Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 254, Hammond, Lake County, 15 April 1909 — Page 1

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The Foxy Mr. Raffles Eludes Pursuers Last Night and Causes a Sensation

PRIMS ARE ADDED T Raffles Proves to Be Adept in Disguise; Buy the Sporting Extra. The Bijou theaters offers $25 In gold. Thh Times offers $10 fn gold. E. C. Minas offers a $25 suit to either man or woman who catches Raffles in his store. He also offers a $5 suit to a boy or girl who catches the mysterious man in the store. Paxton & Maker offers a $25 suit to either a man or a woman who succeeds in catching Raffles in his store and a $5 suit to the boy or girl who ratifies him in the store. Gold WatcU Offered. Mr. Silver, the jeweler, offers a gold watch to any one who will catch rafries in liis store. This watch is easily wot th 1 5. The National Shoe store offers a $3 pair of shoes to the man, woman or child who catches raffles in his store. J. M. Delaney offers $10 in gold to the person who catches Raffles in his craning and dyeing establishment. The Idlehour theater offers $10 in gold to the person who catches Raffles within 100 feet of this East State street . 5-cent theater.", It will be' seen hy totaling up these offers that $125 in cash and prizes is being offered as a bonus to the man who is lucky enough to catch the mysterious Mr. Raffles. Of the above amount $55 in cold cash is now offered to the man who will catch Raffles. Conditions of OfTern. Today, the time limit, has been extended and all of the above offers hold good between the hours of 4 o'clock and 7:30 p. m. The only conditions, other than those which are mentioned above governing the offer of $25 by the Bijou theater, are that the person who catches Raffles must say: "Vou nre the myaterlou Mr. Itafflen of the nijou theater," and have a ticket to the evening's performance in his pocket. Buy Sporting Extra. To win the $10 offered by The Times it is necessary to have a sporting edition of The Times in one's pocket and say, "I nlHays 1uy a TIMES' extra," upon discovering Mr. Raffles. And what a circus Raffles Jtad with the boys last evening. They got next to the fact that he was dressing in the theater. They knew that if he kept his promise and went out on the streets between the hours of 7 and S he would have to go out either the front or the back entrance. Of course, they took it for granted that he would try to sneak out the' back way and they were right. There were boys and men behind every fence and post waiting for Raffles to come out. Ha files Fools the Boy. Raffles was too clever for them, however, and lie is laughing up his sleeve at them today. ue fixed up Ramie McFall to look like himself and McFall left the theater through the rear door at break-neck speed. Of course, the boys were not up to his tricks.' They started pell mell after McFall and the real Raffles walked out without being seen or spoken to. Remember tonight the prizes are big ones. It will be worth a good deal to find Raffles. He will visit all of the stores which offer prizes at some time between 4 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. He will be seen on State street during the afternoon and lucky will be the person who finds the mysterious Mr. Raffles today. He will smile at the theater tonight if he is sufficiently urged, and the man who succeeds in urging his will receive a prize of $15. It will be worth while to get a good look at the man whose capture will bring the man who does it $100 or more In prizes and money. G-oes to Jury. case of Smith vs. tho Votii Thf , '-uiiviint 1-ire Proofing company, which has been on trial in the Lake superior court for the past two weeks, will go to the Jury today. As the jury has in the neighborhood of 300 interrogatories it will probably be late tomorrow before the jury will be able to report, unless the court takes the case from it. This case is one of the most hotly contested suits that have been tried in the local courts this year, and all of the parties to the suit will be glad when It is over with.

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His Fred Martinanti of Scatina Fruit Store, Victim Early This Morning of Dangerous Gasoline Accident and Receives Burns. Fred Martinanti, an employe in Paul Seatena's fruit store, was the victim of a bad accident this morning when he attempted to light the gasoline lights in the store early this morning. In lighting the gasoline lights it is necessary to generate the gasoline in the same manner as is done in the case of a gasoline stove. Fred Mar tinanti poured, a little gasoline in the generator from an oil can and lighted it. After a few minutes he returned and thought the fire in the generator had gone out. He felt of It and decided that it was too-cold to generate the gas for lighting. ' Accordingly he took the oil can, partly filled with gasoline, and started to pouring more gasoline in the generator, when there was a terrific explosion and the oil, which was contained in the can, was thrown over his whole body. Dashe Water on Self. Martinanti rushed to the front of the store and dashed water over his face and head and extinguished the flames on his clothes. When the can exploded the bottom of it hit Martinanti in the face and caused an ugly wound. In fact, if Martinanti had held a bomb In his hand and let it explode It could not have been more dangerous. Fortunately the place was not set on fire and Martinanti was able to put out the fire on his clothes so that it did not destroy them. However, his face is badly burned, and there are large blisters on his hands as a result of his experience with the dangerous explosive. Had the can containing the gasoline been larger it is hard to tell what would have been the result. II GETSJI RIDE Unfortunate Indiana Harbor Man Taken to the State Capital. Postoffice Inspector Fletcher took Mike Gravozic, who is charged with opening a registered letter that did not belong to him, to Indianapolis with him last evening-. Gravozic's attorney made a desperate effort to have him released on a writ of habeas corpus after he had been arrested on another pretext when he was really wanted by the government officialys. The postoffloo inspector, however, arrived before this could be done, and the Indiana Harbor man, who was held by Chief Higgins for a day or two awaiting the arrival of the authorities, turned him over. UNCLE SAM LIKES CITY The importance of Hammond In the eyes of the government is shown by the fact that the postoffice department has authorized James M. Woltz, the United States postoffice inspector in this district, to move from Logansport to Hammond to live. Inspector Woltz is a fine man, and bis residing in this city will make it the headquarters for the inspection service in this section of the state. Hammond was chosen as headquarters lor Mr. Woltz on account of the fact that it not only has the best railroad facilities in the state, but because Hammond and East CMm h... ... ." r,r.rv, .. 1, .7 i . v i north and so-nth railroads which run J I through this section.

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Frank Long and Mike Kozocik, Two Whiting Aldermen, Take Turn About in Pulling off and Replacing Lock on Tramp Shed. WEARY WILLIES HAVE A SEPARATE BOOST Authorities Do Not Believe In Housing When Them in the City Jail, and Consequently a Special Shelter Was Provided for Them Was Locked Seven Times. (Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind., April 13. It is not questions of state which confront two Whiting aldermen. They are having their troubles over matters which are more important than those affecting the municipality which they represent. Instead of cooping up her hoboes in the police station, as they do in Hammond and East Chicago, the officials of Whiting have a shed which they call the "hobo shed'' where the unfortunate Weary Willies are allowed to sleep. Now it so happens that Alderman Frank Long is opposed to giving the hoboes, which pass through Whiting, a place to hang out. He wants none of them, and acting on the belief that he would rather they go through Whiting without hesitating he bought a padlock and put it on the door of the hobo house. ' , Koxodk for Hoboe. Now it also happens that Alderman Mike Kozocik believes that the wanderers who go through Whiting ought to be given at least a place to sleep. He is of the opinion that it is better for them to sleep in the hobo house than in his barn or cellar, where they may be tempted to get away with his personal property. He is also of the opinion that if Alderman Long has the right to put a padlock on the hobo house he, as another Whiting alderman, has the right to tear it off. Consequently, while Alderman Long has put on the lock five times. Alderman Kozocik has taken an axe and knocked it off a3 many times. It is hard to tell where the matter will end. It has been suggested that the two aldermen settle the matter with a duel, in which the weapons 6hall be the bathing of hoboes at an arm's length. The man who bathes the most hoboes will be able to settle the problem of where they are to sleep according to the dictates of his own conscience, and the city of Whiting, which is now in a turmoil over the question, will be able to think of something else. JUNIORS TO GIVE PLAY A Case of Suspension" to Be Given at High School AuditoriumThe junior class of the Hammond high school will give a musical program and class play Friday evening, at the high school auditorium. The play is a farce comedy, entitled "A Case of Suppression." Mrs. Stanley T. Sutton has been coaching the cast and the class expects to make quite a hit with the piece. The proceeds of the affair Is to go toward the annual seniorjunior banquet this spring, and tickets are being sold at 25 cents. The rrogras is as follows: Music High School Orchestra. Polo Mildred Collins. Recitation Floyd Monnett. Quartet Messrs. Minard, Whitaker, Monnett and Hunter. Recitation Blanche Dessemeir. Solo Rulo Minard. Piano Duet Misses Mae Arkin Laura Hess. and Music High School Orchestra. Farce Comedy "A Case of Suppression." Cant. Dorothy, Alice, Mildred young ladies of the seminary Mildred Collins, Ferrol Dickover. Clara Kahn. Harold. Tom. Jack Undergraduates of near-by college Walter Kennedy, Julius Meyn, Floyd Monnett Miss Ophelia Julklns, of the Faculty Lois Boyce. Prof. Emilus Edgerton Zoll. -Raymond "-"ic maiden MaKathleen Jonas, tho Seminary "Man1 Bauer. oe 1 van ttodegraven. -Capl

THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1909.

Louis Scherer, Favorite Lake Co Athlete, Dead

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Louis Scherer, born in Crown Point, who died in Hammond yesterday was very well known all over Lake county on account of his athletic procfivities and career as a baseball player. He was one of the best fielders Hammond ever produced. Playing right field with the famous Hubbards for four years from 1903-19O7, and later with the Hammond baseball club last year, he won fame in every town and city in the county. Fans In East Chicago, Gary, Whiting, Dyer and Lowell will remember him well and deplore his untimely death from typhoid-pneumonia. J

FUNERAL TO TAKE Late Louis M. Scherer Will Be Interred at Oak Hill Cemetery. THE HONORARY PALLBEARERS Many Hndsome Floral Offerings Are Sent to Odorn the Catafalque. The funeral arrangements for the late Louis M. Scherer have been completed, with the exception of the appointing of the pail-bearers in the K. of P. lodge, of which Mr. Scherer was a member. This will be done this evening, at a specially called meeting of the lodge. The honorary pall-bearers have been selected from his fellow workers in the Linn store, and the baseball diamond, all of whom were his personal friends. They will bear a wreath attached with satin ribbon which they will lay on the casket at the grave as a token of esteem. A floral piece, representing a broken wheel, lias been forwarded to the late home, 442 Plummer avenue, by the employes of the Lion Store, and another, a pillow, has been offered by the heads of the departments in the store. The funeral cortege will leave the home tomorrow afternoon and arrive at the Baptist church at 2 o'clock, where the funeral services will be held, after which it will wend its way to Oak Hill cemetery for interment. The honorary pall-bearers are as follows: have Lovegren, C. E. C. Payne, E. J. Miller. I". Princken, all of the Lion store, and Clarence Eder and Hoy McCool. Must Change Plans. The architect representing Jacob Ilimbach made the measurements of the lot, which is being vacated at the corner of Hohman street and Rimbach avenue, and discovered that the lot is two feet wider at the rear than it is in front and consequently all of the orders for structural steel will have to be changed. If this fact had not been discovered when it was. the work of constructing the building might have been delayed indefinitely. It would also have involved considerable expense and the structural iron would have had to be made over again. Sixteen-Year-Old Missing The parents of Eliaabeth Kulsman of Hessvlile have reported to the Hammond police that their 16-year-old daughter has been missing for some time. She Is said to have had a quarrel with her mother, and the parents fear that she has found bad companions.

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! r 1& COAL FAMINE EXIST LOCALLY Anthracite Scarcity Would Create Hardship if Cold Wave Came. DEALERS CAN'T GET SHIPMENT Jobbers Blame Dealers and Dealers Say That Patrons Won't -Pay Them. Very few people are aware of the fact that there is a hard coal famine in Hammond. They little realize that if a cold spell should strike the city it would be impossible to buy a ton of hard coal. Fortunately the weather has remained warm and there has been no pressing demand for the anthracite. Had the weather turned cold yesterday or today some of the best known business men in the city might have found it necessary to go around town and borrow a supply from the neigh-! bors. I The fact that a famine has developed I in this city is due to the fact that many of the coal shipments were delayed. All of the dealers sold out their stock simultaneously. The fact that there was no hard coal In town developed when some of the dealers tried to borrow from the others and found that they too were in the same boat. The solution of the mystery is the fact that collections have been very poor. The miners will not ship coal because the Jobbers will not pay for i.t the jobbers won't ship beuause the dealers will not pay for it, and the dealers can't sell because they are unable to get the money out of their patrons for the coal that has alreadv been sold. Of course, some one along the line will have to loosen up and when that time comes everything will run along smootniy again. Officials in Town. Attorney F. J. Lewis Meyer and Hugh Wallace, attorney general and etao Wallace, attorney and general manager, respectlvelv. for tho Smith ci, - ' - - - " .uoit; line, were in Hammond today going over the proposed route for their feeder line coming: in from fiary. Their plans at present are to the effect to come in on Indiana avenue and cross over it to their main line west of the old G. H. Hammond plant. Before striking Hammond proper the line wants to come in over a private right of way, which is to lay between the Michigan Central track and the Grand Calumet river.

Patrick Bettenbender, Alias Patrick Bums, Comes to Grief When His Former Wife Appears and Finds He Is Married Again. HriU!iu urn IMPOSED UPON BY H i Alleged Trifler Is Haled Into Judge Prests' Court This Morning and Confronted Sy His Wives Who Were Deceived By Him Defendant Printer at Conkey Plant. "The officer is here, I guess, you will have to go," this was the exclamation that Mrs. Charles Ikner of Hessville made to her husband, Patrick H. Bettenbender, alias Patrick 11. Burns.when she realized that the fact that he was a bigamist was known and the officer was there to arrest him. The arrest was made by Constable Bob Grant, on a warrant sworn out by William H. Slehaur of Chicago, a brother-in-law of the Chicago woman, Mrs. Ida Steinhaur. who believes sh lo th., first wife of Patrick II. Bettenbender. Mrs. Charles Ikner was formerly Miss Alvina Dillner. Afterwards she married Charles Ikner, who wa.s late killed on the railroad in the vicinity of Indiana Harbor. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Charles Ikner met Patrick 11. Bettenbender, a printer, who at one time worked at the Conkey plant, in this cityrahd'fhey Were married in Milwaukee. Takes the Xnme of Burns. Mrs. Ikner was informed by Bettenbender that his name was Patrick II. Burns, and, so when they came to Hammond, they lived in the vicinity of uimr, name or Burns. Mrs. Ikner admits she learned soon after her marriage that her husband's name was Bettenbender, not Burns, and that he had a wife living in Chicago, from whom he had not been divorced.' That seemed to make little difference L"r nappmess, for they decided to keep on living together. They realized, however, that he was constantly- in danger of arrest and so. when Constable Boh Grant arrived last night and made the arrest, neither were surprised. This morning, bright and early, Mrs. Charles Ikner and a lady friend were at the police station to see the prisoner. She peered through the prison bars at her husband and, although she knows he stands charged with bigamy, she conversed pleasantly with him and' did not seem to be at all ashamed of the predicament in which he found him. ISoimIm Are St. (KM). The preliminary h-aring wa.s held in Judge Prest's court this morning, and the prisoner was bound over under $1,000 bonds. Despite the fact that Bettenbender did not tell her that he had another wife at the time sl,e married him, Mrs:. Charles Ikner seems to he wrapped up in the alU-ged bigamist and spent most of the morning trying to secure bonds for him. She half persuaded one man to go on Th.. honr l.nt it .... . that his Property holding were Dot. j u flu-tent. I- rem present indications Bettenbender will have to remain in jail until his case comes to trial.

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Work on Gary & Interurban Franchise Will Bo Rounded Up. The return of Mayor Becker fror, Battle Creek, either tomorrow or Sat tirday, is expected to give the work ,: the (Jarr and Interurban franchise which is now ponding hefoie the !,;lri of public works, a new impetus T. ooaru nas already reduce, j th glaringly undesirable f rat tu-.-s -t : m the franc! ise, but it reaiizts tl..-it n,..r.. iJ still need of some pruning and inserting on the instrument. One of t':e provisions, that the hoard will insist upon, is that of furnishing a bond for forfeiture if the road does not run its cars' from Hammond into Gary within the specified time of nine months. Tin n there are other tilings in the franchise, as for instance, the phraseology of some of the sentences, in order 'that the document mav be expiicit a"d .leftn ite. It is not at el unlikely that the franchise may be signe-t up next Monday, although none of the board members are ready to commit themselves to this today.

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EDITION OXE CENT PER COPY., New East Chicago Eeal Estate Concern, With Walter J. Eiley as President, to Be Incorporated for $350,000. . Oil 250 ACBES OF GHOIKPROPERHf Are Getting Ready for Big ThingsLocation Is Desirable Both for Factory and Eesidence SitesTerminal Tracks and Grasselli Are North and South Boundary. East Chicago, Ind.. April 14. The new land company, organieed on extensive lines, is about to be bom to this region. It is to be called the Clmet & Kenndy company of East Chicago, and an idea of the magnitude of the enterprise may be gained from the fact that its paid in capital stock reaches the enormous sum of $350,000. The offices will be located at Chicago and Kenndy avenues, In the building recently occupied by the East Chicago company. Articles of incorporation for the new concern will be filed today in Indianapolis and for this purpose Walter J. P-iley, who is the president of the new land company, left late last night for the state capital. - herring vith W Riley as Vice president and secretary, respectively, are John E. Ryan and Frank T. Malonev, the latter two of Chicago. Mr. HUey himself needs no introduction to dwellers and business men of the Calumet district, he having been long and favorably known in his capacitv ss n expert authority on realty values with the East Chicago company. Mr. Riley win have active management of the new company, Getting Heady for liig Things. The concern has purchased from the East Chicago company approximately 2?0 acres of choice. land. This tre-' (Continued on Page Seven.) . HORTOfl HOflOHEO Crown Point Divine Elected as Alternate at Laporte to Denver Synod. L,tko and Porter county men were ' ' J important positions by the member of the Logansport Presbytery ;1 the reeling, whkh was held in'Laporte yesterday. He". E. 11. Hrtrtrin Af CrAn. i . w-s !"'"'''1d an alternate to the general .ynod. which is to be held in Dcnj ver, and A. lr. Bartholomew of Valparniso was elected nri a iav delegate y j Denver. I;ev. Snook of Hammond has return.--,! from the meetings. I - tlispatch from Lgnnsport says: j "The L'.3!lnp,,rt Presbytery closed i its session:-- last night with the. elc- ' lie ter as pf rmanent cle: k. "The ii,.v. Georg A. Pflug of Plym-o;t:-i and the Rev. H. JJ. Hostetter of w.-re cl-dol delegates to tie- general synod, to be ,eld in Denv r. Tl.e K-v. .1. C. Barrett of Rensiaer and th- IK v. K. R. Horton of Crown Point were elected alternates. A. 1" Bfirt::i,iom-w of Valparaiso and W. M. I'i'h r of Mishawaka were chosen, iav delegates to ien v-r. Their alterna'.s are E. n. Stevens f Logansport and Allien Hayfs of I'nion Mills. business of the session yesterdav was devoted to the hearing of reports and the ordination of George K. Parii-.-.o ,,f l.iv;go t.i the ministry. H v.i'i arcipt the pa:-tora!e of the church at Remington. The next meeting of the presbytery hr- held at P!ymou;h." ! Furniture Blocks Trffic. j '-i.-i.-l- s J.,', n-'on. a conductor on te H:;.o.oo d. Whiting and East Chicago railway, reported to the police ithat a furniture, wagon, belonging to j Parke's dray line or Gary, had tinped ! ovtr at Vpp --'rn-o- of lu met averse and One Hun.Ird and Fiftieth street and was blocking the traffic. Cnptaln Hrtnlon went out to investigate, and after unloading the furniture he helped tnovo the wagon off the tiacka so that the car could pass.

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