Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 127, Hammond, Lake County, 15 November 1909 — Page 4
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THE CASTLEMAN FRANCHISE GRAB.
About the moet idle argument in favor of the Castleman franchise grab advanced by the Whiting Sun is a question which it asks in its last week's issue as follows: "Is a man going to bind himself to pay $10,000 into the
city 'treasure' just for the fun of getting a grant which he does not make
any use of?"
We suppose this settles it and that it is unnecessary for the taxpayers of Whiting to remonstrate further. It is a well known fact, however and the
people of Whiting know it to be a fact, the Castleman franchise would be worth, ten times $10,000 to its promoters if they could put it over the people of Whiting. $10,000 paid into the city treasury of Whiting would be a mere
bagatelle lor such a valuable grant. They could go out and peddle the franchise all over the United States and make a small fortune out of it, whether they intended to build the road or not, and have nearly 3 years to do it in. Why not give some Whiting man a chance to make some money by peddling a franchise. As far as belittling the influence of this paper in its
expose of the notorious grab, we are perfectly willing to abide by the de
cision of the business interests and taxpayers of Whiting. It is quite sig
niflcant, however, that the Whiting Call kept mighty quiet about the introduction of the franchise. The subscribers to that paper are entitled to an explanation why their first information regarding the grab did not come from
a Whiting paper which is supposed to be guarding the interests of the tax
payers there, but did come from the TIMES. They know that the measure would probably have been put across were it not for the TIMES. It is strange that the last issue of the Call contains seven or eight columns of franchise matter, published after the TIMES had got busy and not any before the
city was warned by this paper. The Castleman franchise grab, we firmly believe is not worthy of serious consideration and the business interests of
the city demand that the city council tonight consider the grab from a busi
ness standpoint.
AN UNPRECEDENTED CASE.
The sentencing of Shipp by the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington Monday, coincidental with the shameful occurrence in Cairo will be full of interest. The lynching of the negro Johnson in Tennessee has brought up a case wherein for the first time in histcry a prisoner has been brought before the supreme court of the United States. Owing to the unprecedented character of the case, the sentence to be imposed by the highest tribunal is awaited with keen interest, particularly in legal circles. The charge against Sheriff Shipp and his five deputies is that of conspiring to lynch the negro Johnson, who had been given a trial in the state court on a charge of rape, and after conviction had appealed to the Tennessee supreme court. This court, after reviewing the evidence, declared that there was no ground for a new trial, and the case was then reviwed by the federal judge of the district. The Supreme court of the United States granted a stay of ten days in the execution, and the sheriff thus being placed in the uncomfortable position of disregarding either the orders of the state, whose officer he was, or of the Supreme court, appealed to the governor to grant a concurrent stay of execution. This arrived the night before the execution was to have taken place, and on the same evening a mob broke into the jail, overpowered the night jailer and took the negro out to hang him.
WATCH out for the police shake
up!
- DOING anything for the waterway
project?
LET'S have a safe and sane Thanks
giving anyway.
A DID the Blue Mouse make you jump
out of your chair?
-e SICKENING orgry that at Cairo, the
more you look at it.
ONLY 8 days left in which to buy
your turkey. Get busy.
A IF you were not tagged on Saturday
we feel ashamed of you.
INDIANA HARBOR at least got a
$62,000 smell in the pork barrel.
m SUGAR trust is Baid to have stolen
U. S. Sweet suffering hambones!
IT is the man who has been down
in the world who can appreciate being
up.
WHO is going to get the next fac
tory in the Calumet region. Come on
boys!
THE beef packers say there is no chance for cheaper meat. Save your
chuck. ve
YOU may not have Willie able to sit up for his Thanksgiving dinner
if he plays football.
LOOKS mighty suspicious when one Bide of a woman's cheek is flushed
more than the other.
THERE has been some slump in the street cleaning department since
election, that's a cinch.
THE health bulletins issued by the Hammond Board of Health, are worthy
your closest attention.
THERE were only 20 boys badly
hurt in the football games on Satur
day. Only 20 mind you. Only 2 killed
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SO far Senator Aldrich has not sue
cedded as yet in eating anybody alive
and has saved his bacon.
LONDON suffragettes have search
ed the acid throwing stage. Mce
ladies there! Eh, What?
THE Glavis-Ballinger contest prom
ises to have it on the Crolius-Knotts
controversy in the matter of heat.
1
THERE doesn't seem to be any need
of the law to protect quail nowadays
Pretty hard to find any quail to pro
tect.
SO MOTE IT BE. It Is understood that Cnief of Police Martin has announced that a general cleaning up of Gary is to take place at once during the new regime and that every gambling house, immoral place, and the vicious element of the city is to be chased out of the community. If this is a fact, the clean-up will be one of the biggest events in the city's history. If Gary is actually to be reformed, it would be good policy to first weed out several members of the Gary police force some cf whom are the essence of indecency and entirely incapable of furthering an effort of this character. IThe new administration owes it to the people who elected them to displace certain men on the force who are a detriment In themselves to law enforcement. The cleaning up of the south side would greatly enhance realty values
and make the district a better and safer place In which to live. All of these illegal resorts form a nucleus of a criminal element which causes a large per cent of the law violations in the city. The way to reduce crime is to get
at the root of the evil, and that Is by cleaning up the illegal and immoral
places on the south side. It is to be hoped that Chief Martin is sincere in
the purpose, which time will ultimately tell.
THE DEATH OF "RAYMOND."
The death of Raymond Patterson removes a striking figure from the world
Of contemporary journalism. Sad it is to think that his work killed him. He scintillated in the zenith among that bright galaxy of minds at the greatest
capital in the world and those to whom journalism means more than a fev-
eiisu am precipitate recording ot news, hear of his taking-off with a sense of
profound regret. If ever man ennobled newspaper work it was Raymond Patterson. The Chicago Tribune's -great correspondent was no journalistic pro
letariat. 10 mm the profession was patrician. Office, honors or laurel outside of it he did not want. His was the mind of the master; the student never satisfied. There was dignity in his facile pen and truth and revela
tion in what lie wrote and these in themselves left him with few peers. "None
but mm self could be his parallel."
earttoileaffc Talks.
J3y EDWIN. A. NYE,
MARLBOROUGH THE LITTLE. Pity the sorrows of the Duke of
Marlborough!
lie bewails the tendency of the
times to make the nobility pay its fair share of the taxes and especially com
plains of the Income tar which the
new budget Imposes on rast inherited properties.
This silly scion of the house of Marl
borough says be is weary of the struggle to take care of his property and would throw himself out of the win
dow but for the brutal inheritance tax, I ln-
Klondike tables, two roulette tops, one
Jenny Lind table, a keno bank and enough minor gaming devices to fill
a wagon. ASSOCIATION TO ADVERTISE,
Pamphlets and other literature, booming the proposed Toledo, Fort Wayne and Chicago deep waterway will now be issued by the association which is projecting the canal and
further work along an educational line
will be done by that body. YOUNG RYSHVILLK BUSY. A number of young Itushville busi
ness men are making a determined effort to pull it out of the rut into which it has fallen and place it on a more
equal footing with surrounding cities.!
ORGANIZE AERO CLUB.
Much enthusiasm has been aroused
among the engineering and scientific
students of Notre Dame by the movement began recently for the organi
zation of an Aero club for the study
and perhaps practice of aerial naviga-
A meeting was held Saturday
Dean of Correspondents Is Dead.
which would "rob his son," the duke-
let.
In other words, he is tired of living
because he has to pay taxes on his income, and he dreads to die because his son would hare to pay taxes on the inheritance.
Thus the duke. What would John Churchill, the
smooth, wily founder of the house of
evening, at which Professor J. J.
Green delivered an illustrated lecture
ion the progress of aeroplanina: and
told of his experience at the contests which he witnessed last summer at
Rhelms and other European cities.
$15,000 TO CHRAITY.
The largest gift for charitable pur
poses ever made In Newcastle has been made by Mrs. S. A. R. Boor, who has
turned over $15,0000 to the Christian
Marlborough, think of this whining Women's Board of Missions. Mrs. Boor
descendant Of his? ' 1 has been prominent for many years in
The first Marlborough oscillated be- the work of this organization and was
tween the royal houses of Stuart and for some years an organizer and state
Orange as occasion and his purse de- offlcer
manded. If William III. was on top, women as corniiiskers
Churchill was a strong adherent of The women of Little Flatrock church.
Orange: if Charles II. seemed to have near Kusnv'lie- naa a cornnusking last the r,f it ho xc-oc f. th chiort. Friday. There were twenty-three of
Able, nimble witted and treacherous,
the first Marlborough never whined against fate. Whatever charges are
brought against him, it cannot be de-
them and they say that they did as much work as the same number of men. Bert Norris, living southeast of this
city, gave the women a portion of a
large field of corn providing they
nied that he was a bold general and would harvest it and use the proceeds
an able diplomat. I for the church. The women accepted.
His addle pated, childishly indiscreet old couple marry,
uescenaani is oi a amerent sort or stun. I a beaming bride of 70 years and a
If the present duke should by some I blushing groom of 75 years stood be-
favorable chance iomo out of a hiarh I 'ore Justice Hutchison in his court
window In his castle, why, there would
be a dnkely funeral, that's all.
And if current reports be true Con-
suelo. the duchess and American wife.
who brought the dukedom a good slice
of old Commodore Vanderbllt's mil
lions, while she would be chief mourn
er at the funeral, would not weep as
those who have no hope.
The people of England are to be con
gratulated.
Through the Income tax and the in-
room in Indianapolis Friday afternoon, Joined hands, and became Mr. and Mrs. Herman Englebach. The bride was until that time Mrs. Eliza Steinhauser
of 1128 Southeastern avenue.
MURDER IN SALOON. William Barry of Terre Haute Friday
night stabbed hi sson-ln-law, Alonzo Geer, to death, following a quarrel be
tween Geer and Mrs. Geer in a saloon. The woman asked her husband
to leave the place and he is alleged to
have struck her, when Barr plunged
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heritance tax they will get back some la knife Into his neck. Barr escaped.
of that money and land long ago stolen I close saloonj avoid rush.
from them by old Jack Churchill be- Weiier Bros., of Elkhart, proprie-
fore and after he became earl. trivv tors of the last saloon in Elkhart
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counselor and first lord of the bed
chamber to King William.
And if to get back some of that ill
gotten property of the people his petty
descendant must needs Jump out of
the window, why, let him. Moreover
Would It be treason to suggest that
ford that. Forget it.
it would be a good thing to pass an
Income and inheritance tax that would
make some of our own money lords
feel like jumping out of a window?
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THE DAY'S PLEASANT MEMORIES.
The tag day results in Hammond on Saturday were very satisfactory to the harl working ladies who engineered the affair so successfully. Every man, woman and child in the city who paid for a tag and wore it can be gratified; to know. that their pennies, dimes and dollars were spent for a splendid purpose. It 13 such things as these which bring us all nearer together in one great brotherhood and sisterhood for humanity that needs help and encouragement. The spirit inculcated on a day when charity is prevalent 3oes more good than a thousand sermons. The spirit of giving warms i:he heart of man and to know that he can five his mite when others gives theirs, makes him proud and happy. Tag Day in Hammond should be made an annual affair at least and when it comes around again let us all see it we cannot, give double what we gave on Saturday.
WRITER wants to know why we
don't get after the "Pass the Buck'
club in Hammond. Patience boys, pa
tience.
EVEN a central bank would not greatly flustrate us if it would pro
vide us with Dlentv of the where
withal. - A WE understand that there is
movement on foot to give a pair of pants and a trip to Hessville to any
one who will favor amalgamation.
THE South Bend Times is going to
hold a big corn show in the near fu
tuie. We could pull off a big corn show in our composing room if It was
necessary.
THE head waiter at Delmonicos
kicked off the other day and left
fortune of $500,000 that he had re
ceived in tips. Now keep the boys on (ha farm, thev can't all be head
waiters. WE don't know of any one who has a better right to brag about the weather than we have right here in Lake County, (provided it doesn't freeze before the linotype operator plays this on his keyboard.) WE are informed that Teary avoided, controversial points In his speeches. Well, he has used up about all the points in his interviews. If he had anything left he would no doubt ring it in somewhere.
a IF we could get the East Chicago man's name who is offering suits of clothes for those who will boost amalgamation, we could show him where he would have to start a tailor shop. A A ST. LOUIS clergyman advocates longer 6ermons, says they ought to lun one hour and forty-five minutes. Mercy, deacon! Have mercy! What3 the use of making an unnecessary noise?
"THIS DATE IN HISTORY Xovrmbfr 15. 177" Fort Mifflin evacuated by Americans.
1S06 Discovery of Pikes Teak. Colo
rado.
1807 Peter Hardeman Burnett, first governor of California, born in
Nashville, Tenn.
1815 Stephen Heard, governor of Georgia, died in Wilkes County,
Georgia. Born in Ireland in 17S1.
1868 Baron James Rothschild, who
supplied the funds for the earliest
railways built in France, died In
I'aris. Born in Germany in 1792.
1889 Manuel II.. king of Portugal
born.
1898 Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens elected president of the National W. C.
T. U.
1904 Germany and the United States
signed a treaty of arbitration.
county, closed their place of business
twenty-four hours earlier, which time
was allowed by the law. They said
they preferred to close early and avoid
the rush. Weller Bros, succeeded their
father, who started one of the first
saloons in Elkhart nearly a half century ago.
LABORER WAS KILLED. George Steange. a foreign laborer,
met instant death at Michigan City Friday afternoon when a big boom
on a floating derrick, engaged in pier
work, broke, crushing his skull and
plunging his lifeless body Into Lake
Michigan. The body was recovered
after an hour's dragging by the life-
savers.
THE CREAM OF THE Morning News
"THIS IS MY 20TH BIRTHDAY,
King Manuel II. of Portugal, who is
now paying his first visit to King Ed
ward at Windsor, was born at Cintra, near Lisbon, Nov. 15, 1889. Under the
MINE DISASTER. loubie inquiry follows horror; ef
forts to fix responsibility for failure
to rescue more.
Volunteers descend shaft of mine at
Cherry, but find no life; 38i persons
missing.
Heroism of eleven rescuers who fin
ally were killed in mine disaster eulo
gized by Woman's Trade Union league
Chicago takes lead in preparing for
relief of mine disaster sufferers. WASHINGTON. President Taft is making ammuni tion ready for fight for his ideas o needed changes in regulation of cor porations and railroads.
Taft speaks at Jubilee of Catholic
expressing friendliness
supervision of his mother, who is congregation
reputed to be the most learned woman for churches
among European royalty, he received FOREIGN
an excellent education that fitted him Buenos Aires chief of police and sec
well for the high position to which he rctary killed by assassin's bomb.
was unexpectedly called through the! Ntnevt-five persons drowned in col
assassination of his father and older brother. The young king is said to be especially well versed in philosophy, poitlca science and the physical science.
Hh has also displayed an unusual aptl.
tude for mathematics and speaks,
lision at sea and sixty-one are saved
from Jaws of voracious sharks.
DOMESTIC.
Lake Superior freighter on rocks
twentyone may not be rescued.
Ministers of Cairo churches palliat
French. Spanish and Itaian fluently. I the lynching of negro and white man
Accorling to rumor the chief purpose Insurance man who had evidently
of King Manuel's present visit to Eng- I feared end from heart trouble found
anl is to arrange for a matrimonial al-
lience with the Princess Alexanlra of
Fife, grandiaughter of King Edward.
UP AND DOWN IN IN-DI-A-N-A
TEMPER NCR PEOPLE INDIGNANT.
A mission rocking chair, presented to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Allmon of Montpelier for their valiant work in. the remonstrance and county local option
battles at Montpeller, by the Ladles'
Aid Society of the M. E. church, will
occupy a prominent place in the new saloon Allmon is preparing to open at Montpeller. Notwithstanding the fact that Allmon was one of the most zeal
ous temperance workers in Montpelier
he applied for a license to sell Intoxl
cants at the last meeting of the coun
ty commissioners and is preparing to
open his place In a few days. The temperance people are indignant. RICH HAUL IN RAID. As a result of raids through the
lSouth Bnd gambling district late Fri
day night ten eonstaoies, unaer me arectlon of Prosecutor Pattee, confiscated 15.000 poker chips, two full faro outfits, 3,000 playing cards, two crap boards, two chuckaluek boards, two
dead near Peoria, 111.
Meeting of New York Christian Scientists to be held today and may
prove setback for Mrs. Stetson.
University of Virginia half back die
from football injuries.
Charge made that sugar trust mad
tool of the civil service. CHICAGO.
Vincent Briscoe, allaged murderer o
Policeman Duffy, brought back.
Scandal in purchase of iron castings
for the city.'
Y. M. C. A. prayer week opened with
meeting for young men.
Professfor Foster declares Christian
ity needs more vitality. Pastors criticise civic corrouptio from pulpit. POLITICAL.
John M. Harlan declares in favor o
larmier's candidate for congress. LABOR.
Fight over liquor question threaten
to break out in labor convention a
Toronto.
PLAN TO REVISE
RACING RULES
Objection to Happenings in
Saratoga Selling Races.
New York, Nov. 15. During the Sara
toga meeting it was common gossip,
because of certain unpleasant happen
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JEFF TAKES 400,000 VDLTS OF
ELECTRICITY TO GET
SHAPE
New York. Nov. 13. Jim Jeffries de- smallest fraction of what a man re-
clars that electricity is working won- ceives in the death chair at Sing Sing,
ders with his crooked arm and in a but it is tearing through Jeffries'
few months his massive paw will hang body with a speed of 400,000 volts, so naturally at his side. Jeff took the you see it Is plain that it is amperes treatement last night and Dr. De Kraft and not voltage that kills."
sent 400,000 volts swishing through his Room Filled With Blue Flame.
body .double the amount he received When Jeffries received the full force
few nights ago. First of all, Jeffries rolled up the
sleeve of his right arm and placed
the bared elbow into a sort of electric bakeoven. The doctor explained to Jeff that there was nothing the mat
ter with the tendons of his elbow.
the lights were turned out and the room resembled Dante's Inferno. The place was so charged with electricity that it was difficult to breathe. For a distance of throe feet all around Jeff the force of the current was plainly perceptible, for it was like an autumn breeze. One? in darkness every-
bnt that the larsre inside muscle had
contracted when he allowed the arm to " lne "" ' -'"
get cold after pitching nine innings j
of a ball game in Los Angeles.
It became necessary therefore to
heat the elbow thoroughly, so that the muscle would expand, before the elec-i
tricity was sent through it. Jeffries held the arm in the little oven fully three-quarters of an hour, until the. perspiration ran down his face in streams. The arm properly heated, the!
Jeffries raised his wired right arm
and electricity blazed from each finger. It was leaving his hand so rapidly that the flame appeared red at each finger tip. Beymtl the rej portion, the tlame appeared blue. It looked for all the world as though he had a gold thimhle on the end of each digit and attar-hed to eacli a blue plume extending half a foot in the air. Blue flame hissed
uu iui i,t-u iu iwiii lima, nai.ro . , . . . x.,h,,n
then bent them around each lh.nv. the JetTri;s raiM.,,' h!s lf K ,n the air, every plates in turn bound tightly with long . . chawed
cloth bandages. I ,,, Trff.a ,.,. fnn. linv
Current Rraehen 400,000 Vnlt. j Diuo heads of fire.
Jeffries then took his seat in the
wicker rocking chair, the wires were attached to the batteries and the cur
rent was turned n. The force of the voltage shook his entire frame and his right arm throbbed violently and was lifted into the air. The noise caused by the spark was deafening. The current was increased gradually until the doctor turned and said:
"Four hundred thousand volts." The writer meekly suggested to the
doctor that there were six or seven
people in New York who were inclined to pooh-pooh the idea of Jeffries or any other man receiving 200. ono volts, to say nothing of twice that amount. "Thereby showing a lack of knowledge when it comes to electricity," the man of sparks replietd. "At Sing Sing they send a man to his death in the electric chair with l.SOO volts, 10 amperes the quantity of electricity. Mr. Jeffries there in the chair is receiving but six-tenth of one milliampere, the
When he clenched his fists, sparks snapped from between the tightlyclosed fingers. When the lights were turned on again, every hair In Jeffries' head was standing straight up on end. As h stepped down from the chair the doctor pressed his Jinpers again.st Jim's trouser-leg. and the cloth was so charged with electricity that a fiamft of fire followed every contact of the finger-tip and textile. Jeff Serious in Trnininc. And out west, where Jeff hails from, they are inclined to believe that there is more of theatricals than fight on Jeff's mind. They want to see Jeff locked away in a training camp with his punching basts and pulley weights, but it is doubtfn! if every a conditioning camp harbored a man who was more serious or painstaking in th preliminary preparation that is to fit him for the greatest struggle of his ring history.
lngs arising out of selliner races, that the rules of racing would this winter be amended 'so as to be of the same character as the rules existing on t he French turf. Complaints were frequent that high priced horses were entered in selling races which were intended only fr a very moderate class of race horses. In order to obviate this the method current in France, which permits horse owners Or others to claim horses out of selling races before the races are run, will be proposed ar.il may b.2 adopted.
YALE STARS GO TO HOSPITAL
Daly and Vaughan Enter Infirmary. New Haven, Conn., Nov. 15. Two of Yale's best footbal) players, Fred Daly and Harry Vaughan. have been taken
to the college infirmary suffering from will be Slosson
feared that Daly wll be nut of the play against Harvard next Saturday. His shoulder was badly wrenched. Vaughan, whose knee was twisted, was better today, and he stands a fair chance of playing Saturday. Captain Ted Coy was found today to have aggravated his case of water on the knee by strenuous work in the Princeton match, but he insists that nothing but the police will prevent his playing against Harvard.
TO PLAY IN 18.2 TOURNAMENT George Sutton left Chicago last night for New York, where he is to take part in the tournament for the national IS. 2 balk-line title Nov. 22 to 29. Mr. Sutton will stop off at Pittsburg, Buffalo and I'tica on his way to play exhibition matches. He is ni present the 18.1 champion and in an exhibition game yesterday averaged 71 3-7. running 500 in seven innings. Beside Sutton there
Jiemarest. C'titior Cl.ne
injuries received Saturday, and it isami Cassiguol in the tournamviiu