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Crown Point, Hammond, Gary Ind. Harbor, Whiting: and Michigan City in Baseball Banquet

(Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, Oct. 21. The Northern Indiana Baseball Leagpie is almost an established fact. Last night the first meeting looking to the organization of the league took place, the event being preceded by an elaborate banquet. After the feast those present adjourned to the club rooms of the Commercial Club of Indiana Harbor and East Chicago, where the business of the meeting was transacted. HAD SEEN THE CUI1S. There were covers for about twenty. The guests were slow In. arriving as many of them had been up to Chicago to attend the baseball game between the Cubs and Athletics at the West Side park. The cities represented were Crown Point, Gary, Whiting, Michigan City and Indiana Harbor. The guests included George . Kaiser and William Barnard of Crown Point; D, D. Claudy and Herbert Erickson of The Great Bribery Charger and Flopper on 16 to 1 Is-j sue Speaks at Towle's Opera House to Good Sized Crowd. Comparing Senator Albert J. Beverldge's past and present stands on the tariff In an attempt to make him out an eleventh hour reformer, and touching on the Income tax and labor legislation, John W. Kern, the democratic choice for United States senator from Indiana, spoke for an hour and a half at Towle's Opera House last night In Hammond. He 'had a good sized audience, which followed him closely. Mayor Becker was the chairman of the evening and pave the gist of Mr. Kern's talk In a few opening remarks, to-wit, that the candidate for United States senator stands for the same things now for which he stood twenty years ago and that Senator Beveridge now desired to pick the plum which the democrats were a generation In raising. Goen After Beveridge. Because of his hoarseness, Mr. Kern (Continued on page seven.) FORECAST BSOLUTELY CORRECT (Special to The Time.) Crown Point, Ind., Oct. 21. Thss Times in forecasting the final ending of the Gary & Southern-Gary official controversy, concerning the question of right of way to th Calumet river, the matter which was to be aired before Judge Johnson at Valparaiso on Tuesday, proved to have the right dope as to the outcome of the matter, and the story in The Times of Monday predicting an amicable settlement between the Seamen interests and the Gary officials has created no end of interest here as to the source of the information gained by the paper by which it was able to forecast the ultimate decision reached by the Interested . parties. The final news thai the long drawn out controversy has been practically settled and that nothing now stands In the way of an early completion of the line is received here with the greatest of satisfaction, and Crown Point citisens and those living In the vicinity of the road will now do all in their power to secure transportation facilities to Gary at the earliest possible moment.

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Otto Volksdorf and Emil Lambka of Michigan City; Judge Hembroff. H. C. Rutledge, Thomas O'Connel, Walter J. Riley, Dr. Frank Stephens, John Farovid and H. M. Pill of Indiana Har bor, and J. J. Freman of East Chicago, The supper was much enjoyed, the menu being an exceedingly attractive one. BUSINESS AFTER BANQUET. Supper was served soon after half past seven and by nine the company was ready to proceed to the. club rooms to talk business. Judge Hembroff, president of the Indiana Harbor Baseball Association presided and was named temporary chairman of the meeting. It was moved that H. C. Rutledge, secretary of the association ba made temporary secretary, but he de clined the honor declaring that the offices should be distributed as much as possible, as Indiana Harbor wa not desirious of "bulling" things. So William Barnard of Crown Point was named In his stead. A committee of four was appointed t (Continued on page seven.) sen MEETING A 16 SUCCESS ; "f SpeSat;te-rrt Lowell, Ind., Oct. 2x. There were three hundred people at the open air meeting at Schneider, ast Wednesday night In spite of the threatening weather. In fact this Is but one exampe of the uniform success that has attended the republicans In their school house meetings. Jn view of the fact that the school house would not hold the crowds the speeches were - made from assessor Black's automoDile. D. E." Boone, who Is In demand all over the county, and who was asked to speak for the state central committee, made the principal address of the evening. Mr. .Boone's speech was one of the best that has ever been heard In that part of the county and his hearers cheered him repeatedly. County Chairman f. Richard Schaaf also made a brief address. ELK'S BAZAAR TO STARTTOMORROW Mayor Becker to Give Address of Welcome at Bif Fair Saturday. x i Twenty-four hours hence the Elk's $5,000 bazaar will be in full swing. The doors to the big fun emporium in the new Heintz building will be thrown open at 8 o'clock and at 9 o'clock Mayor Becker will deliver the speech of welcome on behalf of the Elks. A small admission fee of 10 cents will be charged at the entrance in order that the Elks may reserve the right to bar the undesirable element. This is done to protect the patrons who desire to come for fun and wholesome amusement. It is important to remember,- however, that every patron should retain the stub to his ticket, as it will entitle him to a chance on some valuable article which will be raffled off later in the evening. Race Next Sunday. Unless the hoodoo shows his head again next Sunday, the Hammond Motor Boat club expects to hold his big free-for-all race next Sunday. The three boats that are entered for the cup are in good shape and the engines a-e working perfectly. The boats art E. J. Millers "Fizz," with twenty to twenty-four horse-power, Moonshower Bros.' Dragon," with twenty-five horsepower, and the Seestadt and Leytze boat, "Louisa S," with thirty-two to forty horse-power. Newsboys Meet. The Hammond Newsboys" association held a meeting last night in the Baptist Athletic club rooms and formally received its charter. Barnie Carter, the street car conductor, and the editor of The Suburban was present to ad. dress the boys and to administer the oath of office to the officials of the association.

STRENUOUS

EFFORTS TO GIE Strenuous efforts are being; made by County Chairman F. R. Schaaf with the assistance" of the republican state central committee to bring Theodore Roosevelt to Lake County for the closing of the campaign to chaplon the cause of Senator J. Albert Beveridge.' If present plans are sucessful he will make a speech of a half hour's duration in Gary the first week In Novem ber. He will make Gary a stopping point on his trip into Iowa. The republican leaders In Lake Coun ty heard of Co. Rosevelt coming to Chicago and sent a request to Senator Beveridge urging the colonel's speech. Roosevelt will speak at Gary If there is any possibility of doing so without western trip. This wll be in the first week in November. Chairman Schaaf has absolute confidence that former President Roosevelt will come to Gary and is making his plans on the almost sure assumption that Mr. Roosevelt will come hence. Col. Roosevelt is so tremendously In terested in the success of Senator Bev eridge and in the national significance of his election that previous to his re cent departure from Indiana he offered to do anythng more in his power besenator. Aside from his friendship for Senator Beveridge he was deeply impressed with the earnestness In which the individual voters of Indiana are making a popular fight against the interests and for progressive republicanism. JUDGE BARNETT , -BIS AG RE ES Wl t H D R S - Refuses to Sit in Case When Peddler Kaplan Is ReArrested Today. The police have a problem on their hands with Barnie Kaplan, a young Jewish peddler. A sanity commission turned him lose yesterday, having found him sane, and when he was arrested again this morning on the charge of cruelty to animals. Judge Barnett refused to sit as judge in the case, because he believes Kaplan's sanity to be questionable. As a result the young man was locked up temporarily in the police station. Later in the day he was again tried for his sanity and found to be demented. Kaplan believes himself hounded by certain Jews in Hammond, saying that they are attempting to get possession of a fortune which he has, and explains his raving in the cell on the ground that he is deprived of his lib erty. He speaks of his acquaintance with the German emperor, and will occasionally make a pass with his fist at some imaginary person. Yesterday morning he abused his horses shamefully while he drove over the sidewalks, endangering the life of pedestrians and shouting that he was not crazy. He was apparently rational yesterday afternoon when Drs. Weis and Howat examined him in Justice Prest's court, and it was upon their finding that he was turned loe.. This morning he repeated his action of yesterday and gave unmistakable signs of mental derangement. He was again examined by Drs. Weis and Howat. Mrs. Dora Bebroff, whose disturbance in the Jewish synagogue last Wednesday caused her to be tried for her sanity, is at her home and apparently well. The sanity commission's first finding was that she was insane, but she will have a re-hearing, possibly in thirty days. GOOD ATTRACTION FOR TONIGHT "The Port of Missing Men," which is the attraction at the Towle Opera House tonight, is one of the best dramas that has ever been seen in Hammond. The play ls a dramatization of Meredith Nicholson's book of the same name and is one, of the dramatic successes of the year. The play was produced by the road company in this city a few weeks ago and was reported to be one of the best things of the season. The show tonight is to be produced by the "city" company, with Hugo B. Koch, as the leading man. Koch Is said to be one of the greatest actors on the stage today. It is expected that there will be a large attendance at the performance tonight, in view of the fact that the play was so well received here on the occasion of its former appearance. THE TIMES CAXGET YOUACJHU

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It is now practically agreed that there will be no hitches in the plan to give Seaman's Gary-Crown Point interurban line a franchise, ' thus giving them access into Gary. . The scheme now under .way is. for the city council to extend a grant . that will- permit the company , to . operate from the southern city limits to the Little Calumet river. This route wil lbe along Broadway and up to that point the company has its right of way. Here connections will be made with the Gary & Interurban railway, where passengers will" be hauled uptown. - Transfers from" one line to the other, available in either direction, will be issued and a 5-cent fare to any part of the south end will be the rule. An official of the Seaman line said that once the franchise is granted the company will start to build at once. This will be the first north county step to link Gary and Crown Point- by, trolley. - BLACKSMITH IS DEAD. Chas. A. Alkins, 63 years old, who was the blacksmith foreman at the Standard Steel Car works, died last night at his home, 303 Logan street, his death having been due to pneumonia, Mr. Alkins moved here several years ago from Hogewisch. He is survived by his widow and four children. They are Charles of Erie, Pa.; Mrs. Cathryn Paulson, Mrs. Anna Peters and Miss Anna Alkins of Chicago. Mr. Alkins was a member of Ashler Masonic lodge of Chicago and the Crystal lodge. Knights of Pythias of Hegewisch. The funeral has been arranged for next Sunday afternoon. Interment will be in Waldheim' cemetery. Fifty Years Ago Today. Oct. 21. Fire la cow stables adjoining a distillery in New York disclosed an extensive "swill milk plant" from which the output of 150 swill fed cows was vended about the city as pure "Orange county milk." Twenty-five Years Ago Today. Fiftieth anniversary of the mobbing of William Lloyd Garrison for bis advocacy of the anti-slavery cause commemorated in Boston.

WILL PLAY TOMORROW

The first game of high school football to r be played in Hammond this season w;ill be the game at Harrison Park tomorrow afternoon between the Hammond high school and the Michigan City high school. This is,' in fact, the first big game of the season. The Michigan City team comes to Hammond with the record of having played- South Chicago a 0-to-0 game and Thornton township a 12 to 0 game in Michigan iCty's favor. However, as the Hammond high school has playe-d neither of these teams, the local fans have no line on on the relatives playing ability of the two teams. The Hammond high school has played a practice game with Whiting at Robertsdale and the regular game with Culver Military academy at Culver last Saturday, in which the score was 6 to 0 J in tn cadets favor. The members of the Hammond team are anxious for the ' game with the Michigan City boys and hope to make a good showing. The team is making good progress ' under the coaching of the athletic instructor, and in spite of the fact that most of the material is new it is expected to play a close game next Saturday. ; The weather promises to be fair, and tt is believed that there will be a large crowd out to see the contest. This is one of the few big games that will be played by the high school in Hammond this ye'a'r. A Good Game. The Hammond football team will play the Morse Athletics of Chicago next Sunday. The game is expected to be a good one, as the Chicago team has won the championship in the lightweight and heavyweight classes for two years in succession. All of those who saw the game last Sunday will be admitted free of charge next Sunday upon the presentation of their tickets. May Meet Tonight. The East Side Improvement association is scheduled to hold a meeting this evening in the Lafayette school building. The weather is rather unfavorable, but no word has been sent out that the meeting ia off.

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Chicago, Oct. 21. The fouth game of the world's champion baseball series, to have been played here todar, was postponed by reason of rain and wet grounds. The next game will be played here tomorrow. If Chicago wins there will be another game at the west side park on Sunday. Should Chicago lose tomorrow's game, Philadelphia wins the series.

Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 21. Following a heavy rain storm, the entire Panhandle and plains section of Texaa got its first taste of winter today. In Amarillo snow continued all day, a fall estimated tit two inches break

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dicates freezing. Logansport, Ind., Oct. 21.

road foreman of engines on the Panhandle, tells of the fast run by passenger train No. 19 between this city and Chicago. The train, composed of nine standard coaches,

attained seventy-two miles an to Kouts.

St. Paul, Oct. 21. J. E. Alexander, motorman, was shot through the heart and instantly killed early today by a bandit who tried to hold up a Grand avenue car on the outskirts of the city. A man in khaki leveled a gun at ' Alexander and shouted "Hands up." Alexander and -Conductor Gross both opened fire and the bandit killed the motorman. The man escaped in a waiting automobile.

St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 21.

2,500 .union emplo.yes in twentyone shops of the M. P. railroad struck in accordance with President O'Connell's order.

B. LAND1S IS COHG H EXT WE Charles B. Landis, who Is one of the most popular campaigners in the state of Indiana and at one time was a representative in congress, will spend Oct. 26, in Lake county. Landis Is an orator of the first water and has never failed to pack the opera house on the occasion of xhis former visits to Lake county. He will come to Hammond in the evening of the 26th and will speak in Crown that afternoon. Landis' appearance in this city recalls some of the old campaigns of years ago in which he was one of the central figures. No matter how busy he was at home, however, he never refused an invitation to come to Lake county, where he was always welcome. GROWN PI. WEDDING CAUSESJ RUMPUS Chicago Man Elopes With Minor and Now Faces Abduction Charge. When John W. Bottoroff, traveling agent for the Seaboard Air line, eloped to Crown Point with Marie White, a Chicago south side society girl last September, ht was not aware that the end of his honeymoon would be spent in a courtroom facing a charge of abduction. Yesterday, after a series of hearings, he was relieved of further prosecution because Mrs. Lena White, the complainant and mother of the girl alleged to have been abducttd. had failed to comniv with th iixtinnS ,f fr,iioi

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Judge Newcomer. fixtures, with palms and potted plants Weeping hysterically Mrs. White ' set about the store in great profusion, pleaded with the judge to hold Botto- j with orchestra music to add to the roff after the case had ben non-suited I gaiety of theoccasion and with thouby an assistant state's attorney. J sands of American Beauty roses as fa"That man is a scoundrel!" she cried. I ors for the ladies, the occasion is sure "He never married my daughter, though ' to be an auspicious one. he went away with her. I beseech you, j The store will open at 6:30, but no) praying, only as a mother can, to hold ' goods will be sold during the evening, him until my daughter is able to come The opening is solely for the purIn court and testify." I pose of permitting the egneral publio Mrs. White's plea had no effect on the ' to inspect Hammond's newest mercan-

rnilrt Shfl h5l hoon nstrlirtoH t n hava her daughter at the hearing yesterday or to bring a physician to testify that Miss White was too ill to appear. Instead, Mrs. White brought a doctor's certificate of illness. The bone of contention in the c3se has been the age of Miss White. Ac cording to Mrs. White htr daughter is 17 years old, while Bottoroff maintains that the girl told him the day they were married she was two years older. "My daughter, is only 17 years old," said Mrs. White last night at her home, 4324 Ellis avenue. "In knowledge Vf the world she is a child of 7. BottoriT never married her, I'm sure." WHY ARE READER? YOU NOT A TIMES

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hour from North Judson At 10 o'clock this morning Despite Mayor Becker's proclamation which he issued the first of this month, warning the people of Hammond against maddogs in'ilammond and urging the muzzling of all brutes running at large, more dogs are ' running around unmuzzled than muzzled. The proclamation was to be in effect for thirty days, to allow enough time to await any developments. If the police were to start out tomorrow morning to shoot every unmuzzled dog coming within the range of their guns, the canine population would be practically exterminated. During the first two weeks the po lice killed more than a score of unmuzzled dogs, but since" then there have been reports of any unmuzzled dogs killed. One bruite waa killed this morning. MANAGER COHEN HAS EVERYTHING ! READY I Hammond Ladies Await With Store Opening Much Expectancy. The White Store will have its grand i opening tonight. V ith brand newtile establishment. The store is one of the largest in the city. It covers two floors and a, basement over a frontage of seventyfive feet. Its equipment will be the finest in the city. Every bit of the stock is new and of the latest style and design. This will make the store exceedingly attractive to the shopper. , J. J. Cohen, the manager, has worked night and day to get the store in shape and today announces that everything will be ia readiness. THERE'S A CHANCE THAT YOU OUGHT OT TO POSTPONE THAT "SHOPPING" ANY LONGER. READ THE TIMES' ADS AND SEE IF THIS IS NOT SO.

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