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Retort Courteous Is Passed Between Mayor Becker and Chairman Simon.
The informal meeting of Hammond democrats yesterday afternoon in the club rooms was much In its action like
the man who knows he has a skeleton, and knowing this, takes occasion to take a good slant at It, and after having rattled its bones decides to hide it. and if possible, to forget about it. It w.as with this feeling that Mayor Becker and his clan and Ed. Simon and his clanlet hauled out the party skeleton and dangled it before each others' faces and then decided to put it away forever, unless, etc. According to report everything Is as lovely as1 a day in June, but it did take ' eome of the boys a long time to give ver.t to all their feelings. ALL SIXG IX HAR1IOXV CHORUS. Mayor Becker is said to have never uttered more loyal words for the democrats of .Lake .county, Ed. Simon and Fied Carter included, than he did yesterday. Bear in mind that the county convention, is to be held nest Saturday in Huelm's ball," and democrats are expected to elect a county chairman, and
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Beard of County Commissioners Hest at Crown Point Today and Take Up Question of a Bascule Bridge Across Calumet.
Ex-Mayor Boosted for President of. Hammond's Commercial Club; "People Want a Live Wire and Man to Boost Town."
A. F. Knotts is being talked of as
president! of the Hammond Business Men's association by a large number of the members who want to see a live
wire take hold of the affairs of the association. There are really a few third rails In the Hammond Business men's association, and it is they who ' have made history for this organization during the pa3t year. While the local organization has not been the factor that it might have been in the community, owing1 to its limited scope and the rtluctance of the busi-
iwoie organization, inis ojigraniza-fjiess raenw get in. ana put a sncyiaer
"U'o'n '.must' SrfoX "- brie- whIc4V; Mayor to : the wheel, it has : accomplished" "a liec&er can carry around in hint vest . great deal of good. - . .
(BULLETIN.) Crown Point, Ind., March 7. - The following wrrc the mucvcssful bidders county commissioner here today:
Ablborn Construction Co. of Hamon gravel road contracts let by the mend, the T. E. Knotts road, for 925,680. Ahlborn Construction Co. of Hammond, the Rhodes road, for $28,975. Green-Hermes Co. of Chicago, the Ebert road, in Eagle Creek, $14,300.
The Crown Point Construction Co, the Williams road, la Calumet, $14,500. WAV. Hatch & Sons, Downey & Porch and the Gary Construction Co. were the other bidders.
(Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point, Ind., March 7. The Hammond Hohman street bridge matter will be settled at the meeting of the county commissioners, which is to be held at Crown Point today. The action of the commissioners will be watched
with great interest by the people of
Hammond.
The question to be settled is "Should
Hammond be granted its request for a
forty-foot bridge instead of a thirty
foot driveway and a ten-foot walk on either side. This would make It as wide as Hohman street andxwould per
mit of a double street car track and a
twelve-foot wagonway. on either side.
If the thirty-foot bridge Is decided
upon there may . be a double street car
track with only a seven-foot wagon-
wav on either side. This will not be
wide enough and ie likely to cause a
great deal of congestion when the traf
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QUESTIONS THE CENSUS MAN WILL ASK YOU "What is your house number? What is your name? The names of the members of your family? What is the relationship of these people to you? How old are you? Are you single, married, widowed or divorced? How long have you been married, if at all? - v How many children have you? Where were you born? Where was your father born? Your mother? How 1oti& have you been in this country? - - Are you naturalized? . Can you speak English? If not, what- can you speak? What Is your occupation? Are you employed or an employer? Were you out ofs'ork April 15, 1910. ' ' - How- long out of work in 1909? Can you read and write? Do you own or rent your home? Any mortgage? - Ai you blind? One or both eyes? Are you a survivor of the Union or Confederate navy or army? Are you deaf or dumb?
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A warrant was issued for the arrest of Joseph Kusina from . Judge Fred Barnett's city court this afternoon. In the affidavit it is alleged that Kusina feloniously and unlawfully made an assault upon the person of Annie Mueller, she being a child of 15 years of age. The penalty for this offense is from
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Crown Pt. Hears Report That Gary & Southern Has Made Satisfactory Entrance into Gary Now ;
THE MAN WHO MADE kOOSE-' VELT PRESIDENT IS DEAD
pocket. It must not be a Tom Knotts' organization with which he can do as he. pleases, and it cannot be a Simon-
President Paxton has ma,de a good president in the opinion of those who have been associated with him in the
CrolHis organization, for the reason i work, but has refused to be a candidate
for re-election. Look to A. F. Knotts. In casting about for a man who wijl come up to the qualifications necessary to make a great commercial club out of the Hammond Business Men's association a nymber of the business men of the city have suggested the name of A. F. Knotts. "Everybody knows Knotts is a live wire," they say, "and if he would agree to take hold of the organiza-
that neither Becker nor Knotts would ete.nd for that. So it was decided yesterday that there must be harmony and a fervent chorus answered Amen. SIMON SASSES" PAPA BECKER. Now, just as to who the county chair-m-vill be cannot be safely predicted at tMs time outside of the fact that it will probably be some Hammond man. It is to be a man. who is satisfactory to all tactions. John Rohde is a man most prominently mentioned, but it is understood that he will not consider the honor. Ed. Simon was quoted some (Continued on Pace Five.) GROWH PL WEDDING GOMES 10 GRIEF
Couple Married at Cou't Seat Recently Are in Trouble.
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sloners will come to a decision today on the width of the bridge i.nd the type of a bascule bridge they will specify. It is understood that a number of representatives of bridge building companies will be present to urge the advantage of the bridges they build." It has been dlscoveerd that the United States government never granted permission for the building trf ihe present Hohman street bridge. It is always necessary that, permission be granted by congress before a bridge may be built over a government stream. Consequently it will be necessary for Congressman E. D. Crumpacker to se
cure permission from the present congress before the work on the new bridge may be begun. - The county commissioners are pretty well versed in this matter of bridge
construction and it is expected that
they will see to it that a bridge of the proper width be put in now. The ques
tion will also have to be solved as to whether the new bridge shall be a single or a double span bridge.
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'WINS 'OUT? Gary& Southern Is to (Jo Through Lowell and Survey Is Started Today.
Injury Done to Administration's Plans by Premature Publication of Story; Scheme of Annexation Is
Foiled.
LATEST TKACT10N REPORTS. The South. Shore interurban company , controls the Gary & Southern interurban. Satisfactory arrangements have been made at a meeting of interurban magnates held in Chicago to give the Gary & Southern entrance into Gary. : Surveys have been started today to run the Gary & Southern to Lowell via Cedar Lake. The Gary & Southern interurban will connect with the South Shore line south oiLthe Indiana" . Steel company's plant. . :
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Crown point. Ind., March 7. Donna Seymour, former actress and theatrical promoter, who is wanted in Chicago on two recent charges of operating a confidence game, was arrested in St. Louis Friday evening, according to advices received in Chicago on Saturday. Requisition papers were prepared and Detective McGuire left Saturday night to bring the woman to Chicago. Charles Casper, arrested with her, is not wanted in Chicago. Detective McGuire said he received information that Miss Seymour and Casper recently were married at Crown Point.
Dr. T. Kdwin Eell has been confined to his home' since Thursday morning with a complication of diseases. At first trouble seemed to be an attack of appendicitis, and then that passed away and the trouble was located in his liver. He is reported to be some better this morning, but is far from being a well man. He is under the care of a physician, and it is expected -.to be some time before he will be able to be out again. The fact that ex-Senator Eell has been talked of for the candidacy for senator again makes his illness particularly unfortunate at the present time.
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by the premature printing In a Hammond paper of a Story to the effect that Hammond woald attempt to annex that territory, have taken steps to prevent such action by incorporating as a town. It, is understood that the present Hammond city administration has sev
eral important projects which depend, to a certain extent, upon the friend- j
llness of the neighboring towns to the south of Hammond. These projects are of the utmost importance and would greatly benefit
Hammond the country districts
of the city. The city
proceeding quietly in" the matter, realizing that to let their plans be known, would greatly alarm the residents of the districts south-of the city. Then came the bungling report, an attempt to be sensational, of an alleged effort on the part of the city of Hammond to annex all of the territory south to the township line. The article
did not create a sensation at all. There were very few remarks about it. There was consideration on the part of those who were working for the best interests of the city. It is not known at this stage of the
game Just how much damage the printing of this story has done. The fact remains that the people of Highland have become alarmed and have employed Attorney "Walter Hardy of the firm of Riley & Hardy to take steps to incorporate the town and prevent the annexation. ' Of course, the incorporation of the town of Highland would not prevent annexation. It will simply make it more difficult if such a thing were contemplated. It is understood that the people of Highland have been working very quietly on this matter of incorporation and that all of the preliminary steps have been taken.
Henry Dorman, a Well Kncru Lake County Far
mer, Robbed of Valuable Horse, and Hired Man Is Suspected of Deed.
According to the report which came to Crown Point today the differences between the Gary and Southern, tie Gary and 'Interurban and the' Couth
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factory- to all of the companies con
cerned. '' rv ' : - "It is understood that there -was a meeting in Chicago on Saturday-at which all of the above mentioned lines were represented and that a satisfactory compromise was reached. The compromise will be along something Of the following lines: WHAT IT AVICI, EFFECT. 1. The Gary and Southern Interurban line will be permitted to go ahead and build its lines from the Little Calumet river to Crown Point and .thence to Lawell. It is understood that the work of making the surveys from Crowfl Point to Lowell will begin at once. . 2. The South Shore road, otherwise
ICew York, March 7. Thomas Collier Piatt, for a quarter of a century the most powerful factor in New York politics and the founder of the modern political machine, died yesterday in his seventy-seventh year. His long life ended as a slendor cord might snap in twain. Outstanding in the comments on his career was the fact that he had un wittingly made Theodore Roosevelt president of the United States when he forced upon him the nomination for vicepresident at the Philadelphia convention in 1900. The Mae Wood suit and scandal at the time of his marriage to Mrs. Janeway, the unhappy ending of his second marriage in 1907, and the exposures in the insurance investigations brought to a gloomy close the remarkable public career of Senator Piatt, but did not break the spirit of the old man. .
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two to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. It is understood that the first step on the part of Attorney G. C. White, who has recently been appointed deputy prosecutor here, will be to have tha prisoner bound over. It is understood that Kusina made an effort to get away last Saturday night, but the woman who was keeping house for him would not let him have his clothes. - Up to a late hour this afternoon the warrant had not been served on the prisoner.
ATHLETIC
Philadelphia, March 7 The United States artillery stationed at Fort DuPont, Del., was expected to arrive here today to guard the mint, and other government property, and it was feared that their presence might aggavate at situation which the police now concede is bad enough. The calling of the troops, together with the swelling of the ranks of the idle men and women in the streets," brings the great car strike to a crisis. As the result of new riots one girl is dying today of a shot wound and many are suffering serious injury from having been struck by bullets or-clubs as the policemen charged the mob.
, (Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point, Ind.. March 7. Sheriff
Grant and his deputies were busy scour
ing the country last Saturday in search of a horse-thief who stole a valuable horse belonging to Henry Dorman, a farmer living- south of Hobart, between that town and Ainsworth. The horse was taken from the barn about 2 o'clock Saturday morning. w A hired man of Dorman's, who had only worked there for two or three days, is strongly suspected of being the culprit, as he has not been seen since. The horse is valued at a price
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Gets Bad News. E. X. Bunnell, local agent for (the National CasJj Register company, received a telegram today stating that hia mother was seriously ill at her home In May. ville, X. Y. Mr. Bunnell will leave this evening for his home in New York.
CASE TO HIGH COURT SOON
Mat Boney says that he does not ac
cept his recent defeat at the hands of the Hammond Savings & Trust company as final. He says his attorney, Joseph Conroy, purposely omitted his testimony for the reason that he did not want to reveal his hand. Boney says that on the final hearing of the case he believes he will be able to establish his right to the occupancy of the building. He says that h? proposes to have the case appealed to the supreme court of the state. He says he took several other cases to the supreme court and secured a judgment in his favor in every one of them. Whether Boney will relent later on and decide to let the matter drop is not known, but he seems to be as determined to continue the fight now as he was when Boney's first battle was fought.
HAS FIELD Mi SUiJDAY
CITY WILL HAVE LOTS OF NINES
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The Hammond Athletic association
baseball ' squad had its first field day demonstrated
of the season yesterday. A cold west '
Hammond's amateur baseball fans
will probably break all past records
this season in organizing amateur
baseball teams. They are already busily engaged organizing and naming the different nines, who will compete for the city championship this season. Last year there were at least ten uniformed amateur teams in Hammond, and It 4s thought that, owing to the fact that baseball is fast becoming the greatest- and most popular sport, the amtaeur teams organized, this season will easily exceed the number of former years. A good deal of opposition is being
between the already or
ganized nines which expect to corn-
wind that found the marrow bone failed to prevent a most satisfactory j showing to Manager Ketchell. A good ;
number of players reported for practice and the line-up including Friedmier of Hegewisch, Hudson and Wagoner, catchers; Walker, McMahon and Pollard, pitchers; Boyle of Hegewisch, P. Smith, ?huc.k Rhode and several others, inflelders; Sturm, Dibos, McKay, Enright, outfielders, and about ten others. With these players and others in sight the outlook is good for a high class of h"bal In V o t? yep.r. " , . Next Sunday, weather permitting, there will be a game between two picked teams. - A call is out for. the entire-baseball squad to practice In the gym.
pete for the city honors of the coming season. It is a well known fact that there will be plenty of rivalry shown this coming season, as the players on the different nines are bitter toward each other in the sporting world, owing to the fact that last
year's championship series between the amateurs was one of those savore kind that stays in the minds of the players to defeat the former champions and wrest the honors from them is what still remains fresh in the minds f the defeated nines. 'ii.e coming season promises to be a scorcher among the uniformed amateur teams, and some close and interesting games are anticipated.
Rudolph Nowak, New Agent .of Berghoff Brewing Co., and His Companion Are Thrown Out of Wagon
Nowak Badly Hurt.
' (Special to The Timc?) East Chicago. March 7. A thrilling accident occurred on Saturday night, in which two men narrowly escaped with their lives, and as a result of which one lies seriously enjured at his home, 839 Summeh street. ' , - '. The men involved in the accident are Rudolph "F. Nowak of Hammond, the recently-appointed agent for the Birk&ft Brewing company, and his driver, whose name could not be learned. . The men were driving a horse just received from Chicago and a new wagon west in Chicago avenue at about 8:30 o'clock In the evening. Arriving at the canal there was a pile driver occupying the space between the roadway and the street-car tracks of the South Shore
IBB TIMES CAN GET YOU A GIRL.
Has New Location. Glen E. Harvey, superintendent of the
I U U 1 1 u infra iiinmoinc vuai)atij s Indiana, whose office was formerly in the Jiimbach building, is now located In room 309 Hammond building. Mr. Harvey was formerly one of the oldllne life . insuarnce men, arid it Is said that he is doing good business in the new cpm j