Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 241, Hammond, Lake County, 31 March 1909 — Page 1

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TOL. III., NO. 241. Three Indiana DistrictsJennings, Vermillion and Bartholomew go Dry Yesterday in Local Option Elections. HENRY COUNTY HOLDSELEGTIOFITODAY Strenuous Efforts Are Made By Brewers in Coal Mining County to Save the Day, But Result of Election Shows That All Their Efforts Are Most Futile. FORTY-ONE COUNTIES NOW IN "DRY" LIST. YESTERDArS "DRY MAJOHITIES. Bartholomew Co. (23 saloons) Vermilion Co. 43 saloons) Jrnniogi county (IB mIoom). .829 .828 .518 OPTION LAW SCORE. Saloon ousted by option rote in 41 counties ...682 KLECTlOJiS SOW SCHEDULED. Today Henry county. Tuesday, April 6 Cam and Blackford eoonties. OFFICIAL "DRY" MAJORITIES. Wnbnsli, SSOj Lawrence, LoOS; Pike, KS4 Hamilton. 2A9l Putnam, 1.553 s Decatur, l.TOS; Tipton, L8ol .Voble, flWUs Raadolph, 2,470 Park. 2.00j Huntington. l.BHOj Swttaerlaud, tniQt Clinton, 2,084 j Daviess, 1.357 s Grant, 2,188; Howard, 1,433; ewton, 432; Adams, 1.044; Mora-am, 1.053; Hendricks, 777 ( Fountain, 1,HH; Fayette, 851? Carroll, 1,042; Gibson, 1.074; Rash, 2,018; Sullivan, 1.S41; Jay, 2,099; Marshall, 1,164; Whitley, 1.150; Hancock, 1,302; Shelby, 743; Miami, 1.066; Montgomery, 2.S03; Benton. 8S6; Greene, 2,647; Ohio, 28; Elkhart. ; Orange, 745. "DRY" BY REMONSTRANCE. Boone, Brown. Clay, Crawford, Dekalb, Fulton, Henry, Jasper, Johnson, Kosciusko, Lagrange, Monroe, Owen, Pnlaskl. Scott, Men ben, Union. Warren, Wells, White, Washington. After strenuous efforts on the part of the saloon men and brewery workers to offset the temperance movement in Vermilion county, a strong coal mine center, that county yesterday overcame all obstacles and voted "dry" by a majority of more than 300. While Vermilion county was " thus voting:, dispelling the doubt which had existed concerning the outcome, two other counties Bartholomew and Jennings rolled up substantial majorities against the saloons and in the three counties seevnty-nine licensed places will be put out of business. The three yesterday raise the list to forty-one counties in the state in which the voters have chosen the anti-rum end of the option issues. Much Corrupt Work Alleged. The voting in Vermilion county yesterday was accompanied by various forms of corruption and attempts at rorruption. according to reports which indicate that many of the saloons In Clinton were selling liquor during the day and in addition the charge is made that Terre Haute liquor interests endeavored to vote several hundred colored men and foreigners who were Imported for the occasion. Several arrests were made there HICTORWANTSDAMAGES Canine With Voracious Appetite Causes a Whole Lot of Trouble. And now comes Attorney H. A. Bixby, representing his client, Alfred Simmons, the guardian of Victor Simmons, and complains of the defendant. August Bundp. and says that the said Bunde has a rude and ferocious dog, which had an abnormal appetite for human round steaks. The above mentioned canine is alleged to have nipped a piece out of the body of Victor Simmons, which incapa-.-naiea him for work and injured him considerably. Wherefore, Mr. Bixby seeks to recover damages to the extent of $10,000 for his client. Only $10,000 is wanted. Just a measily $10,000. If Mr. Bunde had been possessed of a hundred dogs it would probably have required a Standard Oil fine to have satisfied Mr. Bixby's client. The case was filed in the Lake superior court this afternoon.

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Judge A. B. Anderson, for First Time in History of Hammond Federal Court, Will Try Four Cases .in April Before Jury. For the first time since the federal building was built In this city, four years ago, Judge A. B. Anderson of the Indiana federal court will hold court here and will try four cases. Judge Anderson has sat in Hammond three times In the past four years, but In each case he tried only court cases and a Jury was not called. This time, however, a petit jury Is to be called, and already the jury commissioners at Indianapolis are making a selection of a jury of twelve men from northern Indiana, who will sit in Hammond during the session of court here. In addition to the four cases which are to be tried here, there will be 10 J aplications for second papers, and It Is estimated that this will take at least three days. This will make it necessary for Judge A. B. Anderson to spend at least a week here. Judge Anderson is an Interesting character In the public eye Just at this time, for the reason that it was he who recently tried the famous Standard Oil case in which Judge Landis" 129,000.000 fine was reversed. The date set for the calling of the first petit jury in Hammond is April 21, and there is said to be no doubt that the Jury will be called in rplte of the skepticism of the Hammond and Lake county attorneys.' One of the most Important cases wi'.I be a suit brought against the Inland Steel company of East Chicago. WIFE'S QUEER AGT Railroad Engineer Makes Singular Charges Against His Wife. In a complaint which was filed in the Lake superior court in Hammond yesterday by Attorneys Crumpacker & Crumpacker, Thomas W. Miller has brought a suit for a divorce against his wife, Anneta Miller, in which he alleges that she persuaded him to put their property in her name and then abandoned him. In his complaint he states that he is an engineer on the Chicago Terminal Transfer railroad, and resides in Eaat Chicago, where he has considerable property, which is described in the complaint. He stated that on account of the fact that he is engaged in a dangerous occupation, she persuaded him In the event of his death there would be less difficulty for her to gain possession of the estate. He finally was convinced by her that this was right, and placed the property in her name. As soon as this was done she abandoned him, according to the complaint, and took with her ail of the household furniture. KING DOIMHDIS POIZE James T. Smith Gets Ribbon for Fine Dog in Chicago Show. Jim Smith of Hammond Is a proud man today on account of his pointer. Jting Don, who took two second prizes at the dog show, which came to a close in the First Regiment armory. Chicago, today. In Hammond "King Don" is known as "Duke." He went up against a "classy" bunch of fifteen pointers, who have been in competition all over the world, and to win from them is quite an honor. The friends of Henry Eisner are regretting very much that he did not how his "Prindie" collie. Mr. Eisner has two collies, of which he is very proud. Prindale is a grandson of Wisha Klinker, J. Pierpont Morgan's $10,000 animal. COME TO BLOWS (Special to Thk Times.) East Chicago, Ind., March 31. Two Hammond Italians who appeared in a case in Justice Heiland s court vt.r. day afternoon, upon the completion of their case met each other on the street and there settled the matter more satisfactorily between themselves than the court had done. They engaged in a bloody encounter which ended with their arrest. They spent the night in the city bastile and were fined $1 and costs each this morning before Mayor De Brfae. They gave their names as X. Mavireckle and L. Mantykors

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s ee hill S BETTED TODAY Hypnotic Subject Will Soon Ea Able to go to Sleep Again. KOTO OUT THE GRIP Doctor fy ,jlz'- 'i-v! IV: r Neglect of Woman Who ' Watcher Her. Miss Daisy Hall, the young woman who was under the mesmeric spell In the window of the Bijou theater until noon yesterday and then was taken suddenly ill and had to be awakened, is reported by Dr. Graham, who is attending her, to be very much improved today. After her mysterious disappearance from the window of the theater she was taken to the Hotel Carleton, where she was soon after given the proper medical attention. Dr. Graham, when questioned about the matter, stated that the young woman had a case of grip, which was probably superinduced by exposure in the theater window. He said that the woman who was hired to watch her during the night probably fell asleep and permitted the covers to fall from her. In this manner, the doctor thinks, she caught cold and her sickness resulted. It will probably be two or three days before the young woman will be well enough to resume her occupation. It is said that she has been placed under hypnotic influence on several other occasions, nine in all, and never before has she been made ill by her work. No one criticizes the management of the theater or Professor Deering, and the general opinion is that it is but one of the untoward things that are likely to happen to anyone in any business at any time. FRED GARTER If ITERMSIfiESS Ex-Sheriff Will Boom the Water Wagon Industry in Region. F. S. Carter has acquired a half in terest in the liammond Pure Water company, and as soon as time will per mit the company will spread out considerably. The Hammond Pure Water company intends to supply the whole region with its water, which it now gets from Spring Hill in St. John. More wagons will be put In service, which will travel between the cities as regularly as the beer wagons. In procuring the St. John water the company believes to have a bonanza. It has only recently been put on the Hammond market and whereever H has been used it has met with great favor. Buried This Afternoon. Louise, the seven-weeks-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilcoxaon, 271 East State street, was buried this afternoon at Oak Hill cemetery. The child had died yesterday afternoon. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. C. A. Smith of t he Episcopal church at the Lash hotel

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. t t O Briae, in. Speak ing of i Crusade Hammond Is Making Against Dives, Says It Fails to See Beam in Its Own Eye. (Special to Thb Times.) East Chicago, March 31. Mayor DeBraie is out with a statement refuting the general chaVge of moral corruption that has been mae gainst this city, since the arrest of a young Hammond girl in a local jsjMoon.L. "I am makr Jn'n Mfense of individual cases," gj 9'or DeBraie, "but I do think tha;Sr4 Chicago is getting more than is comfjg to It, in the matter of general arijgnment It is all very well for Hammond to take holier than thou' attitJpe and bewail the corruptn of a neighbor city. But while it is seeking for the mote in its neighbor's eye. it might be proper to suggest that it look for the beam in its ownc. Threc Arrested In Two Tears. "Within, the past two years three girls have been arrested in East Chicago for disorderly conduct. It happens that two of these girls were from Hammond. The other was a South Chicago product. It is quite as much to the shame of Hammond, that the wayward girls should be from that city, as that they should ; be arrested in East Chicago. ' It has been years since any East Chicago girls has been arrested for a like misdemeanor here. Either Everybody knows that there are plenty of retreats in that town, which harbor wayward girls. On the other hand there is not a single saloon In East Chicago, which is frequented by women or girls. Occasionally one may visit almost any of the local liquor emporiums, but it Is only occasionally. East Chicago women, who do visit saloons, do so with their husbands, and it is but seldom that they do this. Gives Orders for Law Enforcement. "To show, however, that the local administration does not for a moment wink at any evil of the nature of which East Chicago is accused, I will add that the police department has received the strictest orders to watch carefully all saloons and If one is discovered t h rendezvous for women or girls, its li- 1 cense will be promptly revoked, upon due evidence of the fact being presented before the proper authorities. This rule will be adhered to If it wipes out every saloon in East Chicago. "I have noticed numerous articles in The Times making defamatory charges against this city, ajid some days an editorial appered tothe same effect. Let a few such be directed against Hammond and other Lake county towns, who deserve them far more than does East Chicago, and we will stand our share of the slurring, without a murmur." there Is no such class of girls here as that to which the youngsters who have kicked up all this hulabaloo belong, or if there is. there are doubtless going to Hammond for their sky-larking. Get in the push! Have you seen our line of Go-Carts and Carriages? The prices are less at SPIEGEL'S South Chicago's leading Furniture store. tf.

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::: x H 1 MS l 5 4 4 fcai t v. ; -f CHARLES SCHULTZ DOESinillT JOB Tenth Ward Alderman Has Had Enough Politics in His, Thank You. IS NOT CONSIDERING RACE Says That North Side Constituency Blames Him When Favors Are Refused. Charles F. Schultz, representing the tenth ward In the Hammond city council, will not seek the nomination in the coming city election. Even if business interests would not prevent him, Mr. Schultz is not inclined to dabble in politics any longer. Mr. Schultz told a Times reporter that he was not considering a nomination at all. Furthermore, he is now negotiating with the Home Lumber company to move his planing mill and carpenter shop, which he has on the north side, to the east part of town, possibly on the premises of the Home Lumber company. Mr. Schultz is an appointee of Mayor Becker, and in his short term got a sufficiency of city politics. The constituency on the north side is one that is making heavy demands on its representative in the council, and the councilmen. having their hands tied under the present cities and towns law, theirs is not a pleasant one. Whatever concessions are secured for the constituency are secured by the grace of the mayor and the board of public works, and the result is that the north side feels itself greatl yneglected. The councilman gets the blame whether guilty or not, and that Is the reason why Mr. Schultz "wants to get away from between the "devil and the deep blue." RAILROAD KING GOES THROUGH GITY E. H. Harriman Takes a Slant at Hammond From M. C. Train Today. Harriman flew through town. E. H. Harriman. the king of American railroad promoters, took a peek at this city this afternoon at about 6 o'clock. If the people of this city would like to see the man ,who more than any other of the captains of Industry is In the public eye. the man who Is cartooned and caricatured more than any other living man in the United States, excepting only Teddy R., they should have gone to the Michigan Central depot this afternoon and "had a look." Mr. Harriman's private car went through this afternoon and when the owner of a hundred railroads, permitted himself to be seen the people saw just a plain sort of a man with a flowing mustache. He didn't wear stripped clothes with dollar signs on them. He didn't look at you as though he would gobble you up. ne man t nave a handful of "common people" in his iron grip, as Powers in the American would picture him. He was just a plain ordinary American business man, that's all. Me was going east from his ranch In Arizona

SILL GIT! HAVE PARK SPEEDWAY? Horse Owners Bring Influence to Bear on Board of Public Works to Make Track in Harrison Park Racing Course. Shall Hammond have a speedway in Harrison park, or not? This question is perplexing the board of public works greatly, not because of the expense involved in building up the present driveway, but because the board Is not quite sure as to the public sentiment on the question. Horse owners apepared before the board of public works this morning and asked that the board grade the driveway in such a manner that a speedway would be possible. The expense involved in doing this would not be much more than $50. But the question that Is vexing the boards is, would it be safe to the geenral public in making a speedway. The arguments advanced against the speedway are that human lives would be endangered by the driving of fast horses on the smooth, quiet track. Many Arguments for It. That is the sum and substance of the argument. On the other hand, there are quite a number of horse owners who would like to exercise their animals in the park. Parks in other cities have speedways, and the strongest argument of all is that by making a speedway Hammond would get a new sport, the Saturday afternoon matinees, which are open to the public free of cost. It "would Induce other Hammond people to bring fine horses into this city. The board of public works is rather inclined to favor the horse owners, but has taken the matter under advisement and If they favor them it will be only under the provision that the speedway be used as such only during the very early morning hours, before visitors inhabit the park, and that the matinees be entirely, under police supervision. With such restrictions it is argued that there would not be any objection. The board went to the park tins arternoon to look over the situation. A lot of people will enter objections, however. Blast Slders Want Fountain. The board at its meeting this morning also received a petition from aat side property owners for the erection or a water fountain at the corner of State and Sibley streets. The board has taken the petition under advisement. The weather having opened sufficiently to begin work in the parks, the board also discussed imDrovementa to be made along that line this year. lhe regular weekly bills were allowed. PLAN A NEW STORE BMBBananBanananan S. H. Knox, 5 and 10-Cent Store Kings, Visit Hammond Today. S. H. Knox & Co., who have 100 5 and 10-cent stores around the country, came to Hammond vesterdav mH looked over the field with the idea of establishing a store here. This is a regular custom with them, and they make at least one trip a year to Hammand in which to plan a new store. Mr. Knox had a talk wihe Mr. Harry Minas, who is doing a flourishing business here, and talked about buying him out. They said they would be back yesterday noon to talk the matter over with him, but they did not show up. Mr. Minas is willing to sell out if he can get his price, and If not, he says, he is willing to buck the biggest 5 and 10-cent store combination that ever came over the road. HEW DEfJTIST COMING Drs. T- E. Bell and F. B. Olwin Make Plans With New Associate. It became known in Hammond today that Dr. T. Edwin Bell and Dr. F. B. Olwin have made arrangements by which Dr. George M. Collins, recently the first assistant to Dr. Roberts, professor of dental surgery at Northwestern university, will be associated with the Hammond men In their office in the Hammond building. Dr. Collins is said to be one of the best dental surgeons in this part of the countrv and make a swij i r V 1 ' 1 certain lines of the mechanical end of the work. It is Dr. Collins purpose to make Hammond his permanent home, and he will doubtless b successful to his work here.

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ONE CENT PER COPY. Three Members of the Gary Shady Quartet, Locked Up in Hammond Bastile, While the Long Hours With Song and Fun. "STILL LOilllG FOR DE OLE PL1TATI0H" iBwnBnanBMB Also Long Foh De Old Folks at Home But De Niggah Didn't Behabe in That Thar Gary Town and Consequently He Must Serbe His Time in De Pen. "Sw-e-e-e-t Ada-aline, fo pine; you ah An' in mah dreams yoh fain face beams." The occupants of the superior court building were surprised, this morning, to hear the sweet strains of that most familiar of melodies, "Sweet Adeline." being strained through the iron bars of the city Jail. An investigation revealed the fact that three of the members of the Gary republican "Shady quartet," the quartet of colored men which sang during the recent campaign, were incarcerated in the local bastile. The loyal republican partisans at once made haste to investigate their cases. It was learned that Binnie Tavlor and Mallle Rutledge were in jail on the charge of conducting a disre putable house, and C. C. Garner is charged "suspicioned," as he puts it, with holding up a foreigner. Taylor and Rutledge have been in Jail serving a sentence of forty davs and have twelve days more before they will complete their term. Garner is about to be tried on the charge of hold ing up a foreigner. How to Be Happy Though Pinched. But their troubles did not seem to disturb them. A whiff of fresh air came in through the barred doors and they could smell the growing things outside; so they were happy. One of them started up "My Old Kentucky Home, and when they got to . "All up and down his whole creation sadly I roam. Still longing fo' de old plantation, And fo' de ole folks at home," it seemed as though they would sing their throats out. The corridors of the courthouse were filled with people who heard the singing and who were amazed at the lightness of heart of the prisoners. All thought of the fact that the negroes were in jail charged with committing serious crimes was forgotten, and it became strikingly apparent to those who joined the crowd around the Jail door and watched the negroes pace their cells and sing, that a simple plantation melody is sometimes sufficient to make the whole world kin. The men were in Jail in Hammond as witnesses in the case of Nettie Clark, who is to be tried today for shooting at Lillian Johnson in a Gary resort of questionable character. Nettle Clark is also one of the inmates of the city jail. REUBEN FiCjIER DEAD Well Known Crown Point Man Passes Away This Morning. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point. Ind., March 31. Reuben Fancher, one of the most prominent citizens of this place, who has been an invalid for two years, passed away this morning at 4:30 in the presence of the members of his family. The decendent was preceded by his wife about three years ago and three children mourn his loss. These are William Fancher, Mrs. E. H. Crowell and Miss Grace Fancher. Mr. Fancher was the pioneer in the windmill business in Lake county and mills that he has erected dot the landscape all over it. He was 75 years of age and a member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows and K. of P. lodges. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made. Finds the Owner. Richard Taussig, the newsboy, this morning experienced the pleasure of restoring lost property to its owner. He found a pocketbook containing a check for $28. belonging to T. Eigneman. Richard made immediate efforts to restore the money and inserted an ad in The Times, but before the paper went to press he came in touch with the real owner and returned tha lost treasure.

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