Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 304, Hammond, Lake County, 12 June 1908 — Page 4
THE TIMES.
Fridav, June 12. 1908.
Laice County Times
including the south Chicago times edition and the gaby eye3 ISO TI3XE3 EDITION, EVENING NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHES BT, THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING AND " PUBLISHING COMPANY. ; .
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door the average husband makes a pathetlo exit orer the back fence.
IN THE GARDEN OF LIES THE BEST POSITIONS ARE ALWAYS SATED FOR THOSE WHO ARE CONNECTED WITH THE WEATHER BUREAU AND FISHERMEN.
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alwsya Intended to promote the general welfare of the public at larffe.
A neighboring exchange finds relief from the public pressure In the following bit of satire: - . "Every newspaper , editor has experience with persona who Imagine that It Is the province of a newspaper to correct all troubles. If the opera house is not properly heated, the publisher Is asked to roast the manager. If the man train . Is late, roast the postmaster. If your boy or girl have been wasting time In school roast the teacher, and roast the school board In good measure. The council should be roasted every time it does anything and roasted again when it fails to act. If your neighbor is more prosperous than you are, the newspaper should an
nounce that he probably got some of his money dishonestly. If a citizen
wins praise for public spirit, "roast
him" is the demand of the little, fel
lows. Ills generosity may be inspired by a selfish motive and a roast will
keep him from getting conceited and
so it goes."
THE SPOLIATING B. & 0. AND C, I. S. & E. RAILROADS. NO SKITTLE-SHARPER OR THIMBLE-RIGGER ever works more dexterously in landing his loot than does a rapacious railroad corporation when it sets about robbing the citizens and taxpayers of a municipality of what belongs Inherently to them. With this object In view a railroad company never takes its victims by the throat and chokes them as does the bold highwayman, but it takes a secret means to do its buccaneering. It works insidiously and cleverly; not at one fell swoop, but quietly and as a thief in the night. Years ago, and not so very many, the city of Hammond saw a harbor In sight, and there was much promise of it at Wolf Lake. The harbor, for reasons that are palpable dud easily understood, was not looked upon with favor by the railroad corporations whose covetous hands have been quietly distraining lands along the Lake Michigan .shore. The years have slipped by and a remarkably state of affairs is revealed near the Indiana-Illinois state line in Lake county. The Baltimore & Ohio and the Chicago, Lake Shore & eastern railroads, not satisfied with their possessions in Lake county, have ignored the fact that a projected harbor exists at Wolf Lake and have almost succeeded in closing up the harbor. They have deposited slyly, enough sand at the mouth of Wolf river to dam If and to completely stop the flow of water into the lake. They have stopped the drainage of hundreds of acres of valuable land in that section until it is a. common sight at most all times of the year to see it flooded or under , water. The greedy rairoads have not ( done this in a day or a night, but have been quietly at work on it for several years. The property owners in that vicinity, the officials of the city of Hammond have been ignored entirely, while the officials of the railroads have been i laughing in their sleeves at the ease with which they are accomplishing their purpose. It remained for Thh Times to apprise Hammond of what ha3 been done by the railroad Dick Turplns and Claude Duvals and the people of Robertsdale and Wolf Lake, property owners, agree that it is high time something Is done to stop the spoliation of lands in that vicinage. It Is not too late to stop the marauding railroad companies. One of these days
Hammond will wake Tip to find all its chances, of getting a harbor sent higher
than Gilroy's knite. The choking up of the river and overflowing of the surrounding lapds can be stopped by an Injunction and it is time for an inves
tigation. " The day for action has risen. The Hammond civic authorities will
be derelict in their duty to Hammond if they permit this unlawful . act to
continue. The city has brought the railroads up with a short turn in the past, -with the iron hand of the law, and can do it again If necessary. This
is not a question that concerns real estate dealers alone, or mnufacturers or business men, or city authorities, or newspapers, but it concerns everyone who has the interests of Hammond at heart. It concerns the future of the city. Other cities in this part of the country are working tooth and toenail, day and night to get a waterway and harbor, while on our very threshold
two thieving railroad corporations are clutching our opportunity and throttling
it Isn't It time to get busy?
"THIS DATE IN HISTORY." June 12. 1665 New York City incorporated. 1802 Harriet 'I Martineau, historical writer, born. Died June 27, 1876. 1842 Dr. Arnold of Rugby died. 1864 Entry of Maximilian and Carlotta into Mexico. .1878 William Cullen ryant, American poet, died. Born Nov. 3, 1794. 1835 President Cleveland Issued a proclamation against Cuban filibustering. 190S General Alexander McCook died. Born April 22, 1831. 1907 Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco . found guilty of extortion.
i "THIS IS MY N5TH BIRTHDAY." i Sir David Gill. Sir David Gill, one of the best known of living astronomers, was born in Aberdeenshire, ' June 12, 1843, and was educated at Aberdeen university. After his graduation he set up a small ; private observatory near the university. Here he pursued his studies for a number of years until engaged to conduct the private observatory of the earl of Crawf ord, and to organize .his expedition to Mauritius to view the transit of Venus. In 1877 he proposed and carried out an expedition to Ascension island to determine the solar parallax by observation of Mars. For his achievements along this line he received prizes from the Royal Astronomica society and the French institute. Subsequently -ha organized sev
eral expeditions and was connected as director with a large number of geodetic surveys, principally in Africa. In 1882 he photographed the great comet, and pointed out the desirability of using photography for cataloguing stars. In 1S96 he was sent by the British government on a mission to Berlin to arrange the details of a boundary survey between British Bechuanaland and German, Southwest Africa, a work Which was completed under his direction. Since 1879 Sir David has. been the royal astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
Up to the hour of going to press, Harry Darling of Laporte has found the 473d person who was killed by Mrs. Gnnness.
What has become of the man who
simply insisted that the people would
rise in their might and demand that
they wanted four more years of Roose
velt?
. A cynic Is a man In whose soaring heart the milk of human kindness has clabbered.
What Mrs. Gunnens Has Done.
One lone widow with an ax has given Laporte, Ind., more notoriety than even the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line has been able to accomplish. President Miller should have induced Mrs. Gunness "to locate her graveyard
some where on the "Air Line." Air
Line News.
The longer you advertlae a good article In the Times, the easier It la to ell it.
Just watch and see if we are not
right. The Standard Steel Car com
pany will be running inside of a month, though the officials of the company
deny it. ?
It int "grouch' any more, It's "gloom." The proper thing to ask is "where did you gret your gloom)"
We hope that Fairbanks doesn't
withdraw before Hanly gets a chance to "shoot . off" that wonderful bunch
of words he has been accumulating.
When the club comes In the front
It is a long lane, too, in where there is nobody laying for somebody.
A fly carries 250,000 germs on each
foot, so we are told. Remember that when one steps on you with his six
feet-and million and a half microbes.
He's sure to shake some off on you.
IT ALWAYS SEEMS FUNNY TO US
TO SEE A GIRL HANDLE A FOUR
ACRE COLD WITH A FOUR-INCH LACE HANDKERCHIEF.
IN POLITICS
The platform of the coming republic
an national convention Is now In process of construction by close friends
of Secretary Taft and the administration, and in all probability the draft in
the substantial form in which it will
be presented to the convention for adoption will be ready before the gathering is called to order next Tuesday.
Arrangements for the prohibition na
tional convention to be held next month
at Columbus, O., are rapidly nearing
completion. According to reports to date Georgia, Illinois, California and
everal other states will have favorite
sons to present to the convention as candidates for the presidential nomina
tion.
WITH THE PORT
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
COY MR. FAIRBANKS AND THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION!
t Copyright: 1908: by THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. I
inicaaro ............. .26 St. Louis 27
Cleveland 26
Detroit
New York Philadelphia Boston Washington
.24 .23 .23 ..23 ..18
20 21 22 23 21 24 28 19.
national League. W. L. Chicago 28 10 Cincinnati 28 18 Pittsburg 25 19 Philadelphia 21 20 New York ,....23 22 Boston ..20 25 St. Louis 2 30 Brooklyn , 16 29 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. , , . w. u Toledo .30 20 Indianapolis .. 31 21 Louisville 31 22 Columbus 27 26 Minneapolis 23 23 Milwaukee 24 27 Kansas City 24 28 St. Paul 14 37
CENTRAL LEAGUE.
urand Rapids 28 14
uayton 25 South Bend 23 Evansvllle 22 Zanesvllle ........... .19 Terre Haute 17 Fort Wayne 16 Wheeling ..10
16 16 20 21 23 23 27
Pet. JUGS .583 .542 .511 .511 .489 .440 .383
Pet. .631 .591 .568 .512 .511 .444 .400 .356
Pet. .600 .696 .585 .509 .600 .471 .462 .275
.667 .610 .590 .624 .473 .425 .410 .270
RESULTS YESTERDAY. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Chicago, 7; Philadelphia, 0. St. Louis, 6; Washington, 3. Detroit, 3; New York, 1. Cleveland. 2; Boston, 0. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Brooklyn, 1; Chicago, 2 (eleven innings). Boston. 5; Cincinnati, 1. Philadelphia, 3; St Louis. 1. New York. 2; Pittsburg, 5. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Columbus, 5-10; Kansas City, 2-1. Indianapolis, 10; St. Paul, 2. Toledo, 2; Milwaukee, 1. Louisville, 4; Minneapolis, 0. OLIVETTES VS. ATHLETICS. Next Sunday the Olivets will line up against the Whiting Athletics. Banks will be on the mound for the Olivets and Lampmen will pitch for the Whiting Athletics. A good game is expected as neither team has lost a game this season. The lineup will be as follows: Olivets Clark, 3b; Barnes, c; Winkler, lb; Nason, ss; McCarthy, cf; Klein, If; Banks, p; Mauch. rf; Grotte, 2b. Athletics Eaton, c; Lampman, p; McCormick, p; Gardner, If; Smith, lb; Langor, 3b; Griffith, 2b; Claxton, ss; Doboise, rf. GLOOM AT HAMILTON.
It is reported that Congressman Wil
liam B. McKinley, the . manager of
Seapker Cannon's presidential boom,
may get into the contest for the republican nomination for governor of
Illinois. If the report proves true it will add interest to the race, In which
Governor Deneen and former Governor Yates have so far been the only con
testants.
Congressman John A. M. Adair of the Eighth Indiana district was renominated by acclamation by the democratic district convention at Union City today.
Definite plans for the Indiana Democratic club's trip to the national democratic convention at j Denver July 7, have been completed. The club will leave Indianapolis the afternoon of July 4, going to Chicago over the Big P'our line. At Chicago the club's special train will be transferred to the Rock Island road and the journey to Denver will be made by way of Omaha and Lincoln, Neb.
Charles W. Miller should make an able, member of congress and .add strength to the Indiana delegation. He is a man of exceeding industry and conscientiousness, loyal In friendship and in counsel, brave and level headed. There is no doubt that the Thirteenth district will be glad and proud to elect him to Mr. Brick's vacant scat Indianapolis Star.
Governor Hanly, who Is to mako tho speech , nominating Mr. Fairbanks for the presidency, will Joave for Chicago Friday night, accompanied by Mrs. Hanly and the wife of Attornwy General Blngnam. The attorney iteneral, who will address a republican convention In Scott county, Saturday Hft mmn, will go to Chicago Saturday night. VlnnI Fred Gemmer, tho govrnor'u fit-erf tary, who has been c:omm!iorn'ii an as
sistant sergcant-at-arm. Will $ri) f Chicago Friday night. A number of the state officials will go to Chlcugn
Sunday. . ,
STRIKE IS SETTLED
AT WHITING TODAY.
Whiting, Ind.,. June 12. Tho strike
which threatened to tlo up stroft con
structlon in this city yesterday has
been ended. It was a victory for tho strikers and the fifty men who refused to work yesterday unless they got 15 cents more per-day. went back this morning. They now get $1.60 per day, and the trouble might have assumed serious proportions had it con-
Horsemen Who Intended to Ship to Buffalo Are In Quandry. Hamilton, Ont., June 11. The news that the anti-betting bill had passed the New York legislature was received here today by horsemen before the races and there was little talked about but the effect that it will have on racing throughout the country. They were a gloomy lot, as nearly every stable here had figured on ship
ping to Kenilworth course at Buffalo at the close of the meeting and now
the horsemen are In a quandry.
EIGHT STRAIGHT FOR SOX.
Eight straight for the Sox. They applied the bed slat to the Athletics again yesterday, shutting them out for the second time in three days. The young men from the east couldn't have had a rougher trip if they had crossed the Glencoe bumps. While they were fussing around trying to get a man past second base the Sox scored seven
runs.
Fielder Jones was responsible for four of the Chicago tallies. He blew himself to a pair of two baggers, the first one driving in tally No. 1 and the second cleaning up a full house
In the sixth.
RACES ARE NAMED FAMOUS HORSES
New York, June 11. All over-night events at the Sheepshead Bay track have been named after noted racers of the thoroughbred turf. The meeting opens June 19. Names of Rose-
ben, Colin, Brambaletta, the first filly
who ever raced at Coney Island; Peter
Pan, Sysonby and others . have been
used to carry, out the ideas.
.COS WIN:0UT..
New York, June 1. Chicago's world
champion cripples battled - eleven in
nings today to avert another defeat at
the hands and feet of Brooklyn and then won by the score of 2 to 1. After everybody else on the team had failed
to hit, or even drive out a long fly, at
critical times, Lundgren himself sud
denly cudgled the ball fiercely over third base In the eleventh inning and
drove home the run, obeying the time-
honored order "Win your own game.'
SPORTING BRIEFS.
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Umpire Johnstone Is again doing ser
vice In tho National league. He is wearing a steel plate over the wound made by a serious operation several
months ago.
" Dick Wilson says that Dan Patch, t:05'4. will bo one of the pacing stars
of thf yenr. A. Slossborg. the heavyweight cham plon of the United States navy, de
feated Victor McLaglen, the northwest
champion, In four rounds at Tacoma
tho otHer night.
Hut twenty-eight men faced Pitcher
Potter of the Wausau, Wis., team, re cently in a full nine-Inning game.
Denver has a much Improved team this season and looks to be In the race
for the Western League pennant.
Tho Waterloo club is in championship
form and leading the Central associa tlon race.
The Tiroes has a larger circulation
than any other paper printed In t bi
section
ton. prc sid ex T Poam-PtttoswT WILUAM H.TAFT
FOR. 9 RESIDENT POft Via-PStDeHT WILLIAM H.DFT
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THE CREAM OF THE Morning Hews
Talk of Cortelyou for vice president takes an upward turn with the arrival of his assistance, Louis A. Coolidge of Massachusetts. The contest over an anti-injunetion plank in the republican platform, which
is indorsed by the administration, will decide whether the party favors the big stick or the big cigar
Chairman New of the national com
mittee learns there Is a "leak" from behind the closed doors of the committee's sessions and favors barring the offender from further deliberations.
National committee decides fifty con
tests in favor of Taft and prepares to
settle the remaining disputes today.
Mrs. Lafayette Young of Iowa, who is
here with her husband for the convention, says she has withdrawn from women's clubs and thinks they are becoming an evil.
J. W. Van Cleave, president of the
National association of manufacturers,
says party must not indorse anti-injunction plank.
Fred W. Upham announces that he Is
not in the race for national committeeman from Illinois, and Colonel Frank O. Lowden is left without a rival.
Leaders believe personnel of the new national committee will be more fully in accord with Secretary Taft than the present body. i . - - Thousands gather at mass meetings to urge on Governor -Deneen clemency for Herman Billik High school teachers declare the teaching of reading, spelling and arithmetic in elementary grades a partial failure. Commissioner Hanberg contradicts the claim that the Commonwealth Edison ccmpany was obliged to obtain pole consents form aldermen. William E. Curtis tells of the growth of the Colonel Smith farm in Oglethorpe county, Georgia. Convention of the American Association of Dancing Masters approved a proposition for municipal dancing academies Senate of Monmouth college condemns class play, expressing fear that It may partake of vices of modern theater. Dinner Is given aboard the new liner Chicago In the New York harbor celebrating the first visit of the ship. Secretary Taft and President Roosevelt warn the President of Panama that elections in that republic must be conducted fairly or Uncle Sam will intervene, James B. Forgan, in an address to bankers at Peoria discusses the prosposed guaranteeing of deposits and declares the plan alike unfair to the depositors and to conservatively managed banks. Tariff revision Is discussed at a meeting of the United States senate committee In New York, and plans are made to Investigate the subject German government makes represen
tations in opposition to the proposed
BrlUsn-French-KusElan alliance,
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CONGRESSIONAL LINEUP:
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Republican. First John H. Foster, Evansvllle. Second John C. Chaney, Sullivan. Third (Not named). Fourth (Not named). Fifth Howard Maxwell, Rockville. Sixth William O. Barnard, Newcastle. Seventh Jesse Overstreet, Indianapolis. ; Eighth N. B. Hawkins, Portland. Ninth Charles B. Landis, Delphi. Tenth Edgar D. Crumpacker, Valparaiso. Eleventh Charles H. Good, Huntington. Twenfth C. C. Gllhams, Lagrange. . Thirteenth Charles . W. Miller, Goshen.
Democratic. John W. Boehne, Evansvllle. William A. Cul'op, Vlncennes. William E. Cox, Jasper. Lincoln Dixon, North Vernon. Ralph Moss. Brazil. Thomas H. Kuhn, Richmond. Charles Korbly, Indianapolis. J. A. M. Adair, Portland. Martin A. Morrison, Frankfort. (Not named). George W. Rauch, Marion. Cyrus Cllne, Angola. (Not named).
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Special to The Times Indianapolis, June 12. Both parties of pradtically all the thirteen districts of the jstate have now nominated their candidates for congress. The democrats of the First, Tenth and Thriteenth districts and the republicans of the Third and Fourth are the only ones yet to hold their convention. It is generally conceded that John W. Boehne, mayor of Evansvllle, will be the democratic nominee of the First. Opposition to him has faded away. MaJ. Menzies of Mt. Vernon, sought to lead a fight against Boehne but the fighting general of southern Inidana and winner of many political battles was licked at the outset so badly that he abandoned his cause. Boehne- is popular with the law and other people of Vanderburg county. He put the lid on Evansvllle and has kept it there. His fame has traveled throughout the district and he probably Is the strongest democrat in the lower tier of counties. Boehne's congressional opponent will be John H. Foster, also of Evansvllle, who has ben renominated by the republicans. Foster does not stand on the same moral ground occupied by Bcehne. The Anti-Saloon league has marked him for defeat and a victory by Boehne over him would not be surprising. ; The fight in the Second will be between Congressman John C. Chaney, who has been' renominated by the repub'icans and William A. Cullop of Vincennes. Judge Cullop Is regarded as a strong man. He won his nomination after several hundred ballots had been cast in a deadlock created by friends of Cy Davis, who made the democratic race two years ago. Cullop was a compromise, candidate and succeeded. It is reported, in uniting a rlisnriranlzpil nartv. . The contest in tho
Second will ba bot from etart to'
finish. Roth state committees will make the district a battle ground. Congressman William E. Cox of the Third, and Congressman Lincoln Dixon of the Fourth, have been renominated by the democrats. The republicans have not yet named their nominees. As both districts are reliably democratic and as disaffection does not' this year exist among the majority, the republicans will not wage much of a fight either in the Third or the Fourth. The Fifth will probably return a republican congressman as Howard Maxwell of Rockvill, is a strong candidate. The democrats had a hard time In finding a man to make the race against him but finally Ralph Moss ot Erazll, consented to make the sacrifice. Moss is a former state senator and a good man, being a farmer of scientific education and much force. During tho two years he was in the general assembly, republicans and democrats alike looked to him for advice on questions pertaining to farm legislation. Moss may surprise the district but the odds now are much against him. The Sixth will be a battle ground as hotly contested as the First and Second. William O. Barnard of Newcastle, has been nominated by the republicans to succeed James E. Watson, nominee for governor, and the democrats have nominated the Rev. Thomas H. Kuhn of Richmond, who made the race against Watson two years ago and who sought the democratic gubernatorial nomination this year. Republicans insist that old wounds in the district have healed over and that Barnard will have easy sailing. Democrats, on the other hand declare that Barnard represents the Watson wing of the party in the district and that he will be fought as bitterly as Watson
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