Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 1, Hammond, Lake County, 19 June 1911 — Page 1
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AT LEAGU Judge Lawrence Becker of of Hammond and Mayor T. E. Knotts of Gary to Address State League of Municipalities. TIMES Bl'RRAl', AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., June 19. Lawrence J. Becker, Judge of the superior court of Hammond and former mayor of that city, will he one of the speakers at the twenty-first annual meeting of the Municipal League of Indiana, which will be held next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at Crawfordsvllle. Mayor Thomas Knotts, of Gary, also will be one of the speakers. All knds of questions regarding municipal government will be discussed at the meeting. Mayor Ifm Darrow, of Laporte , will call the meeting to order at 1:30 Tuesday afteriiOoii. "How should cities and towns develop playgrounds and parks?" will be discussed Tnuesday afternoon by Superintendent Wood, of the public schools of South Hend. Professor Mason B. Thomas, head of the department of botany n Wabash college, will lead the (Continued on page 8.) JARNECKE TALKS OVER TRACKEUMINATION Farmer Holds Another Con ference With Trustee Becker Today. J. F. 'Jarnecke, through the property just south of this city limits, a 700-foot highway is sought to avoid the double crossing of the Erie and C. & O. rail roads on the Ridge road and Columbia avenue, was In Hammond last Saturday and met Trustee John C. Becker of North township. Mayor Smalley, Adam R. Ebt-rt and Judge Joseph Ibach, In Mr. Becker's office to discuss the pro ject. Mr. Jarnecke was unprepared for the Interview and did not commit himself as to what course he, as the owner of the land, would take. It was explained to the owner of the land that his tract would be benefited In having additional road frontage, es pecially it Is being held for speculative purposes. ' Mr. Jarnecke took the question under advisement and asked that Trustee Becker visit him today in order that they go over the route. Mrs. Swint Recovering. Mrs. Joseph Swint Jr., 566 Wilcox avenue, who underwent a critical op eration at St. Margaret's hospital yes terday Is reported today as doing well Her condition is such today that she was permitted to see friends. K. P.'s to Hold Meeting. The Hammond lodge. Knights o Pythias, holds a regular meeting this evening. The first rank will be con ferred upon one candidate. W. E. D. STOKES IS WOUNDED BY GIRLS ' T 1 Sir 4 W. E. D. Stokes, millionaire owner of the Ansonia Hotel in New York, and widely known as a turfman, waa shot and badly wounded In a pistol duel with Miss Lillian Graham and Miss Ethel Conrad in an apartment house. lie claims the shooting is the outcoiye of a blackmail plot. They deny this.
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SWITCH SUFFERS CRUSHED LEG 1911 RAILROAD RECORD IX LAKE tOUSTV IXJVRED IX REOIOX.. I.VJIKEI) IX REOIOX. .18 . 1 E. N. Gallery a switchman on the Nickle Plate railroad had his leg badly crushed and cut on the pilot of an engine near Ausburn last Saturday night about 8:30 o'clock. While switching. Gallery caught his leg in the pilot of the switch engine though just how It wash crushed he was unable to state, although he thought the accident happened whe nhe slipped. It was a narrow escape and might have cost his life. Burn's ambulance was called and he was taken to St. Margaret's hospital where he Is reported out of danger this morning. Although badly bruised and cut to the bone he will not lose the use of his limb. Gallery lives at Stoney Island and is well known here and among railroad men. Dr. T. W. Oberlin the company surgeon cared for the victim. HAMMOND BOY GETS JOB WITHVALPO PAPER Harold Cross to Become New City Editor of the Valpo Vidette. A Hammond boy, Harold Cross of 112 Monroe street, will in the future gath er and edit the elusive news item for the Valparaiso Vidette. Mr. Cross took charge of the city editor's dosk last Friday. That his position, however. Is not an enviable one as far as easy work Is concerned can be taken from the fact that he is also exchange editor, editor of the departments of polltics and finance, Chautauqua editor. railroad and Insurance editor, sporting editor and editor of the woman's page. There being no Sunday issue of his paper, he need not officiate In the capacity of Sunday editor. During the summer months, however, he may be called on at any time to substitute for the snake editor. His Hammond friends wish him success in his new positon. New Bank Delayed. Owing to the delay in the remodeling of the room in the old Henderson building on State street, the American Trust & Savings bank will not be able to open on schedule time. Eric Lund has the contract to remodel the building and Is rushing the work as fast as possible. It is expected that the furniture for the new bank will be hereby the time the building is completed.
The proceedings by which the State of Indiana on the relation of Prosecuting Attorney Charles E. Greenwald and on the complaint of Charles Pitzele seeks to oust Mayor A. G. Schlieker from the office of mayor were started in the Lake Superior court in Hammond before Judge Virgil S. Relter this morning. Attorney C. B. Tlnkham, representing the firm of Crumpacker, Crumpacker & Tlnkham, who is associated with Bomberger, Sawyer & Curtis, Abe Ottenheimer and W. J. McAleer lor the defense moved that the case be dismissed on the grounds that the law under which the proceedings were started has been repealed. The arguments on this motion were being heard this morning. The stat is represented by Charles E. Greertwald and John Gavit. The case is expecteJ to take all week. The arguments in the case of the State of Iniana on the . relation of Charles E. Greenwald vs. Mayor A. G. Schlieker, In which an effort Is being made to oust him from office, were completed this afternoon and the court has taten under advisement the motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that law was repealed. He will render his decision in this case tomorrow. KASPER GETS SAD NEWS Mrs. Rudolph Kasper on Eve of Visit to Hammond Passes Away. Jacob H. Kasper, superintendent of the pumping station, and his family received the sad news yesterday morn ing that Mrs. Rudolph Kasper of Milwaukee had died suddenly on Sunday morning. Her husband is the son of Jacob Kasper of Hammond. Last Saturday her Hammond relatives received a letter stating that she intended to come here for a visit, but yester day morning they received a telegram saying she was very and this was followed within a half hour announcing her death. Mrs. K'-isper Vas 29 years old and is survived by her husband and three thilriren Rut'n, aged 5; George, aged 3, and Edith, who Is but 18 months old. Mrs. Kasper was a native of Milwaukee, but Immediately after her marriage to Mr. Kasper she and her husband lived In Hammond. They moved to Milwaukee four years ago. The funeral will be held Tuelay morning. Services will be held at the Holy Ghost church at 9 o'cltVk. As many of the Hammond relatives as can go will attend the funeral.
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Island, are following the trail their forefathers made from Manhattan Inland to San Francisco and as told in these columns last Friday night went through Lake county via Hobart, Gary and Hammond. In a fulllment of a promise to grant his bride whatever sort of a honeymoon she should choose Mr.' MacFadyn purchased a team of horses and an old wagon, which he had fitted out with every comfort. On April 6 they set
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the Palisades or the Hudson river. The rough roads and hills proved too much for the horses and one was unable to set out on the second morning. Mr. MacFadyn quartered at Poughkeepsie until he found two strong Missouri mules. These plugging animals have carried the wagon and party over the first thousand miles of the trip without a halt.
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ing a lengthy honeymoon at that The demonstration at the depot when the Indiana, society special comes through has fallen fiat." The train will not stop here long enough to warrant a lengthy demonstration and so the plan has been abandoned altogether. The train will contain thirteen coaches and It would be impossible for all tf the passengers to know very' much of what was done on that account. A large number of Hammond East Chicago people will take and the train on the "Come Back Home" trip and others will go by automobile. Among those who will go are: A. M. Turner and wife, "W. G. Paxton and wife, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mott and Miss Irene Mott, George V. Lewis and wife, John E. Fitzgerald and wife. Dr. II. E. Sharrer and wife and Mr. nnd Mrs. V. B. Conkey and family. One hundred prizes will be distributed on the special train which has been chartered to carry the Hoosiers, 300 of whom already have applied for tickets. One of the chief prizes will be offered for the best 100-word story submitted, the committee in charge suggesting that It be built around two "night lettergrams" of fifty words each, and the Monon railway offers a handsome souvenir for the best stanza written on the Monon route. A contest between three prominent Hoosiers has been arranged and judges and clerks of election have been chosen to decide the results of the voting, which will be conducted on the Australian ballot system. The exact nature of the contest Is kept a secret. WHY ARE YOU NOT A TIMES READER? ILLINOIS SENDS MR. STONE TO CONGRESS ,A new Congressman from Illinois Is Claude P. Stone, who Is a wellknown business man with a large following in his district.
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of '49, drawn by a span of multvMr. 2,500 mile dive. Their first day's journey Uoldon before her marriage, played in time. They agreed to defer the trip till Eugene Purtelle and his phantom railway are, still agitating the people in the country districts south of Hammond. Purtelle is going ahead as though he had not failed for $750,000 and is actually able to carry the bluff with a part of the residents of that locality. His franchises in the northern end of Lake county have all expired, and he could not possibly get an entrance into Hammond unless he is able to prove conclusively that he can make good. The following from a Rensselaer paper gives a good Idea of his activities: "J. L. Rrady, who now owns the old James Rodgers' farm a few miles south of town, was on the warpath Tuesday night and Wednesday, and still has his war paint on. He, like numerous others, signed a contract to give Eugene Purtelle, the electric road promoter, free right of way through his farm. "The Mine' runs between the Range line road and the farm house on the (Continued from Page 1.) RIVER THIEVES STRIP SGHAFFRATHS LAUNCH Other Motor Boat Owners Along the River Complain of Their Losses. Charley Schaffrath, 435 Summer street, was the victim of river thieves some time last Wednesday night when he had his motor boat stripped of its brass, coils, batteries and other fittings amounting In all to nearly $."0. His motor boat, "Moonlight," is kept locked in his boat house, near the Calumet avenue bridge. The lock on the door was torn off and the boat was stripped off everything except the engine and that was stripped of its brass and wiring. Near Riverdale the thieves made another haul on three other motor boats and everything of any value was taken. The United States revenue cutter at South Chicago, which makes a daily trip up and down the river, has been notified and a strict watch Is -being kept for the thieves. . It Is thought that the thieves are the same parties who stripped a pumber of boats about this time last season. Mr. Schaffrath is employed at the Fitzhugh-Luther company as a machinist and is making a wide search for the guilty parties. He has won a number of races with Ms boat "Moonlight," and Is a member of the Hammond Motor Boat club. THIS NEWSPAPER IS THE TRADE PAPER OF THE CONSUMERS OF THIS CITY OF THE PEOPLE WHO BUY THE HOME SUPPLIES.
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and Mrs. David MacFadyn. late of Coney led along the winding road that tops musical comedy for several yeej-s. Her rhe couple were married at the Little engagements prevented them from tak last April. RAIDED BY SHERIFF It may cost Steve D. Kulcsir of Hoh man street a $2,000 stock of liquors and his bar fixtures as a result of his failure to pay for his saloon license. Saturday afternoon Deputy Sheriff George Block!, armed with the necessary papers, went to Kulcsir's place at the corner of Hoffman street and Oak ley avenue and raided the place. He failed to find a county license and then took the stock of cigars, liquors and all of his fixtures. It took three wagons to haul the Seizure to the court house, where it Is stored. Unless Kulcsir Is able to prove his right to continue In business all of his goods will be confiscated and destroyed. Those who aided Blocki are Robert 'Worley and Albert Morris. Furthermore, the place can never be run as a saloon again unless another license is secured by transfer from another saloon. The complaint was made by Robert Esslinger. CROWN PL MAN GETS PATENT ON WHEEL i Hammond Manufacturer Engaged to Make Model For New Invention. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., June 19. William C. Nicholson secured his letters patent for his new invention for an automobile wheel, last Friday and will proceed to market the device at once. The new invention promises to revolutionize the automobile tire Industry as expert mechanians who have consulted Mr Nicholson on his Invention declare that it will in many instances take the placs !,of the costly automobile tire and give I the same amount of service and com fort, Mr. Nicholson has engaged Hammond manufacturer to construct four automobile wheels, with hU patented device applied to them and they will be given a thorough test as to their practicability before the invention Is placed on the market. Mr. Nicholson has already had several flaiJ terlng offers for the manufacturing and exclusive rights of his invention but has refused them all to date. Reader to Tour West. Mrs. Elaine Cruzan, who' has appeared on several occasions in Hammond as a reader, left last night to tour Missouri, Kansas and Colorado with an entertainment company. Mrs. Cruzan Is a ieader, and her work in Hammond assures her a warm reception on her trip. She expects to be gone a number of weeks. Auto Man Hurt. Arthur O. Merrill, 601 Michigan avenue. In making an automobile repair last week sustained an injury to his left hand, it having been caught in the machinery. The injury is not serious, but is bothersome in his work.
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1110 REALTY IS CONDEMNED
Important Suit Brought Against Lake Shore Railroad Ended in Circuit Court After Long Trial; City the Winner. j (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., June 19. After hearing scores of witnesses on realty values the Jury in the case of the City of Whiting vs. the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad returned a verdict in which it placed $60,000 or about $6,000 an acres as an equitable price for the city to pay for the park property it proposes to acquire on the lake front n Whiting. The jury went out at 2:23. p. m. Saturday and returned a sealed verdict at 8:00 a. m. Sunday. These figures will be interesting for the reason that the railroad consider this figure entirely too low and has asked for a new trial. The railroad attorneys thought it ought to have $230.000 or $23,000 an acre. The humor of the situation is appar ent when the fact is known that Assessor B. E. Escher placed a valuation (Continued on Page 7.) LATEST NEWS BIDDERS TO BE ANNOUNCED. Washington, D. C, Juno 19. As-, 6istant Secretary of - the " Treasury Andrews says that he expects to make announcement of the award of the Panama bonds between 4 and 5 o'clockthis afternoon. . This, message will contain tnir'Tnames of the- successful bidders and the . prices ' at which the allotments are made. FARMER IS MISSING. Laporte, Ind., June 19. Search i3 being" made for A. P .Neigenfind. a produce farmer living near Rolling Prarie, who disappeared in a rain storm Wednesday and has not reappeared. Neigenfind, bareheaded and without a coat or vest, left the house with the statement that he must hurry to a filed nearby and repair a fence before his horses escaped. FINE CAR DESTROYED BY FIRE SEASON'S AUTO ACCIDENTS IX REGION INJURED IX 11EGION 83 MACHINES WRECKED 25 A four cylinder Corbin ear, belonging to a Chicago party, was completely wrecked by fire last Saturday night about 8 o'clock within five hundred feet of the Chicago Junction railroad tracks on Sheffield avenue. The car was headed toward Hammand and had been occupied by two men, neither of whom was injured in the accident. The car was a complete wreck. BILL IS AGAINST THE HANGING OF WOMEN Congressmen Caleb Powera, ot Kentucky, has Introduced a bill to prevent the hanging of women, substituting electrocution therefor. Tba case or Mattie Lomax. a negtess. un. der sentence of death at VYasuiugtos, caused his action.