Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 190, Hammond, Lake County, 30 January 1909 — Page 1

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Gov. Thomas R. Marshall States Emphatically he Will Enforce the Laws of Indiana

HIS LETTER IS PLAIN Executive Wants Power to . Femove Officials Who Permit Violations of the Law. 4 CITIES TO BE IMSAPPOINTED. . Thr cities vi here fight promoters fxprrted to pull off bonis were Indianapollut, South Bend, Ft. Wayne, Terrc Haute, Anderson, Munele, Hammond, Gary and Michigan City. The Indiana promoter of the fistic bout and the sporty gentlemen from Chicago vrho follow the pugilistic game those vrho conceived the Idea that Governor Marshall of this Male mas (coins' to permit things to ran In -wide-open fashion, and that the good old days of the Columbia Athletic club were coming- back to earth, hnd better Ktve over. Governor Marsha:! will not permit prize fighting in Indiana. That's all there is to It. In answer to a letter from The Times, asking information as to whether or not he would permit the resumpr tlon of boxing In Indiana, the chief executive tersely and conclsively stated that he was going to enforce the laws as outlined In his inauguration speech. He made the hroad statement, without any equivocation or reservation, and he undoubtedly means what he says in regard to other tilings besides prize fighting. Sincere In His Statements. That he is sincere in his statement is made clear by his asking the general assembly now in session to peremptorily remove from office any official who permits the law to be violated. The hopes of sundry promoters to start the boxing game in Hammond one fell swoop. In his inauguration and Gary are summarily disposed of at one fell swoop. In his Inauguration speech Governor Marshall said: The governor's duty consists In seeing that when laws are once made they are enforced. I shall very promptly send any communication to me of law violation to the proper prosecuting attorney, with instructions to call upon the citizens to back up the charges he has privately made to me. You must either Insist upon the legislature wiping out many of these statutory enactments or cultivate a greater degree of reverence for them. What we need is not reform but regeneration. Do not think that you can shirk responsibility for law enforcement by berating the officers of the law, among whom Is the gov(Continued on Page Two.) BARCELONA IS DESTROYED BY QUAKE City of Half Million Hit Also by Immense Tidal Wave. I-iOndon, Jan. 80, 3 a. m. Brief dispatches from Spain received here early this morning report that at least a part and possibly all of the city of Barcelona has bee noverwhelmed by a tidal wave following an earthquake. The promenades and buildings near the water front are said to have disapepared into the sea. Loss of I4fe May Be Heavy. The loss of life cannot be guessed at present, but must Inevitably be large. The first reports of the tremblor came from Pan Sebastian and said that an earthquake had devastated several towns and villages in south and southeastern Spain. Moroccan Town Is Bnrled. It also added a statement that a tidal wave had partly submerged the coast near Barcelona and that a great landslide at Ceuta, the Spanish penal colony in Africa, across the straits of Gibraltar, had buried the village of Honiara, in Morocco, and several hundred inhabitants.

Era SECTION 2,332. BURNS' REVISED STATUTE , OF 1908. Whoever engages as princicipal in any prize-fight, or attends any such fight as a backer, trainer, second, umpire, assistant, reporter, or in any other other capacity, shall, on conviction, be fined not ,less than $50 nor more than $500, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail, not exceeding six months. . CAUCUS Oi OPTIO WAS LAWA FAILURE Democrats Fail to Get ToGether, But Temperance Men Didn't. NOT LOSING ANY SLEEP OVER Probably No Legislation on Question During Present Session. This TIMES' BIREAU AT THE STATE CAPITAL. (Special to Thb Times.) Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 30. The democratic members of the house tried to get together and hold a caucus last night on the local option question, but they failed to do a thing. During the day a call was sent out for the caucus and it was given out that a definite stand would be taken by all the demo crats, one way or the other. During the day, however, three of the democrats, Hostetter of Putnam county. Clofe of Franklin county and Merriman of Wells county, served notice on the liberal forces that they would appear at the caucus and make a formal statement that they would refuse to be bound by any caucus action. They were against any and all efforts to repeal the county option law and they told the other side that there were sixteen of thejn in all. This threw a bomb into the liberal camp, but the leaders did not believe thev would dare to carry out their purposes. But when the time came last night for the caucus to open only thirty-five of the fifty-nine democrats in the house were present. This was less than a quorum and nothing could be done. So they all quietly slipped out and went home without doing a single thing. The meeting was not even called to order. Nearly all of the sixteen temperance men were present, showing that they were in earnest in thir position against repeal. They were ready with their report as to the position they take on the question. But thy did not have to make the report. The fact that so many of the mem bers remained away from the caucus is taken as an indication that they do not care whether the -county option law repealed or not and that they are not losing any sleep over the matter. This indifference is worrying the leaders of the repeal forces, too. Another caticus has been called for Monday night, but it is believed now that no effort will be made to bind the democratic members t$ any course of action of the local option question. If this is true it means that there will be no legislation along that line at this session. DEHTS" ARE IN SESSION Dr. W. D. Weis yesterday evening closed a deal by which he comes into possession of the Elizabeth Stoltz property, 215 South Ilohman street, for $7,500. The property has fifty feet frontage and is 150 feet deep. Two frame buildings occupy the site. The transaction of the deal was not generally known today even in real estate circles, but where It was discussed it was thought Dr. Weis has made a very good investment. Once Mrs. Stoltz had set her price Dr. Weis took it up Immediately. The papers were drawn up last night and duly signed last evening.

HAMMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1909.

Gov. T. R Marshall

STATS OF INDIANA

; January 22, Dear Sir:In r espons 9 to your inquiry of recent data, pernit n to a3l: th courtesy. ... at your hands of reading what I had to say upon the subject of law enf orconent in my : recent Inaugural address. That will Rive you ny views upon the subject of tho enforceBent of tho law To those views-1 intend to r oca in loyal . and it vr&3 with a view of furthering th course therein outlined, that I asked th General Assembly to give no power to rowovo an leotivc officer who fails, neglects or refuses to do his duty.

Very respectfully yours,

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"Lake County Tinas Barjaond. Indiana

LAD GIVES UP SIl TO DOCTOR Number of Heroic Persl Brave Cold to Part With Cuticle Today. MANY PIECES OF SKIN TAKEN Doctors Will Be at Hospital Tomorrow Morning to Meet With Skin Donors. "I want to drive that sick man a piece of my skin," said a little 9-yenr-old "boy, as he peeked into the door of St. Margaret's hospital this morning. "Come right in," was the friendly greeting he received, "and yon can certalnly do so." Little Charles Newcomb, as brave as brave could be, walked to the bedside of Andrew Pbelon and per mitted several little pieces of skin to j be removed from his body. "That don' hurt," said he bravely, as the doctor chipped off a little piece of skin, and then after the operation had been performed he left the hospital saying, "I hope I can do a little to help that poor man save his leg." Other People Ready. There were a number of other people at the hospital ready to submit to the operation. Among them was Mrs. Phelon and her little daughter, who were only too glad to give up more of the precious cu,tlcle. The attending physician desires to have the former co-workers of Andrew Phelon know that they can render him a great service If they will come to the hospital Sunday morning at 9 o'clock or a little later and offer their former fellow employe some of their skin. In all 150 pieces of skin have been taken from various people since the matter was called to public attention and it will require at least 400 more pieces before the healing of the surface of the leg will be assured. Dr. Sharrer is very much pleased with the offers that have been made so rar ana U tne people win take a little more interest in the condition of Mr. Phelon his leg will yet be saved. DR. WEiS' HEW PROPERTY A big meeting of the Lake County Dental Society is scheduled for this evening, to be held in the Hammond offices of Dr. Robert T. Gillis, Visitors are expected from Michigan City, Valparaiso and Chicago, among the latter Dr. J. P. Buckley, formerly of Lowell; Dr. Elliott and Dr. F. K. Ream. Dr. Buckley, who Is a specialist, will address the society on dental medicine, while Dr. Ream, who is a specialist iif extraction, will speak on his favorite subject. The meeting is called for 7:30 and ought to prove to be one of the most interesting the society has ever had.

on Prizefighting Governor. THREE MEETINGS TO BE HELD l4ikSh$pes, Hold 'Toint Gatherings Today in Valpo and Hobart. DAIRYMEN ARE STIRRED UP Chicago Men Come Out to Talk Pure Milk and Earnest Work 13 Mapped Out. Today a concentrated effort will be made by the milk producers and shippers nil over northern Indiana to solve the problem of pure milk and set at rest the criticisms that have Injured the producer and distributer In the eyes of the consuming public. There will be meetings held in Valparaiso, Wheeler and Hobart today with the purpose in each case to arouse enthusiasm regarding the meeting, which Is to be held in Chicago Monday. Held This Morning. The meeting in Valparaiso will be held this morning, and will be attended by Alderman Fowler of Chicago. The meeting in Wheeler will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon, and will be attended by Alderman Fowler and Hay and by President Farmer of the Chi cago Milk Shippers' association. This evening at 8 o'clock there will be a meeting in Hobart, which will be attended by the same Chicago officials and which will be called for the same purposes as the other meetings. It is thought that these meetings will bring out a representation from practically all of the milk-producing territory in northern Indiana. Judge W. W. McMahon of the firm of McMahon & Conroy will attend the Wheeler meeting and will make known the progress of the bill which the milk 1 producers have had introduced into the legislature to provide for the indemnification of farmers whose cattle are condemned after tuberculean tests have been made. Then to Meet In Chicago. The meeting In Chicago will be held for the purpose of taking up the question of shipping tubercular cattle from Indiana into Illinois and then permitting the Illinois farmer to sell the milk after it is pasteurized. The efficiency of the pasturization process will be gone Into thoroughly and the Indiana representatives at this meeting will protest against the Chicago criticism of Indiana milk producers when the Chicago milk dealers will take Indiana's diseased and condemned cattle and sell milk from them which : has only been pasturized. At the Valparaiso, Wheeler and Hobart meetings there will be delegations delegated to appear before the committee on vital statistics in the house and urge the passage of the bill which Attorney Conroy had prepared, providing for the indemnification of farmers whose cattle are condemned. If Ton fcava house or m. room to rent yon can Inform 40,000 people by advertising in tha eUsstflsd eolanuu !

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Resolution Is Adopted at at Meeting of Jefferson County Bar, Deploring the Removal of Hon. L. V. Cravens to Hammond. JUDGE FRIEOLY ' PRESIDESIT MEETING Adoption of Resolutions Drawn Up, in Effect, Says That Madison's Loss Is Hammond's Gain, and New comer Is Recommended to Confi dence and Esteem of the City. That Hammond Brains a splendid eltlcrn Is evidenced by the reluctance with vili trli Madison parts with Hon. Lincoln V. Cravens, nvv the law partner of Hon. J. G. Ihnch of this city, and will roon move his family here. The Madi son Courier says: "A meeting of the members of the Jefferson County bar was held in the circuit court roo mthis morning, called to give expression to the sense of the fraternity on the departure of Hon. I V. Cravens from this city. Judge "Wil liam T. Friedley was called to the cha!r i 'lis . HON. LINCOLN V. CRAVENS. and stated the object of the meeting. Hon. John McGregor then presented th following resolution and moved It adoption: " 'Whereas. Lincoln V. Cravens, Esq. a member of this bar, will shortly re move from'this city to the city of Hammond, ind., there to engage In the practice of law. " 'Resolved. That we view with sorrow the departure of our brother and the consequent loss of his companionship, always agreeable, his counsel, always wise, and his example, always worthy of imitation.' "As a lawyer Mr. Cravens is able, learned and experienced, always dis charging his professional trusts and obligations with fidelity to his clients, with fairness to his opponents, with repect to the court, and with honor to himself. "As a citizen Mr. Cravens has been exemplary and progressive, always keenly alert and zealous for the public good, 'pro bono publico.' "As a man. true, kind. lovable, righteous in word and act. in deed always a gentleman, and what more can we say. "We deplore, yea keenly deplore, the loss of the lawyer, the citizen, the man, and we hopefully and sincerely commend him to the confidence, the esteem and the good will of the people of the community whither he shall go. "Our loss is their gain. "Senator McGregor in well-chosen words then addressed the meeting, and was followed by Judge Friedley, who closed with an eloquent tribute to Mr. Cravens. "The resolution was then adopted j unanimously, and in accepting the same Mr. Cravens gave utterance with evident emotion to the deep sense of application and gratitude which stirred his heart." LEARNS HIS LESSON. A high school newspaper correspondent in Hammond invented a fine story about locker thefts, which he said had taken place at the high school. The writeup helped fill up some space and looked well in print, but the faculty heard of the reports, called the unfortunate correspondent "on the green carpet," and as a result, he has forsworn from writing fiction and hereafter will stick to plain, unvarnished truth. Indiana Harbor Sentinel.

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Serious Storm Works Havoc

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A. F. Knotts Does Splendid Work for Hammond and H. F. McCracken of GaryIs Sent Home In His Disgrace for His Attitude. Hammond Is in control of the court situation at the state capital. Thus endeth the first chapter. Everybody came home last evening io rct away from the light to take a rest. The Hammond delegation will return to In dianapolis this evening and renew the contest. Though the ride seems to have turned In Hammond's favor the boys are not quitting the fight; they are going bnck to watch the actions of the wily Gary lawyers, who must be given the credit for putting up a magnificent fight when the odds were all against them. , . Hammond Men Back. Among the Hammond men who came back from Indianapolis were . rl. Gostlin, John GaVit, A. F. Knotts. Ed Simon, Fred Crumpacker and William J. Whinery. A. F. Knotts and John Gavlt will return to Indianapolis to renew the fight. The members of the returning delegation say that A. F. Knotts should be given the credit for the magnificent fight he has been making. Knotts has been a tower of strength. He has more than offset what his brother, T. E. Knotts, has done for Gary. In the divided Knotts house, it is the Hammond branch that seems to be winning. Attorney Manlove Is the only representative of Gary who has remained at the capital. Manlove has been one t f ! mjtet Infln c-t t i a 1 members of the I Gary delegation and is stiu fighting

with great tenacity. I raged with unabated fury ever since. McCracken Precipitate, Trouble. 1 Jhe storm is the fiercest of the rjrml' Md Ration to bringiBg tating two or three fights because of suttering and misery into the homes his belligerent attitude towards every- of the unf ortimate or improvident, it

one who opposed him, has been sent home and the idea both among the members of the Gary and Hammond delegations is that Gary would have been better off if he had never gone to the capital. It was McCracken who, by his pugnacity, finally decided the members of the Lake County Ear association upon a "fight to a finish, no compromise" policy, which is being maintained to this day. "We've come to demand and not to supplicate," was, In effect, McCracken's policy and he has carried It out all the way through this fight. This policy has done more to make the fight a bit ter, uncompromising one than anything that has entered into It, say the Hammond lawyers. Status of Fight. The status of the fight is this: The Hammond bill will go to its second reading Monday and to its third and final reading Tuesday. Gary will do all In Its power to prevent its passing at its third reading The test fight of the whole campaign will be to prevent the passage of the Hammond bill in the senate. The Hammond attorneys know it and the Gary attorneys are only too well acquainted with the facts. The chances are that Hammond and Gary will know (Tuesday which city is j lief. They will know to be given rewhich city, for Hammond will not be likely to agree to anything in the way of a compromise. HEMENWAY AFTER IT Washington Dispatch Says He Wants It. A Washington dispatch to a Chicago newspaper says today: "Speaking of senators, the Hoosier. Mr. Hemenway, whom Mr. Shively will supplant, has come" smilingly to the surface of his defeated days to say that after thinking it over, he has decided to return home and go into training for the governorship of Indiana years away. Good luck to him when he leaves the senate; he will leave worse behind."

EDITION

ONE CENT PER COPY. p I and Indiana Harbor Girls Are Blown-Into Foundatfon in Gary Sand Pit Last Night, 4V Old Xke Mlc-JUg-aa laj beiaar lashed to foam by the fifty-mile-Am-hour wtnd, which has 4 been comlnsr down the lake from the northwest. The dammare which the Ice and water batter- 4 iK ram caused ro the ntera and other bnildiuKs on the Hammond. 4 lalce front n considerable. Eng-tneer Jacob Kasper ay 4) tht some of the piers bavr been 4 broken down by the force of the ice-laden waves and It ha dla- 4) appeared from view. Th door of the bath-house was broken In by the force of the waves. The water rn so far Inland that it filled the dens that were occupied by some of the animals In the park and they had to be removed to pre rent their drownIn. ONE FATALITY. Thomas , Durand of TV h Kin, Ind., was fatally injured last night when he was struck by a ear at One Hundred and Thirtieth street and Indianapolis avenue. South Chlcaa-o. Durand was blinded by the snow. (Special to Thb Times.) Irfrwell, Ind Jan. SO. So fierce was the bllssard which swept Lake county last night that the destruction to property here Is great. The roof was blown off the M. E. church and dosens of wind mills on the prairies were Mown down, A regular nor'wester followed by a drop in temperature and blowing of a 50-mile-an-hour gale with clouds of dry snow struck the Calumet region late yesterday afternoon and has caused considerable property loss in various parts of the region. Railroads Suffer. Al lof the railroads have suffered more or less and traffic has been delayed considerably. Through trains on most of the railroads are from one to three hours late. The storm seemed to havs struck Gary with the greatest velocity. Tho winds are always high In Gary, but it seems last evening as though the town was to be swept from its foundations. The snow was blown In drifts around the big business blocks on Broadway and the city had a forlorn appearance. Windows Blown In. This morning the plate glass window In Brennan and Strlngfellow's drug store, at Sixth and Broadway, waa blown In, while several other windows were cracked. The wires of the Chicago Telephone company in Gary ar in good condition and there is no interruption of the toll service, but over on the mill site the telephone system of the Indiana Steel company Is in bad shape as a result of the storm and the damage is estimated to te at least $200. Suffering Great. The suffering among the foreigner in Gary who live in shacks In various parts of the city is very great and In many cases they are in great need ot help. Some of them have been housed Irs. tents, which were carried away by tho" high wind, leaving them without shelter. In other cases the poor construction on the shacks resulted In roofs be ing carried away by the wind, leaving the shacks to be filled with drifting snow. In the neighborhood of Virginia street a number of shacks have been, blown down and the occupants hav been left homeless. Caught Inprepared. A large amount of the suffering la Gary Is due to the fact that the mildness of tha winter has made the foreigners improvident and they were not prepared for the rigors of an Arctic winter this late In the season.

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