Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 131, Hammond, Lake County, 19 November 1908 — Page 1

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In Calumet Region Arranging a For District Association

NEWS FOR Moving Spirit in Enterprise Is William Powers of Gary-land. Tbat the cities of Hammond, Gary, Indiana Harbor, East Chicago, Whiting, Hobart, LaPorte and Michigan City frill constitute what la to be known aa the Calumet District Base Ball league and that there will be clubs organized in each of these cities is aa assured fact. The moving spirit In the enterprise is John T. Powers of Gary, who organised the Wisconsin State league, now considered one of the most thriving of the minor leagues la the country. WILL BE WELCOME NEWS. The news that the Calumet region is to have league ball comes as a thriller to the baseball fans all over the district. In each of the above mentioned cities there will be baseball clubs organized, grounds will be secured, players will be signed, a schedule of games "will be played and before the coming summer is over thtere will not be a fan in the district who will not be in the throes of a heated championship series. POWERS IS EXPERIENCED. As an indication that Mr. Powers is not a dabbler in the baseball business-, it should be known that he not only organized the Wisconsin State league, but he was the president of it for two years and received great praise from fans all over the state because of his ability in making the venture a success. Mr. Powers has looked over the local field and sees great posibilitles for a league team here. The cities of the Calumet district are so close together that the cost of transporting the teams from one to another will be reduced to a minimum. NEARLY ALL ON IXTERtTRBAN. Most of the cities in the proposed league are on the line of the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Interurban and that will insure quick and cheap transportation. A meeting of representatives from all of the cttes which will be represented in the league will be held in Whiting Tuesday night and in addition to the regular representatives from the various cities anyone who is interested in the enterprise is invited to attend. At first the schedule will contain only Saturday, Sunday and holiday games, but as the cities grow and the interest in the sport becomes greater, it is expected that games will be played on most of the days of the week. WILL' INTEREST BEST ELEMENT. It is the purpose of Mr. Powers to interest only the best element in the various cities for the business and professional men must be relied upon to support the enterprise from the very beginning. This will give the league a standing and stability that could not be assured in any other way. Mr. Powers is the author of a baseball guide which is very similar to the Spaulding guide and it proved so popular that many large houses, which dealt in sporting goods, had editions of 5,000 printed and circulated. The baseball fans in Hammond, Gary and Whiting, who have already talked with Mr. Powers, are convinced that he is a live proposition and it is expected that next summer will see the organization of one of the finest little leagues of baseball teams in the country. GARY GETSJHE HONOR After Much Opposition Delegates Succeed in Landing Plum. (Special to The Times. Richmond, lad., Nov. 19, landed the honor. The Magic City delesates after great opposition, won out and Gary will have the proud privelige of entertaining the Indiana Federation of Commercial clubs next year. The Gary delegation was jubilant . over the result, especially after the hard fight they had on their hands. The annual meeting of the delegates from all the Indiana Commercial elnba will advertise Gary as It has never been advertised ta Indiana.

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CLUB WILL ENTER IRE SOCIAL ARENA Lincoln-Jefferson Club Law Club Will Give Smoker Next Wednesday. MEMBERS OFFACULTYftPPROVE Good Fellowship Will Reign at Gath' ering and Attendance Will Be Large. The Lincoln-Jefferson Law club, com posed of the student of the college, is about to shay its castor into the so cial ring and after its debut on Thanks giving Eve, it will take a permanent place in the social life of the com munity. Its events during the year, however, are to be few, but elaborate, As a beginning, an invitational smoker will be given next Wednes day evening under joint auspices of the college and the club, and arrange ments are being made for the enter tainment of a representative body of men in Hammond. The members of the faculty who are as much interested in the social side of their students as in the educational have promised to be present, and this coupled with the presence of local lights gives the club the assurance that the gathering will have that af flatus, which will be productive or an Intellectual treat seasonsed with good fellowship. Club Members to Invite Friends. The college has left the invitational end of it in the hands of the club, and each member has given assurances that he has a number of friends whom he would make better acquainted with the college, its personel and its aims. This however, does not mean that the vis itors will be bored with many talk in which they will not be interested On the contrary all formality will b laid aside and good fellowship will be uppermost. The smoker will be held on the fifth floor of the Hammond building, pro vided, however, that if the attendance promises to be too large that som other place will be chosen. Instead of the proverbal keg of nails a barrel of apples will be opened an while the smoke of many cigars is curl ing upward the first real college smok er which outsiders may attend because of their invitations, will be on. REVISION DOWNWARD Indiana Congressman Tells President He Will Oppose 'Standpattism.' Washington, Nov. 18. Representa tive Crumpacker, Indiana's new rep resentative on the ways and mean committee, has let it be known that he is for unequivocal tariff revision He was at the White House today, an told the president he intended to make a strong resistance against "standpat ism" when it came to framing a report on the new tariff bill. The hearings thus far have developed a strong sentiment for .protection among the republican members of the committee. Chairman Payne and Messrs. Dalzell, Fordney and Needham have been outspoken against disturbing schedules, and some of them have advocated raising rates in some instances. Representative Gaines of West Virginia has said that he would resist lowering rates on coal, iron or lumber. "The- people at the recent election voted for tariff revision, and they did not understand when they voted that re-ision meant merely readjustment," said Judge Crumpacker today. 'They want revision downward, not upward." S ELECIEO (Special to The Times.) Richmond, Ind.. Mo v. 10. E. p. Johnston of Hammond was elected viee president of the Indiana Federation of Commercial Clubs, which Is now holding Its annnal session in this city.

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Hammond Will Be Invaded By Canvassers For New Directory. WANT TO NUMBER HOUSES Company Up Against a Stiff Propo sition In Getting Correct House Numbers. The latter part of this week Ham mond will be invaded by the directory men. They will visit every house in the city and will take a regular census of the town. The canvassers repre sent the Lake County Directory com puny and will begin the work of innk lne the most complete canvass of the city that has ever been undertaken. They have just completed their work in Whiting, and Hammond and Gary are the only cities in the county which have not been covered. In Hammond the company is up against a hard prop osition. Ordinance Has Been Passed. An ordinance has been passed au thorizing the renumbering of houses in the city. Mr. Powers, the manager of the directory company, has been to see the city officials, in the hope that the changing of the numbers could be accomplished before the canvass of the city is made. He has been unable to get any satis faction from these officials, however, and it now appears that the numbers which go into the new directory will have to be the old ones. After the canvass the city officials may get busy and change the numbers and then the new directory, so far as Hammond is concerned, will be about as useless as a Montgomery Ward cata logue for the purpose of locating a per son. In most of the other cities of the county the directory company has been given the greatest encouragement. The project is recognized as being a worthy one which will be a boon to the busl ness men in every city. Turn Deaf Ear to Him. But in Hammond the city officials have turned a deaf ear to the pleas of the directory officials tlVat the renumbering of the city be done at once, and the same delay which has characterized many municipal enterprises has had to be put up with. Unless the city does something In the next day or two, the Hammond section of the directory will be good only until the city officials finally get around to the work of compelling the renumbering of the houses. Mr. Powers of the directory company will take the contract for renumbering the houses. Just as he did in Whiting, and it can all be done in a few days if the city officials will only give their sanction to let him go ahead. SIMPLEX JETS BUSY Big Plant Begins the Grading of Newly Acquired Land. The Simplex Railway Appliance company has begun the grading of the land which was recently purchased from John E. Fitzgerald and lies across from the Hammond Distilling company. Last summer the report gained credence that the Simplex company would build a large extension to its Hammond plant on this property. It was reported and the report was confirmed that the addition was to be in the nature of a foundry. The financial disturbance of a year ago resulted in the holding of these plans in abeyance, however, until conditions became more favorable. Many Hammond people take the grading of this property to mean that the Simplex company is now going ahead with these plans. Mr. Thomas was interviewed about the matter by a Times' reporter and said that he was simply using some of his idle men in this work and that the activities were of no significance. He did not say specifically that the work of building the new foundry wouia not De unaeriaKen in tne near future, but he said that the grading of the land was simply to make it available for use when the company is ready to build. Hammond real estate men are very much interested, however, and they say that if the company did not intend to use the ground in the near future why would it not be the best plan to let it lie Idle just as it has been for the past twenty years. The wise ones say there will be something doing on the Simplex property in the near future. SURELY NOT 1. HICKS! (Special to The Times.) St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 19. Rev. Irl Hicks, the noted weather prophet, today sent ou the prediction that a low barometer would bring thunderstorms and that a period of abnormally high temperatures would begin today for a period of ten days.

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OF DEAT Interurban Car Grinds Out Life of Foreigner Who Lies Sprawled Across the Tracks at Gary Is Instantly Killed. Liquor last night led Joseph Popich, a Pole, 58 years old, to his death under the wheels of the Gary and Interurban street car, at Eleventh avenue and Broadway. It was a terrible death that the man met, while resting his head on his arm on the track, he watched the car approach and run over his body. When the victim was killed he was crazed with drink, and unable to rise from the track. A dozen witnesses had seen him but a few minutes before, staggering back and forth on the side walk; a bartender in a saloon nearby had just refused him another drink, and he staggered out through the door. Shortly after a shout was heard, a rush was made to the street, and the mutilated Doay or the victim was found. The motorman on the car. No. 101, which struck him, was Robert Law, although Walter Jujick, a student, held the controller and the brake when the man was run over. Law saw the limp form stretched across the track when the car was within thirty feet of him Instantly shutting off the power, he yelled with all his might at the help less man, and then stood back as the car passed over him, and Rujick ground the brakes against the wheels. Death Not Premeditated. If it were not for the fact that the nan was seen intoxicated the theory of suicide would be advanced, because of the position in which he lay. His body was directly across, the track, his feet C 'Continued on pKge 6V MILL MEET EAST CHICAGO TIGERS Football Game Arranged For Next Sunday Afternoon at Hammond. NEITHER HAS KNOWN DEFEAT Both Teams Have Won Every Game in Which They Played This Season. The football fans of Hammond will see one of the best games of the sea son sunaay wnen tne Iroquois line up against the East Chicago Tigers. Both teams have not been defeated this season and East Chicago has had only one touchdown scored against it this year. The main feature of the game will be the tricks plays, as the East Chicago boys are practicing every night and expect to use some new ones on the local team. If the weather Is good this game will be witnessed by more people than any one ever played in Hammond. The Thanksgiving game which will be played here haS not been arranged for yet, but the locals have a good choice of teams, either from Chicago or from local towns. The lineup Sunday will be: HAMMOND. E. CHICAGO. Heiser L. E Sneddan Reel L. T Modillon Flowers L. G French Smith, F C Douglas Enright R. G Thoope Dougherty R. T Hewig Smith, P R. E Wartena Geib Q McShane Stevens Halfman Portz Sobs. Schillo. Bick. Johnson. Buser. F. B Finnerty R- II Sternberg L. II Haskall Subs. Brown. Austin. Aollis. NAMES . H!S SEGRETARY (Special to The Times.) Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. ltK Thomas R, Marshall, governor-elect, today appointed Mark Thistlethwaite his private secretary to commence his duties Immediately. Mr. Thistlethwaite hnr been In newspaper work In Indiana for several years and Is at present connected with the Indianapolis Xews. Mr. Thltlethvalte la the Indianapolis correspondent of the LAKE COl'.VTY TIMES.

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ftVGOVERN CASE NOW ON TRIAL Perjury Case Against Newspaper Circulator Attracts Much Interest.

LAWYER SAYS CHARGE SERIOUS Attorney John Stinson Declares That He Has a Clear Case Against McGovern. Eugene F. McGovern, alias Edward F. McGovern, the circulation manager of the Hammond Dally News, is on trial in the Lake superior court this after noon on the charge of perjury. Should he be found guilty be will be liable to a penalty of from two to fourteen years In the penitentiary. lne case came up this morning on motion by his counsel, Attorney Jo seph Conroy, that the affidavit against him be quashed. Prosecuting Attorney D. E. Boone was assisted in the prosecution by John Stinson. Lawyer Says He Has Clear Case. The arguments were heard by Judge Virgil S. Reiter and at a late hour this afternoon the decision of the Judge on the motion to quash had not been announced. Attorney J. K. Stinson says he has a clear case against the defendant and that he will land his man behind the prison bars before the case is disposed of. The Hammond circulation manager is alleged to have purchased a large amount of furniture and bric-a-brac from the Spiegle House Furnishing company in South Chicago. He paid a small amount down on the furniture and in accordance with me practice or tne spiegle company in the case of time sales Mr. McGov ern s household furniture was secured by a chattal mortgage. Later on Mr. McGovern desiring to make a loan of $123 went to the Chi cago Discount company and represented to them that he had a lot of fur niture which was unincumbered and asked for a loan. AY hat Complaint Is. The complaint in the case, of the tat of'Indlana . vs., EdwardT'McGovern states that he falsely and felon iously made an affidavit to the effect that his property was free from any encumberances whatsoever. This affl davit was sworn to before Claude N. Heard, a notary public. The case was given a preliminary hearing before Judge Jordan and as Mr. McGovern waived examination the case was taken at once to the Lake superior court. START mi BUILDING Knickerbocker People Spend $200,000 in Hammond. to The Knickerbocker lee company has brgna the work of constructing two large Ire houses In Hammond, which will Involve the expenditure of $ 200,. 000 and will employ SOO men this winter. The work on the large ice house, which Is to replace the one which was IinrncMi to the ground some time ago, hns already begun. There are 150 men employed and H. E. Granger, the business agent of the Carpenters' union, was scouring Hammond today In order to net enough men to hurry the work. The company does not expect to have the building completed by the time the ice harvest is begun, hut It will adopt the novel policy of building the Ice house as fast ns It is filled and will then put the roof on It before the winter is over. The building which was burned and the one which will replace It, was on the west side of the lake, but the second new building Is to be on the east side of the lake near the travka of the Hammond, Whiting; & East Chicago short line road. The manner of constructing this building will be the same as has been adoptcil in the case of the other and the wails of the new Ice house will be practically built up around the harvested Ice. These two buildings will add several thousands of dollars of taxable property to that which the Knickerbocker company already has In this region. T E Michael Foley, the brilliant Crawfordsville orator, was in Hammond last evening. He is a members of the board of pardons and had been to Michigan City to hear the cases of several of the prisoners there. Mr. Foley is one of the leading democrats of Indiana. He has been importuned time and again to accept the nomination for congress from his district and if he had done so this time he would have been elected. But Mr. Foley invariably thrusts away the crown and the extent of his political activities is to make rousing democratic speeches over the state during the campaign.

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For Cutting a Man's Throat Joe Mahovski Is Sent to Jail For 30 Days, While LawrencelRyan Went to Pen For Stealing Boots. BOTH TRIALS WERE III SUPERIOR COURT Chief of Police Rimbach Is Outraged at Result of Murder Trial and Asks "What's the Use" Residents of Standard District Amazed at Trial's Outcome. When a jury will find a man like Joe Mahovski 9100 and send him to Jail for thirty days after we make out a clear case of assault with Intent to kill how can. you expect us to prevent continual rioting In the Standard district t At that rate the punishment for attempted murder is not as great as that for stealing a horse. CHIEF OF POLICE RIMBACH. The other day Lawrence Ryan of Gary stole several pairs of boots. For all that the average person knows Ryan may have been another Jean Valjean. He may have been impelled by the force of circumstances to steal the boots. Nevertheless he was found guilty by a jury in the Lake superior court and was sentenced to from one to eight years in the penitentiary. Strange Work; of Jury. - Today,, another, Hammond Jury -was impaneled to'.try the case of Joe M&iwvskl. He was found guilty of engaging in a drunken saloon brawl in which he whipped out a razor and cut the throat of an innocent by-stander. The cut, according to the testimony of the doctor, was five inches in length and came within a hair's breadth of slashing the Jugular vein. But Joe Hahovski did not stop at that murderous attack. He cut another man on the top of the head and laid open his scalp for three inches. He made an attempt to rip open another man's stomach with the razor and finally ended his bloody Job by kicking a man in the leg. A Neat Surprise. He was intoxicated, but the law recognizes the fact that man is responsible for the inevitable consequences of his own acts and it was expected that Joe Mahovski would be sent to the penitentiary. Instead of that the jury brought in a verdict in which Joe Mahovski was found guilty, but was fined but $100 and costs and was only sentenced to thirty days in Jail. "If the Jury had taken the prisoner and put a dunce cap on his head and then placed him in the corner of the court-room until he said he was sorry it would have had about the same effect on the murderous foreigners In the Standard district," according to one of the residents of that district. Thinks It an Outrage. Chief Rimbach thought that the verdict was an outrage. He said it was not always that they could make out as clear a case against the foreigners as they were able to do in this case and yet the salutory effect which a good heavy'sentence would have on the rest of the foreigners is lost. A prominent Hammond lawyer said that a man might go out and cave in some one's head with a belaying pin and steal a purse containing $50 from another man and he would get from two to twenty-one years for stealing the purse, while he get $10 and costs for the attempt at murder if the patient happened to pull through and did not die. E. F. JOHNSTON THERE E. F. Johnston was the only representative from Hammond to the first meeting of the Indiana Federation of Commercial Clubs, which is being held in Richmond today. J. G. Ibach thought some of going, but was prevented from doing so by the pressure of business. It is expected that most of the large cities of the region will be represented. The list includes Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Anderson, Muncie, Marion, Peru, Relphi, Newcastle, Hammond, Linton, Renssalaer, Goshen, Greensburg, North Manchester, South Bend, Decatur, Andrews, Gary and Richmond. Probably 100 delegates will be in attendance. Chief interest centers in the banquet tonight, when there will be a number of notable toasts. If yon have a bouse or a room to rent yen can Inform 40,000 people by ad. rertlslnK In the classified eolnmms Ta Ttmaaw

BATTLE ARRAY IS FORMING

Kern and Slack Are Figured the Principals in the Senatorial Fight to Succeed Hemenway Tom Taggax Boosts John Worth. BREWERS OUTLINE LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Democratic Victory So&fcrs Them and They Are Willing to Stand for Regulation of Saloons, According , to the Population One to Every 500 Inhabitants. Indianapolis, Nov. 19 Indicattou4 that the Taggart strength, in the g enteral assembly will be thrown to John W. Kern, now that Taggart has formally announced that he will not seeK senatorial honors, are supplied by th fact that legislators, who have always been bound to Taggart and who had declared for him provided be decided to become a candidate, are rapidly lining up for Kern. The number In-, eludes several well known Taggart henchman, who would do and say nothing before getting orders from their chief. It had been thought that the Tag- . gart vote might at the dictation of Crawford Fairbanks, president of the Terre Haute Brewing company, be thrown to John E. Lamb. Fairbanks has for years been the. political and financial backer of Taggart and be la the only man from whom the former national cb.airma.nwirr' receive orders. : Taggart Convinces Fairbanks..' ' It had been doped that Fairbanks was for Lamb and that he would order Taggart and his crowd into the Lamb camp. That he has not is explained on the ground that Taggart convinced Fairbanks that Lamb could t:ot win and that Kern was the only man that could beat L. En. Slack, of Franklin. "Wishing to support a winner, Fairbanks is supposed to have accepted Kern, although he originally favored Lamb. Kern and Slack the Prtnclvals. The recent shifting makes it appear that from now on Kern and Slack will be the, principal actors in the legislative drama to be produced next January. Kern will have the support and Slack the opposition of the Fair-banks-Taggart outfit. But Kern will not be without friends divorced from the brewery Industry and Slack will not be without support from liquor men. This latter statement is astounding but conditions justify it. And that opens up another chapter as follows: Another Chapter. Slack, be it known has never trained with the Taggart crowd and has never received anything from the brewery outfit, but just now he is regarded as the only man in the state who can even give Kern a run for the Job. Therefore certain interest, which might under other circumstances ba aaginst Slack, are now for him. Certain individuals, too, who never before thought much of Slack are looking to him as the man to beat the Fairbanks-Tag-gart combination. Fleming In the Light. Prominent among the individuals supposed' to be for Slack because of peculiar break of the last two days is Steve Fleming, of Fort Wayne, senator-elect from Allen and Adams county, and president and principal owner of the BerghoSE Brewing company. Fleming is one of the powerful brew- ( Socials Continued on Page 5.) ATTORNEY MUCH BETTER Peter Crumpacker Submits to Operation Yesterday in Chicago Hospital. Word from the Augustana hospital in Chicago today is to the effect that Attorney Peter Crumpacker, who was taken to Chicago yesterday to undergo an operation, is resting easy today. He was operated on late yesterday afternoon, and came out of this ordeal in good shape. He spent a good night, and his condition today was better than it had been for some time. In the operation it was found that the Jaw bone had been affected by the continued ulceration, and it was necessary to scrape the bone. His many friends hope that he will be able to be around soon, especially as he has suffered excruciating pain for many weeks. His condition i3 due to a complication of diseases which seemingly be1 gan with an Iucerated tooth.