Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 40, Hammond, Lake County, 4 November 1911 — Page 1

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WORKTHE New Chicago Finds Itself on Eve of Election Without a Democratic Ticket, But Easy Way Is Suggested Out of Difficulty.

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Advices from New Chicago, the little Lake county hamlet, with a big name which is tucked in between East Gary and Hobart. is to be ..without a democratic ticket for Tuesdays Election. Election troubles in New Chicago have been on the Gary order. It appears that the reigning board of trustees decided not to give up their offles and accordingly refused to issue a call for an election. However, the trusty county courts came on with an injunction ordering the election. A new calamity Is now in order as the democrats are said to have failed to . ,-flle their nominating petitions in tmo. Jrjfhis will leave, but one party in the " neld the" republicans. The doings smack of the Gary election tricks in 1909. In October of that

(Continued on page 8.) POLICE FOILED; SEARCH F0RJ.0ST GIRL Elsie Haugh, Who Started for Chicago, Believed to Have Met HarmDetective have been unable to find ny trace bfErsiA-Haugh. 25 years old, 41S Ess Eighth street, Michigan City, daughter of CharlJs MaushS railroad engineer, who has- been missing" since last Sunday and sought by the police of Gary and Hammond. The young woman, who is a member of the Kpworth league and prominent In church circles at Michigan City, left Jier home to visit her uncle, George Pretzel, 3830 North Hoyne avenue. She boarded an interurban train ' at Michigan City and left it at Pullman where she later boarded art Illinois Central train for Chicago. .No further trace of her has been foundi Pretzel, who lp a stone, dealer. believes some- harm has befallen the girl, who Is described as being of striking appearance. - Mes Passed Around. Cr three cases or the state of Indiarf' k. Henry Veach, Elmer Schofleld "yf Fred Messer were tried before j':!ge Prest. m , 4 After a quarrel the three men swore tit "warrants, for. the" arrest of "each other. on a charge of assault and battery. Henry Veach was found-not guilty and Schofleld and Messer were found guilty, each receiving a fine of $1 and costs, amounting to $12.30, which ; were paid. ' - " ' LIVE WIRE AID1NQ IN FIGHT ON McNAMARA cr.t2u . District Attorney Fredericks, who Is prosecuting the state's case ralnst the MeNamaru brothers In 's Angeles, has a live wire asslstJf l in Chief Trial Deputy G. Ray $Yfirton. whose career has been a Vwsy on. He wes a f;-ll-fledged prinin at seventeen, worked his way 'Jii'ough college, became editor of a V;.j?fcper at Ontario, Cal., worked as reporter and city edit .- on Los Angeles papers, studied law. went lata the district attorney'.: office, and : ow, at thirty-five, has Invented a typesetting-, machine to be manufactured by a. company of which he is ,L. jjresldfe'ntr";r'-1".: V: T's "' v .'I,5'"':-'

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L (Special to The Times.) South Bead, Ind., Nov. 4 Adding to the Interest prevailing In the alleged Gary bribery rase counsel, the .Hon. Charles Dniinmood of thin eliy has been encaged by friend of C'harlea WIllHnon, the young iary engineer, tn take eharze of hi defenne In the Vnlpnral-o eoarta nn Monday. The movement to Keen re Drummond nan headed by T. 1. Knglrhart of Ciary, mho vvanta AVIllltaoa to have the bent Innjer there Is. , (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Iml., Nov. 4. The county commissioners will meet on Monday to take up the consideration of the plans for the new bridges in East Chicago. County Engineer Ray Seeley will have the plans and specifications for the two bridges ready and the county commissioners are expected to approve them. The county council will then b called In a special session to make the necessary appropriations for the bridges. It is expected that all of the preliminary matters can be attended to In time to have the work of construction begin next spring. ANOTHER SUICIDE IS RECALLED THEREBY Miss Mabel Stirling of East Chicago,; Employed in Graryy Enoted Her Life. ' ' 1 V Th suicide in Chicago two days ago of Miss LucSle Kschenbaei of East Chicago, 'Who was employed in Ga'ry, and whose lover; George Brown, killed himself In'the steel city a few weeks ago. also recalls the self-destruction of Miss Mabel Stirling. I,ike Miss Eischenbach Miss Stirling resided In East Chicago, but was employed in Gary. She also went to a Chicago; hotel and ended her life by the carboUc'aeid route. No motive for her act was known. Miss Stirling was employed by Judge A. CX Huber as a clerk In, his stationery and cigar store which he formerly conducted In the Brennan block. A year before her death she left the city. The girl's mother,. wasK an orphan and it is said that hei home life was made unpleasant, .which is believed to be th one motive for her rash act In the absence of any other. . mm GIRLS-TAG HAMnONO CITIZENS In the interests of the Whiting Relief and Aid society, the Misses Alma Vader nd Vivian Mueller today taxed and tagged the citizens of Hammond who sauntered , or walked or rushed by the Citizens' Gorman National Bank building corner. And "the men of this city "responded with cheerful Jiarit t the request of foreign missions. Occasionally a grouchy, tightfisted pessimist would embarrass the comely workers for charity by asking when and how Hammond became inSe-bted to Hie Oil City. In spite of-blushes and other visible disturbances of feminine embarrassments the tl. T. P. would then i inquire in a patronizing way If the I benefit was for Mr. Rockefeller. JEWISH PEOPLE TO. HAVE WEDDINGS Palestine, customs and ceremonies will be duplicated in the synagogue f Hammond's, orthodox Jews on Indiana avenue, tonight and tomorrow. Three services of marriages are to be celebrated during this period and th evarlous feasts and rites observed. For a few mysterious hours the choosen people of God will be transported back Into the age before the birth of Christ. Secrecy surrounds the marriages to take place. Names were not divulged, and the records have not as yet shown the granting of , these marriage license?. J What will transpire within the synagogue Is a sacred matter with the Jewish people. ' ROTHTNO -3 OP GREATER IMPORTANCE TO YOU THAN TO KEEP POSTED ON PASSING EVENTS IN TOUR LOCALITY BT READING TUB

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Will irrosecute Gary Cases to the Limit. I will rror.fte the inry bribery ease t- the limit. The nmp:ijfrN have been .Inn pins on me nnl I heve nothlntt but the people wlll find that I will do my duty." ProRpriitins Attrrary Charles drrrunnlil la r. ntnteincnt made to n TIMES reporter at ;nry today. Next Monday afternccn at 1:30 o'clock Gary's great graft drama beps'.v.a at Valparaiso before Pi.ecial Judge Vemor Van Fleet.' If stories told are fulfilled Thomas B. Dean, chief witness for the prosecution, will be arretted bright anl early en a charge ot perjury or for filing i false affidavit.- Mr. Pean's commission appears to be nothing loss than signing an affidavit that Mayor Knotts committed bribery and solicited a bribe. As for the first part-it is sir ltd by attcri:ty for the state t hut- the v.'.ick(Continucd on page 8) There is no belter barometer of business jcondit ion, locally, than the receipt of the postof He. The receipts of the Hammond postof fire for the year ending Dec. 31. 1910, were f J02.16S.5. X be jfecjf tii4s"f -tb --Mli- . ttils year 'have been $135. 00O, and there are still two months of the year remaining.' -Jt is f xpected that the: total receipts of tbi ofrtce for the current year will bf, ltween $13(1. ooo and $160,000, which will mean an increase of 60 per c-f-nt. The receipts of the office for the month mean an increase of 30 per cent. The receipts of the office for the month of October, 1510, were $1,773.46. atid the receipts for the nmnlh of ilrtnhithis year are $16,229.53. This is a gain oi over ) pr cent over the same month last year. Who says business conditions are bad? KOONTZ STUCK IN EAST CHICAGO COURT Suggestion Made That He Get Another Lawyer in the Future. Attorney J. O. Koontz was again unable to defend himsefl in court against the charges which have bt'en made against him. and Judge, Lewis of the justice court of East Chicago fined him one cent and costs after he .had been found guilty of assault and battery on the person of Julius Taussig. The case was strted in Judge Ames' court and was afterwards venued to East Chicago. Koontz has a large, but not lucrative, practice defending himself against the charges that have been preferred against him. The suggestion has been made that it would be a good idea for him to get another lawyer. CHINKS CONTRIBUTE TO WAR HOARD . Chinese citizens established in the business of mangling shirt, socks and other apnarel are placing the greater portion of revenue, this derived in the treasury of the insurgent forces in the Chink rebellion. This information was established from a representative of ihe yellow peril who boastfully spoko of the thrift of his fellow men in Hammond and everywhere else. Uving upon food costing in the neighborhood of 2 and an integrant part of a cent per meal, ' the Lees and Wongs and l S'.ngs hoard dally 90 some per cent of j their earnings! according to this cerJ tain Chink-5. These savings go to their native country aim to paraphrase a celebrated saying: "They always go back." Petition Filed. A petition in bankruptcy was filed by Fred J. Bolles, a Gary man who is employed in th mills. The liabilities of the bankrupt are said to be J700, ; A CLEAN PAPEIV FIT FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO BEAD IS THE TIME-,

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SELF-STYLED "ELIJAH" HELD AFTER NINE' OF HIS FOLLOWERS DIE DURING CRUISE

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Krank AV. Sandford, self styled "Elijah" and . "eader of the Holy Ghost and Us Society of Shiloh, is held under $10,000 bond at Portland, Me., on a charge of having caused the death of Charles Hughey, aboard the society's yacht Coronet, by failing to provide proper and sufficient food when the yacht put to sea. Nine deaths occurred among Sandford's followers during and since the cruise. Scurvy and starvation were the causes of ost of them.

S. E. GREEN SEES MISSING YOUTH Charles Chale of Chicago Seen on Streets Here Last Sunday.

; Information was, given a Times' re-,' r. . !., bishop of Michigan City, will porter this" monrt-ng that .. diaries Visit St. - Paul's . Episcopal church toCholes. 4349 Park avenue. Ohicago, who morrow for the purpose of administerhas been missing rom his home since ing the rite of confirmation. The servlast Sunday, was. seen in Hammond Ire of confirmation will take place at

Tuesday, morning by S. E. Green, 324 Hickory street, at. the Erie station. Mr. Green was on his way to Crown Point and was watting for the 8:10 iirc train, wchn ho noticed Choles talking to two other men and was inquiring of the soutb-ound trains When Mr. Green picked up The Times last night he noticed the story and de- : scription of the Chicago boy and at once saw that the description answered that of the missing man. ' "The man told him to take a Monon train," said Mtv Green, this morning,' "and as I was buying my ticket, he must have left, as I did not see him when I came, but I did not imagined anything until I picked up your paper last nig'ht. I heard him say that he had a position, but lie did not say where. He was with another young man, and it looked safe bet that the' pair were traveling together." The police are working on thai case and hope ' to get something out of these clues. j The following description .was given; Twenty-one years old, 5 feet and It inches tall, blue eyes,, light brown, hair, dressed in blue clothes and wore a corduroy vest. DAUGHTER OF ARMY OFFICER "COMES OUT Miss Edith Gracie. daughter ot Colonel ..rrMbald -"racie, of United States Army, will make her de--ut i:i "W-shln-ton ecciety Thankatlvlng nig-ht. Mist .Gracie was uJP "Ued in New York nd Paria '

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-vhv. BISHOP WHITE AT ST. PAUL'S CHURCH Distinguished Prelate Will Pay Hammond Confirmation Visit. The Kt. Rev. John Uaztn White. 10:45 a. m., and will be followed at once with a high celebration of the holy communion, at which the bishop will preach the sermon. At the early celebration, at 8 p. nv, the bishop will offlclate and is customary for all those who have been confirmed by Bishop White in past years,, to bo present at this service. The Bishop will not be present at the evening service, as he Is to speak at a mass meeting in Michigan City on behalf of the "Men and Religion Movement." The public is cordially invited to attend the services. DOCTORS SAY CITY... S PRETTY HEALTHY Color of Lake Water at Present May Help Them Out a Little. Diphtheria cases in Hammond have reached the grand total represented by the number three. And what is more all of these are of the convalescent nature. Other olatrues and epidemics ar of the mumriH. proim and m-asto

variety. At present Hammond even!and th contract nvolved in the neigh

i cannot scare tin a irond olrifaKhlnneri i The nrosent weather is nronounced i by local physicians, wbo are cheerfully'. . resigned to a lull in practice, as extremelv healthful. The condition of t the lake water this morning may be a sign .of a boom in their business,

It was the color of an over-ripe peach, t Alexander Revell & Co. and a number had the sard taste a3d was about asjof other big Chicago merchants. There

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UDD X i-i-liU Wb'was only made public by the meres chance. - Fifth members of the Moltke lodge,? - - t. O. o. F. of Hammond, will leave on a' fiotc TiiTrnwo

unfclal f " nti 1 1 Zrt t i li Kit r-r-n inlrr. 1 i.., . o.r. ...i. hi io. tl iiiic t v.oo ivr .ill.-- n t. k noon for South liend. where ' hey will be the-guests of Robert Blum .lodge over night and i?nnday. At Michigan City they will be net! by a number, of other Odd Fei3ov?, in eluding 'John Stipp, grand master of' .tat. rtf Tndinna ! At South Eend the Hammond lodge will be met by a large delegation and will be taken to the I. O. O. F. home, where a large banquet will . await them. After the banquet and toasts the Initiation team will confer the second and third degrees on a number of Hammond candidates. A program has been arranged for Sunday, including an auto rile for the Hammond delegation, who will see the sights of South Bend. Tomorrow night a large ba,ll .will be held and a prog-ram at the clubrooms. Tbe Hammond delegation Twill return on a special some time- tomorrow night.

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Judgs V. S. Reiter Refuses to Restrain Hammond Contractor in Important Decision.

The injunction suit in which Contractor Ingwald Moe of Gary sought I to restrain Contractor John H. McClay from interfering with the construction of the Given building in Gary came to an end yesterday when Judge Virgil S. Reiter refused to issue the injunction. OTHER REMEDIES. Attorneys Rellly and Hary appeared ofr McClay and argued that in view of the fact that there is an adequate remedy at law in the form of a suit for damages that a summary action, such an injunction, is not necessary. , GARY fil All IS OUTAFTER JOB Elmer Ragon After New Office to Be Named by the County Commissioners. Elmer Ragon of Gary, formerly of Tjowell, is the latest candidate for the office of county sealer. It soems that Mf Ragon. who was formerly editor Of -the--Ijowell .Tribune lias been conduting a" gumshoe campaign 'for some timei and only when he learned through Thb Times that the "commissioners would make a' selection next Monday did he decide to make his candidacy public. Mr. Ragon has ben promlrient in re publican county politics for the past twenty years. He was the president of the rural mail carrier's association for five or six years. He has a large acquaintance over the. county and be lieves that he is entitled to the office. Mr. Ragon is actively engaged in furthering his claims to the office and has received a great deal of encouragement from prominent republicans over the county. llllilUllU II LAUDS CONTRACT American Bridge Co.'s 4,000 Shades to Be Furnished by E. C. Minas CoThe largest contract that was ever let for window shades in the state of Indiana was let to E. C. Minas of Ham mond by the American Bridge Co. j which is building 162- houses ' vicinity of its plant at Gary. in the ! The contract called for 4,000 shades - borhood of $2,O00. The shades arc to I be used on the windows, in these 1 houses, The capacity of the Hammond mer chant to handle a big contract like this I Is indicated by the fact that it was se cured in competition with Marshall j Field & Co. of Chicago, the Fair Stor, i were also a number of factories which bid on the job. The shades are nana made opaque shades of the very best quality. The contract was let some time ago and wi V VI v, Judge Virgil Reiter 'this afternoon : granted a divorce ! Blanche Iewis vs. in the case of Dave Lewis, the East Chicago hardware man, which I caused such a sensation when it was I tried in . the Lake Superior, court at

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Hammond a week or so ago. It will be remembered that when the trial of the case was concluded that Judge Reiter said that he would have to recognize the fact' that there had been a common law marriage. Then lie question arose as to whether or not a divorce should be granted. He took this matter under adx-isement and finally decided to- grant tlve dlvrce. Mrs. Blanche Lewis was represented by Joe Meade of East Chlcago and Attorney Joseph Conroy of Hammond and Dave Lewis . was. represented ,-by the Hammond law , firm of "Bomberger, Sawyer & Curtis. -

They were sustained in their een tentlon by the. court. The suit was th result of labor difficulties. Gary is an open shop town and Hammond ' is closed shop town. M'CLAY TOOK BAND. , Given, the owner of the Gary build ing said that the union men of East Chicago threatened to boyoot him It union men were not employed on th Gary building. He insisted that Mo employe union men. Moe refused and this made it necessary for Contractor) McClay to take a hand in th interests of Given. It was under thes circumstances, that Moe tried to secure an order ot the court restraining McClay from interferlng with the work on the Given building in Gary.

LATEST ME17S RAFFLING A KENTUCKY BABY. Henderson, Ky ..Nov. 4. Only. persons under 21-years will be barred from chances on a chubby, blue eyed baby of unannounced gender that is to be raffled at a local theater Monday night. Signs announcing the contest have been tacked up on telephone poles inside a twenty-five mils radius. i .V AGE BALKS M'NAMARA'S TBIAL. Los Angeles J -Car"?Ni9i v..A" fourth venire in the, McKamara murder trial appeared today" before Judge Walter Bordw'ell to undergo a fast preliminary examination by which the court winnows out all those who, for personal reasons, are disqualified for jury service, ' or should be excused from it. RODGERS NEARS GOAL. Alights at Imperial Junction 174 Miles jfrom Pacific. Imperial Junction. Cal.. Nov. 4. Galbraith P. Rodgers arrived here at 12:0T a. m. yesterday, 174" miles from the finish of his ocean-to-acear. flight, which began at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., Sept. 17. Engine trouble brought him down, but not until he had established what is believed to be a new world's record in aviation. He flew 13S miles from Stoval Siding. Ariz., a desert water tank where he was forced to spend the night. In 125 minutes. Rodgers started to fly the entire 317 miles from Stoval Siding to Pasadena without a stop, but when ho arrived over this' place his motor was "missing" and he was forced to alight, If you are a Judge ot quality try a Vendor Cigar. ' VETERAN DIPLOMAT QUITS THE SERVICE John Ridccltj Corter John RJdgeley carur, of Maryland, United States minister to Set'via, Roumaxiia and Bulgaria who . recently was appointed miiil-ter to , Argentina, has resolved to decltno ; he promotion and leave the dlplo- . ma tic . service. Th cause, for hia resiarnation is vnknowni Carter wi; lor fifteen years before his Servian . appointment secretary of the Londoa embassy. ,

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