKE COUNTY MEN THERE. Frank Ducomb, of Hammond, is- gq- . ing back to Oklahoma in a few weeks , to buy real estate there'. Mr. Ducomb returned from Tulsa, O. T.,last week where he has been on a realty prospecting trip. It was hla first visit there In twenty-four yearss- and he marveled at the changes that had taken place. At Muskogee, he met W.H. Verrill, formerly of Hammond, and Edward Griesel, formerly of Crown Point. Both are prospering nicely. Dr. Ducomb will buy land there and noia it ior tne use which he bellefves 1 unevltable. MISS HAZEL SMTH.'

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