Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 131, Hammond, Lake County, 19 November 1908 — Page 4
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Thursday. .Nov. 19, 1908.
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CONSERVATION A WELCOME CONSUMATION. Lake county Is represented at the meeting of the Conservation League at Indianapolis this week by E. W. Wickey of .ast Chicago, who was appointed by the governor on Friday. The league was the result of the meeting of state governors held last spring at the White House. Headquarters has been established in Chicago and the league did some fine hustling prior tr, the last election. More than two hundred and fifty congressmen signed
pledges to support measures for the conservation of the nation's resources. Among this number was Congressman Crumpacker of this district. Nearly seven hundred candidates for election to state assemblies also signed the league's pledges. All this will help materially toward educating the public on this important matter. While we all know something of the value of conserving our national resources, there Is still a great apathy which must be overcome and It looks as though the league had gone about this tremendous task in the proper fashion. It is not surprising that the desirability, or rather the imperative necessity of conserving the nation's resources should not be generally realized. How many people appreciate the wisdom of conserving their own interests against a future need ? Providence, whether public or private, has not been a national virtue and those engaged in this propaganda have an arduous task on hand. It Is pleasant to have so much reason for believing that it will be duly accomplished, lest the people of America suffer not for their wastefulness. APPRECIABLE INCREASE IN ADVERTISING.
UP AND DOWN IN INDIANA
Young Chicago Man Whose Play Is Given Production By Mrs. Fiske
The increase In the amount of advertising carried In the Times from the cities of the Calumet region in spite of its higher rates for space, is a striking fact for the business man to consider in placing his contracts. It will be well for the small advertiser to remember that when merchants contract with the Times for thousands of inches, compelling the expenditure of a large amount of money on their part, the value of the Times as an advertising medium is thus proven. The business man in the Calumet region is beginning to realize the need of advertising in a paper which, together with steam and electricity, has done more to knit the cities together than aught else. The Times has made a community of Interests in Hammond, East Chicago, Gary, Indiana Harbor, Whiting and Tolleston. The people of these cities take the Times because it gives them the news of the other
cities in the region as well as their own. People take the Times to read it
and if business men want to reach this intelligent class of trade, if they want to keep them out of Chicago to trade at home, it will be profitable to adver
tise in its columns. Advertising in any paper is good advertising but ad
vertising in the Times is the best, simply try it. FRUITS OF THE BANK GUARANTEE.
A MODERN HEROINE. When one essays to tell the story of Mrs. Roofee, the heroine of the Net Mexico flood, one feels much as the old school poets must have felt wheu in their opening stanzas they prayed the muse to help them. But the story deserves a wider telling than has been given It It Is a thoroughly modem happening a telephone tale and has no parallel In literature or real lift. Mrs. Sallle Rooke was the toll operator at the long distance exchange at Folsom, N. M., the valley town that recently was swept away by the flood.
As operator she got the first tidings
of the approaching waters.
Mrs. Rooke had time to escape after warning the people of Folsom, all of whom escaped no the hillsides. Her
frail wooden station stood directly In
the path of the flood. But
In the valley below were scores of families subscribers of her company. It was night, and men, women and
children there in the lowlands were
asleep.
Alone the brave woman Bat by her
wire, calling up the hamlets and farm
houses. Scores of families fled to the hilltops, warned by the telephone. Mrs. Rooke had called nearly all the
numbers on the switchboard when tho menacing roar of the flood was heard above. There was yet time to get away. But the operator would not leare her post of duty and danger until the last subscriber was warned. And then The wall of angry waters twisted the little telephone station into kindling wood. The next day down in the canyon many miles away the bodv of the little woman was found wedged between the rocks. Somehow the waters had been kind, and the body was not mutilated or the face marred. And-
Here, too. was her operator's head
piece with a twisted strand of wire
pressing into her wet hair, mute wit
ness of her last kind occupation!
And these things should be told of
her for a memorial. Because
She died for strangers, doing what
she did without applause and as though
It were her dally task to choose be
tween death and duty. Because
The story of her quiet heroism re
news one's faith in the high calling of the race. It Justifies the creation of
men and women. It reveals the near
ness of that spirit place from which
the veil thinly separates where there
la no more struggle between love and
duty.
MONEY FOR HOGS) NOT MEN. Washington, D. C, where he will deDr. Susan Fisher Rose of Port Huron, liver the address at the dedication of
Mich., chairman of the committee on the memorial pulpit in honor of the late tuberculosis, in an address before the Father Spafford, the noted orator and National Woman's Council at Union Shakespearean scholar. City, today declared the government BLACKMAILER ARRESTED, spends more money for the suppression Threatening letters written to a numof hog cholera and blight on fruit trees ber or south Bend business men. warn.
than it does to combat the white ing them to leave town on pain of
plague. death, has resulted In the detention of
PRISONER WON'T "PEACH." John Wagner, reputed to be worth John 'Yock" Allison, Michigan's Jean $100,000, in the St. Joseph county jail. Valjean, formerly of South Bend, has Wagner is held for investigation. refused to tell what he knows to at- xo BUILD CITY IL1LL. torneys In the disbarment proceedings ,i. . r . . . , . . . . Following the favorable report of the against Prosecuting Attorney Joseph ,, ,
E. Talbot of South Bend. Allison's case has gone to the supreme court of Michigan, he being a resident of Jackson, Mich. j CARS TO FAIR GROUNDS. ! An electric or a steam road will be constructed to the Newcastle fair
the part of five councllmen to defer action on the measure, the ordinance providing for the Issue and sale of $600,000 municipal bonds for the erection of a new city hall, Ohio and Alabama streets, was passed at the special meet
ing of the Indianapolis city council on
grounds next August, according to the Tuesday night with only a single dis-
present plans or the lair association. genting vote The committee In charge first will con- DIPHTHERIA CLAIMS MANY, fer with the Terra Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction company and then The havoc wrought by diphtheria with the Pennsylvania railroad. i throughout Indiana during the month of
uctooer, 1908, is shown in figures just complied by the state board of health, from the monthly reports of the county
STARTS DUNKARD COLONY. The Rev. Lee Winklebleck, a Dunkard preacher of Hartford City, will establish a new colony of Dunkards from Indiana at Empire. Stanlaslus county, California. A 1,200 acre tract of land has been obtained at the head of the San Joaquin valley, on the Santa Fe railroad.
FARMER ON RAMPAGE.
From news that comes from Oklahoma it is learned that the state has
been flooded with fly-by-night banks. Since the state guarantee plan went into operation last January more than fifty new banks have opened their doors and the majority of them are operated by unexperienced and incomp
etent bankers.
Oklahoma has already traveled far enough on the blind path to know
that bank failures still can occur and that disposes of the theory that deposit ors never more will make a run for their money.
What other lessons are to be learned cannot surely be foretold but the symptoms indicate that serious ones are forthcoming. It will be the part
of prudence of the people of other states to stand by and wait until the re
turns are all in before adopting the Oklahoma plan. Even if it is successful there when fully tried out, there will be amendments in. plenty; and it
will be time enough after all this for the country at large to follow suit. SOCIALIST VOTE A DISAPPOINTMENT.
But little has been heard of the socialist vote at the recent election
when so much was expected. The fact that the party made such a poor showing is now giving rise to considerable comment. One Eastern editor
pays :
"The results of the election blight socialistic hopes in many ways. The party has suffered a staggering blow. Such organizations must grow or wither. If they cease to gain they lose. They cannot stand still. Hope is their life and the promise of speedy results is the motive power of their
campaigns. When the members of a radical party find its strength slipping away they are prone to look for some other source for the gratification of
their longings for revolutionary changes. For these reasons the socialists
will recover slowly, if at all, from the blow which has fallen upon them. It is quite possiblethat their party, young and small as it is, has already passed its highest point of development as a political force and cast its heaviest
vote."
AN ENGLISHWOMAN has framed the following set of rules for the pur
pose of protecting her child: "Don't kiss the baby." "Don't handle the baby unless your hands are very clean." "Don't allow the baby to touch your face or hair."
"Don't talk, sneeze, whistle, blow, cough or breathe into baby's face
we want him to live." It is not explained what is the matter with the rest of the family.
CAPTAIN PETER AUSTGEN'S name is being also prominently men
tioned in connection with Hammonds new police chieftancy. We know of
none more experienced, more courtly, braver or more deserving that the
gallant Captain Peter Austgen aforesaid.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE reports that cheese is now made in two hundred varieties. Really? Whether this includes the kind you get
down in "Heinie's" we wouldn't know until we smelled them all and then
perhaps, we couldn't tell.
NO DOUBT Mr. Gompers will pull through for re-election all right enough, but it is reasonably safe to anticipate that he will ont again undertake
to deliver the labor vote to any political party. It's a vain and risky business
IT WAS A philosopher who said "I haven't had a holiday for a long time
Just about the time my plans for a vacation mature a bunch of thirty-day
notes do the same thing.
boards of health. In all there were 1,600 cases and 47 deaths. NEW EVIDENCE OFFERED. That Belle Gunness and Ray Lamphere of Laporte were lovers and that the murderess had promised, in the presence of witnesses, to wed the man
After burning his home this morning on tr'al for murder, was the conten-
Thomas S. Fogle. 70 years old, a farmer tion or the state in Its evidence today living eight miles west of Columbus, BAR ENDORSES SHIVELY. seized a butcher knife, with which he R v SMv.iv r fin,,th vtr. ur. m.
tried to kill his relatives and neigh- day indorsed by the St. Joseph County bors and, fallng, drew the blade across Bar association In his contest for the his own throat in an effort to take his united States senate. The resolutions
EULOGIZES REV. SPAFFORD. 'and offered by George E. Clark, who The Rev. John Cavanaugh, president I stumped the state for Taft and Wat-
of Notre Dame, left last night for son.
up and down a rubbing board, swore at the reporter. This lets us out.
Many a bnsband would feel flattered to have his wife sac him (or $50,000 damages (or the loss of his affections.
Impromptu Horse Show. It looked like Broadway this morning on Pearl street as seven teams were all bunched together near the store of James M. McDonald. Noank Cor. New London Day.
Whenever A man fails, Ills wife tells the Public that he was "too Conscientious to succeed.' Would hate to tell you What she says to Him in private, However.
We
THIS DATE IN HISTORY. November 19.
1794 Jay's treaty between the united
States and Great Britain signed;
1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of
the Suez canal, born. Died Dec 7, 1894.
1854 Domingo Elias gave battle to the
Peruvian general Moran.
1864 Sarah Jane Smith, 16 years old,
a Confederate spy, sentenced to death at St. Louis.
1867 Charles Dickens arrived in Bos
ton.
1868 New England Woman Suffrage
association organized with Julia Ward Howe as president.
1873 "Boss" Tweed convicted of de
frauding the city treasury of New York.
1S91 William J. Florence, celebrated
actor, died in Philadelphia. Born in Albany, N. Y., July 26, 1831. 1898 General Don Carlos Buell died. Born March 23, 1818. 1899 Twenty thCL.sand British troops gathere dat Cape Town.
THIS IS MY 53TH BIRTHDAY. Ralph Peters. Ralph Peters, president and general manager of the Long Island railroad
and one of the best known railroad of
ficials In the United States, was born In
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 19. 1853. Since his
graduation from the University of Georgia at the age of 20, his entire career has been identified with the railroad business. He first became secretary to Samuel M. Felton. a prominent railroad man of his time, and In that osltion he obtained an Inside knowledge of the executive end of the railroad business. After leaving this positon, Mr. Peters was for several years engaged in the street railway business
and for a time was superintendent of the street railways In Atlanta. He
then became identified with the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati & St. Louis railroad
and later was appointed superintendent
of the western division of the Colorado,
Chicago & Indiana road. In 1885 he
was employed by the New York and
Newport Bridge company. His next
move was to the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth railroad, of which
he became vice president. In 1905 he was called to the presidency of the
Long Island railroad.
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
Interurban railroads galore, well we
wonder!
Hohman street's new fall suit is very
beautiful indeed.
It takes all kinds of people to make a queer world and you are one of the queer kind.
- We sent our chop suey reporter to
interview One Lung, our Chinese l'aundryman on. the situation in China, and the Hon. One Lung, who was busy
chasing one of John Steven's shirts
We were all hoping that Anna Gould-Castallane-Sagan might succeed in
keeping her name out of the papers for
awhile, but it seems that It was not
to be.
Better a bald-head, however, than a bare-faced lie.
Another Pearl Cast.
A Georgia editor was asked: "Do
hogs pay" He replied: 'A good many
do not. They take the paper for several years and then have the postmaster
to mark It 'refused' or 'address un known.' " Alabama Beacon.
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find that even a homely
man doesn't look the part if you get used to him.
In Missouri there is a man wTio has
faith enough to move a mountain. He
has asked the courts enjoin his wife
from talking.
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS MORE
TRIVIAL THAN THE REASON THAT
PEOPLE HAVE FOR DISLIKING YOU t
We have no doubt that the Standard
Oil company feels that It can now afford
to get its wife a new hat.
In every town there is a good deal of quarreling. It Is never very serious unless you encourage it and it is always the same old quarrel.
IN POLITICS
THE CREAM OF THE Morning News
Newcastle Since the election Con
gressman-elect William O. Barnard of this city has had many applications for positions. Postoffices seem to be the
plums that most of the visitors desire,
South Bend There appears to be
fight on for secretary to Henry A. Barnhart, congressman-elect. It was announced in Goshen that Peter A. Young, a Mlshawaka newspaper man had been selected. Mr. Barnhart denied that any selection had been made. Isaac Kane Parks of Mishawaka is also after the place. Bloomington A matter of political gossip here is the action of Prosecutorelect John Underwood of Bedford, as he announced it this week. He will cut the deputyship pie at this place into three pieces among John O'Donnell, E. E. McFerren and Joe Knox Barclay. Each of the aspirants for the deputyship are young democratic attorneys who assisted in the election of Mr. Underwood. Terre Haute The cost of tire election in Vigo county was $8,251, which was less than four years ago. Machines were used in all city precincts and that two might be placed In larger precincts more than ten country precincts used the old style ballots. In these latter
Great Catholic congress concludes
with brilliant gathering at First Regi
ment armory and addresses by W. Bourke Cockran and Archbishop Quig-ley.
More Van Vlissingen victims found,
while assets reach $30,000.
Professor Merriam of the University
of Chicago urges sweeping political
changes to supplement the work of the
direct primary system.
University of Chicago is defeated in
fight with oWodlawn property owners
for vacation of Greenwood avenue.
Nearly $300,000 in counterfeit silver
certificates In circulation in Chicago.
John D. Rockefeller takes the witness
stand in New York in defense of the
Standard Oil company and taklks freely
of his early life and of the formation
of the big corporation.
Mrs. Howard Gould is awarded ali
mony to the amount of $25,000 annually
by Justice Bischoff, who in refusing her
request for $120,000 admits that she is
able to spend larger amount.
Directors of the Catholic university
meet in Washington and ballot on a
rector for the institution. Three
names are sent to Rome, but it Is be
lleved that Mgr. O'Connell will be kept
at post.
Baker E. Edwards and his wife will
appear in court today at Fletcher's Sta
tion, N. C, to answer the criminal charges brought in the dispute over the
Buck Shoals property.
Story of fire which destroyed Mrs.
Belle Gunness' home near Laporte, Ind., is told by the sheriff In the trial of Ray Lamphere, accused of murdering the woman. Question as to why starch made in the United tSates is sold cheaper in Great Britain is one of the features of the hearing on revision by the house committee in Washington. Serious defects in the criminal law are pointed out by Attorney General Bonaparte in an address before the National Municipal league. Emperor William's surrender to popular protest and pledge of non-interference may not bring Germany any nearer to parliamentary government. Wheat market closes easier, with leading owners supporting prices only on weak spots. Corn strong; oats easier; provisions firm; cattle and hogs are higher; sheep are lower. Stocks in Wall street are lower except In the case of a few specials. Large railway system will contest the rights of the interstate commerce commission to require the railroads to charge off certain per cent of net earnings for property depreciation. Wisconsin football team finishes hard practice before game with Chicago and plays well.
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nwj& J3jixwzz& cltficcvarv Edward Brewster Sheldon whose play was produced last night by Mrs.
Minnie Maddern Fiske, has succeeded in showing that Chicago is entitled to a place upon the theatrical map. Mr. Sheldon Just has graduated from Harvard, here he was prominent in college club life. He Is a son of Mrs. Theodore Sheldon of 33 Bellevue place.
Sheldon encountered all of the obstacles that a young p'aywright has come to
expect In securing a reading for his play. At last it reached the eyes of Mrs. Fiske, however, through the efforts of a mutual friend, who was certain there was good stuff in the young man. Mrs. Fiske became enthusiastic over it at
once and decided that it should be her vehicle for the coming season. This is but one of the plays written by Sheldon as a sort of a side issue while a student at Harvard university. He was a member, while at the university, of the Harvard Dramatic, Stylus, Signet, and Hasty Pudding clubs.
LOOKING ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE
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Two Fog Stories. Justice Harlan told a story to Judge Taft of how he went out to play golf in a fog. He thought he would drive the ball and sent it off at a "haiard." He came to the caddie and asked him to find the ball, looking within a radius of 300 yards. The caddie's eyes stuck out. "I done found dat ball, judge. It am In de hole sure 'nough. It Jest wiggled in like." It was certainly remarkable that a drive through the fog should place a ball where the most earnest effort of two to twenty strokes may fail In broad daylight. Judge Taft responded with a fishing story, also about a fog. He went out one day in a wagon to fish and the fog came down thick. He drew up where he thought the stream ought to be, cast his line, felt a pull and hauled in a fine trout another bite and another, until the wagon was filled. The fog lifted and the wagon was 300 yards from the river! There was a silence
which might be felt when Judge Taft
concluded, and Justice Harlan told no more fog stories. National Magazine.
Information.
A well-known novelist was touring through Lancashire in order to learn something of the lives of the inhabitants, when he came upon an old man breaking stones on ahteodeisd tao
breaking stones on the roadside, and thinking he might gain some knowledge from him, addressed him thus:
now iar is u to rieetwood, my
many?"
"You'll see a milestone a bit farther
on," was the gruff reply. "What's thre use, if I can't read?'
said the novelist, eager to draw the old
man into conversation.
'Then It'll Just suit you, for there's
nowt on it," said the old fellow. Ex change.
last 'arf hour, so I believe we do; but
I'll ask a policeman, if you like." Tit-
Bits.
Her Choice."' ' " " "I see that your little sister took the
smaller apple," said an experienced
mother. "Did you let her have her choice, as I told you?" "Yes, mother," her son replied brightly. "I told her if she didn't choose the smaller one she wouldn't get any at all. She choose the smaller one, mother!" Philippines Gossip.
The Song of the Elephant. Little Charley Maloney, a 6 year old boy, heard a man practicing on the calliope last Tuesday preparatory to playing it front of the office of the Post that night. Rushing to his father, he said: "Listen, papa." "What is it?" asked his father. "It'e de elephant singing," said Charley. Denver Post.
A Sound Sleep. "Morning, morning!" said paterfamilias genially as he entered the breakfast room. "I've had a splendid night. Slept like a top!" His wife agreed with him. "You did," she responded grimly "like a humming top!" Philippines Gossip.
A Certain Sameness. Old Lady (rather deaf) Are you any relation to a Mr. Green? Pardon me sir. Green I am Mr. Green. Old Lady Ah! That explains the extraordinary resemblance! Philadelphia Inquirer.
LABOR NEWS
precincts the cost at each was larger because the poll officials were on duty longer, in some Instances being paid for four days. The actual election, expenses In the city were $1,247 for twenty-nine precincts and in the country $1,181 for eighteen precincts.
VICE PRESIDENT GAYLEY WILL QUIT STEEL TEUST. Resignation To Be Accepted Before Jan. 1, Announces President Corey. New York, Nov. 19. William E. Corey, president of the United States Steel Corporation, made this announcement today: "Mr. James Gayley, first vice president, today tendered his resignation, which will be accepted. He has advised us that he wishes to retire from active business; he has contemplated doing this for some time, and by resigning now gives time to complete our organization for the beginning of the new year." It is said that Mr. Gayley has been in poor health recently and had frequently expressed a determination to retire from active business.
Beastly Intelligence. "More than five thousand elephants a year go to make our piano keys," remarked the student boarder who had been reading the scientific notes in a patent medicine almanac. "For the land's sake!" exclaimed the landlady. "Ain't it wonderful what some animals can be trained to do?" Chicago News.
Perfectly Honest. "I hadn't been talking with him three minutes before he called me an ass. What Bort of a person is he?" "Well, I never knew him to tell a lie." Tit-Bits.
An Example. As the teacher read out to her class a portion of Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe," she came upon the word "eloped." "Now, which little boy." she asked, "can tell me what the word 'eloped' signifies?" A dead silence following, she explained, "It means 'ran away,' 'carried away," she explained. "Do you understand? Well, and which little boy can now give me a sentence with the word 'eloped' in it?" "I can, miss" answered a small boy at the back of the classroom. "Mr. Green's dog has eloped with my farver's dinner." Dundee Advertiser.
Just to Make Sure. To a 'bus conductor who was calling "Hangel and 'Ighgate, Hangel and 'Ighgate!' 'an old lady several times put the question, "Are you sure you go to the Angel?" The man's answer came at last. "Well, mum, it's writ all over the 'bus, and I've been callin it for the
Considered in regard to the number of deaths for every 1,000 men employed, the United States occupies a less favorable position than any other of the coal producing countries, more than three times as many men out of each 1.000 being killed as in some of the European countries that are much less favored in natural conditions. With regard to deaths for every million tons of coal, the United States not only occupies a position worse than that of most European countries, but is also showing an Increase in the rate, whereas every other country is showing a decrease. The Australian parliament appropriated $300,000 for the increase of the teachers' salaries, and the men teachers attempted to get the whole amount applied to themselves. The members of the Woman's Progressive association, all of them voters, did not see the logic of such a division of the appropriation, and objected to it so strongly that the men were forced to share the money with them. The Women's club of Magnolia, Mass., is said to be the only one of Its kind in existence. It has a membership of something more than 300. all women employed as workers In the hotels, boarding houses and residences of the summer population of that resort. The validity of that section of the labor law providing that no workmen upon public work shall be permitted or required to work more than eight hours in one calendar day, is upheld by the New York court of appeals. The court in substance holds that a violation of thi3 law is justification for the withholding of payments for such work from contractors.