Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 127, Hammond, Lake County, 15 November 1911 — Page 1

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GAMBLING QUIZ WILL BE PUSHED

Evidence of Race News Service to Be Sifted, Says Governor Marshall After Conference With Exposer Murphy. That the race track wire service Is received in Lake county and disseminated in Hammond, Kast Chicago and Gary is declared to be a fact by sporting men and the service radiates along the straight line between, Hobart and South Chicago not far from the lake front. An Indianapolis story says: 'Governor Marshall anouneed yesterday that the investigation of the alleged race track operations in Indiana, over the wires of various Indiana telephone companies, will be pushed to the end and that the New Long Distance Telephone Company of Indian apolis had been furnished with all the evidence in the case, laid before the Governor by Tim M. Murphy, the former operator of the Chicago News Bu reau, which Agency is s.jid to be the foutain head of the gambling circuits in Indiana. "A conference between John B. Eiam general counsel for the telephone com pany, Governor Marshall and Burt New the Governor's legal clerk, was bold yesterday, and at the close the attorney refused to be interviewed concerning the status of the situation iti which bis company is charged by Murphy with allowing gambling news to be sent over iti; wires to half a score of Indiana cities. May Cancel l.ee. "The Governor said that the conferenceresulted in no definite understanding with the attorney other than a statement from him that the corporation did not wish to do anything illegal and that if .the. pvidenie of gambling being carried on over the company' jvjresws ubtaatltel,'. officials vwould tak" Steps 'to "cariceT the leases. ''''.'.''" " "The company's officials and : attorneys will-make a, complete' investiga(Continued on page 8.) HEW BLIZZARD COMING: STORM WlliS OUT Icy Blasts' From Northwest Due Tomorrow; One More Dies From Exposure. Storm signals were flung to the winds throughout the northwest yesterday and another cold wave and blizzard is on its way east. The Calumet region will probably bo once more in the grasp of a furious storm by tomorrow. When the cold wave flag was hoisted yesterday at Omaha, the weather bureau also sent out specific storm warnings to sheep and cattlemen throughout the section to be prepared for another wlntry blast probably accompanied by a heavy snowfall. LA FOLLETTE AGAINST HARMON, HE PREDICTS ATLE& Senator Pomerene. of Ohio, after spending c month in Milwaukee as a member of the Stephenson investigating committee, predicts that the 1912 presidential campaign ' will be waged between "Governor Harmon, of Ohio, and Senator LaFolIette. Both candidates are strong throughout the northwest. Me rays, and are graining ground daily?-

TRIAL OF WILLISTOH ABSORBING TOPIC

Wide Divergence of Opinion on What the Outcome of the Case Will Be. The trial of Charles Willitson is the absorbing topic of conversation among the people of Hammond. If the case was being tried in the Lake superior court there could not be more interest in the outcome. Tub Times has kept the public so thoroughly informed on the case that the average man is able to discuss the details of the f- idence with as much authority as though he had been at the trial. There seems to be as much divergence of opinion on tho subject as there is at the average election. Nothing short of a county election could cause so much argument. A large number of bets have been made on the outcome. The verdlcf of the jury is regarded as a good betting proposition, for the reason that it Is so uncertain. No bets are being made that there will be an, acquittal or a conviction. The idea seems to be that there will be a disagreement. Most people think that the jury will be hung by one or two men. i All sorts of rumors are beifrg circulated in regard to the case. Some of the friends of Knotts aver that Dean is a thoroughly discredited man. Others say that tlie. effect to discredit Dean has been a lamentable failure. It is safe to say thai the verdict, no matter what it is. will cause a sensation. An acquittal would cause as much of a surprise as a conviction. The entire county, from one end to the other, is on the qui vice for the verdict. The biggest . order for springs that has been received by the Simplex Railway Appliance company since the money. panic of 1907 is an order for 25.000 coil springs, for the United States government to be used on the Panama canal. The first delivery is to be made in ninety days, and the whole order is to be delivered during the year 1912. The announcement of the receipt of this order is made by Thomas Shea, the su perintendent of the spring department. The springs are to be used In the construction of the locks and will weigh 2 pounds each. So far as is known this is the Calumet region's second contribution to the great project by which Uncle Sam expects to cut two great continents in two. The other is the immense output of cement which is going to Panama from Buffington. The business m-n of Hammond will be delighted at the prospect of having one of its principal industries busy during the next year, and the news that this order has been received will go a long way towards restoring the confidence of the business men in the immediate future. The springs are to he made of Vanadium steel, the very best steel on the market. , It is understood that they are to be used on bumpers, which will be placed in the locks whereever the boats are likely to come in contact with the locks. The Simplex Railway Appliance Co. has been sending small orders for railway equipment to Panama from J time, to time, but this is the first large ! order that has been received. It is also the largest single order of springs that have ever been received by the local company. BASSOW IS FOUND GUILTY The case of Fred Bassow was tried before Judge Barnett in the city court this morning and he was found guilty on the charge of flipping freight trains on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad. A fine of $1 and costs, amounting to $6, was imposed, which was paid. The warrant for his arrest was sworn out by Special Agent R. Burk of the Indiana Harbor Belt, who testified that Bassow was an habitual train flipper and has not wofked for. some time. Bassow is now under parole in the superior court, of which he lias been violating since the Jake Diamond robber ysorne months ago, which Bassow was connected with. At the time of the robrbery Bassow was employed at Gibson and in his parole he was requested to secure work after his release from the Gibson yards. He has not done a day's labor since, and it is expected that he will be brought up before the superior court again for violating his parole. Soyer's System of Cooking in Paper Bags is said to have revolutionized cooking in Kngland, and a like result is predicted for it In this country as soon as its remarkable virtues become known to the American housewife!. ARE TOU READIXG THE TIMES?

BIG ORDER FOR SPRIGS RECEIVED

ERSTO BE POSTED ON STREETS Mass Meeting Called Sun day to Rid West Hammond of Resorts; Owners Will Be Placarded in Hangers on City's Streets. The bigest mass meeting that has ever been held in West Hammond has been called to protest against the con tinuation of the dives and sorts in the village. The meeting will be held Sunday in 1S8 State Line street. Both men and women are invited to attend and summary measures are to be adopted to rid the village of its re sorts of ill fame. For the past week Miss Brooks has been making a house-to-house canvas of the village for the purpose of interesting the women in her plans to ciean up the village. Kvery time she interviewed a woman she would tell her of the pitfalls that the divekeepers laid for their husbands and sons. She would tell them how the proximity of the dives to their property was injuring it and making it hard to rent it to respectable people. Sentimen against th dives has been thoroughly aroused and the meeting next Sunday promises to bel argely attended. At this meeting a committee will be appointed to visit the divekeepers and warn them that they continue inbusiness at their own peril. Miss Brooks has caused a large number of posters to be printed calling the attention of the people , of, th? vHlage to the deplorable conditions there. The sensational feature about these posters is the fact that the names of those who run the dives and the names of those who own the property in which the dives are located will be printed. This will give the entire community the information that will enable them to e place " tlie responsibility for conditions as they now exist. It is probable that anpther committee will be api pointed taojtx .Chicago to. -see State s Attorney Wayman and fnform him that if he does not order the dives raided that the matter will be given so much publicity that be will be compelled to act. BLOOD POISON ENDANGERS LIFE Violent blood poison that endangers the life of Mrs. Messacher of this city, now under the care of specialists at St. Luke's ' hospital in Chicago, came from a most unexpected source, a cut on the index finger. While -visiting at Crown Point in the home of friends Mrs. Messacher, who is a woman past middle age, received a small, painless cut on her finger. Nothing was thought of it, although the red mark failed to disappear. Upon her return to this city, where she lives with her daughter at 1S7 Michigan avenue, the sudden illness that is peculiar of blood poison, rendered her helpless in the course of a day. She was quickly removed to the Chicago hospital. Youth and the reserve store of vitality that accompanies It are the principal factors in the battle against blood poison. Physicians make no promises as to the outcome of the case. GUILTY IN DOG CASE. That a dog case is a ' serious matter was brought out in Judge Barnett's court this morning when Mrs. C. AVolf, 856 Calumet avenue, was found guilty of harboring a vicious dog, receiving a fine of $10 and costs, amounting to $17, which she paid. In the testimony of witnesses it was brought out that the dog had bitten one of the neighbors' children and had torn his clothes. Mrs. Wolf testified that the boy" had continually teased ! th9 dog and on this day had thrown a stick at the. animal. No lower fine could be given as the city ordinance says a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $50 shall be Imposed. Judge Barnett told of a number of instances where people received heavy damages for being bitten by a savage dog. TESTIMONY COVERS 722 PAGES IN GRAFT CASES The evidence in the Gary graft cases is ail in. and so far the reporters who took it down, according to W. C. Harrison of the reporting firm of Harrison, Spurgeon & Folk. In all there are 722 pages of testimony taken during the seven days of the trial. Kach day after the evidence was taken the reporters were compelled to go to their typewriters and write out the evidence. g In this way a typewritten report of the evidence was ready for the use of the lawyers the next day. U is, regarded as ntXte a feat tHat.t.he local firm was able to handle the case 50 success fully. ...

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Arthur Li. Turn bull., mayor of, Canton.O., a city of 50,000. won his fourth term because he is a good guesser. After the official count had ahown a tie vote between Turnbull and Harry S. Schilling, Socialistic candidate, the board of elections decided the contest by lot. Turnbull objected to the conventional flipping of a coin, and finally it was agreed that the candidates guess whether a cupful of corn contained an odd or even number o kernels. Turnbull guessed even. The count showed 110 kernels.

POSTMASTERS ARE WARNED JpT HIM Slick Swindler; With New Game Is SoughVby Fcd'setrifefc:; The postmasters "of the cities in this region have', received word ' to . watch for a man defrauding postmasters in northern Indiana and Ohfo. According to the bulletin Issued by the government the man represents himself as a government official and obtains money under these pretenses. At an Ohio postoffice the man recently obtained $15 by telling the postmaster he was an adjuster of rural routes and just a few Says ago he obtained $5 by posing as a crew manager of United States Engineers at another small office in Ohio.- To both of these he gave the name of Thompson. A few days later, posing as a rural route inspector and eallfngf himself McBride, lie defrauded two liverymen, one at Guysville, O., and the other at Athens, O., obtaining $5, from each. He is described as being twenty-five or Thirty years old, five feet nine inches tall, has dark hair, medium ccmplexion, smooth face, wears dark blue clothes, talks rapidly and to all. appearances is thoroughly familiar with postal affairs. His game is a new one and the postal" authorities are - putting forth every effort to stop it. " KAISER AND SON. ARE NEAR A N OPRN KRA K V "Sy: 'fw mi . r--r Jccs FAVORTTE SOW An upci. oetweer. the Kaiser and Crown Pruice KredericK William ol Germany ia regarded as possible as a result of the crewn prince's demonstrative hostility to Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg. shown.; in the Reichstag when the chancellor spoke in defense of the settlement of the Morrocan controversy. It is popularly believed tha prince is heading a Jingo party that sooner or later will launch Germany ' into war with England. . The Kaiser continues to manifest hearty sympathy with the chancellor, and his policies. .. .

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FIRST SNOW FALL OF THE SEASON i - : Three Inches of the Beautiful Covers Lake Coun0 ' ty Today; , ' 1

Crystal llaked.- snow averaging a depth of three inches throughout the middle west covers a portion of the earth's surface today as a special gift of the gods. . , Falling and drifting in whirling fashion It descended Yesterday to the unrestrained joy of children and the delight of their elers. Fascinating the eye, stimulating the mind and uplifting the sole, by attach ing a foundation on the feet of pedestrians, the flakes obtained universal recognition as infinitely worthly of all that has ben said of them by poets and humorists alike. ; In . accordance with a common law that the first snow of the year shall not be removed from the sidewalks until after melting. and freezing again it becomes ice and must needs be pounded, pried, picked and pushed from the public path with much labor, residents watched the storm without resorting im the snow shovel. As a result the, sidewalks, with the exception of those in the heart of the business district offered treacherous footing. Head-long and feet-first tumbles furnished amnseraen for citizens with slant-head senses of humor. Fortunately no severe injuries came from the falls . to soft snow and humiliation. Trains were late on ai! roads.- - . L OF DEATHS HERE Files' of. Thk Times reveal in the news of the week an unusual number of deaths in this region. A murder, a suitide, two victims of asphyxiation are among the records of ten deaths for the past week. - Listed in the order of publication they are: Mr. and Mrs. A. Aubrey, overcome by the fumes of gas on the eve of their forty-seventh wedding anniversary; J. Kelley, dead from the result of an attempt to Hip a train, which ended with the crushing of his limb beneath the wheels of a freight car; the death from disease of Mrs. J. Hoke, Mrs. Beck m an and Math Nickels and others. Physicians pronounced " Hammond in perfect health up to the time of the recent ' invasion of winter. With the beginning of severe out-of-season weather various complaints, resultant of prevailing conditions, came into evidence. Today the city is in the midst of a February battle against pneumonia. WORK STARTS AGAIN. The work on the Monon depot, which started again last week after a two weeks' delay, has now progressed to the point where it was at the time a large amount of the stone was condemned. The men are now rushing the work with the idea of getting: the building under roof before the real cold weather sets in. It is possible that the new depot will be opened for inspection by the 1st Of February.

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tRII.I.KTIV.) Valparalao, Ind., Nov, 10. Charles Drummend, one of the attorneys for the drfeane, npokr for an hour and quarter In the defenne of Charlr Wll. Union thin afternoon. Drummnad made quite an Impreslon an an orator. He kept the jury Interested all of the time. HI principal argument nan that, while Dean nan talking; of one thins; that AVllllNtoa understood him to refer to another. He discredited the trntlmony of Stenographer Hlmmelblau. He made a nrreat effort to piny on the nynipnthlen of the jury by painting picture of a young man In the prime of youth sentenced to nerve a term la the penitentiary. . ' Bt I.I.KTIV Valparaiso, lnd., v. 13. The climax of the Gary bribery cases came this morning tvlth the arguments of the at torney on both sides. Knch nlde wan Klven three hour In which to make It nrarumrntn. The state chose to divide the time between . F. Hodges, who opened with an hour and n half of argument, and Parker who cloned with an hour and n half of argument. The defense chose to divide the time t-?twecn Koolts. who folic wed Ilotlgen end opened the argument for the de fense with an hour' talking, and was sucerdd by Urummond and McAleer who each took an hour In which to addrcan the Jury. In Hodge' opening arguments befone the jury he went over the dictograph recordn nnd pointed ont what he thought were the incriminating ntntementn In It. He declared that the defense failed to show i tit That Dean waa not sincere In hi efforts to get the franchlset 2 That Dean la a bribe giver: 3 That Dean In a detective in the employ of the I'nited States Steel Company. Hodge then made the point that la the Milwaukee, San Francisco nnd Ohio graft canes the defense la each cane 11912 "There will be more building activity In 1912 in Hammond than it has ever. seen before, in its history," is the prophecy that is made by a leading Hammond architect. Usually the architects are idle at this time of the year. People do not begin to think of building until spring and then there is a rush to get out the work. There are five residences to he built in Homewood next spring that will cost 17.000 and over. One of these is to be built by Attorney Jesse E. "Wilson, ex-assistant secretary of the in terior, ana me re.fi are 10 oe nuui oy well-known Hammond citizens. ! The plans for these residences are' being made now while the architects have more time to work them out, and while the builders have lots of time to consider well just how them will have them built. Start F.arly. Without the necessity for a crusade the people of Hammond have adopted as their slogan, "Get the plans for your residence out early." This means that as soon as the frost is ont of the ground next spring there will be a large number of new homes in the process of construction. ' Lot of 'Work in Slclit. .' There is now enough work to keep the artisans in the building trades, with the exception df the stone and ' brick masons i winter. busy until far into the Architects Bump and Berry have secured a contract to build four transformer stations for the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric company. These stations will cost '$13,000 to $20,000 each. One will be built in Hammond, one in East Chicago, one in Indiana ; Harbor and one in Whiting. The contract for drawing the plans j for the St. Joseph's Catholic church has been let to Chicago architects and the I new church edifice, to cost not less I than i"'000, will be b:::t c.irly nexn j spring. The Hammond Count rv clab house which is to cost between $20,000 and Contlnued on page five.) Fire at W. Hammond Bank. - r Furnace fires In the basement of the AVest Hammond bank left their Iron confines in some unknown manner. and. attacked the ground floor of the building early this morning. At 6 o'clock the Hammond central fire department responded to a call from the state line. Upon their arrival the rear of the place was ablaze. Chemicals were applied and the fire extinguished without the application of water. Th extent of the damage was limited ?to ruined woodwork and the destruction of the floor in the back cf the buildinj.

sought to Nbield the defendant by at tempting- to blacken the character of the prosecuting witness. There wan much favorable comment on Hodges' speech. . Attorney A. . F. . Knott followed Hodge and resorted to lilting sarcasm. He claimed that Dean I a detective in the employ of the United State Steel Co. which found that It ' could not handle.. Knott, the mayor of Gary. Referring to the witnesses who) heard 'the dictograph conversation Knott, claimed thnt he could get a. stenographer who wonld awear to anything. He said that to the evil mtod all thing are evil. He then acored Parker for IncitingAVIIILxlon to ht outburst of yesterday In which AVIIIIaton called Parker a liar. BY M. P. I.l p-VVIO (TIMES Staff Man.) Valparaiso, Ind., Nov. In. Arguments by the attorneys for the stata and the defense extending over period of six hours, brought the first of the Gary bribery cases home to the jury this atfernoon, after it had been, on trial for ten days. Tomorrow the question of the day in Lake county will be: "What did th9 (Continued on page 8.) Indiana's Junior ; Senator's; Name Will Be Presented Convention by New England State Next Year. TIMES HlRKAl, AT STATE CAPITA I Indianapolis, lnd.. Nov. 14. Word haa been recived In this city that at th.j next Democratic national convention the name of Senator John W. Kern will be presented to the convent ion but somu New Bngland state for the nomination for the Presidency. It has been known for some time that the name of Kern would go before the convention, but the tip that it will be presented by New England Is a new feature Of the situation. Just why this will be done Is not stated, but it is believed here that it will be done for an effect." Of course, Indiana will take kindly to the mention of Kern's name, when it Is presened, and "it has generally been supposed that the presentation would come from this st&Je. Behind all of this there is a deep political scheme, and it toodes ill for the chances of Governor Marshall, as we. I n- of Governor Harmon. In fact, it bo g ns to look here irfnong the politicians, like Kern is th man whom Marshall and the rest of the candidates may well frar. Kern has said all along that hj would not be a candidate for the nomination for president. He has smiled a, the idea, and when some months ago i movement was starterl In Indiana t (Continued on Page 4.) SCIENCE WILL KILL SUFFEUEIiS, HE SAYS 1 NTAURICE.' MAETEEUNO' Maurice Maeterlinck, the BeisiaaT author, declares in hit new book. . 'Death." that the day is not far dlatant when science will cease to consider it a duty to protract life at long as possible, even Into the most excruciating convulsions, and will not hesitate to shorten the auffermx of a doomed human.

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