Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 87, Hammond, Lake County, 29 September 1908 — Page 1

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Former Democratic Candidate For County Commissioner Will Vote Straight Republican Ticket

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Leading Toleston Citizen To Support National, State and County Tickets. Otto Borman, of Toleston, who has been a red-hot democrat all of his life, who was the democratic candidate for county commissioner against Oscar Krinbill, a man who has prospered with the growth of Gary and who is now considered one of the biggest real estate dealers in the city, has decided to vote the republican ticket from top to bottom. Mr. Borman admitted that he has been a radical democrat all of his life. He admits now that he is a staunch republican. Mr. Borman at tributes his flop to the fact that the republican administration of affairs, both nationally and locally, have been acceptable to him and he does not want a change. Mr. Borman knows that the great steel Industry, which is being built up in Gary, is safe only in the hands of a republican administration which will maintain the policy of protection. The value of Mr. Borman's numerous real estate holdings depend upon republican prosperity and Otto Borman Is well satisfied with the prosperity.. he has had and that which he has in prospect if Taft is elected. To Vole AVliole Ticket. It would not be surprising to hear that Otto Borman had decided to vote for Taft. Lots of democrats are going to do that because they believe Bryan I to be an unsafe man. They think that Bryan's election would bring on a ruinous panic. But it is rather surprising to learn that he has decided to vote the republican ticket all of way down the list. - Otto Borman is known all over the Calumet ' region. Those who do not know him personally know him by sight because of his large proportions. It was Otto Borman, who started the first bank in Toleston and he has made a success of it from the very start. He has been interested In many enterprises in both Toleston and Gary and has always made a success of them. In fact Otto Borman has amassed something of a fortune during the last few years of republican prosperity and naturally ho would vote for the party which has made this possible. But Mr. Borman says that the flop of democrats in Gary and Toleston has not been confined to himself. He says that if The Times wants them he can furnish the names of a large number of democrats in Gary who will do just as he proposes to do on election day. He says it is surprising to note how rany red-hot democrats have become good republicans since the building of Gary started. Mr. Borman thinks Gary is sure to roll up a good republican majority for Taft and the state and county tickets and as he was one of the most influential democrats in the new steel city, . his change in political faith Is sure to set some of the wavering democrats to thinking. CAPTURES! VOTERS Banker States Eleven Hundred New Republicans Will Vote This Year. Special to The Timks Indiana Harbor, nd., Sept. 29. Eleven hundred republicans will be added to tills year" voting list, according to the declaration of John Campion, foreign exchange manager of the Harbor State bank. Mr. Camnlan has already- prepared two hundred and fifty applications for naturalisation papers. Facts for the preparation of about fv'O more are In his possession and commencing neit Monday evening he will take the proposed voters to Hammond, at the rate of lOO or 150 each evening. Attorney "Walter J. Rellj-, who Is chairman of the naturalization committee of Indiana Harbor's republican organisation, will accompany the men to Clerk Shortridge's office and assist in their being drilled Into republican policies nd voting.

JUDGE TOUSLEY

GLEAFIED OF CHARGES Tolleston Man Is Not Guilty of Contempt Says Judge V. S. Reiter. GOT MIXED UP IN HIS DATES Makes An Expalantion Which Is Sat' isfactory to the Court and Case Is Dismissed. Judge J. A. Townsley of Tolleston, candidate for judge of the supreme court In Indiana on the independence ticket, was found not guilty of contempt in Judge Virgil S. Reiter's court this morning. The trouble grew out of an effort which Harry Barton and Charles Glattli, grading contractors, had with three real estate dealers, Rose, Oris and Goldkeiner, over some street grading. "When the township remonstrance went into effect it is said that these three real estate men got cold feet and did not want their grading work to continue. The grading contractors took steps to recover the amount of money which they had coming to them. Action H Kun In Hla Court. The action ' was begun in Judge Townsley's ""court. The cases, which were filed, were Mat McGraw vs. Charles Grattli, Ballard and Stanton vs. Charles Glattli, Mat McGraw vs. Harry Barton and Charles Glatti, Harry Barton vs. Mat McGraw, Sophia Glattli vs. Harry Barton, and E. G. Ballard and M. H. Stanton vs. Harry Barton. . Justice Townsley decided to send the case to the Lake Superior court and put the defendants under $500 bond. John Brassack was permitted to go on the bond, but Judge Townsley afterwards found that he would not do as a bondsman. He accordingly refused to send the case to the suprior court until a new bondsman had been found for the defendants. They went into the superior court and secured a writ of mandamus compelling Judge Townsley to bring the case before the Lake Superior court. The judge became mixed on the date he was expected to appear and that is how he came to be cited for- contempt. He appeared this morning and was cleared of the charges. SURE, OSEJE SEATS Circusman Thomas Hargraves Make the Republicans Glad. "William Hastings, acting for County Chairman Richard Schaaf, sent a telegram to Thomas Hargraves to see if he could not secure the right to use the circus seats which Mr. Hargraves has stored in the old G. H. Hammond company's plant. An effort was made to secure chairs in tli is city and in Chicago, but the charge for them was prohibitive and so County Chairman Schaaf appealed to Thomas Hargraves. The following is the telegram he received: Chester, la., Sept. 27, 190S. V. "Richard Schaaf, Chairman, l.nke County Republican Committee, H.indnoni Ind. I am a Pennsylvania dyed in the Hocl republican. If you can further Tatt's intcr;st, make any use of the seats you desire, or any other property I have stored at Hammond, gratis. THOMAS HARGRAVES. Arrest Delinquent Boys. The police today arrested Robert St. Clare, aged 10, and Alex Joseph, aged 11, who are charged with being implicated in the robbery of a car. The boys, in company with an older St. Clare boy, are said to have been caught by George Winkler, the Erie detective, while in the act of breaking into a car and stealing some shoes. All efforts of the police to locate the older St. Clare boy have been fruitless and according to the testimony of the younger boys it was he who lead them into the crime and who was responsible Xor the theft of the shoes. '

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mm GIRL TELLS HER AWFUL STORK Prosecutrix In Coons' Case Put On Witness Stand In Superior Court. TERRIBLE ORDEAL TO FACE Over 300 Men In Courtroom Listen to Shocking Testimony in Criminal Case. "With seats in the courtroom at a premium and over S00 men crowded In to hear the most sensational testimony which has been introduced in the Lake Superior court in a long time the trial of the case, state of Indiana vs. Cbas. E. Coons, charged with an unspeakable crime, began before Judge Virgil S. Reiter at 11 o'clock this morning. . .Attorney Fred Crumpacker represented the defendant, C. E. Coons, and he was opposed by Attorneys Judge T. M. C. Hembron' and Joseph Conroy.. After nearly a day and a half of effort, in which it became necessary to secure a special venire from outside of the township, the jury was finally accepted. Juror after Juror was examined yesterday only to be thrown out by one or another of the attorneys in the case. For a time it looked as though every person in the township knew of the i case, had read of it in the newspapers and had formed an opinion in the matter. Difficult to iet Jury. The plan to secure a special venire from outside of the township worked well and this morning it did not take more than two hours to pick the twelve men who will have to judge, after hearing the law and the evidence, as to the guilt or innocence of Charles E. Coons, j who is charged with a most revolting crime. Miss Mary Geib, who claims to have been terribly wronged by her own father, and was the prosecuting witness, sat on the stand all morning and told her shocking story. It was a terrible ordeal for a girl in her condition to have to face those hundreds of men and the jury and tell in detail all of the circumstances of her downfall. A great deal of the time the re was not another woman in the courtroom and there was not a person in that morbidly curious crowd who did not did not sympathize with the little 17-3ear-old girl in her hour of deepest trouble. Up until 3 o'clock the only other witness was Dr. W. F. llowatt. who testified as to the girl's condition, and found it to be as alleged. Miss Geib, herself, proved to be a most excellent witness and tells her story in a straightforward manner. The only development brought out by the testimony so far ts the fact that Charles E. Coons will not deny that he is the father of Mary Geib, the prosecutrix. FEDERAL PRISONER BOUND OVER Hitu Ilie, alias Lazar Ilie, who was arrested for tampering with the mails, was taken to Indianapolis today by T'nlte'd States Marshal Ramkin where he has been bound over to the November term of the federal grand Jury.

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G. AS Congressman E. D. CrumPacker Gives a Ringing Address at East Chicago and Packs Weiland's Kail To the Doors. IS INTERRUPTED SEVERAL TIMES Congressman Attacks Gompers and Goes to Labor Leader's Record as to What He Said in Lafayette at the 1906 Campaign In Regard to His Politics. Special to The Times East Chicago, Ind., Sept. 20. Congressman Edwin D. Crumpacker Inst night officially opened the republican campaign In this city by a ringing ad ores before about lour hundred active republicans. Every seat in Weiland's hall was filled and the doors packed no tightly "that it was almost Impossible to crowd any more Into the room. The address itself was productive of good results ana met vritn me wildest entliuslnsm anions the laboring men pres ent, of whom there were many. Best Made in City. The speaker was introduced by Dr. A G. Schlieker, local republican chairman. The address that followed wa one of the best fver made in this city. Although interrupted several times byone of his audience, Congressman Crumpacker succeeded in implanting into the minds of the attendants that democracy is powerless to do the many experimental things it promises In its platform of this year. Mr. Crumpacker bitterly attacked Gompers of the American Federation of Labor. He denounced him as a falsifier. proving his utterances by excepts from the congressional record and speeches made by the labor man himself. "Gom pers says 'I always have been a republican but cannot be this year,' " declared the congressman. Shows Up Gompers. That is untrue, he explained. "In 1P0G. in the city of LaFayette, Ind., Mr. Gompers made an address to a large gathering in which he declared that he was not a partisan. 'I am not a democrat. I am not a republican," were the words of his speech as stenographically reported at that time. "Mr. Gompers tells you laboring men," reiterated the congressman, "that you must vote for Bryan and not for the republican platform. I tell you that C Continued on paga 3.)

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STATE CHEMIST . PISES TIES Says It Is Doing Good Work For Sanitation In Ca umet Region. THERE MUST BE CO-OPERATIOi Mr. Barnard Says That All Cities in the Calumet Region Must Take Part in Movement. H. E. Barnard, state chemist, and F. W. Tucker, state pure food inspec tor, who have been giving this region more than ordinary attention were i Hammond again today. Mr. Barnard was on his way to Madi son, Wis., to ttend the convention called by Mayor Busse of Chicago fo the purpose of devising ways and means for purer water.'. Mr. Barnard stoppe off in Hammond, while Mr. Tucker, who is working in Lake county at the pres ent time, came to Hammond to address the Milk Dealers' association, which was in session here today. Mr. Barnard could not pass through Hammond, however, without touchin again on the most vital question that confronts this region, today, that pure drinking water. Mr. Barnard is heartily in accord with the plan proposed by The Times and later by C. W. Hotchkiss, president of the Indiana Harbor railroad, to-wit the creation of a sanitary district in Indiana or better still an interstate sanitary district. "If the people of the region would only realize," said Mr. Barnard, in The Times office today, "the grave problem that confronts them they would get together at once for its solution, instead of waiting for years for some thing which is bound to come. The sooner the various communities of this region get together dividing the expense proportionately the sooner Lake Michigan will furnish pure drinking water. If Hammond were to stand for its share of the expenses and do everything in its power to ameliorate conditions its effects would nevertheless bo futile if seme, other city persisted in polluting the water. Time a IMoneer in Movement. "This region is the one to be. benefitted by purer drinking water and the burden will fall on it. It is, of course, no more than fair that if the south side of Chicneo is to benefitted bv the stens stand part of the expense. "Tut- TtMiia ia Hnino- rinnco in this movement, and its efforts cannot he too much appreciated. Tt has urged this movemnt from the begining and its campaign of education is beginning to bear fruit." The meeting of the Milk Dealers' association was called purposely because Mr. Tuck.T is in this region. The meeting was set to be held at Weis' hall. Gl?II,I MEETING. The Ladies' Guild of St. Paul's Hpiscopal . church will hold a meeting Wednesday afternoon at the guild room of the church in Rimbaeh avenue. The meeting is called at 2:30 o'clock and a full attendance of members is desired.

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SLACK SHOWS HIS State Senator Fights Hard to Defer Action on StateWide Prohibition Question Until Attorney General Could Give Opinion. RESOLUTION WAS KILLED OUTRIGHT Vice President WiU Get Into the Campaign in Indiana Next Mon day and Will Be in This State Ten Days Before the National Election, Nov. 4. (Special to The Times) Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 20. Mght rider bill to enable governor to organize secret constabulary "and appropriating 910,000, was killed by vote- of 53 to 43 in the house. Rules wwe then suspended to pass remaining measures. This means that adjournment sine die will come late this afternoon. Rumor has it that republicans agreed with dei ocrata to kill night rider bill in order to bring about adjournment today. (Special to Thb Times.) Indianapolis, Ind., Sept 29. Again Senator Slack showed his ability and hisiresource'tlnes's as a floor rnanagerWhen the- resolution for state-wid prohibition was up, ha. succeeded in forcing all the republican senators on record as being opposed to the reform although Will R. Wood, Ezra Matting ly and the other brilliant republican of the upper branch struggled hard to keep a record from being made. Two reports had been made by the commit tee having the resolution under consld eration. One, signed by the majority, recommended indefinite postponemen on the ground that the resolution was unconstitutional. The other, signed by Slack, recommended deferred action until the attorney-general could rend er an opinion on the constitutionality of the resolution. The republican sen ators sought vigorously to convince Lieutenant Governor Miller that th minority report was faulty but the lieu tenant governor sustained it. Then came long argument and and Slack pleaded that the resolution not be killed outright, but that It be allowed (Continued on pace 7.) 'DENr PARLORS ROBBED Slick Thief Victimizes Three Dentists in Hammond On Same Night. The police learned yesterday that the burglarizing of dental parlors was not confined to Dr. G. L Smith as was at first thought but that there were at leasc tnree aenia. parlors ourgiarizea with the result that a large amount of gold and platinurn, is now missing. As stated in yesterday's Times burg lars entered the parlors of Dr. G. L. j ! Smith and took between $40 and $50 wortli of gold and platinum. It was only Inst night that it was discovered that the office of Dr. H. W. Davis In 145 South Hohman street had been entered and that a gold crown and a gold plate had been stolen. The goods are believed to have been stolpn some llm- Sunday afternoon or' evening or possibly late Saturday night, i an investigation and it was found that i thf office of Sam Hell had been entered and about $150 worth of gold had been taken. It is believed that a gang of. crooks who make this kind of burglary a specialty, have invaded the region and it is expected that other dentists in the region will be touched before the men finally leave for greener pastures. Search For B07. The police in Hammond were asked to look for a boy whose description they have, and who left his home in Logensport bound for Chicago on a freight train some time ago. IF IT'S ADVERTISED IT'S WORTH LOOKING CP.

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COiffl If BUY RED LINE

Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Interurban Railway Said To Be Negotiating For Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Electric Ry ION BETWEEN 10 IS IMPOSSIBLE Purchase of Local Line Would Elim inate All Completion in Calumet Region for South Bend Interurban and Such a Deal Would Be Welcomed. It was rumored about town today that the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Electric Railway company. is negotiating with the Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago Electrio railway for the purchase of the latter company's lines. The report is given credence by many of the business men of the city who know of the plans of the interur ban company, but it is impossible to confirm the rumor at the present time. The following facts regarding the' two roads make it apparent that a deal betwen the two 1s not Impossible and is, in fact, very probable. Pacts About C, I- S. & S. B. The Chicago, Lake Shore and Soutit Bend line is a trunk line interurban. dependent upon feder lines to build up its main line traffic. It has built a feeder line from the main line to Indiana Harbor. It made. an effort to get hold -tf..Ui Gary traction franchise. y ' It has promised the people of West Hammond that it will build a feeder line from Gary to Tolleston to Hammond to West Hammond to Hegewisch. By the purchase of the lines of the Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago company it would have a perfect system of connecting and feeding lines and would have only to build certain connecting links to make Just the loop from Gary through Hammond to Hegewisch which, is needed. Through the purchase .of the local line all competition in the Calumet region; except that at Gary, would bo eliminated. The Hammond. Whiting and East Chicago line would be much more valuable to the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend line as a feeder than it could possibly be to the South Chicago City railway. On the other hand the Hammond Whiting and East Chicago Street Kailway company lias never been a huge financial success. Run as an independent street railway or as the tail end of the South Chicago City railway it would take a much larger population in the territory in which it operates to make it pay. Long hauls for a 5-cent fare is the defect in the proect for a Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago Street Railway company, which has not yet been overcome. Street railways like railroads are valuable for the connections with otner friendly lines which they are able to make. The Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend line is the logical one to absorb the local line for tho reason that competition would be eliminated and co-operation would be natural. When the report was circulated this morning those who gave it credence j saw ,n tne plan Bome prosp.ct for betI ter service ,n Hammond and the other j ,t, ln -..h,h th. It would be possible for Hammond people to make connections for Ham- ; mond at three different points on the line; at Gary at the north Hohman street connection and at Hegewisch. All of these points would be placed within easy access of the business district of Hammond. It is likely that the city of Hammond would grant the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend com. i pany additional iranemses .in Ham. ir.ond.. for instance one on Calumet avfrom Conkey avenue to State street, so that a lop could be coni strutted, while it is doubtful if the 1 1,1 '-'"- "' '-- um I any concessions whatever from the city- Thr" PPOPIe of Hammond will anxiously await the confirmation of the report. DEATH OF MES. BUNDE. Mrs. Friedrich Bunde, of 455 Jesse street, one of the pioneers of Hammond, died this morning at her home. She died in the house in which she had lived for eighteen years. The deceased was 72 years old, end was known to nearly all the older pople of Hammond. She was the mother of five children., one of them being Captain Emil Bund, who is connected with the local policy station. " .