Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 57, Hammond, Lake County, 24 August 1908 — Page 8

THE TIMES.

Monday, 'August 24, 190S. OUTSIDERS TAKE INTEREST III GARY SECURES COCAINE Man Taken On State Warrant Charging $173,000 Theft From The Government. Mies Isadore Duncan, in Bare Feet, Strolls Along Dear Old Broadway. i FB0I10BUGGISI mBm&Bsmmgmammmitm& Throngs of People Continue to Flock to the Magic ' Steel City. Charles Hall of Gary Starts a Big Scandal in That Place Yesterday. WOMEN INTERESTED Ofl TRAIN KIM VISTIMS Gf DRUG HABIT ' SS'

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Story of the Way in Which Two ladies Propose to Invest in Realty There. One of the features In connection

with the enterprising: city ot Gary is the .great Interest taken in the future steel center by outsiders. Every train Into the city brings with it a curious throng: of people from every section of the country, who come here for the purpose of seeing- the place they have heard so much about through the press and the magazines of the country. It Is a noticeable fact that some, without having made a thorough Investigation cf the city are skeptical of what has been represented to them, but none after having witnessed the result of the past two years of miraculous growth, leave the city without being instilled with confidence in the great undertaking'- , All Flock to City. The widespread knowledge of the city bf Gary is evidenced by a little incident which is unusual in itself. "Whenever a through train arives at Gary the pasengers ipon hearing the station called rush to the "windows, to see as much of the city 'as possible and ply the trainmen with innumerable questions in regard to the city. It makes no difference what distance the person is from he has heard of Gary and Is anxious to know still more about It. This remarkable interest is steadily Increasing as the city grows and furnishes substantial proof of the claims that have been .made for it. A Times reporter entered a Michigan Central coach Saturday at Gary, bound for Chicago. lie was no sooner seated than he was approached by two elderly women who asked him if he knew anything about the new steel town Gary. When he asserted that he thought he knew something about it he was asked so many questions that it would take B volume to reproduce the conversation. After the information had been given them concerning the city, thev ex plained that they were on their way! from Michigan City to Indianapolis and were much interested in Gary. "A short time ago," one of them stated. "I read in the papers of the remarkable city, and the chances for investment and as I Invest most of my money in real estate I read it with particular interest. As I had heard of so many boom towns, however, we did not pay particular interest In it until. In some unaccountable manner received some data from a Gary real estate man. This interested me still more, and when finally I saw the description of the city in the Ladies Home Journal, I was convinced that it must be a good proposition." The women was then presented with a Gary Evening Times, which she took back to Indianapolis with her together with the names and addresses of the largest real estate dealers in the city, and it looked as if Gary was about to have another Investor. GUESTS THROWN PANIC AT GARY Scantily Dressed Guests Flock Down Stairs in Spectacular Parade. W00DR0FF HERO OF BLAZE Soup Gets on Fire and Smoke Fills Big Hostelry to Fear of Transients. The guests of the Gary hotel early Sunday morning were precipitated into a small sized panic about 2:30 o'clock when after smoke was smelled in the corridors, some one rushed through the building shouting ftre.x Those who heard the terrifying warning, scantily dressed themselves and hurried down stairs into the lobby, where they discovered that there was no cause for alarm. MKht Clerk the Hero. John Woodruff, the night clerk, was the hero of the exciting moment. He first smelled the smoke while in the office attending to his duties and began a hurried investigation. He soon found the cause of the conflagration in the kitchen. A kettle of consomme, whfrh had been left on the stove over night had boiled over and the oily liquid had ignited. Seizing the hot kettle with his hands Woodruff, threw it off the Ptove and easily extinguished the burning soup. Softer Some Injnry. The night clerk's hands were painfully burned but he was in no ways seriously hurt. The smoke in the meantime had wended its way into the the hotel lobby, and from there up stairs until one of the employes of the hostelry, supposedly in a dazed condition, caught a whif of it, and quickly spread the alarm. Those who were at all restless, immediately took the cue, and throwing about them any garment that was within their reach, made for the stairway. They then assembled in n'iscellaneous costumes about the clerk's office, where it was explained that the joke was on them, after which npain retired. Many of the guests were not aware of the occurance until yesterday morning.

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Following the arrest at Midnight yesterday of George W. Fitzgerald, former subtreasury teller, on a charge that he stole the $173,000 which disappeared eighteen months ago, the federal authorities last night refused to assume the burden of the arrest and take the prisoner from the hands of th county officials who caused it. Despite this action, the friends of Subtreasurer William Boldenweck, who is behind the move, will go into court today and prosecute Fitzgerald with

evidence gathered through months of They added yesterday to the.ir list know of two accomplices who helped

one of them has made partial admissions. They stated also that they had

proof of hs having stolen the moneys USES THEJROOMSTICK Whiting Woman Has Sewing Machine Agent Arrested Saturday. (Special to The Times). Whiting, Ind., April 24. Quite an exciting experience which happened several weeks ago was brought out Saturday when Mrs. Gazetta Zubay of Xew York avenue appeared at the police station and asked for a warrant for Albert Surraan and John Wright on the charge of assault and battery. Surman and Wright are Singer sewing machine agents, employed by the South Chicago office. A little over three months ago Mrs. Zubay gave them her old machine in trade for a new one, for which she was allowed $15. The rate to be paid was $5 per month, and for the $15 it would not be necessary for Mrs. Zubay to make a payment for three months. . Come For Payment. When the three months were up the men went after the payment. When they saw no money forthcoming they pjeked up the machine and started away with it. Mrs. Zubay went after them with a broom. Surman held the broom so Wright could get away, with the machine. When he thought he ad given his partner ample time to get to the wagon he let go of the broom and he, -too, started on a run. When he got downstairs he was surprised to find Wright stuck between the house with the machine and unable to budge. WieldM the Broom. This gave the angered woman another chance to get them, and before the trouble was ended the machine was badly broken and half of the attachments, which Mrs. Zubay had thrown into the street, were missing. Saturday was the first time the men have visited Whiting since the excitement occurred and Mrs. Zubay, who was watching for them, went to the station and warrants were sworn out for their arrest. They were brought to the station and were placed under $25 bonds to appear for trial on August 26. Their manager came out from South Chicago and signed the bonds and they were released. DINWIDDIE CLAN WILL HOLD ANNUAL REUNION. Fifth of September in the Bate Set For Gathering; of Prominent Lake County People. Lowell. Ind., Invitations are union of the will be held at Dinwiddie, the tember. This Aug. 24. (Special.) ut announcing the reDinwiddie class, which the farm home of Oscar first Saturday in Sepis the fiteenth annual with each year these w more popular. About reunion and gatherings gro 150 cards are time is looked out and a grand good forward to. It yon ean ti-athfnlly say that THB TIMES ta a stood newspaper, please say to to a friend and set him to abaertkt

ii.'.V.'.,jl,.'.-.,.,..,.V.',.i-.-i,Iv,.,i,.,i shadowing and investigation. . of charges the assertions that they Fitzgerald steal the money and that from the government. SCHOOL GIRLROBS BOY Shadows Little Walter Wuthenow and Snatches Purse From Him. (Special to The Times Whiting, Ind., Aug. 24. A most daring holdup occurred at Xew Tork and Fischr-ipp avenue, Saturday afternoon, about 2 o'clock, but instead of being a hard-hearted criminal, as holdups are supposed to be, the crime was committed by a little girl about 9 years old. . Mrs. Walter Wuthenow, who resides on Davidson place, had sent her little son .Walter, aged six years, to the store with a purse containing $2. Girl Shadows Boy. The little fellow noticed a little girl following him from the corner of Davidson place and" John street, but when Fischrupp avenue was reached she was bold enough to come up behind him and snatch the purse containing the $2. The victim began to stamp his feet and cry, but 'before she could be apprehended she had disappeared in the alley at One Hundred and Nineteenth street. The little fellow describes the girl as being about eight or nine years of age, wearing a light dress, black shoes and stockings, and dark hair in two braids. The police are doing their best to get a clew. Mrs. Babcock, After Quarrel With Husband, Hurls Empty Bottle at Him. Whiting, Ind., Aug. 24. (Special) Mrs. Babcock, - who lives at ,11932 Schrage avenue, was saved from a most horrible death Saturday. After having a quarrel with her husband Mrs. Babcock swallowed the contents of a bottle of carbolic acid and after she was through "threw the bottle at her husband. The bottle, as luck would have it, did not contain much of the drug and the' burns received are not Very serious. A physician was summoned immediately and in a few days the woman will be fully recovered. DEATH OF AGED MAN, WELL KNOWN AT HUB. John Helde Passes Away at His Home In Chicago Yesterday. Crown Point. Ind., Aug. 24. (SpecialsJohn Heide, well known throughout Lake county, and having numerous relatives here, died at his home in Chicago yesterday. He was about 66 years of age at the time of his death. Mr. Heide was a brother of Herman- Heide and an uncle of the Lehman's and August Heide of this place. He will be buried tomorrow In Chicago. .

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Bad Blood is Spilled in Broadway Saloon on Saturday Night Over Gambling Game Which Was in Vogue in the Place.

RAZORS ARE jFREELY USED Gary People Wax Wroth Over Repeated Slashing Among Gary's Colored Element and Want the Levee District Cleaned Out of Undesirable Citizens. Another one of those nnsty negro putting; scrapes took place late Saturday niarht In the saloon on Broadway, near KleTenth avenue, known as "I.lttle Hungary." The victim, John Henry Henderson, and the one who assaulted him, Tom Tltt, were engaged according to the story related by Henderson In a gambling gnme In which the stakes were flfty cents apiece when they beon me Involved In the quarrel. Aegro Found on Floor. After the slashing of razors had ceased, Henderson was found lying prone on the floor, a stream of blood running from his face which was cut into ribbons. Six bad gashes were inflicted before the man who committed the assault left his victim and running out the back made made his escape. The police were hot on his trail but were unable to land him. A physician was called at once and dressed the wounds which were not as serious as they appeared. Citizens Wax Indignant. The citizens of Gary are becoming indignant over the cutting scrapes in which the lawless colored element of the city Is becoming Involved. The reason that the feeling has not become greater is because of the fact that in most cases they are confident their trouble to themselves and are not bothering the whites. The mecca of the lawless colored men of the city seems to be the place where the last cutting affair took place, the "Little Hungary," a gambling joint run by one, J. Benjamin Klein. One of City's Eyesores. This place is one of Gary's sore spots. The man has been repeatedly warned to run a respectable place, and has Ignored the city officials in every lawless act which he has perpetrated. The conditions existing In this place has reached such a stage where the proprietor's license should be unconditionally revoked, without further consideration. GOlillTEE CINCHES LABORJAY SPEAKER A. B. Wiser of South Bend, Staunch Labor Unionist, Is to Be in Attendance. PROGRAM OUT THIS WEEK Story of Efforts of South Bend Orator to Unionize Big Plant Which Was Successful. The speakers' committee of the Lake County Trades and Labor council have at last secured the principle "speaker of the day for the great celebration to t-e held in Gary two weeks from today. This man is A. B. Wiser of South Bend, whom they havo been trying to secure ever since the question came up before the council. Mr. "Wiser is the unanimous choice of the union men of the county as well as the committee which has been placed in charge of this work. In Demand ns Speaker. Mr. Wiser gained considerable notoriety throughout the country some time ago when as a machinist employed in a South Bend factory, he was boycotted because he was a union man, by the company. From that time on he stood on the steps of the manufacturing plant and preached unionism until the plant was finally unionized and today Mr. Wiser occupies one of the best pesitions in the company. He is a good fluent speaker and is in great demand throughout the country. Program Soon Ready. , Another man whom they are anxious to secure is John Metz of Chicago, one of the union leaders of Chicago, and a high official in the carpenters local. Although the committee has received no definite assurance that they will have him with them Sept. 7, they feel that they have a good chance to land the well known speaker. It was stated Saturday afternoon that the program for the day had nearly been completed and would likely be published this week.

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JZ ' - s STEEL COMPANY LIKESJLD INDIANA Indiana Steel Co. Thinks Hoosier State is Evidently Promised Land. AGENTS GET A BIG TRACT One Million Dollar Mill Is To Be Built at Stinesville Eight Away,- - That the Indiana Steel company looks upon the Hoosier state as a sort of a promised land is shown by the fact that it is not only building a model city at Gary on the south of the lake but it is also buying up valuable quarry land in the central portion of the state where ;it expects to get Its limestone for use in the blast furnaces. Large Quarries There. The quarries have been purchased near Bioomington and as the Monon is a dinect route to these quarries it is expected that it will get a large amount of tonnage from this source. Announcement is made by the Indiana Steel company that its agents have completed the work of securing abstract deeds and titles to the large tract of land recently bought near Stinesville, in Monroe upon which the company is to erect a $1,000,000 mill. The work of clearing up the titles to the various pieces of land requires more than three months. " Engineer's Work Complete. The engineers have completed the work of surveying the ground upon which forty houses are to be erected. The only delay now is caused by waiting for the chief engineer's plans, which are to come from Kurope. The company has already expended $15,000 in making surveys, core drilling the stcne and other preliminary work. As the result of the company's activity, the little town of Stinesville, already having several good stone quarries, has begun to boom. A newspaper man arrived there last week with a plant, and will at once begin the publication of a weekly paper. BEADY TO NOTIFY KERN. Arrangements Completed for Exercises at Indianapolis Tomorrow. Indianapolis, Auk. 24. The arrangements committee having in chance the notification meeting of John AV. Kern, democratic nominee for vice president, which will be held In the Colls- 4 4 rum at the state fair grounds 4 Tuesday afternoon, today com4 plcted Its preliminary work. 4 William J. Bryan, National 4 Chairman Norman E. Mack, 4 James T. Lloyd, chairman of the 4 , democratic congressional com4 mlttee; Theodore E. Bell, chair4 mnn of the notification committee; Charles Bryan and other members of the committee, as 4 nell as a number of national 4 4 committee members, are ex4 pected this evening from Chicnxo. The Coliseum is a brick stmcture recently completed, which 4 will seat 12,000 with standing 4 room for 2,000 more. 4 Theodore E. Bell of California, 4 chairman of the notification 4 committee, will deliver the ad4 dress formally notifying Mr. 4 Kern, who will respond. Thorn4 as it. Marshall, democratic ean4 didate for governor of Indiana, 4 will address the crowd and WI14 Ham J. Bryan will speak.

C , 5 ' 't' Catholic Priest at Gary Resents the Action of the Merchants. "I will either . reak the Gary Merchant's assoication or they wll break me. I advise you, the members of my flock, to trade out or town until the merchants of Gary change their ideas regarding gifts and appropriations for charity." It was in this scathing manner that Rev. Father Jansen of the Catholic church in Gary denounced the recent action of the Gary Business Men's association, in which they appointed a secret committee which is to pass on all charity projects before the merchants" are to be allowed to contribute towards them. It is understood that a committee, consisting of the twelve directors of the Gary Business Men's association, agreed to meet Father Jarisen last Thursday and explain to him the workings of the new order and although they waited until after 12 o'clock Father Jensen did not appear. Father Jansen said in his sermon yesterday that he did not believe that the members of the church should be throttled in their desires to give for charitable purposes and he disapproved of the action of the business men in every respect. It is not known what will be done by the Business Men's association in this matter, but it will probably be considered at the next meeting Father Jensen seems to be serious in his opposition to the action of the business men and his sermon caused a sensation. No Mistaking Him. "If the office ever goes to seek the man it'll know him when It meets him," says the Eillville Banner, "for he's generally sweeping the landscape with a spyglass, and he locates it ten miles down the road, and saves it the trouble of asking where he lives at!" Atlanta Constitutioo.

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and Druggist Who Are Trafficking In Dope. Throogh the arrest of Charles Hall, a "hanger-on" around Gary, on a eharge of drunk, it was discovered that he was not under the influence ot liquor but that he had secured a quantity of cocaine from a local druggist o a prescription furnished by a Gary doctor, and was under the Influence of tke drug. This discovery has started a bi scandal in Gary and the confession of Hall will give the police the clew to the identity -of the men who are responsible for the sale of "coke" in Gary and the spread of this habit in the new steel city. AVUl Be Sensational. The Gary scandal promises to be even more sensational than the ons which recently was unearthed by The Times in Hammond. It is known that there are a great many victims of the drug habit in Gary, especially among the negroes of that city. It hastbeen a mystery to the pollcs where these blacks secured their dope, and the revelations of yesterday have given them their first clew. A quantity of the drug was found on Hall's person and he showed the police the prescription with which he had secured the dope. It was signed by a well known Gary doctor, and Hall admitted that he had toeen supplied with these prescriptions by this doctor for the past two years. The druggist will probably also be held accountable, for the reason that he must have known that Hall was a dope fiend, and sold the drug to him for the miserable profit he could maks out of an unfortunate. Swears Out Affidavit. Hall has made an affidavit charging both the Gary physician and the Gary druggist with selling the dope, and the police will now be compelled to follow the case to the end. Hall was released but he has promised to appear when he Is wanted as a prosecuting witness. Judge Fitzgerald says that he has determined to have the case investigated from start to finish and an effort will be made to make an example of those who have been responsible for the sale of the dope. The names of the doctor and druggist are withheld for the time being, but if the prosecution Is carried on with the vigor that is promised, the names of the violators of the law will be published as soon as the case cornea to trial. The story is told by a'prominent Gary business man that there are actually scores of negroes who are the victims of the drug, in Gary. It is said that the dope is sold In little vials by a saloonkeeper, who secures it in large quantities from some druggist, and every Monday morning the ground in the vicinity of this saloon is literally covered with these little vials. Police Have Been I. ax. For some reason or another the police have not made an investigation of this matter, although it is generally known in Gary that the sale of "coke" is responsible for a great deal of the criminality which has disgraced Gary from time to time. The disinterested business man, the man who Is not mixed up in municipal politics, is demanding an investigation of condtlons in Gary, and in the face of the recent revelatons are demanding that the traffic in "coke" be stopped. DAV5 OFJjBZIHESS Come to Hundreds of Ham mond People. There are days of dizziness; Spells of headache, sideache, bac!c ache; Sometimes rheumatic pains; Often urinary disorders. All tell you plainly the kidneys an sick. Doan's Kidney Pills cure all kidney ills. Here is proof in Hammond. Mrs. E. Earl, of 408 Michigan avenue, Hammond, Ind., says: "About a year ago I began suffering from kidney disease, brought on by a cold. 1 thought the trouble would disappear In a short time, but instead my condition grew gradually worse. I had dizzy spells and headaches, was easily tired and was bradually breaking down In general health. The kidney secretions caused me much annoyance by their irregular aceion and although I used many remedies, the annoyance did not disappear. I finally began using Doan a Kidney Pills and they afforded ma prompt and genuine relief. I continued their use until I had taken several boxes to be sure that the cure would be permanent. I am certain that there is nothing better to use for disordered kidneys than Doan'a Kidney Pills. They can be procured at Blcknell & Co's. Drug store." For sale by all dealerg. Price SK cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo New Tork, sole agents for the United States. Remember tha same Doan'a , 4ke no other.