Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 41, Hammond, Lake County, 5 August 1908 — Page 1

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Farmers Report Ruin Of Corn Crop Unless Rain Falls Within Few Days In Lake County

CONDITIONS

AR

E SERIOUS

If Hot Weather Continues Farmer's Work Will Have Been in Vain.

Lake county for the past two weeks has been a baking oven and a glowing furnace of heat. From the Calumet to the Kankakee the torrid rays of the sun have licked up every bit of moisture in the fields and the ground is parched by drouth until the conditions have become critical. Choking simoons of dust blow over the fields and gag the panting earth until the crops are in peril. I'nless the Hun and the skieii relent and the fanners are blessed with a rain within the next few days, condition in the country around about Hammond and Lake eonnty are going- to

be very serious, and for the first time in years the farmer will be faced with the danger of a crop failure. So fur conditions are such that if a rain does not come witbintw or three days all of the crops on the high places In the fields 'will be 7rn I nrd". .1 Already the corn on hlfih clay lands is wilting and it will not take many more scorching days to ruin the crop. The opinion seems to be prevalent, however, that on the bottom lands the crops will be able to go for a week

or perhaps two without any

...... i iivukiiiiisiic inrmer ne Is gen

erally the owner of high land and If you find an optimistic farmer he is invariably the owner of low land. Hut nil of them will be more or less affected by this drought unless It is soon brought to an end by a good rain. Ia Kome sections of the county there have been showers and the crops have lmnufWjwl 1 . . . . .

............ ,, iiirm, iiui nnni me county j -y needs and must have 1 a il.vnr.i i

BRIDGE IS CAUSE OF COMPLAINT

LOCAL COMPANY INTERESTED

Superintendent Fitzgerald Grati fled at the Outcome of Suit in United States Court.

Columbia Avenue Structure Causes Much Dissatisfaction Because of Delay and Property Owners Want It Finished Right Away.

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South Abutment Is Completed But Points Were Given Yesterday for North Abutments and Highr Water " Hakes Construction Work of Slowness. ,

There has been considerable com.

.eaitegen-iPlalnt he " ' T oer,

u ine east side of Hammond on account of the delay in building the Columbir, avenue bridge over the Calumet river.

storm.

Interviews with farmers by long distance reveal the seriousness of the sit

uation.

At the present time the south

mem is completed and last the civil engineer from the

T-1 rt t ,

x-. crwee went nnt tn

sve me points ror the north abut ments.

abut-

Monday office of

the bridge

juage uaxer of the I'ntted States

circuit court at Goshen, in chambers yesterday, Issued a temporary restraining order against the United States, compelling the federal government to recognise a difference between spirits and alcohol. The Hammond Distilling company was one of the six distilling companies in the state who petitioned in the court for the restraining order. John

E. Fitzgerald and Postmaster Gostlin

attended the hearing, having gone to Goshen in Mr. Fitzgerald's White Steamer on Monday. They returned last night long after midnight, having had an exceptionally fine run and good luck. Mr. Fitzgerald, in speaking of the restraining order that had been issued against the federal government by Judge Baker, said: Interfered 'With Trade.

I he restraining order puts us back again to where we were before July 1. when Attorney General Bonaparte ruled that there shall be no distinction between spirits and alcohol, and that the, two grades shall be known as alcohol. "While this ruling would have had little effect on the general public, it made a big difference to the trade,

men recognizes spirits as the highest product of the distillery, while alco

hol In inferior. Injunctions were obtained in Ohio and Illinois against the government, restraining it from requiring the term alcohol for all alcoholic goods, and that left Indiana distillers In a position where, according to Bonaparte's ruling they could only Place alcohol on the market. . The ruU

Tng of yesterday sets us right' with the trad and we can go ahead and make our shipments." ' John E. Lamb of Terre Haute represented the distillers in the injunction petition, while Joseph Keeling of Indianapolis appeared for the government. It was one of those rare cases where the government is restrained from carrying out one of its own orders.

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Aldermen Turn Down Pole Excavation Resolution and Insist That Street Car Company Put in Double Crossing on State Street.

COUNCIL

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DIVIDED

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Street Car Officials Are Present at

Council Meeting But Come In Quietly and Go Away Without Making Any Comment on the Action of the Aldermen.

Explain Reasons For Delay.

I me aDsence of W. F. Bridge th

U. WORKMAN, Llbertv 111 The I Mr' R" Sel has been lack of rain is tnre.ti ex-

this part of the country. If tie first LI Tv, "kLI 6 . ayl In

... . liigu water lnierrerprt within a week the corn, with th ",lerlerea

cabbabe and potato crop will be a fair! which is used to " 5 S":e"n

' vuuticie not needed in the costruction of the abut-

all over

wet get rain

PEARSON ALOW BIDDER New City Barns Contract Will Be Awarded Next Friday.

The Hammond city council at Its reg.

...--,. ug inst nigut cut oil Its nose

. spue us race, and to spite the street car company and the result la that Hammond gets a double car crossing over the railroad tracks on State street a most undesirable feature on the street which already is too narrow. The agreement between the board of public works and the street car company was tabled upon motion of Coun

cilman Lauer, and the prospect of having the business district rid of 43 unnecessary guy poles falls Hat In other words, Hammond'! streets may continue to be adorned with unsightly timber and instead it gets another cross

ing over the railroads on State street. That at a former session of the council the council had pledged Itself to Support th. boa" of pubUQ.worka, in any

action that the board may . take, in ttiir deadlock was not taken into consideration.

Republican State Headquarters Get Eeport That Democrats Will "Throw" Bryan and Sacrifice State Ticket to Get Legislature. TRADING CONDUCTED BY BREWERY AGENTS

Republicans Do Not Believe That

Brewery Agents Want Marshall Half as Bad as They Want the Next legislature to Head Off Temperance Legislation.

one, but It will be ruined if it does

" i'"" time. rne early potato crop was not more than one-half of

normal. At the

ments.

It was

so that the workmen

in the concrete.

air. ;eiee said that th

tL ti, atS haS a,ready been done doe. not appear . T'h,Tt-nr bU!h- to to much but the facts are

present time the corn

vey. the heat is mining th. tv. . " wlc worsmen could

0 . . - v i ' f. iiic ,puc

nap crop nas Den harvested and there

can be no complaint

not running more

els to the acre, and that is far from be- ! n .7, L' " "eIac.t" are

T .i s i. m "iscoi. pan ui ine jod. as in.-t.h.e.!,Cl"ity.f;soon the abutments are finished the

Durmng:Work of erecting the steel will be done r. , . i 1 1 .. 1 i .

m" anu it win not be long be-

rh GERLACII, St. John Township. I portions of a finished structure

ing a good crop,

uniey i'ark the pastures up.

pro-

uur land here is a clay bottom and the heat is drying- the sap out of the corn. We need rain and need it badly. Potatoes promised well, but they are in danger unless we get rain and get it mighty soon. The pastures are get

ting Dare, but if we got a rain would be all right.

they

tiEORGE J. JAIIXECKE, Saxony, Ind. In the spring we had too much rain and that hurt the crops, and now in the fail there is not enough rain and

tnat threatens the crops.

Complted In Another Month. The north abutment will be completed in about another month and then

the progress will be rapid. Already the steel is beginning to arrive and by the time the foundations are ready it will all be on the ground. Mr. Selee said that the government is very particular about the manner in which these bridges are built and a representative of Uncle Sam sees that everything is done right.

xie sajs mat tnere is no doubt that

nlaces tho ... i.J . ' . . mis year

,.ni- V ""-v rumea ana ana it win be opened to traffic before unless we have rain in a week the winter. The approaches, however, will whole crot) will be snnilori Th. i i . . . ' ' m 11

iu.cu nave iu ue put. in Derore the hririirn

win De oi much use to the public.

To George Pearson will. In all prob

auuny De awarded the contract for the

new $5,000 city barns, he having been fill, n .7 I- i , . , . .

iu me lowest Diaaer among

Ave contractors for the job at the ses

sion of the board of public works this morning. The board has, however, laid

awarding of the contracts over until

next Friday. The bids were as follows: Pearson $4,800 Dlckover $6,226 Moser $6,080 Speichert $5,750 Kennedy $6,240 To William Alhborn was awarded the contract for the paving of Towle street with Westrumite and Michigan avenue with macadam. Permission was granted the bulding and trades labor council for the use of Douglas Park for picnic purposes on Labor Day. Permission was also granted the Grand Army Circle Post No. 5, for a lawn social at Central Park tomorrow evening. T. S. Davis having filed a bond as a pulmber, the bond was accepted and placed on file.

Wants To Get. Even. The only thing that the council saw was a chance to get even with the street car company, for past injuries, and instead of taking a half loaf it threw that to the dogs, in order to suck the lemon which State street property owners say the double crossing will be. When the thing was over the council

seemed rather surprised at itself for

having taken the position that it did. A few of them voted against the proposition on general principle; some in order to go back to their constituents with the boast that they again op

posed the street car company, hoping

however, that they would be the minority that the agreement would be ratified and that they would stand as hav-

ubuque, la., Aug. 4. Senator "William B. Allison is e t.

ww CamC thls "ern0n at 1:30 0'c,ock from his residence on Locust street. Where h rtaseaf ni, j ... v.

' xuc ciiu came as ine result of sudden heart -weakness. HiC80deantf thC, 8ftatTe f Dr- H and Lewis, his attending pKSSX ftTii Carer f CORtlaUM V-Q8ressioaal.-erv,ce in th andTh"if0r laftWO yarB Senator Allison had been In declining health', su.nnTer t?C 1088 ' mUCh Ita,ltjr dur,n the months of thf present condTtlon. " nCWS frm hlS hme indlcatins the seriousness of his niehT Thek" aB, Senat0r Alli80n con-ulted a Chicago physician and a fortnight ago the senator went to the country home of Mrs. Fannie Stout a few miles from the city, to escape the torrid heat and secure the benefits of th inTwb alr; He rema'ned at thC hme f MrS- Stout """I iJi slZZy morn! ing, when he was moved back to his city home. th ?UF'"f the last week nurses were employed to care for the senator for the first time since his Illness and this was the first intimation any one had It a change for the worse in his condition. The senators lost consciousness last Saturday and did not recover his mental faculties before his death He had been under the constant care of physicians the last few days. V

PHIL M1AUGHLIN

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crop will be spoiled. The

irttoes ana caDDage can be saved if we get rain In a short time, but they are already showing the effects of the drought.

GI ST STOMMEL, Iyer, Ind. On account of the large amount of low land in the vicinity of Dyer we are not very much in need of rain, although a good showed would not do us any harm. On the high land, south of town, the farmers are greatly in need of showers and the crops are drying up. The valley land between Dyer and Hammond is in good shape and good crops are promised. The oats yield 1.. light, but there is a big hay crop and the wheat Is thrasing out thirty bushels to the acre. The pastures are drying up and a rain would do them good. SAM WOODS, MerrlllvlUe, Ind We need rain badly, but on the bottom

EOADS TO BE REPAIRED SOON. Bngbears to Antoists AViH Soon Receive Attention of Authorities.

E LUMBER GO. GETS A FINE PAIR OF HORSES

GETS NEWMAXWELL Hammond Doctor Acquires Handsome New Convertible Runabout.

Dr. William D. Weis went to Chicago this afternoon to get the new Maxwell runabout which he has just purchased. The machine is one of the best of its make which has yet been sent to this city and is of peculiar design. It is so arranged that it can be con

verted into a regular cab for rainy and stormy weather and In fine weather the top can be taken down and It can be used as an open roadster. The doctor expects to find his new machine very convenient for use in the practice of medicine and will enable

nm to get around very much

quickly than he could in

SUSTAINS

LOSS

Mountain of Manure Costing Thousands of Dollars, is Going Up in Smoke.

AGE MAKES IT VALUABLE ASSET

Colossal Pile on. Fire at Saxony Drives Owner From His House.

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carriage.

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Sheffield avenue and Indiana boulevard, which are a bugbear to the teamster and the chauffer, may be repaired soon and brought back in fine shape. The board of public works and the county commissioners conferred this afternoon on the Improvement of the streets and went over the route. If an agreement can be reached the county will furnish the stone and the city will do the repair work. The commissioners were at East Chicago this morning to look over the work on Forsyth avenue bridge and came from there to Hammond.

IF TOTJ BATH TIME TUR3T TO FAGE T AND BEAD THE WAA'T Ana,

Oscar Hill has Just purchased a fine team of horses which is to be used by the Home Lumber company of this cltv

in its business. Mr. Hill was authorized to go to the stock yards and buy the best team he could find, and he did so. This is the first of several teams Which the lumber company expects to buy before its enormous yards in the

eastern part of the city are opened. The Home Lumber company Is one of the largest lumber companies in Lake county, and enough land has been bought to provide for great expansion in the future. The company is owned by W. H. Gostlin, John M. Beckman, Peter Meyn and A. M. Turner. The company has already sold several carloads of lumber In carload lots, and will do both a wholesale and a retail business.

WILL MOUSE INTEREST

Board of Directors of Ham

mond Business Men's Association to Meet.

A mountain of maaure Is on fire at

rhil Mcl.auKhlln's farm and fca

pouring smoke from its summit. like

n valcano, for three days. Over 20,000 carloads of well rotted fertilizer which

the country. It is the accumulation of a lifetime and while It cost several thousands of dollars it is worth many thousands more. The idea did not occur to Mr. McLaughlin to insure the

manure pile or he would probably have done so. About 25 years ago when the O. H. Hammond company was in full operation in this city Mr. McLaughlin began to have the manure which accumulated in the stock yards sent to his farm. There were two car loads of it sent out every day for 15 years. This means

mat in an mere were 30,000 car loads of this fertilizer sent to the farm and in the past 20 years 10,000 car loads have been spread over his farm or sold

to the neighbors.

There seems to be no way in which

ine underground fire in the pile can be put out by artificial means. Mr. McLaughlin thought of having the Hammond fire department come out to the farm and see what they could do but there is no place nearby where water could be secured and so this plan would be useless. Fortune l"p In Smoke. Day after day for the next few weeks Phil McLaughlin will have to sit idly by and watch his fortune in manure go up in smoke. There is nothing ho

jean do to stop the conflagration.

McLaughlin thinks that he has a good

aid

destruction and nothing but a drenching rain can save it.

omuivc is pouring irom tne sum-

of this enormous pile in such

worth l. cents a yard, Is doomed to;CS8e against the railroad and It is

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"J ""i mat. in me near future he will file a case in the Lake Superior court in which he will demand heavy damages for his loss. & ei.l. t V 1 1 -

j i. i ii i i iii w iirii larmap Will

quantities and has such a terrihis irallrnart fnr n, iMD .sidiary

i - jt. a. j 1 1 u i manure stench that Phil McLaughlin and his; will he one of the most unique cases family have been driven from their which has ever been started in the home on several occasions and had to 'courts of this country- and Phil thinks

mit

The board of directors of the Hammond Business Men's association will meet in regular session tomorrow evening to transact such business as will come before it. There have been many new members added to the list and as soon as the summer season is over the siotu

work of. the organization will begin. There are several matters which it has not been thought advisable to bring before the association during the summer which will 6e taken up later. The officers of the organization arc very much concerned over the lack of interest which has ben shown of late by the members and the board of directors will discuss plans for arousinp intrest In the work which will come uf later In the year

take refuge in the homes of nearby farmers. Sparks Started R Krle Kngine. The fire was started by the sparks from an Erie engine and all day yes

terday the danger of its spreading to the farmhouse, barns and out-buildings

was so great that the Erie railroad i

sent io men out to dig trenches around

jthe house and prevent its being dej stroyed.

The only hope of saving this valuable pile is a drenching rain but it would have to be regular down pour for the fertilizer is burning from 10 to 15 feet underground. The smoke which Is pouring from the burning manure is so dense that It covers all of the surrounding country like a pall. The territory over which the manure is burning covers several acres and Mr. McLaughlin said this morning that he thought it would take a month to burn out all that has been piled up there. Marvel For The Farmers. McLaughlin's manure pile has been one of the marvels of this section of

he has a good suit unless tha

chance of winning his company settles.

LITTLE SON OF GEYEES DIES LAST NIGHT. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Geyer, who are occupying the Ppohn residence at 167 Russell street, died last night and will be buried Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The services will be conducted at the home by Hev. Geo. R. Streeter. Much sympathy is expressed for the parents in their bereavement.

CHED DIES AFTER BUT SH0ST ILLNESS.

Gloria Roderick, the three-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roderick, 520 Sibley street, died yester day noon after a short illness. The funeral took place this afternoon from the house. Rev. W. F. Switzer officiating at the services. Interment took place at Oak Hill cemetery.

Special to The Times Indianapolis, Aug. 5. Reports

have reached the Republican state headquarters that the democrats ia

order to carry the

a- " acocuiU I J have decided to "throw" Bryan, sacrifice the state ticket and trade

ucKet rotes for legislative wherever they can.

It is reported that Marshall is the only one that is to be saved. All other candidates on the state ticket and Bryan and Kern are to be traded whenever and wherever possible. LIQVOR INTERESTS TRADE. The trading, it Is understood. Is to be Conducted by the hundreds of brewery aenta. brewery drivera, saloonkeepers collectors, barkeepers, etc, In the employ of the liquor Interests. But those connected with breweries and saloons are not all. Employes of bottle factories, copperages, stopper makers, etc., are included and everybody that sells things to breweries or to saloons or leases rooms, or in any way Is benefited by the liquor business, directly or Indirectly, will be expected to get behind the democratic candidates for the Hm.s

of Representatives and help push them

inio omce. The republicans understand that

brewers and liquor dealers are not interested particularly in Marshall hr

that they have to give some evidence of being regular and having some politics

bo iney nave decided to stick to the candidate for the governorship, although they will double cross anyone and everyone else, provided the double crossing of him will gain a vote for the legislative candidate. THEY KNOW 0 POLITICS. The liquor dealers know no politics and have no personal preferences among the candidates. They can't afford to have, according to their stand

ard of Conduct. The. lKinnI

ending of the campaign for them Is to elect a general assembly that will not enact a county local option law. In rtality they desire more than this. They would be satisfied to have a legislature that would ketp hands off all temperance legislation but they would be more satisfied still if the new legislature would not only refuse to enact additionl temperance legislation but would repeal some of the temperance legislation now on the statute books. The Moore law is offensive to most of the liquor dealers and a move to weaker. It would be popular with them. Just now, however, it is a fight for present conditions. The great fear Is that af'or next winter the liquor business will be handicapped materially more tdan it is now. IS THE GREAT ISSUE. The temperance issue looming un as

it is to be the greatest single issue of

the campaign is erasing party lines and causing much shifting in the nartv

This is because politics is subto business with the brew

and iiquor dealers of both parties "will forget tariff, imperialism, etc.. this fall and vote for the legislative candidates that can be counted on not to enact any temperance legislation. As far as the other candidates are concerned, he will vote his convictions only after he has failed to negotiate a trade by which his legislative candidate might benefit. As practically all the republican candidates for the general assembly are pledging themselves to their state platform, which among other things promises a county local option law, the brewers and liquor

)aeaiers win De round supporting almost ito the man the democratic le Pisioti,.

candidates. And with those who are not in th liquor business, there will be a similar breaking away from party. Democrats, who believe in law enforcement and temperance, will hardly vote for the men on their legislative tickets. Thy will be conscientious, however, in their voting for other candidates, and will vote "right," so far as politics is concerned. The confusion incident to the mixed lsues has upset calculations and

ranks

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