Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 67, Hammond, Lake County, 4 September 1908 — Page 1
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HAMMOBD, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1908.
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Governor J. Frank Hanly Calls Special Session Of Legislature At Noon Today
HEAT? ST TT.T.T.R Unvj
A POLITICAL SHELL GAME IS PLAYED
Q.O. P. Leaders After Morning- Ses sion Decide On Important Assembly Session
COUNTY OPTION
TO BE TAKE
UP
Session to Provide For Amending Appropriation Bill to Kpep Balance From Reverting to General Fund.
(Special to THE TIMES.) T -3 : 1 .
iiiuitaapoiis, ind., Sept. 5. 3 p. m. Proclamation for a special session
of the Indiana general assembly to
convene Sept. 18. was Issued at noon today by Governor J. Frank Hanly. The proclamation followed a morning conference of state leaders at which the governor's legislative program was . adopted. This provides for county option .repeal of the Vincenne3 university claim bill and amendment of appropriation act to keep unexpended balances of specific appropriations from reverting to general fund at end of fiscal year. A special session of the general assembly In the midst of a campaign and on the eve of a general election this is almost too much for the politicians
lu oeueve. Jut it is true. Governor
jiamy wisnea it and the republican leaders tffquieseed. The democrats had no say one way or the other. They Rre not represented in the administration. COME FROM ALL, PARTS. Republicans flocked here fast night from all parts of the state. The prominent ones had been summoned by long distance telephone and telegraph. Others came uninvited. They knew there would be great doings and they wished to look on. The leaders, who were
summoned, went into long conference
10 aiscuss the legislative program. T-l -. r-i- 1, . i
-.c.juu; ivuuws mat tne reasons given out are not the real reasons for
calling the extra session. The reasons stated are bona fide, but there other and more potent ones. This was revealed at the conference. Questions
relating to providing protection against the night riders and to appropriating money that the work on new institutions now under construction may not be halted received secondary consider
ation. TKXT OF GOVERXOR'S PROGRAM
The prominent questions had to do
witn county local option, the Vincennes university claim and insurance reform. These are included in what Is becoming to be known as the governor's program. The leaders will probably accept the first and second and reject the third. - County local option will probably be made a party measure in the session by the republicans. This would indicate that the dream of he Anl-Saloon league is to be realized much sooner than the most optimistic temperance man had hoped. There was consternation in political
quarters when it became known that a special session of the legislature was being considered. This was early yesterday afternoon. Republicans and democrats alike were astounded. They had not even heard rumors of such a thing. Employes at the state house and at the headquarters of the two parties knew nothing about it until the extras" were on the street. Even the etate officials, other than those at the conference, were dumbfounded. EVERYBODY WAS AVOM)ERIG. The question on everyone's lins wa
"What is it all about?" They knew of no reason for a special session. They had not heard of any recent depredations by night riders. They did not understand why work on the new institutions could not pause temporarily. Other reasons besides those announced, they argued, must exist. This soon was generally accepted. When it became known that county local option would probably come up for legislative action, the managers of both parties went up in the air like toy balloons. What then, they asked. Is to be the Issue of the present campaign? The passage or rejection of a
them
com
said.
Governor
managers of the
party
the last
county local option bill, they argued, would change the entire complexion of the campaign. GAVE THEM SOME COXCERS. Republicans were particularly concerned, as they realized that the responsibility for the things done and those not done would rest with them inasmuch as they have control of both
lne legislature as well as the executive. Supposing, they argrued. that the legislature refuses to enact a county local option law? How
wm mat comport with the Issue they have raised in the campaign? And supposing, on the other hand, that the law is enacted? Then where is the plat-
vians mat is to carry triumphantly to. victory in the ing struggle?
The rejection of the bill would tend corroborate the democratic charge that the republicans were not sincere in their demands for temperance reform, they argued, while the nMS
-vu.u uiKe county option out of the campaign and leave the party robbed of its strongest card. REFORMS TO BE PIT THROUGH. All this was threshed out at the conference last night and divers persons presented divers' arguments. The leaders, however, were agreed that the reform should be put through and a legislative program embodying them was
""""""J aaupteu. This, It is
perfectly satisfactory to
wanly and to the campaign.
In regard to the Vincennes university
..icw,,,, ii is explained that the
leaders regret the
fe.,f,n assemoiy in recognizing the claim. It will be recalled that Governor Hanly made a strong fight against the bill. He vetoed it with a red-hot message, but the i
sembly, which at the time was at logger heads with the governor, passed the measure over the veto. The law never became effective, however, inasmuch as the governor refused to sign the bonds by which the money was to be raised. It is now understood that the legislature at the coming special session will repeal the act WANTS IXSIRAXCE DEPARTMENTS The governor, it is said, would have liked to push a bill creating a separate department of insurance but, it is said waved this at the suggestion of the party leaders. It will be recalled that the big fight of the resrular ses
sion two years ago was over the Babcock bill, which created a separate in
surance department and divorce,! th
insurance business from the office
the auditor of state.
An extension of the appropriation art
is desired inasmuch as specific appro
priations not expended by Sept. 30 will
I according to a law enacted two years
ago, revert to the general fund. The act designated Sept. 30 as the close of the fiscal year and provided that unexpended balances of specific appropriations should revert biennially on that date to the general fund unless provision is made to the contrary. It. Is now discovered that no special provision was made in connection with the three hundred or more specific appropriations.
MAY REPEAL POLICE LAW.
ihe night riders situation is not critical now but it may become so inasmuch as the tobacco crop is not harvested yet. The experience of Ohio and Kentucky has demonstrated that a state militia is unable to cope with the wild and lawless riders of the night, who burn and murder and pillage at unexpected hours and at unexpected places. The party leaders agree that the governor should be given some wide powers to handle a situation if a serious one should develop. There is talk, too, that the metro-
Opposed to 3Ir. Hi.xKen in the Peerless Prestidigitator of modern poIiticH, whow hnnd Is quicker than the eye, who causes his principles to disappear and changes his policies in full view of the audience, a showman at a county fair, conducting a shell game with his political opinions. Where is the little ball of free silver f Inder the first shell f Not at all. It was- there once, hut It is not now, and the confiding voter loses. Where Is the little hall of public ownership 7 Under the second shell. Wrons again, and the confiding voter loses again. Where Is the little referendum ballf Under the third shell t Gone again, and once more the confiding voter loses. My friends, Mr. Bryan has no set convictions. He has changed his opinions at every election, nnd if he has been wrong so often we are justified In assuming that he is wrong again. Mr. Brian's definition of a fundamental principle is a proposition that will help to elect Mr. Bryan. If It falls to elect him it ceases to be an eternal verity and becomes an exploded theory. From speech of AVillIlam Randolph Hearst, delivered at Indianapolis, S-.-pt. 3.
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THE ADVERTISEMENTS
IN-
THIS PAPER SAY THAT-
CONTRACT IS LET TODAY
Morton Avenue Brick Pavement Goes to Lavene Brothers.
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An important contract, that of the Morton avenue brick pavement, was let this morning by the board of public works to Lavene Brothers. The contractors promise to begin at once and before the cold weather sets in, the Standard Steel Car district will have a well paved street leading into the settlement, and thus give teamsters and the fire departments easy access. The contract for the Oak street cement sidewalks was awarded to William Alhborn while the bid for the Calumet avenue sidewalks was taken
under advisement.
Members of the Chicago Telenhnn
Company apeared before the board to secure permission to lay its telephone
wires rrom Douglas to Carroll streets in underground conduits. The permis
sion was gladly granted and the work will begin at once in order that the street pavement will not be delayed.
ine contractors wi'l complete one side of the street first and In that the telephone company caa wow unhampered .
DRUGS.
Summers Pharmacy calls attention
to their line of school boks and sup
pues. More information can be
cleaned from their ad on page 2.
AND MEATS. Meat Market.
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GROCERIES The Hammond
State street, has Its customary ad
vci uaciueiu on page a ana some
exceptional bargains are contained
therein.
v. B. Mnir, 239 Logan street, has
an ad on page 5 wherein a goodly
number of bargains will be found. You can get a water pitcher free. Read the particulars. The E. C. Mlnaa Co. have a grocery ad on page 5 and an elegant line of Saturday specials are contained herein. You will think so, too, if you'll read the ad. The Lion Store grocery department has a big list of specials on page2. But remember, to get these you must get the coupons, so get your sears ready. Humpfer Bros. 154 Hohman street, make their appearance in this issue of The Times and we find by reading their ad on page 5 they have a very nice assortment of meat specials for Saturday. GENERAL MERCHANDISE. The E. C. Mlnas Co. again occupies the whole of page 8 and some extraordinary bargains are mentioned in . their different departments. One new wrinkle is brought out especially and surely ought to prove quite an innvocation, and that Is of offering you money for your old straw hat. So before you throw your old. hat away you had better Investigate. .The Lion Store has two display ads on page 37 In one they call attention to ladies tailor-made suits at bargain prices and In the other they offer to sell 1S5 fine men's suits at $8.48. Paxton & Baker Co, 255-59 East State street, announce their advance fall opening of ladies' gents' cloth
ing for tomorrow in their ad on
page 3. A concert by the Logan Trio Is offered as an attraction.
MILLINERY. Miss L. G. Waite, suite 21-22 Rlm-
bach block (over the Lion store) an
nounces her millinery opening on
page 2.
Campaign is Deferred There Until Eighteenth of the Month.
The opening of the campaign In Gary, which Is to be graced by the presence in the city of Congressman E. D. Crumpacker of this district, has been postponed from Sept. 14 to Sept. 16. This Information was telephoned to President George Manlove of the republican clnh of Gary, yesterday afternoon by Fred Crumpacker, secretary of the county central committee. There was no reason given by the change in the date and It is assumed that it was made to suit the convenience of the congressman. The arrangements, therefore, of the club, which will have this matter in hand,
will be made with the latter date In view. It is planned on this date to instill the greatest possible amount of ginger into the meeting, and music and noise can be had in abundance.
it is predicted that there will be 800 people crowd into the largest hall that there Is in Gary to hear the congressman speak. The detailed arrangements for the big campaign opener have not yet been perfected, but Attorney Manlove is working on them at the present time. Cost for Wigwam Too Great. The idea which a few persons suggested at the last meeting, of erecting a wigwam in the south part of the city where the foreigners might congregate and have republicanism instilled into them, has never received any serious consideration. Several leaders of the party said yesterday that the cost would take the idea out of the scope of feasibility. In the place of that plan, however, they intend to rent a hall somewhere In that portion of the city where the foreigners may be addressed in' their own language by their leaders. This idea will probably be executed the latter part of this
month. -
Superior Malting Co. Considers Chicago Site For New Elevator.
THEY WANT HARBOR FRONTAGE
Plant Which Was Burned at Calumet Park Last to the Calumet Region
APPETITEWO'RTH $10,000 Gary Lawyers File Suit For Christ Vosil Against Steel Company.
the loss is what Renollet
PUTS TAFT AWAY AHEAD
WORK ON DEPOT IS STOPPED YESTERDAY. Officer Trinen Ordered to Put Quietus on Any Shack For Interurban Company. Officer Trinen yesterday stopped the employes of the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Interurban Company from building a temporary depot on North Hohman street. T 1 1 , .
xue niierurDan officials claim that the ticket office is only to be temno-
rary but the city officials fear that if the company was allowed to build and occupy a temporary ticket office it would take its time in building a
permanent depot. It was because of the fear that Hammond would be beaten out of its promised depot for several years to come that the work on the temporary depot was stopped. The police were able to stop the building of the depot on the grounds
mat it was a frame structure within the fire limits of the city. It is not known what the outcome of the case will be.
The company is building a permanent
aepot at Cary and the Hammond city officials think it ought to do as much
ior Hammond.
The Hammond Times which has been practically on the fence politically since the campaign opened, came out squarefooted for William Taft for president in a long; editorial last Wednesday. The article pictures Bryan In his true light, and calls him a continuous vaudeville and Chautauqua candidate. Mr. Taft is also carefully weighed, which puts him head and shoulders above the balance of the contestants. Crown Point Star. OUT FOR TAFT. The Lake County Times heretofore Independent, has become republican In politics and advocates the election of Taft. Indianapolis News.
Ten thousand dollars for of a man's appetite. That Attorneys Huren, Sefton &
are asking for their client, Christ Vasil, in the suit which they have filed against the Indiana Steel Company of Gary. It seems that Vasil was an empllye of the company and was working In the town of Gary on an excavating job when the walls of the excavation fell in and he was engulfed in the sand. He claims that he was Injured Inter
nally and as a result suffered a loss in appetite for which he wants $10,000 of the money which the steel company intend to build Gary. The accident happened on April 14, and it is supposed that Mr. Vasil has been all of this time trying to get his appetite back and failing, thought he would sue the company.
LOOK FORJjOBBER HERE Warsaw Burglar Has a Bad Reputation in Hammond.
BOAT ME III LUKE
Sheath Brothers Launch Destroyed Lives of Passengers Endangered.
For the first time In the history of
Hammond this city Is likely to suffer the loss of an Important Industry for the reason that it has no harbor facilities. For the first time the fact has
been brought home to the Hammond
business man that his lack of agression ess in providing: this city with the
advantage which Gary, Indiana Harbor
and South Chicago have, will mean the loss to the community of a half million
dollar concern. ' While the first reports were the Superior Malting compnay's plant, which was destroyed by fire this summer, would be rebuilt here, it now develops that unless the present plans fall through it will be built on the Chicago river in Chicago. It Is understood that the present owners of the Superior Malting company are in the east negotiating with eastern capitalists for the money with which to build a $500,000 plant Jn Chicago. Old Office Abandoned. The office in Hammond has been
abandoned and the only present evidence that the company was ever located here are the charred ruin's of the old elevator.
It is understood that an elevator is
to be built in Chicago which will cost in the neighborhood of $250,000 and the
malt huse will cost $125,000, the engine room and other buildings, which it will be necessary to build will cost
$o0,000 and the site will cost $75,000. The Superior Malting company is in possession of a patent malting process which Mr. Rice, its inventor, believes
will revolutionize the malting, business. If this is true Hammond Is losing a concern which is likely to develop into one of the blgest of Its kind In the country. The Superior Malting company was formerly located In "West Hammond In wsa known as Calumet park and was one o fthe principal Industries over there. Before the fire the plans of the
company to expand were already being
developed but West Hammond Instead of Chicago was to be the scene of Its
growth. Business Men Regret Loss. The opinion is generally expressed by Hammond business men, who have been
acquainted with the facts, that it is a pity for the concern to locate outside
of the Calumet region and if Hammond can not keep the Superior Malting company here; it is hoped that it could be induced to go to Indiana Harbor or Gary. The object of the company In lociting on the Chicago river is to have the advantage of the cheap shipment of grain from the west by boat. An immense amount of freight can be saved in this manner as the grain which is raised in the great northwest can be shipped most of the way to Chicaeo bv
lake steamers.
The fact is pointed out that if Ham
mond had even a small harbor at Wolf
0PE1 1 MEETING
Sons of Escalapius Gather For Monthly Session at Lake Front Park Listen to Valuable Paper on Oral Surgery by Dr. Schlicker.
IVES HEAR AIRY ID
BREEZyPERSIFLAGE Big Breaker Comes Up From Hyde Park Crib and Rehearses Scandals With Bath House Pier About Professional Men ladies Serve Basket lunch.
18119 i- could accommodate these in- "oc Weis has. only Doc Weis' is
oustries and then could be increased in I Hmousinolet." explained the pier
The Lake Front nark
distinguished assemblage yesterday aft.
rrnoon. it pt frth lhe Rea,0,, rf. mainlna; efforts to be pleasant ..H
succeeded. It hardly dared be otherwise for fear that one or the of ...
blage would have felt It. ..i.
looked for symptoms of old aire.
lhe result was that it was i
breezy and at times a little flif
be in harmony with the small talk Indulged in by the members
ty Medical association which had gath
ered mere for its regular session.
more had they seated t h.rri.
in an Improvised amphitheater the seats of which were made of hogs and railroad ties on which Drs. W F Howatt and W. D. Weis presided as' president and secretary respectively, when the waves came rolling In from Lake Michigan to see what was going on. The Waves -Want t Knimt " "What's going on here." whispered one old wave that had come all tha way from the Hyde Park crib, to the pier near the bath house. "Doc's just Doc's, don't let them catch you, or they might prescribe for you, and you are In fresh water, you must remember," said the pier. "Who's that trying to hatch out a log over yonder," continued the wave
as it flattened out a bit.
"They are all busy, which one do vou
mean?" asked the pier peeping over the platform.
"The one that looks as though he might cast an electoral vote for Bryan," explained the Hyde Park wave. "Oh, that's Doc Howatt, guess he'll get an automobile soon. Doc Sharrer is afraid to go home in the dark, and he's had two lamps fixed on his Maxwell," said the pier looking very important because it was so well acquainted with the scandal of high personages. "What's a Maxwell?" the wave persisted. Weis' I.lmountnolrt. "A Maxwell is a runabout just lika
a
size as the necessity demanded.
JUDGE CONSIDERS CASE.
(Continued on page 7..)
The case of the pants which was on trial in Judge Gordon's court yesterday, has not yet been decided, the court having taken the verdict under advisement. The plaintiff in the case is C. A. Armstrong, the engineer of the Coal Storage plant and the defendant is the Block Steam Laundry, of Valparaiso. Two pair of overalls, valued at $1.50
are involved In the suit
A Hlsnatrli frrm 1X -r
, . ..aisan, ma., states
that Bert Baucess of Hammond, is al
leged to have robbed the home of A. G.
Reynolds, of Kosciusko county, and
succeeded in getting away with $20,
and two watches. He overlooked $1,000
In money and notes.
An inquiry in the local police depart
ment reveais ine iact that Bert Baucess is wanted In Hammond for forgery,
-..v- . me inuurry was very
meagre ana u is not known how the Warsaw police arrived at the conclusion that the robber was Bert Bau
cess. or now tney learned that he was from Hammond. The officers at the local str.ticn say that Baucess had a bad record here and they are not at all surprised that he was picked up while doing a Job of this kind. It la said that Baucess cassed a
forged check on a West Hammond .
loon keeper.
Several members of the Hammond Motor Boat Club saw the burning of the large launch belonging to Sheath Brothers, who have a resort on Calumet Lake. The launch was out in the middle of the Vake, when in some unknown manner the gasoline supply caught on fire. It was not long before the whola launch was enveloped in flames and the occupants were compelled to jump overboard. They were rescued by a passing launch and the burning boat was allowed to burn until it finally sank. The burning of the launch cnunori
considerable excitement on shore where I
it was feared that the lives of the occupants were endangered. When it was learned that all on board had been saved, the numerous spectators were relieved. The Hammond Motor Boat enthusiasts say that it was the most exciting fire they ever saw and It seemed for a time that it would be impossible to prevent a loss of life.
W EDS
HANDLESS
MAN
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Father of Lillian DeWerth Objects to Elopement at Crown Point.
FILES AN APPLICATION TOR AN INJUNCTION. Frank J. Swada Hopes to Stop Gary
Gary Man lYom Selling: Property. Frank J. Swada has filed an application for an injunction in which he hoped to enjoin Walter S. Ross from
selling the property of several company's for which he was appointed re
ceiver.
The case will be heard in chambers
in Judge Virgil S. Relter's court tomorrow morning. ' The defendants in the
case are numerous and include some of the best known concerts In Gary.
Crown Point as a Gretna Greed again
j"" uiiu prominence; wnen it was i
learned that Miss Lillian de Werth, the daughter of John de Werth, of 544 Nineteenth avenue. Milwaukp TtT
eloped with Attorney Oscar W. Kreutzer of that city. The husband of the Milwaukee girl is a graduate of the Wisconsin State Law School In the class of 1903, but he had the misfortune to have both of his hands cut off. Miss de Werth, according to her father, left ostensibly for one of the inland lakes a week ago' Simultaneously Attorney Kreutzer departed for Chicago. According to advices received by the parents of the young lady.
tne couple met in Chicago, proceeded to Crown Point, Ind.. and were quietly married on Aug. 25. No intimation of the ceremony was given Mr. and Mrs. John de Wert, till Tuesday. Then the knowledge of the wedding was broken to them. "I object to the entire affair," said Mr. Werth last night. "We had no knowledge of our daughter's Inten
sions. We SUDDOSed her on n n nutlnc
We find her the Wife of Attorney
ivreutzer upon her return. Mr. Kreutzer lost both hands in an accident years ago. For this reason alone, though I sympathize with him, I could not sanction the marriage. Both I and my wife are heartbroken over the affair." Mr. Kreutzer denied that the wedding kas in any sense an elopement nor that there was anything startling about It. He is a graduate of the state university lay school, class of 1903.
Are they having a good time?"
"Did you ever see a bunch of Doc's together when they did not have a good time? The one looking so serious like," continued the pier, "is Doc Schlieker of East Chicago, if you'll flop around here awhile you'll hear him read a paper on 'Oral surgery." Oral is the Latin for pertaining to mouth. It s a good paper too, and will probably appear in some magazine because its so good. Dr. Schlieker Ttrnds Paper. "You see he prepared this paper on surgery pertaining to the mouth because the Lake County Dental association was to have met in connection with the Doc's and Schlieker was going to tell them something.. The teeth men
are preparing for their annual state meeting however, and consequently the joint meeting is not taking place. There ere enough good Doc's here, however, for a good time." "Who's that bunch to the right." afked the wave as it prepared to go back to Hyde Park. "That's the Kast Chirago bunch. They came over here because they wanted to get away from Westrumite
for a few hours. They ought to amputate that Alderman Lewis from the East Chicago council." "Ta ta." old pier give them my regards, and tell them to remember some of their own diet rules when they tackle that basket lunch," said the Hde Park wave as it disappeared in the distance.. . . Just about that time one of the Crown Point Do's brought forth his lunch basket and the Whiting follows followed suit. The wives of the doctors served.
REGULAR SCHEDULE TAKEN UP. Services at First Presbyterian Church to Be Resumed Tomorrow.
The regular schedule of Sunday services which was abandoned during the summer months, will be taken up again at the Presbyterian church Sunday. Rev. Eugene J. Snook, the pastor, announces that the morning service will be held at 10:45. the Sunday school at S:45 and the evening service at 7:30,