Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 294, Hammond, Lake County, 2 June 1911 — Page 1

LAK COUNTY TIME WEATHER. POSSIBLE BHOWER3 TODAT AND TOMORROW 'J EDITION ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers 2 Cents Copy.) .VOL. y., NO. 291. IIAMMOND, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1911.

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Black Oak Scene of Chase By Armed Posse for Chicago Gun Man

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Red (Conner Sought To-day By a Cordon of Gary and Chicago Police

With Black Oak as the back ground, ' the time late at night, and the place not so far from the last stand of the car barn bandits the Gary police occupied the principal role that resulted in the dramatic capture of Walter Stevens ,a Chicago gun man, who is said to have been a member of the death party that resulted in the slaying of William Gentleman, a rival labor slugger, in a Chicago saloon several days ago. MAX HINT FOR OTOSXOR. Today, a man hunt is on surrounding the Black Oak country. Before the day has elapsed, Will (Red) O'Conner, Stevens' partner who 4s hiding in the scrub oaks and swamps may be taken. The whole region from Pine to Ridge Road will be surrounded by a cordon, of Gary and Chicago police and if the hunted guu man keeps up his record several lives may be given up before the day ends. RECEIVE AOXVMOIS LETTER, Following the receipt of an anonymous message that Stevens, the man AUTO KILLS HORSE. Lowell, Ind., June 2. Yesterday forenoon while Orville Hale was driving a team of horses hitched to a wagon and leading two young horses behind, an automobile from the Indianapolis races came along and one of the young , horses .was struck, on the- hind leg by the machine as it passed and broke the animal's leg. It had to be shot. It was valued at $125. The auto party never stopped, but got away as soon as possible. BOARD HOLDS SESSION There were no remonstrators before the board of public works this morning to object to the proposed pavement for Torrence boulevard, from Hoffman man street to Chicago avenue, and the

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Arthur William Grenier, broker and motorist, Injured In the Indianapolis race Tuesday, when his mechanician, S. P.- Dickson, was killed, became the husband of Gladys Madolin Sykes, sis months ago, according to the young woman's announcement yesterday. She was found In her apartments, the Perry, jn Chicago, yesterday afternoon. The name plate on the door is "W. Burns." She wept as she looked at It and said: "Justice Nicholson of Crown Point, Ind., performed the ceremony shortly after Christma, but Art and I had special reasons for keeping It a secret for a while. We have been pretending to be Mr. and Mrs. Burns." The young woman is the second of the three daughters of the late William Henry Crowell Sykes, known as the "Three Graces." She is. a beautiful blonde, 20 years old. Before her marriage to Greiner, the young brMe had been engaged to Harry Deering G. Addison, a rich young Englishman, who Is a first cousin of Lord William Beresford. The engagement was broken Buddenly. and Addison, in a pique, went to Florida and married Mile. Janice, an actress. Greiner was divorced by his first wife, Margaret Boyer Greiner, about six years ago.

SUM

Information bu Juat reached police headquarter that there are two other men besides O'Connor that are now at larare and hldlna; la the woods along; the Little Calumet river. The trio came Into Black Oak last night (or food supplies and camping; utensils, and It Is now thought they are in one of the various dugout along; the river ocenpied during; the summer by camping; parties. Chief of Police J. D. Martin has all the avenues of escape cut off. The police will make no advance upon the frunmen until later In the day when they are finally located. for whom a nation wide search has latter's automobile was used to take Hie police to the scene of the capture. Upon hearing that Stevens had been In Scheldt's saloon at Black Oak Chief Martin and his police went to the place. In order to avoid suspicion that thev were officers,' the police in plain clothes been In progress, was camping on the river near Black Oak, Chief Martin late last night lead a squad of police to the scene. In the party were Captain Mulcahey, Detective Louis Eisner and (Continued on Page 7.) indications now are that this splendid improvement will go through this year. Bids are asked for to be opened on June 19th. Torrence avenue is 100 feet wide. This width will alio wa grass plot forty feet wide in the center and have twenty feet of pavement on each side. , The., matter of Hohman street. sid walks, eectionC .was laid over for an other two weeks. ; The contract for the Reese avenue? walks was awarded to Newell Bros. The bids for the Henry street sewer wre opened and taken under advise ment until June 5th. E. T. Seestadt was appointed inspec tor for the Becker and Bauer street sewer. Permission was granted the Deborah society, section 2, of the Chris tian church to sell ice cream at Har rison park tomorrow afternoon. v ;- ' SPA s : s .

VALUATION

STATEMENT COMPARED

First Publication of Figures Returned by Assessors of North and Calumet Townships Tell an Interesting Tale. North township's valuation this year. exclusive of railroads, telegraph lines tc. is 19,989.S33. Kour years ago it was $14,233,251. The increase is 44 per cent. Calumet township's valuation this ear. exclusive of railroads, telegraph lines etc. Is $14,700,810. Of this $13,978,214 is in the city of Gary and $722,596. Is in the township at large. Gary's valuation a little more than represents tho increase in Calumet township in four years. The Increase in North township's valuation has been half as great as that of Calumet's In spite of the building of Gary and the spending of millions on the plant of the Indiana Steel Co. The valuation of the city of Gary is the largest of any city in the region. It Is $13,978,214 as compared with Hammond, the next largest, which has $7,73,165. Township Valuations Small. Owing to the fact that Gary has gooble'd up most of the territory in Calu met township the valuation of the township outside of Gary is only $722,(Continued on Page 7.) According to Robert O'Connor of Hammond, the granf officers of the Collins-McNulty faction of the electrical workers, has withdraw the charter for local 697 and has restored the charter to local No. 571. This, according to his statement, puts Carmody, Finneran and O'Connor back Into power in the Collins-McNulty fac tion of the union in Lake county. What will be the action of the Gary electri cal workers is not known. T s TO BE STANDARDIZED Chief Dilschneider of Hammond Fire Dept. Proposes Excellent Plan. Peter Dilschneider, chief of the fire department, now has plansfor the rethreading of the water hydrant con nections in order to give the Hammond water the national standard thread The advantage of this would be that in the event of a big fire in Hammond the Chicago and Gary fire departments could give Hammond material assist ance with their water pumps and fire hose. East Chicago is also considering the advisability of adopting the standard thread, and should this be done the different cities of the Calumet region could give each assistance In the event of a general conflagration. Gary already has the national stand ard. Kast Chicago and Hammond are a little bit off, their water plugs hav ing been erected before a . national standard had been adopted. The plugs can be re-threaded, however, at a reasonable expense and this Will be in all probability be done. Chicago has what is known as the Chicago standard. Previous to the adoption of the national standard the Chicago standard was generally recognized, but since the adoption of the national standard Chicago is off a bit too, but the difference is only a small fraction of an inch, and not enough to cause any trouble in case a Chicago fire hose should have to be hitched ' to a national standard pipe. MAY EXTEND TO LOWELL (Special to The Times.) Lowell, Ind., June 2. It has been stated on reliable authority that the Seaman traction line being built from Gary to Crown Point and Cedar Lake will be built to Lowell next summer, and thence to Kankakee City. The road at present runs from Gary to South Bend and West Pullman. Such a road as this would be of great benefit to this place. ' t

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TIMES Bl'REAV, AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind..' June 2. Unless all signs fall, there will be some tall poli tics At Laporte today among the Demo cratic editors and politicians who are attending the summer meeting of the Indiana Democrat Editorial Associa tlon. Indications before the crowd from central and southern Indiana left this city yesterday noon for Laporte were that there would probably be a clash betwen the Marshall and Kern presidential booms at this meet ing, ana that only carerul work on the part of the cooler heads among the politicians and editors could prevent the clash. inis was apparent from what one Democratic editor said before he board ed the car here. He was asked if he thought there would be any ruction between the Marshall and Kern' forces. and he answered: "iou can ever tell. But this is a Marshall meeting and the Kern fellows have no right to butt in on it. They had better keep out of It and give the (Continued on Page 6.) AGENTS WILL GO TO ANKUALJOfiVENTION A number of'the local freight agents of Hammond have received their transportation from the western lines for the twenty-fourth annual convention of the American Association of Freight Agents, to be held in Kansas City, June 20 to 24. The local agents and their families will leave Monday, June 19, and after the convention they will take some of the trips that are provided by the as sociation. The trips are all furnished free of charge by the railroads over which they are taken. Judging from past experience those who take the trip this year expect to have the time of their lives. The transportation issued by the western lines is good from June 1 until July 15, allowing plenty of time for side trips. Those who will compose the party from here are: Mr. and Mrs A. De Weese of the Erie, Mr. and Mrs Fred N. Hickock of the Wabash, Mr, and Mrs. A. F. May hew of the Indiana Harbor Belt, Mr. and Mrs .Crank of the Indiana Harbor Belt. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor of the Chicago, Indiana & Southern, P.- A. Cooper and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Duffner of the Nickel Plate railroad and Dan Enright of the Michigan Central. Dan Enright's frienda among the freight agents of the city make haste to point out that so far as he is concerned his trip will be strictly a stag affair. He is the only member of the party who is not married. Postpone Shoot. The Hammond Gun club holds a postponed shoot next Sunday at 2 o'clock. This event will be held in the place of the one which should have been held last Sunday, but which was postponed owing to the visit that the club memC bers made to the Poplar Springs club.

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LIFEJAVERS ARE Edwin Lipinski Drags Tot From Front of Rapidly Moving Automobile. Should the Carnegie herQ fund com mission -ever tur-a Us eye toward H&nv mond to find one worthy of its medals it might profitably investigate the knightly act of 12-year-old Edwin Lip inskl. son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Lipinski, 24 Webb street. Edwin attends the St. Caslmer Polish Catholic school, on the north side, and last Wednesday, while returning home from school, he saw a little boy, hardly strong enough to walk, standing in the center of Hohman street, near Chicago avenue, and directly in the path of a fast moving automobile, which was coming toward the child. He realized the little boy's danger and ran out to him and carried him to the sidewalk. The child's danger was not imminent, nor was a hair breath escape prevented, but to the youthful rescuer the sit uation was intense and fraught with dire possibilities, both to himself and the near victim, and this only spurred him on to act promptly. That is the stuff heroes are made of, and when put to the test Edwin was not found wanting. NO TRACE YET FOUND OF MISSING WOMAN Standard District Mother Asks for Five Dollars and Disappears from Home. All attempts to get any more clues to the whereabouts of Mrs. Hojarovich, who mysteriously disappeared from her husband and three children from the Standard Steel district last Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock have been futile. Asking her husband for $5 to buy some groceries and dishes at the 5 and 10-cent store, she left and has not been seen or heard of since. As usual, when she left she picked up the small children and kissed them all good-bye. She was seen going out of the house at 9 o'clock and started towards the street car tracks. When she left she wore a dark skirt and a plain white waist. Mrs. Stodala of the Butler hotel, 1112 Columbia avenue, who made the report that she was missing, stating that she is a personal friend of Mrs. Hojorovich, claims that she had often noticed that she was nervous and often talked of having trouble with her head. It Is thought that she was slightly demented. She left three small children, two of them 3 and 2 years old, and a baby 5 months old, which Is being cared for by Mr. Hojorovich's friends. "I never had any trouble with my wife and she was always good to me and my children, and I don't see why she left me without letting me know why she had gone," said Mr. Hojorovich this morning. He has done all in his power to locate his wife and has hunted the swamps and, all the shacks around the Standard Steel Car works. The police have also sent out a number of men to locate or find some trace of her, but no news of any sort can be learned.

CALENDAR OPENED TONIGHT

The first event on the commencement calendar for the Hammond high school will take place this evening, at the First Methodist church, when the Ion ian and Atheniaj Literary societies meetin In a debate. On the decision this evening will depend the final dis position of the silver cup which has been held a year by each of the two contesting bodies. Three lnter-society debates have already been held this yeaf. The subject for debate is couched in the following resolutions: "Resolved, The housing of the poor should be improved by municipalities." The Ionlans have the affirmative. their team being composed of Florence Burroughsj William Kraft and Roland Fox. The Athenian team, which has the negative is composed of Kittle Coulter, Gertrude Scherer and Stanley Irvln. Athletic Event Tomorrow, Although not on the regular commencement calendar, there will be a kind of holiday event tomorrow afternoon for the youngsters at Harrison park. Prof. Buck, who has charge of athletics, has arranged several track events in which all the boys In the eighth grade or under may participate. The entrants will be classed according to weight. On the athletic program will be a fifty-yard dash, a running road jump, standing broad jump and a running high jump. The balance of the commencement week calendar is as follows: Sunday, June 4 Baccalaureate ser mon. Monday, June 5 Senior class day ex ercises. Tuesday, June 6 Senior reception. Wednesday, June 7 Junior-senior banquet. Thursday, June 8 Commencement exercises. Friday, June 9 Alumni banquet. PIPE-ORGANIST OF--NOTE IH HAMMOND A number of Hammond people awakened to the fact today that they have in their midst one of the finest pipe organists and a piano player of marked ability. The genius Is Reginald De Koven Deighton, who has given pipe organ recitals in most of the important capitals ""of Europe and is regarded as a musician of note. His coming to Hammond Is due to the fact of his acquaintance with Dr. Alvia Young of this city. His ability was recognized locally when he con sented to play for a number of the members of the University club at noon today. Following a remarkable demonstration of his ability as a piano player he went to the Masonic temple, where his pipe organ playing was the marvel of those who assembled to hear him. Mr. Deighton has consented to play the piano at a smoker that is to be given in the rooms of the University club tomorrow night. While the affair will not take on the importance of a musical, it is believed -that the members of the club will have the opportunity of hearing finer music than has ever been provided at a private musical in Hammond. The fact of his presence in Hammond and his generous offer to aid in entertaining the members of the club alone made it possible for the members to hear him. The story of Deighton's travels and his experiences n the principal cities of Europe would fill a book. He is a fine looking man and has a strong personality. BOAT CLUB HOLDS SPECIAL MEETING The Hammond Motor Boat club, at its special meeting, last night, set June 25th as the date for the formal opening of its boating season. The program for the day has not yet been outlined, although it is probable that a run will be made either to Blue Island or Pullman, where the Hammond club members are to be the guests of the respective home clubs. The club will hold a regular meeting on next Thursday evening. CONKEY LANDS BIG CONTRACT The W. B. Conkey Co. is looking for ward to a very active fall season. W B. Conkey wired the local office that he had landed a five-year contract for the printing of the histories that are used in the schools in Indiana. The first order is for 100,000 copies. It is expected that the plant will be gin to assume an abnormal activity this fall, and that by winter It will be running at full blast. The outlook in the printing business never was better. THE TIMES FAMILY NEWSPAPER THE

GAISARE SCHEDULED FOR JUNE

(Special to Thh Tiaras.) Indiana Harbor, Ind, June 2. Secretary Charles E. Fowler of the North ern Indiana Baseball association has prepared the schedule for June's league games. The schedule furnishes much for speculation to the baseball dope fiend who cares to figure on the rel ative positions the teams will assume at the expiration of June. East Chicago and Crown Point are now even In the percentage column. Judging from past performances East Chicago will have a little harder row to hoe than Crown Point in order to hold its own with the latter team during June. East Chicago has two games with Hammond, one with Whiting and one with Gary, while Crown Point has two with Gary, which team has yet to win a game, one with the Harbor and; one with Whiting. ' Whiting, also, judging from past per- v formances, will have a shade the worst of it in holding its own with Indiana Harbor, with which it now ranks equal. Two of the Sundays in June wlir be devoted by Whiting and the Harbor trying to trim each other, while th (Continued on Page 6.) LATEST MEWS Valparaiso .Ind., June 2.- Coolness on the part ol members of a female orchestra prevented a panic in a moving picture theater here yesterday afternoon. There were about 300 spectators present when one of the picture machines exploded. Under direction of the leader, the orchestra continued playing, and' the audience, believing there was ' no danger, did not stampede,, .but passed out aui?tly." VThe 'Orei 'that rfoTlowed the explosion waa boon extinguished causing but slight damage. Columbia City, Ind., June 2. W. Downey, editor of the Churubusco Truth, is organizing a "Wilson for President" club, and .the organization is being joined by many prominent Democrats of Whitley County. The ticket that Mr. Downey Is pushing is Wilson for President and Marshall for Vice President. Harrisburg, Pa., June 2. Three persons were killed and one probably fatally hurt last night when an automobile driven by C. A. Sefton, a carriage manufacturer, got beyond control and dashed off the Mulberry street viaduct, hurling its occupants on to piles of building material fifty feet below. Lafayette, Ind., June 2. David Maurice, manager of a local vaudeville theater, last night wired Ray Harroun, who won the Memorial day auto race at Indianapolis, he would pay him $500 to appear here next week and tell the story of the race from the stage. Today Maurice re ceived the following telegram from Harroun: "Can not accept your proposition; too much out of my line. Thanks for your offer just the same." NEW SUPT. OF U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY Captain John H- Gibbons has assumed the superintendency of tha United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. He succeeds Captain , John M. Bowyer.

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