Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 164, Hammond, Lake County, 30 December 1908 — Page 1

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GOVERNOR IS ASKED Thousands of Dollars Will Be Spent in Getting Superior Court. For one day at leaat Gary will be tbe capital of Indiana if the ambition lawyers who are working unceasingly la the Interests of a Gary anperior court are successful In the plana they have Inaugurated. Today Invitation Trrre issued to all of the members of the Indiana aenate and house to come to Gary and aee the town. And If the plana of the genera committee of the city carry the legislators will be shown the best time they ever had when they arrive In the new ateel city.Will Get to Gary tn A. M. A special train, consisting exclusively of Pullmans, will be run out of Indianapolis In the evening and will arrive In Gary the next morning.1 The train will be run either over the Monon railroad to Hammond and thence to Gary or over the Lake Erie and Western to Michigan City and thence by lnterurban to Gary. As there are 100 representatives and fifty senators In the Indiana legislature It will be seen that It will require at least three coaches to convey the two law-making bodies of the state to Gary. It Is probable that the Invitation also - Includes the governor and the state officers and the party "may include 200 people, together with the Gary reception committee. Porgram an Extensive One. If all of the state officers come to Gary the seat Of the state government will be in that city for at least twelve hours. The program for the entertainment of the distinguished guests includes a trip through the streets of the city in carriages and automobiles, & trio through the great steel mills and finally a banquet In the evening. It can easily be seen how the business men of Gary expect to spend the $2,000 or $3,000 which Is to be raised for the purpose of securing a superior court in Gary. All of this was decided At a special meeting of the city general committee, which met at the Gary hotel last evening. In the meantime it was announced that Attorney Clarence Bretsch has already gone to Indianapolis to boost for Gary's superior court and he will be followed later by several other prominent citizens, including President T. E. Knotts. JOHN BRENNAN

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Political Fight Promised For Coming Spring Already v Has Begun to Attract a Great Deal of Attention in Political Circles.

In every center of population In lake county, the political pot is again beginning to boil. It seems that Ringmaster P. Richard Schaaf has no sooner pulled off an act tn one ring of the big political circus tent than some other ambitious showmen starts a stunt in another ring, and so the show goes on Indefinitely. The people of Lake county are now talking politics as a pastime. It seems to be abont as good a form of amusement M could be provided for them, and incidentally the great work of providing for the government of the people of the county and the administration of its affairs is accomplished. There is not a large city in the coun ty where prospective candidates have not begun their wire-pulling which is expected to scure for the mthe nomination for mayor or one of the other city offices. Tempest Is Brewiag. Over in Gary, where they generally play every game they go into to the limit, there is a tempest brewing in the teapot. It is understood that John Brennan Is the man who has been selected by the republicans as their municipal standard-bearer during the coming campaign. Mr. Brennan is probably the strong est candidate that could be selected and It is not believed that he will have any uoositlon for the republican nom-'

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MAYOR BECKER BETTER City's Chief Executive Now Receiving Callers at St. Margaret's. Mayor Becker, who is still in St. Margaret's hospital recuperating from the effects of the operation that he un derwent there, is doing splendidly. He is permitted to be up for a short time in the day and has received quite number of callers in has room. He is in the best of spirits and is hoping that he will be able to spend New Tear's at home. Dr. W. F. Howatt, his physician, however, is inclined to keep him in the hospital a day longer. Since his operation Mayor Becker's condition has been improving wonder fully. He has not suffered the least relapse in all this time, although for a few days he was a very sick man. PICTURES PLEASING. Large Crowds Attracted to Colonial Theater. The crowds which have been at tracted to the pictures of the Passion Play, which have been shown at the Colonial theater in Hammond, indicate the deep Interest which the people take in this great spectacle. Monday evening the crowds were so great that they packed the sidewalk for considerable distance on either side of the theater. Tuesday afternoon there was a good attendance and Tues day evening there was a good crowd in apite-tf the fact, that the rain made it impossible for many to atterid. ' LOOK FOR CROOK. Word was received from Ft. Wayne this morning that a daring houldup was on the way here and asking the Hammond police to look through all of the passing freights in an effort to find the man. The name of the holdup is not known. He is described as being 25 or 26 years old and 5 feet 5 or 6 Inches tall. He is believed to have taken a freight on the Nickel Plate road at Ft. Wayrre for Chicago. He held up his victim at the point of a revolver and got $30 from him. The name of the victim is not given. "EAST LYNNE" TONIGHT. "East Lynne" will be presented at the Towle opera house tonight by Joseph King's excellent company. Mr. King produced such plays as "Ninety and Nine," "The Charity Ball, "The Wife" and an unusual performance of this old play is assured. OF GARY RAGE THERE inatlon. He is popular with all classes and is one of the most public-spirited men in the new steel city. There has not been a big undertaking with which Mr. Brennan has not been identified, and he is one of the men who is now making Gary go. He is a druggist and is interested in several other Gary enterprises. In Gary there is sure to be a struggle for the control of the city. The democrats headed by Thomas E. Knotts, have had control of the town administration ever since the town of Gary was incorporated. Is Fairly Efficient. The Knotts administration has been fairly efficient. The democrats will have to be given credit for that. But there are several weak spots In it which the republicans think they can successfully attack. One is the Gary, and lnterurban deal, by which a coterie of friends of Tom Knotts, who were not in a financial position to build a street railway, secured the franchise against the will of the majority of the people who wanted a company which was friendly to the Steel company to get the franchise, so that the road could be quickly and efficiently built. The wishes of the people were ignored and the result was, that after months of delay the road waa finally Continued page 3.

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LOSES HER FATHER George Flake, Father of Mrs. E. E. Beck, Dies at Valparaiso. WAS ILL LESS THAN A WEEK Decedent Was Born In Hanover, Germany, 78 Years Ago and Was Well Liked. It will not be a very happy New Year for Mrs. E. E. Beck, 21 Williams street, who was yesterday afternoon notified of the sudden death of her father,' Geo Flake, at Valparaiso. Mrs. Beck is one of two surviving children of a family of seven, her oth er living sister being Mrs. S. J. Sum mers of Valparaiso. George Flake died after less than a week's illness, he having been taken ill on Christmas day with pleuro-pneu-monla. His death came yesterday afternoon at about 1 o'clock. Did Not Know It Was Serious. His wife and daughter were with him at the time, but Mrs. Beck of Hammond was hardly aware that his condition was serious. Mr. Flake was 78 years old and was born in Burgelow, Hanover, Germany, on Aug. 3, 1830. He came to Valparaiso in 1865, and was engaged in the boot and shoe business for twenty years, retiring in 1885, since which he has devoted much of his time looking after his farm, west of this city. The funeral services will be held on Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock from his home, conducted by Rev. Chris. Herr of Osborn, O. BRINGS A jlRGE SUIT Catherine , Byers Attacks Husband's Character in Superior Cotirt. Catherine Byers has brought suit in the Lake superior court in Hammond against her husband, Frank Byers, in which she seeks to have the bonds of matrimony severed. Mrs. Byers says that her husband is guilty of having' improper relations with a woman in their own house and that he was accustomed to associate with low and immoral women. She alleges that she was accustomed to go away 'from home and stay two or three days at a time, and that on such occasions she had no knowledge of his whereabouts. Mrs. Byers says that her husband is employed by the Chicago and Erie Rail way company as an engineer and is capable of earning $100 to $150 a month. She asks that she be granted $1,500 alimony and the custody of the little daughter, Frances. TRAIN STOPSjOR THEM Those Who Want to See Old Year Out in Chicago Are Favored. Hammond people who are accustomed to go to Chicago on New Year's eve and witness the abandon and hilarity of a great city on the occasion of the ending of the old and the beginning of the New Year will be glad to know that the Monon paper train, which laves Chicago at 2:45 a. m., will stop at Hammond. This will give the people of Ham mond a chance to stay in the city until the last dog is oead and then come home In time to get a little sleep on the first night of the New Year. Usually the people of Hammond are compelled to leave the city just as the big demonstration commences un less they decide to stay in Chicago all night. This will give the people of Hammond an opportunity which they have never had before and doubtless many will take advantage of it. BETZ IS INVITED. Philadelphia Club Wants to Pull off Match. Frank S. Betz, who has made the surprising score of 70 in the Masonic bowling contest and succeeded in defeating John E. Fitzgerald of Hammond, who scored only 35, has been Invited to compete In a handicap bowling contest at the quarters of the Philadelphia Athletic club. How Betz's reputation as a bowler reached Philadelphia so soon after he had defeated Mr. Fitzgeral 1 is hard to understand. The man again.t whom he is to bowl is Charles J. PflUlng, the president of a large instrument house in Philadelphia. The content ! to be open only to the members of the club and their friends.

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Organized Labor Will Keep in Politics in Indiana, and State Federation's Politi cal Activity Committee Makes Report. COUNTY SUPTS. ARE IN SESSiOH Eight Members of Indiana's Con gressional Delegation Are Now Beady to Eetail to Private Life and Most of Them Will Be Engaged In Practice of Law. TIMES' BUREAU AT THE STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 30. Action was taken by the Indianapolis Central Labor union last night Indicates the political action that is to be taken by organized labor- throughout the state. Of course. It is only one branch of or ganized labor of the state, but it is the largest and numbers in its mem bershlp some of , the state officers of the Indiana State Federation of Labor. So, whatever, the Indianapolis Central Labor union may do along that line gives a pretty good indication of the course that is likely to be followed by labor, throughout the state. . Took an Active Fart. During the campaign just closed or ganized labor. took an active part, even going so far as to hire a special train and send Samuel . Gompers and other work against the reubUcan ticket. There has never been any question but that -this activity on the part . of organized labor had something to do with the defeat of James E. Watson for governor . and th.9 small plurality given Taf t in Indiana. 1 The Central Labor union had a com mittee during the campaign that was known as the political activity committee, and at the meeting of the central body this committee made a final report. In the report it told of all the campaigning that labor had done and reviewed the whole work. Report AVas Approved. The report was approved by the central body and a motion was carried to continue the political activity com mittee for future campaigns. The speak ers who favored such action pointed out that labor has much at stake and that unless it , takes care of itself It will get the worst of It. It was pointed out in the speeches that a city election Is to be held next fall in this city and that other elections are coming on also, and it agreed that labor should continue in the fight. Whether other organizations throughout the state will follow suit is not known,' but there is every reason to believe that they will. At least some of the Indianapolis labor leaders say that the propaganda will be pushed Altogether it is looked on as an important move in labor circles. County Officials Meet. The county superintendents of schools from all over the state were here yes terday planning the legislation they will ask from the coming session. They wish their salaries increased first of all. A committee that has had the matter in charge has arranged the following scale of salaries which the legislature will be asked to embody in a law: In counties having more than 16,000 children of school age, $2,250; from 12,000 to 16,000, a salary of $1,950; from 9.000 to 12.000, a salary of $1,750; from 5,000 to 9,000, a salary of $1,550, and in counties where the enumeration Is un der 5,000 children a salary of $1,400. At the present time county superintendents receive $4 a day for time actually employed. . Will Ask Other Things. Other things that the county superintendents will ask are more strict qualifications for county superintendents, taking the office out of politics as much as possible, an extension of authority by giving county superintendents judicial power to locate buildings, erect buildings, select sjtes, abandon schools and to employ teachers. It is also proposed to authorize the employment of a deputy county superintendent in counties where one Is needed. It was held that a man should not be eligible to become a county superintendent unless he is capable of holding a sixty months' teachers' license, a life state licenseor a diploma from a professional course in an accredited normal school or college. Ch.anges are also proposed in the law for hauling children to school in the country. It is proposed to change the school book law so as to make a larger profit for the dealer. ' One of the su- . (Continued on,'psge 7.)

TEATS OP TEACHER'S LINGERIE East Chicago Officer's Ani mal Makes Much Trouble For Its Owner. ALSO DEVOURS WALLPAPER Pretty School Teacher May Sue Be cause of Her Outraged Feelings. (Speclai to Thb Times.) East Chicago. Ind., Dec 30. Anyone wishing a nice (t), kind (?), gentle (f) and well-behaving ( f ) goat please ap ply to Officer Alike Gorman of the East Chicago police department. Gorman's goat has been the source of several good newspaper stories already, bnt the latest caps the climax. Its actions have become so offensive to the blue coat that he has decided that it Is i question of either giving the goat away or selling it to a well-meaning butcher. . But to a recital of the goat's mis deeds! A few weeks ago Mr. William Goat entered upon the premises of one of Gorman's ' neighbors. The said neighbor had just finished papering the house and failed to notice the advent of his goatshlp. William, attracted by the scented paste, managed to paw the wall to a height of five feet. : Tearing off the paper gently and munching it as he proceeded, William left the wall as bare as Jawn D.'s head without the wig. Of course Gorman is confronted by a bill for damages. This la the Worst of All. The wallpaper episode would not have mattered so much had not the goat became curious about the con struction' of ladles' wearing . apparel. There is a sweet and . comely school teacher who has her weekly laundry f done by a Stiegllta Park woman, residing near the Gorman residence. Cf course, the distance was not too great for William Goat and he straightway commenced to investigate the usual Monday washings. When his Investigation was completed, the goat was heavier by several pounds and the line was void of its bewHchingly beautiful lingerie. Laces were destroyed and the wearing apparel of the schoolmarm was given a severe relapse. Gorman is also raced, py a om tor -damages. Tiijt?ytSixiS'ctnileB'-ii-of-ficer, however, is that he has demanded of the school-teacher an itemized list showing the proper name for each. and every piece of clothing masticated by his goatly protege. As we have said before, anyone wish ing a nice (?) goat apply to the East Chicago policeman. RAHDALLSUESFQR2QDQ Crumpacker & Crumpacker Sue M. C. Railway Co. For Gary Man. A. W. Randall is suing the Michigan Central Railroad company for $2,000 damages for injuries received to himself and property as a result of being hit by a Michigan Central train on the Madison street crossing In Gary. Randall alleges that the train was going through Gary at a rate of speed which was in excess of that permitted by the law. The train struck the wagon and Randall was thrown out. He suffered from a fractured collarbone and the tearing of certain llglments attached to the knee. Mr. Ran dall tlemar.d3 $100 to cover the cost of the doctor's fees and $1,000 damages. Crumpacker & Crumpacker have the case. (I DEVIL" STAR DEAD. F. Lawrence Lee, Who Play ed at Towles, Dies. F. Lawrence Lee, who starred In "The Devil," which made a one-night stand here along In November, died at the Palace hotel. North Clark and Indiana streets, in Chicago, yesterday aft ernoon after a short illness. Lee was 39 years old and Is the author of several stirring melodramas. He went to Chicago about ten days ago after starring in one of the nu merous "Devil" companies. He was born In Dayton, O., and his body will be shipped to that city for interment. WON'T GO INTO OFFICE UNTIL YEAR FROM JAN. Speculation Regarding w Term of Office la Settled. Judging from the number of questions that are asked on the street regarding the term expiration of the county commissioners there seems to be considerable speculation. For the benefit of the friends of both O. A. Krinbill and Richard Schaaf Sr., who will suc ceed the former in the First district, it might be said that Mr. Krlnbill's term of office does not expire until January, 1910, and that Mr. Schaaf's terra, will not begin until then. alX TALK ABOUT JTTBLICITT IS CREEK TO TOD" CXLK9S TOP AD. TEBTUB OCCASIONALLY. .

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IIILUUHll LOSES HIS LIFE Switchman on I. H. Belt Is Crushed and Dies Later at HospitalBODY TAKEN TO MANSFIELD, 0. Victim of Sad Accident Was 37 Years Old and leaves Wife But No Children. Little did Samuel Milllgan of 54 Sobl street think yesterday morning when he started out for his work as yard switchman In the Indiana Harbor belt that he would not live to aee the Sfw Year. Death came to him within an hour after he was hurt, at 5 o'clock, in the yards near the distillery, he having suffered fatal internal injuries when he was caught between two bumpers as he tried to make a coupling. He fell beside the track unconscious and was picked up by his fellow workers who took him to the watchman's shanty, which was nearby. Hurried to Hospital. Here they waited for Emmerling's ambulance to arrive. Mr. Milllgan was hurried to St. Margaret's 'hospital, where immediate medical attention was given him. All efforts to save his, life, were futile, he died within an hour after. . , , ' ; Samuel Milllgan was 37 years old and leaves a wife, who lived with him at 54 Sohl street. The body will be taken to Mansfield, O., tomorrow, the formerhome of the deceased, where it will be buried. STELLA YOUNG MISSING Towle Street Girl Fails to Return Home and Parents Are Alarmed. Stella Young, ; the 11-year-old sister of Flo Young, is reported missing at the police station. . The little girl lives in 4 STift To wle ircet and- went rlnwnmother. She had on a red dress and a brown coat.' She was gone all night last j night and her -parents have no idea where she could have gone. The other members of the family says that Stella Young has always been a good girl to their knowledge, and has always been in the house at 5 o'clock in the evening. It is not believed that the has been thrown into the bad company which has made the police record of her sis ter such a lengthy one and the officers at the local station have telephoned to all of the surrounding cities in the hope that the young girl may be located. LQGANSPORT PRESBYTERY WAS IN SESSION MONDAY Rev. I. Eugene Snook of Hammond did not attend the meeting of the Logansport Presbytery, which met at the First Presbyterian church in Laporte Monday and dissolved relations between Rev. F. A. Munneke and the Bethel Presbyterian church at Union Mills. Rev. Mr. Munneke has accepted a call ?o the church at Decatur, Mich. HOLD PLEASANT SMOKER. The members of the University club of Hammond held a smoker in their club rooms last evening and served refreshments to those who were persent. The evening was spent pleasantly and the party broke up at a reasonable hour. There was not a large crowd on account of the inclement weather. ASS MEETING

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HEM HAY BE CALLED Lake County Trades and Labor Council Members Will Soon Take Action as to the United StatesGompers Case.

A mass meeting of the Trades and Labor council of Lake county may possibly be called in the near future, which, if possible, may be a Joint mass meeting of that body and also of the Building Trades' association. The object of the mass meeting would be in the interest of the recent decision of the United States district court of Washington, which sentenced Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison, the three foremost labor leaders in the country to 1a!l. The malter of a mass meeting has been brought up in the Building Trades association, but was voted down. However, there are leaders in both organizations would like to see a mass meet, lng of both bodies materialize. With the elose of the year most of

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Salome Comes to Hammond Last Night With Her Seven Veils and4 Loses Them in Spotlight at the Towle Opera House. PUBLIC TASTE DIFFERS FROU NIGHT REFORE Male Portion of Spectators Hurry, From Suppers In Order That They Won't Miss The Boston Belles Who . Give Old Fashioned Burlesque Show. Miss Few-Clothes Salome came to Hammond last night, and writhed and wriggled out of her seven yells in front of a spot-light In Towle's Opera House. . The night before Miss Bertha Kalich. as Cora, appeared on the same stage, and gave the greatest bit of emotional acting evr seen in the city. But she didn't writhe. . Funny, world: The management of the theater lost money , with the matchless Cora performance, but they made money with the Salome show. Hammond people passed up Bertha Kalich and . her finished art for a bevy of painted burlesquers, headed by a Salome, who slavered over a paper mache head in a chopping bowl in the name of art. Too Deep for Hammond. It was very artistic, splendid acting and Cora well, "Cora" may be all right, but she is a little too deep for the average. Hammondlte. Whai the crowd last night wanted to see was ,Tley disKke-to : admit it. but their theati;.l education -has not gone beyond the girls u isl tights, who excite their admiration because of their ability to do the dansa du ventre and kick the spots oft the electric lights In tfce drops. It was pretty hard for some of the business men to get away last night. Many of them had quite a difficult time explaining their.absence and some of the reasons were pathetic, but the electric light beams from the footlights caromed off on a lot of shining pates in A and B, one and two. It was a good burlesque show. Nobody got cheated. Far from it. But there were a good many who kept looking around to see if there were any of their friends in the house. They Didn't Like to Look. Especially when they saw how few clothes Salome wore. And when Salome came out On the stage in her bare feet and began throwing her seven dishrags around it made some think of the little wives they had left washing the dishes at home in the kitchen on the pretext that they had important business downtown. After they had gasped at Salome's superb acting and frantically applauded her in an effort to get her to repeat the performance they sneaked out of the theater in the hope that no one would see them. It is a sad commentary. Lessee Jas. Wlngfleld has brought some magnificent shows to Hammond and gone down In his jeans to pay the . big deficits. The people wouldn't attend them. But the Boston Belles got the money and it wouldn't do, honestly it wouldn't do to tell you how rotten it all was. OF U1I01I the locals are electing and installing new officers at their regular meetings. Painters meet Officers. The Painters' local. No. 460, at its regular meeting last evening elected and installed the following officers: President William Dutton. Secretary Roy Clinton. Treasurer James Young. Business ager.t Mr. Sherritt. The Carpenters' union will install the following officers next Saturday evening: President J. C. Harlan. Vice president Jacob Mills. Financial secretary John Connors. Recording secretary W. E. Jones, Conductor William Bumgartner. Warden John Waldron. Business Agent H. E. Granger.