Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 280, Hammond, Lake County, 16 May 1911 — Page 1

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WHO IS GUILTY? Enemies of Governor in His Own Party Are Sticking Pins in His Balloon. TIMES BI'RKAl, AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., May 16. Another confidental circular has been sent out by somebody who evidently is trying to kill the Governor Marshall boom for the Presidential nomination. This is the second one that has been sent out, so it is said, and the latet one contains a real stinger. Just who Is sending these things out is now known, neither is it known just who is backing the plan to stick a pin in the Governor's little red balloon. But who ever It is, he 13 making trouble for the little red (Continued on page 8.) OH, WILLIE SMITH! - " (Special Co Thb Times.) Crown Point, Ind., May 16. The man arrested on Sunday at the ball gams for carrying concealed weapons, said to be a follower of the Gollmar Bros, circus, an account of his arrest which was given In Thb Times yesterday, was arraigned for trial in Judge Nicholson's court yesterday.. He gave his name as Willie Smith, and for one with so innocent appearing name, carried an extra supply of heavy artillery. Ha was given ten days of free grub at Lake county's expense for his actions. MEDICAL SOCIETIES HOLD MEETING The Hammond Medical society will hold its regular meeting at the Elks' club rooms this evening. The last meeting held was very poorly attended on account of the hot weather. The subject of this evening's meeting has not been made known. On Thursday evening. May 18, the Lake County Medical society will meet at Gary. An Interesting program has ' been arranged and a number will be present from Hammond. WILL SOON CO TO PARIS FOR SUMMER Rear Admiral and Mrs. Kimball. U. S. N.. will soon leave to spend the summer In Paris. In the fall tuey will visit Spain. Egypt and Greece.

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Stormy Words Last Last Night in the Gary Council. They voted yes on the Grist franc-bine i BOWSER. inso. SI1I ASKO. SZVMAMSKI. BAVKl'S. (MAYOR K NOTTS Rt'MXGS WERE FAVORABLE TO THE AFFIRMATIVE.) They voted not ROWLEY. FEVER. WALSH. CASTLEMAN. SOME OF THE HOT SHOTS. Alderman Clman I understand that there was some 93,000 passed to pret the passage of the franchise rights forfeit ordinance." Alderman Bowser "Go to it." Alderman Caatleman -"I want to say " Alderman Bowser "You're a liar. Alderman fiMlfmnn "I wanted to say that I would like to have a piece of It myself." (Referring; to the alleged 3,000 Kraft pot.) At this Juncture Bowser and Caatleman nearly came to blows and the former offered to k on the mat with his colleague right then and there. SOME LATER EXPRESSION'S. Alderman Rowley If It Is passed (the Gelst franchise) tonlsrht none of as ongUt to be here next week. Alderman Feu er "To pass this franchise would be a crime. It would be selling; the birthright of our children." ' Alderman Castlemsn "To ' paiut this franchise would be robbing the 'pec-pul.' " - Alderman Bowser "If this franchise was good enough to pass the board of public works (meaning Mayor Knot, Xyhoff and Melton) It Is good enough to pass here. I propose to stay on this floor and tight It out all night If necessary."

SCARLET FEVER GROraGNfER CITY Seventeen Cases Are Now Reported to Hammond Board of Health. Five more cases of scarlet fever have been reported to Dr. W. D. Weis, secretary of the board of health, since last Saturday. The patients, Minnie, Edna and Arthur Brueckner of 10 Russell street and Jospehine Gohde of 163 street and oJsephlne Gohde of 163 Hickory street are quarantined. There is a total of seventeen scarlet fever cases in the city at the present time, and many of them are unquestionably due to deliberate violation of the quar antine. Nor has the well-to-do class of people whose homes were quarantined shown any more respect for the law than some of their poorer neighbors in the factory districts. In the latter places the quarantine was more of a hardship in the riches homes, and yet there were as many and probably more violations in the latter than In the former. WORK IS GOING ON RAPIDLY Work on the excavation of the basement for the Lincoln-Jefferson university administration building, corner of Hohman and Ogden streets, is progressing rapidly and is nearly completed. Contractor J. H. McClay hopes to get the foundations in this week. The building will have a frontage of 50 feet and be 75 feet in depth and two stories in height. The basement will be nine feet deep. Sprinkling Begins Saturday. Beginning next Saturday J. H. Frohl will sprinkle the various macadam streets on which the property owners have not remonstrated. The contract was awarded by the board of public works and provides for two sprinklings of the street for every twenty-four hours. Building Permits. Lot 9, Spahn's addition; 60x2110; 500 ana boulevard. Smith Bros., contractors; Mike Hubbard, owner; $1,800. Lot 23, block 3, Towle & Young's addition, 117 Ogden street. M. Lavine, contractor; John Schroeder, owner; J3,-500.

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After Stormy and Protract ed Session Gary's Council Gives Calumet United Railways a Fifty-Year Franchise Grant. After a stormy and protracted ses sion, jn which certain aldermen theatened each other with physical violence following the accusation of graft harges, the Gary common council last night by a vote of five to four ratified the board of public works contract granting to C. H. Geist, the gas magnate, a fifty-year street railway franchise for his 15,000,000 Calumet United Railways. Gelst Gets Everything. Rights to operate on nearly every important street in the city, a long time grant,' a five cent fare, no provision for universal transfers no clauses providing for returns to the city, a stipulation that the building of the city lines do not have to be started until six months after similar franchises have been secured in Hammond, Whiting. East Chicago, Miller and Porter county and operations within three years after the receiving of such fran(Contlnued on Page 7.) ILLNESS DEVELOPS ... SERIOUSLY Hugh Murphy, 439 Summer street, was taken to St. Margaret's hospital, where he is reported to be very sick with pneumonia. He was apparently well on Saturday when he accompanied the Hammond high school team to South Bend for the athletic meet. The only explanation that can be given for his sudden illness is that he went to sleep on the car returning home and that he caught a very severe cold, which developed into pneumonias Murphy was a student in the local high school In the beginning of the year, but was not attending lately. PLAN BALL GAME. How would you like to see a baseball game between the city hall men with Mayor "John IX Smalley in the box and the bankers of Hammond? This is the program that is being arranged for next Saturday afternoon at the H. A. A. park if the grounds can be secured. Who the battery for the bankers' team will be has not been arranged, but it Is expected they will have some one who will be able to hold even theyworld champs. Can you Imagine these two teams playing a game of ball out in the hot sun Saturday afternoon? Otto Duelke thinks he is getting a little too heavy and this will be the best way to take off a little weight. If the teams get togetner tney certainly- ougnt to be a drawing card. The city hall clerks have their lineup all ready, and are out practicing daily The following lineup will be played: Ed. Aubry ss, F. Ebert lb, William Kolb 2b, Vern Woolley cf, H. Haage c, J. D. Smalley p, J. Friedman 3m, Otto Duelke rf, J. Leary If, Wm. Walters substitute pitcher. Official scorer will be Peter J. Lyons. Complete in Three Days. Assessor B. E. Tscher of North town ship stated today that the work of making the revaluation of the property in the township will be completed within two or three days. He said that the totals would not be figured up for ten days. He stated that he expects a large increase In the valuation over that of four years ago. "It will be so large an Increase," said Escher, "that I hesitate to make any predictions. We will have to wait until the figures are at hand." Better Get a License. Chief Austgen said this morning that there are" a number of Hammond people who own automobiles and run around without a license on their machines. Some of them have been warned but they seem to take no heed. Orders have been issued for the arrest of the parties unless they receive a license and prosecutions will follow. Heated Term Is Here. Assault and "battery case still continue to pour into Judge Prest's court, another case being filed yesterday afternoon against Max Ritter. Albert Krumrie, the complaining witness, charges Ritter with criminal provocation. The case will be tried Saturday, May 20.

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The Supreme court holds: - That the Standard Oil company is a monopoly in restraint of trade. That this giant corporation must be dissolved within six months. Corporations whose contracts are "not unreasonably restrictive of competition" are not affected. Great corporations whose acts may be called into question will be dealt with according to the merits of tneir particular cases. The court was unanimous as to the main features of the decision. Justice Harlan dissenting only as to a limitation of the application of the Sherman anti-trust law. Important Steps in Oil Octopus Fight. Jan. 22, 1906 Attorney General Moody announced the prosecution. Nov. 15, 1906 Dissolution proceedings instituted in the circuit court at St. Louis. Sept. 17, 1907 First testimony taken at New York. Nov. 18, 1908 John D. Rockefeller testified. Jan. 22, 1909 Final testimony taken at Chicago. March 9, 1909 Government filed its brief April 5, 1909 Arguments began at St. Louis. June 1, 1909 Suits taken under advisement by the court. Nov- 20, 1909 Standard Oil declared to be an illegal combination and ordered dissolved. , ' . Dec. 17, 1909 The Standard appealed to the supreme court. March 14, 1910 Supreme court heard the appeal. March 16, 1910-Closing arguments made. - April li; 1910"1 The "case ordered reargued by the supreme court. Jan. 12, 1911 Suit reargued. May 15, 1911 Supreme court holds Standard Oil a trust and orders dissolution of corporation. : Chief Justice White reads decision. . Other Important Decisions. Contempt decision against President Gompers, Vice President Mitchell and Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor is reversed. The court rules that the lower tribunal erred in making the proceeding a criminal action instead of a civil one. The decision is based on the theory that the jail sentences were imposed not because the men had refused to do something that the court had ordered, but because of "something they, had done." The court also ruled that railway companies doing interstate business are duty bound to keep in repair all safety appliances.

Dog Owners Warned. A wholesale cleaning among the dog owners who have not paid their dog licenses will take place shortly. Names of those who have not paid their dog taxes are being secured by the police and warrants will be sworn out and prosecutions "will follow. Yesterday was the last day to secure a dog license. Posters being tacked up some time ago that all owning dogs must have licenses by May 15. Last year over $S00 was taken in on dog taxes. Small Fire at Eisner's. A small fire started this noon at Eisner's barn at 44 State street. A call was sent In and companies Nos. 1 and 4 responded. The damage will amount to about $50, which is covered by Insurance. Both departments made good runs. , . . The fire started from the sparks of a small bonfire. A pile of wooden and paste board boxes from the store lay in the yard. Buys New Machine. Ralph Groman has just purchased a new Case automobile. Jt Is a fivepassenger car. and one of the smoothest running cars in the city. He re-

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! r x f i : :: Y Hi. Meets on Thursday. The West Hammond village board and the West Hammond city council will meet next Thursday evening. The matter of the right of the council or the Doard to run the city is expected to be decided Thursday morning and mis win mane it possible to know which body will be in charge of the city that evening. The trial of Miss Virginia Brooks was to have been held this morning, but was continued until tomorrow. The affairs of the village are running along smoothly at the present time. Superintendent Hurt. John Ertzinger, superintendent of the Erie coal storage plant, was reelased from St. Margaret's hospital yesterday, where he had been taken last Saturday following an Injury which he sustained last Saturday at the plant. His severest injury was a scalp wound, which he received when he was caught by a rope which threw him a distance of fifteen feet Into a coal bin. IS THE MAN WHO OUGHT TO BUT fOUR PROPERTY HARD TO FIND? IF HE IS JU5T TRY AN AD IN TH3 TIMES. THEY DO THE RT'STNESS, NOT ALWAYS OF COURSE. BUT OFTEN.

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In the Lake superior court this noon Judge V. S. Reiter concluded the impeachment proceedings against Chief of Police Lewis of East Chicago, by ousting him from office. The issues had been going against Lewis since the case was started last Friday and it was predicted that the police chief would be ousted. Judge Reiter in his decision scored Lewis and asserted that he had failed in the prosecution of his duties. The ouster proceedings are expected to have an important bearing on the other East Chicago cases now in court.

Prosecuting Attorney Charles E. Greenwald, assisted In this case by John Gavit of Hammond, has won his first battle against municipal corruption in Lake county. Judge Virgil S. Reiter in rendering his decision made one of the most severe arraignments of conditions in East Chicago that have ever been heard. The ousting of Chief Lewis is taken as a dark foreboding of what is to came as a result of the In- ! dictment of a score of otners. a nose who are involved In the meshes of the prosecution's net In East Chicago are panlc-otrtcken. Several important questions were determlred, as a result of Judge Relter's decision. They are as follows: 1. No matter what Chief of Police Lewis may have to say, there is, or was, gambling In East Chicago. 2. Chief of Police Lewis did not take the steps to suppress gambling that wtmld be taken by an honest, conscientious public servant. 3. Lewis did not do his duty when he went to certain alleged gamblers and after asking them to admit that they were breaking the law, tell them that if they were hey had better cut it out. 1 4. Chief or ponce Amen u is his officers did not have a right to the fees they collected for they were paid salaries by the city of East Chicago. (Continued on Page 7.) CL HAS FIGHTS SCHEDULED "Jimmy" Clabby goes to Milwaukee tomorrow afternoon to be on deck for a ten-round wlndup which he has scheduled with his former rival, Mike Gib bons of Milwaukee, for Friday night. On May 30th he meets Jack Dillon at Indianapolis, it is probable that after the latter day he and "Knockout" Brown will get together early in June. In his fight with Gfbbons, Clabby and his opponent both will appear as local favorites at Milwaukee, for in Milwaut kee "Jimmy" is generally accepted as a native son. About eighteen months ago he defeated Mike Gibbons at St. Paul, and Gibbons is only too anxious to get at Clabby again. Has Trained Faithfully. Eddie Clabby, Jimmy's younger brother, is booked to appear at the same time and place in one of the preliminarieswith young Gaynor. The bout at Indianapolis on Decoration day with Jack Dillon is figured to be a financial haymaker, because of the big automobile rices which will be held there, that day. There will be thousands of sport-hungry visitors Who want an evening's entertainment, and accordingly a big attendance Is looked fo.'. Jimmy has been training faithfully since his return from Europe. He has worked off about twenty pounds. His broken hand, which cut his European trip short, has apparently come back in good shape, and his owner does net think it will give him any trouble. Tommy Gary in Towb. In Monnett's smoke room are a pair of five ounce gloves which Clabby used In a twenty-round battle in Sidney, Australia. This battle was fought In a pouring rain, and when the bout came to an end the gloves were weighed. They were found water-logged and weighing about three pounds apiece. Tommy Gary, who is scheduled to box Danny Gooodman at the Hammond Athletic club in a ten-round bout on Thursday night of this week, arrived In Hammond yesterday to put his finishing touches on his condition. He looks well and says he feels well. The Goodman-Gary bout will be the windup and will be preceded by one preliminary and one seml-windup. Another Drunk. Barney Rehill, an iron worker, who lives on the north side, was arrested last night at the interurban depot last night for drunkenness. He spent the night at the police station, and was released this morning by Chief Austgen, as it was his first offense. Rehill Is a single man, 25 years old.

Commandery Meets. The Hammond Commandery held Its regular meeting last night, and owing to the warm evening the attendance was not very large. The regular routine work was disposed of and degree work was taken up. The lodge closed with a social session.

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LATEST NEWS Richmond, Ind., May 16. Richmond's business district 13 already in gala attire for the thlrty-necond state encampment of the G. A. R. and the twenty-fifth encampment of th? Sons of Veterans, and by tonight practically every residence will decorated. The decorations in the business sect! on eclipse anything oZ the kind ever seen In this city. New York City, N. Y., May 16. The way Street construed the Supreme Court decision in the Standard Oil case was clearly shown in the urgent demand for the stock since the decision was rendered that was first reflected in the buying of close to 100,000 shares in the London market against orders given in this city last night. There was no Increase in supply around current price and local buying orders that have been In hand awaiting the decision could only be executed at sharp advances In prices. New York, May 16. Mrs. William' H. Taft's conditionwa- greatly Improved today. She 8aF"u"p'torV time." although her daughter, Mlss Helen, and a trained nurse remained constantly with her. She will be able to leave' the home of Henry Tatt In two or three days, accordng to Dr. Evans, the family puician. New York, May 16. By rendering a compromise decision in the Standard Oil case the Supreme Court o fthe United States laid the founda tion for an immediate revival of prosperty. The decision assures u square deal to corporations, however great, and it also makes it plain that, however great a corporation may be. it will not be permitted to persecute the public or its competitors. HAD LEADING PART IN PEACE MEETING . The peace conference at Baltimore was the most important meeting of its kind ever held Jn the United States. Hamilton Holt, of New Work, was chairman. Dr. J. A. McDonai was one cf the chief speakers.

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