Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 23, Hammond, Lake County, 8 July 1911 — Page 1

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J. E. Holland Claiming Hammond as His Home Victimizes Innocent Mich-

iganderS OUt Of Hard Earned Cash by Hammond Saloonman Loses

TTdncr Hpmmnnn rViPrkc: His Appeal Case in Benton

O V finnnt.Tr nnn Kftarri nf

County Commissioners Is

Upheld in Ruling.

A number of innocent and gullible j Michiganders are bemoaning their fate these days for listening to a young man who claimed Hammond as his Lares and Penates and J. E. Holland as his nom de plume. Holland' efforts to please the natives of Grand Rapids, Mich, led him to draw several checks on Hammond banks and he found victims galore. The banks and police of Hammond do not know Mr. Holland under that name. His name is not revealed In the telephone directory. HE "WAS A WALLIXCPORD. Yesterday's Grand Rapids Press says: "Cutting; a wide swath during his . brief sojourn In thia city and spending money like another Monte Cristo, a smooth young man giving the name of J. E. Holland of Hammond decamped last night, leaving a trail of worthless - checks in his wake. There are a number of persons about town who up to the time of Holland's sudden disappearance last night would have sworn he was one of the best fellows in the world. Today they have changed their minds. Among the firms and persons Holland victimized either through bad checks or unpaid bills are: "John Moran, proprietor of theHer- ' mitage hotel, $35. "William Hertbog, proprietor of the Wyoming club, $35. "Kick Fink of Riverside hotel at Mill . Creek, $25. "John "Slootmacker saloonkeeper, 150 Canal streets $35. "A. Friedman & Co., $13.50. "A. N. Albee. liveryman. $38. '. v- I.EX TES GIRLS AT POSTOTTTICB. " "Holland's departure was' aa sudden and startling as his appearance and career while in this city. Ordering the chauffeur he had engaged for the day

to drive the machine to the post office

he excused himself for a moment to the

two young women who had been riding with him. He told them to watt while

he went in after his mall. They might

be waiting yet as far as meeting Hoi

land is concerned. The postofflce is

well supplied with exits and Holland

took a different route than that by which he entered. Today detectives

of the police department have his de' criptlon and are looking for him.

"Holland first Bhowed up here last

Saturday. During part of the time since

then he had been staying at the Hermt

tage and taking his meals at the cafe

in that building. He represented him-

self to be from Hammond, Ind., and said

he represented a tailoring firm. DAMI INSPIRED COXFIDEXCE.

-lesterday morning he engaged an

automobile and with two local young

women started out for a time. Nothing

was too good for the girls, the chauf

feur or any one else Holland came in

contact with. It wns common for him to tip the waiters in the road houses he visited with 50 cents on every round of

drinks.

"The very dash with which he spe

money inspired confidfnee in his vic

tims, and they never dreamed of ques

tioning his honesty. He visited Reed's

lake and victimized one man there. Lat

er he visited resorts to the north and

south of the city. Some of the checks

he wrote were drawn on a Hammond

bank and some on a St. Louis bank.

To cap. the climax of generosity Hol

land went to a department store and

purchased dresses for his two women

friends giving one of the bogus checks

in payment. .

xne man who went such a swift

pace In short a time was not well dress

ed and . those '.who did. not come 'un-.

der the spell of his spending cwonar-j

mat oiners were duped. .He wore a brown coat and black trousers and was of medium - build and complexion.

weigning about 155 pounds.

Anton Rucienskl the Hammond sa

loonman whose saloon license renewal

was granted by the Lake county com

missioners but which was remonstrated

against lost his case in an appeal by a

decision rendered yesterday in the Benton circuit court at Fowler. .

Rucienskl applied to the board of

commissioners for a renewal and trans

fer of his saloon license in the month of April and the board granted the re-

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MAY STARTAUTO CLUB (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, led., July 8. It is reported that the property recently purchased by" Ben F. Hayes of Mrs. Fettibone may be turned into a country club home for Chicago autoists. A party of them being recent visitors in Crown Point in search of a suitable location for the establishment of a clubhouse. The distance of Crown Point from Chicago makes the county seat an ideal day's run by automobile.

and Chicago autoists have become more ,

than enthusiastic over its virtues.

CONTRACTS RATIFIED AT IETING

.Young Arrested. Mrs. Phillips swore out an affidavit In Judge Ames' court yesterday afternoon for the arrest of R. Toung on a charge of public indecency. Constable Taussig served the papers this morning and the case will come up for trial Monday morning, July 10. Judge Ames, who is making a short visit with relatives at Laporte, will return to Hammond some time tomorrow.

At an adjourned meeting of the Hammond city council last night the con-

I tracts entered into between th Kno-x

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ui puuuc wonts ana tne water pipe companies for mains and fittings were

rannea. ine contracts were as fol

lows: U. S. Standard Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Co., for 36 and 16-inch

mains $15,000

wncnDurg pipe & Foundry Co. for pumping station pipe and

tuiiuci. nuns i i?-

A. P. Smith Valve Co.. for th

HE PLANS TO FLY OVER CONTINENT

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S-arry N. Atwood, the young aviator, whose flights between Boston And Washington are the latest wonders in aero ranks, now declares Jhe will attempt to y from the Pacine coast to the Atlantic. Atwood ifcad never sat in an aeroplane until U weeks ago. f -

The contract between the board and

oeorge Pearson for $9,800 for the con

struction of the addition to the pump I n tr atgtlnn K .-1 i , 1 .

iiuiuij necii ueuverea to the contractor too late in the day to secure

Donasmen was laid over until the next

regular meeting, July nth. There was no discussion last night on

me question of raising money, and aft

er the meeting Mayor Smalley stated to

a, hues reporter that there is a possl-

umiy oi naving the work done

The number of candidates for the

shrievalty nomination is growing apace.

The -'latest announcement is that of Lawrence; Cok of Hammond, who ran for tha office four years ago and was defeated by, Fred Carter. .Cox believes he'.Ttas a clVim. on bU . pa.r.tyJtor

nomination and wyl .go out after lt.-

Fred Friedly is also actively -in the

race. Friedley was the secretary of

the Lake county central committee last

election, and did some valiant work.

In fact, he has been working for the

party for the past twenty years, and

believes that he nas as good a claim

on the nomination as any of the other

aspirants.

Henry Whitaker has been working

among his friends for the past six

months and declares that the reception

his candidacy has received leads him

to believe that he will land the nomina

tion when the votes of the delegates

are counted.

Gary Han a Claim.

Then there is Bill Kunert of Tolles-

ton, who has the ear of the repub

licans of Lake county. Bill thought

he ought to have had the nomination

on several other occasions, but he stepped aside for party reasons. Bill

has determined to "enter this race and

stick for the big show and he hopes to have Calumet and Hpbart townships

with him.

Disputing Kunert's claim to these

delegations is Theodore Einzen of Gary,

Binzen has always been a hard party workers and believes that the work he has done for the party In Calumet

township entitles him to the office. George Blockl has started on a campaign for the nomination. George has a great many friends over the county as a result of his work as deputy sheriff and expects to cut somo figure when the time comes. How many other candidates will rise up and claim the support of their party seems to depend largely upon the weather. At least the republicans will have a likely lot to pick from and the fight will be a hot one, Anstgen lo Mentioned. On the democratic side there are not so many candidates. Fred Carter, the only man who has been elected to this

without

any bond issue. The most the cltv con 1,1 1 or"Ce an the democratic ticket, is too

oe oonaea for at this time would K ousy with his many interests to think

about $40,000, but Mayor Smalley hopes of the nomination. At least that is the

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figuring on deferred payments With- I enouSh to win this office from the re

puDiicans Is able to make more monev

out of politics than the office would

pay, according to Carter's friends.

But there is Chief of Police Peter Austgen. Austgen is one of the best chiefs of police Hammond ever had.

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And now the money trust. Wall street has discovered that the newly organized $10,000,000 National City Company, to be governed by three trustees, James Stillman, chairman of the directorate of the National City Bank of New York; Frank A. Vanderlip, its president; and Stephen S. Palmer, a director, is nothing more or less than a scheme to evade national banking laws by controlling directly or by influence practically all the capital of the nation. The National City Back is a Standard Oil stronghold.

WEST, BACK IN OSE RESPECT. Thirty-three years as Hammond received her first cargo of lumber by boat. It rime down Hie Cnlnmtt river and vraa constgrBed to - M. 91. Towlr, who sold It heaper than it could be sold la C hi oojri, because there vraa bo dockage to pay. . Today It ! hardlr4aatble to K4 a little boat dona the, river let alone , cargo of 1 amber. -Inrtts respect Hammond km gone bact. Whose fault Is Itf

RACING G1E M BE STARTED

LATEST NEWS

Revival in Chicago Gives

Rise to Many Rumors that Horse Racing May Be Started Again in This Locality.

HEAT KILLS 600 HOUSES. New York, July 8. Six hundred horses have died in harness in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx alone from the heat of the last six days. Figures from BrooXIyn and Queens and Richmond boroughs are not yet available, but the slaughter

also was heavy there. The lighters carried 106 carcasses to sea on Thursday morning and 14J on Friday morn

ing.

Recurrent rumors that the horse rac

ing ga.me is to be revived in Northern Lake county are as common as sand-

burrs, but no one cares to stand sponsor for them. There is little doubt but what the 4th of July racing at Hawthorne has got the sports talking again.

With a string of 400 race horses

headed for Chicago and the open an

nouncement of Tom Carey, "king of Hawthorne" that he will open a thir

teen-day race meet on his track Jul

15, the old-time gamblers of Chicago,

bookmakers, tin-horns, touts and other riff-raff of the race track are preparing

for the slaughter.

Is open gambling on race tracks in

Chicago, contrary to law, to be al

lowed?

Can Carey hope to pay expenses un

less the bookmakers hand over a per

centage to help out the gate receipts?

If so-called betless racing" with a

bookmaker at the elbow of every spec

tator with a loose dollar in his Jeans

to be allowed?

These three questions are agitating the minds of the gambled, the sport

lover and the law-abiding citizen alike.

Sheriff Zimmer of Cook county says there shall be no betting of any kind He was ill last night but gave a short

and pertinent answer to the question put to him. Here It is: "My answer was made on the Fourth of July at Hawthorne when arrests of men violating' the law were made. I will not stand for any open gambling." " Carey got in his entering wedge for bookmsktng at . racas - in the joke he played. In making the letter carriers bear the brunt of his Hawthorne race meet, July 3 and 4. .

GOV. WILSON IS "LOCKED" AGAIN.

Trenton, N. J., July 8. Gov. Wil

son has been "docked" again. When

he received his salary check yeterday

for June aa executive of the state he found that it was short $89. Ke sent

for John Rlker, chief clerk in the

treasurer's office, to ask if he had not

made a mistake. Rlker remlndes his excellency that he had been absent three days in June, when he had been

finishing his western trip.

TAFT SAYS TREATY IS ASSURED.

Atlantic City, N. J., July 8. In a

speech at the international Christian

Endeavor convention last night Presi

dent Taft said the negotiations for the arbitration treaty between Great Britain and the United States have reached a point where there is no doubt as to the signing of the agreement.

MAN IS MISSING. Michigan City, Ind., July 8. Search here has failed to reveal the whereabouts of David Herman, who left Chicago last Sunday on a steamer for Michigan City. He Is believed to have been drowned in Lake Mchlgan. Three Chicago men have searched Laporte and Michigan City, hoping to

find Bome trace of Berman.- He had telephoned his mother from Chicago that he would retuiti Home not later

than Wednesday. ' .

After the exhibition drill of the pa

trol of Orak shrine on Hohman street in front of Harrison park in Hammond

tonight, the final step in the preparations for the great Rochester trip will have been taken. Next Sunday over fifty Hammond, East Chicago, Gary" and Lake county people will board the Orak special on the Michigan Central railroad bound for Rochester and the east. - The trip of this train is a notable achievement for a shrine which is only a year old. There are a. large number of shrine temples in other parts of the country which- are larger and more wealthy than Orak, but which have not made as extensive preparations and which will not make as good a showing as will Orak. Several months ago Dr. H. E. Sharrer, the illustrious potentate of Orak tContinued on Page 7.)

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iauu, nor warrants, or orders the city will have to figure on raising about 158,000 beyond what is in the water fund and what can be figured

on Dy Jan. 1st. A higher water tax rate for next year and a few months grace in paying the big bills, it is

L.uuBui win ooviate the necessity of bonding the city or issuing warrants.

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Back From Benton Co. Judge Rarnett returned from Fowler,

, cvnung, wnere he represented Anton Razlnskl in a remonstrance case for an application for a change of location. The case was lost on a little legal technicality, and Bruce and Matthews represented the state. The case was venued from Judge Recker's court. Connors Is Fined.

William Connors, who was arrested yesterday for harboring two dogs and had. not secured a license for them, appeared before Judge Barnett and was fined 11 and costs, amounting to $7. - Connors has lived in Hammond four years and has not secured a dog license since that time. ' - . .. S. :- La Vendor Cigars are pronounced sxteptionally good by all smokers.

CHURCH CALLS

NEW PASTOR

The First Congregational church of Hammond has extended a call to the Rev. Malcolm J. Cameron of Maywood, 111., to take charge of the Hammond church. The call has been accepted, and the Rev. Cameron and Mrs. Cameron will move to Hammond as soon as they can find a suitable residence. The new minister, who is a man of much experience, will conduct the church services at the First Congregational church tomorrow afternoon and evening. The church membership now numbers seventy-five, but the congregation itself is much larger. The fact that a resident minister has been called Is evidence of the growth and progress of the church in Hammond .and th,e members of the church are congratulating themselves upon their, success in securine the Rev. i Cameron.

Billings Not Much Better.

The condition or C ll. Billings at St. Margaret's hospital does not seem to change very much, seemingly not getting any better or worse. During tho day his condition improves, but ' aa night approaches he gets delirious and at times his condition gets very critical.

(Special to Tub Times.) Crown Point. Ind., July 8. The slag gang which has been foisting this inferior paving material on the county for years received another set back before the county commissioners yesterday thank to the watchfulness of Ray Soeley tho county surveyor who has thrown down the gauntlet to the cobble stone and slag combines. Only recently Seeley came out with

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EDITOR WINS CASE AGAUiSnjONDUCTOR Farr of Whiting Call Gets Even -With Conductor Tree of Lake Shore.

FOUND NEAR MICHIGAN CITY, i Chicago, 111., July, 8. Mrs,;,TiiUe

found unconscious, and dying; in the

"woods near Grand 'Beach, Mich., and

the Chicago police are investigating

tne story sne ioia oi oeing Kianapea by two Blackhand men in an automobile. The place where the woman was found is about six mlea northwest of Michigan City. After being taken to a hospital In Michigan City Mrs. Plmlne repeated a name several times in connection with an automobile. .

Sensational affidavits have been secured by attorneys for Mrs. Marjorle Burns Love in Portland, Ore., telling of weird midnight escapades in He-, attle with choru.4 girls with Sidney Love, her husband, as chief figure. They are for use when the Loves' divorce case is resumed at Baker City, Ore.

' (Special to Thh Times.) Crown -Point, Ind., July 8. The mystery of.the "Jaloody head In tho box car" still remains unsolved. The four hoboes who were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Fred Furman at Palmer last Wednesday are serving time at the county Jail they

having been convicted of train riding and given a sentence of ten days, by Judge Nicholson. While they are ostensibly serving time for train riding. Sheriff Grant is folding them pending his efforts to connect them what may have been a murder on the train. The Erie railroad detectives are working on the case and are trying to nd the man or his ded body which was seen by towerman Bremer at Hurburt, but thus far no clews have been found and the hoboes who are arrested deny any connection with the crime. The sheriff's office-is also very determine 1 to get at the bottom of the mystery, and it is not Improbable that within a week interesting developments may break. -

(Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind., July 8. The case of Edwin H. Farr of the Whiting Call and Edward R. Tree, a collector for the Lake Shore railroad in which the former had the latter arrested on the charge of provocation came up yesterday afternoon in the local city court. Farr was represented by Attorney John K. Westfall and Tree wass represented by one of the Lake Shore's lawyers from

Chicago, and Attorney Willard B. Van

Home of Indiaan Harbor.

The case was tried before Mayor

Beaumont Parks, who fined Tree $5 and costs. Tree however took an appeal to the Lake Superior Court at Hammond. The trouble which :was the

cause of these proceedings, took place

on June 8th when Farr was going in to Chicago on the 8:32 Lake Shore train.

Tree aggravated Farr to such an extent, that the editor losing control of himself gave Tree a blow In the face, which left him with . oadly colorea eye. Farr had forgoituo all about the trouble, until about two weeks later when he was arrested for assault and battery when he stepped off the train in Chicago. He was locked up until able to furnish bail. At the trial a few days later, Farr was fined $5 and costs which he paid. The arrest of Tree on the' provocation charge followed, as a means of getting even, as Farr feels he has been done a great Injustice, and still saya the end is not yet.

NO RELIEF IN SIGHT. Chicago, July 8. With Chicago's death roll in the heat wave reaching 290 today and with twenty deaths in the. last twenty-four hours, today dawned with a temperature of 80, the same as Friday's highest, and Weather Forecaster Hersey saw no hopo. "Fair and warmer today," he predicted. "Fair and hot Sunday." Then he added that the south wind, such t 3 swept Chicago and the entire district east for five days, was back on duty and the breeze from Lake Michigan probably would not get across the Illlno3 Central tracks.

SHE'S DAUGHTER OF A CONSERVATIONIST

COMES UP MONDAY The Marble ditch case. In which a

J number of Lake county farmers in the

south townships have been assessed and which they remonstrated against, will come up for trial in the circuit court of Jasper county at Rensselaer on Monday.

. THERE ARE MORE THAN THREE TIMES MORE TIMES CIRCULATED EVERT DAT THAN ALL THE OTHER DAILT PAPERS IN LAKE COUNTT PUT TOGETHER.. .

MOTORCYCLIST SETTLES CASE J. A. Anderson the East Chicago motorcyclist who run over Thomas Wylle of Roby Thursday evening mad? a settlement with Mrs. Wylie yesterday afternoon for $20. Anderson hit the boy and bruised his arms and legs but tho lad escaped without having any boned broken. . Anderson said he was unable to turn out for the boy and that he was not wholly at fault. He said, he was from Elyna, Ohio. The boy is able to be up and around this morning.

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Fred Dennett, commissiouer ot the land office at Washington, wbo has been brought Into the iimerigbt again through his ruling out the Cunningham coal land claims in, Altaka, Is the father of a beautiful young woman, who la a favorite la Washington, society.. he is, Mteft Io.r.Q.thj5 Jiennett. ' . -