Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 177, Hammond, Lake County, 17 January 1912 — Page 1

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Believing that the proposed fights at East Chicago weie to be pulled oft on Monflay Instead of .last' night "a 'Chicago couple ' findn Itself today in the hospital: i - Through the t;ll-tale evidence of a demolished automobile on Indiana boulevard, near Itobertsdale, the thrilling experience of an automobile salesman and a chort.s girl, who were injured se.ously while en route at midnight to see a prize fight at East Chicago, came to light today. Both sufferers are now In a hospital. They were burned and bruised when the car's gasoline tank, blew up. Jack Qirtler, 1937 West Forty-seventh street, went to the .Warren Auto Livery company 857 West Sixty-third street, late Monday' nigh," with Hazel NAB : Gary money continues to be poured into Indiana Harbor, Calumet and Kast Chicago. Yesterday a score of Garyites armed with checkbooks and Puppiled with well-filled wallets swooped down upon the Harbor and proceeded to buy everything available. j Fever Affect Strangely. In the crowd was John J. Xyhoff. the Gary coal dealer, who arrived in town with a brotul smile and a pocketbook that was broAder. Before the day was over the real estate man who was with John sold rim options on a couple of lots and a coal yards site. By nightfall John, like many others, told some one that he was offered $500 more for his options than he had paid for them, but his listener merely told him "to tell , it to Swwwy.", i j . ' , . The Air Was, Not Cold. Another arrival' in town was Bill Two fires last evening kept the Indiana Harbor fire department pretty busy for a few hours. Both were in the business district, one doing J15,000 worth of di.mai?e to the Wagner block and contents, Michigan avenue, at the head of Fir street, and the other being confined to a shed In the rear of Ralph Kaan's saloon, 3411 Pennsylvania avenue. The damage here was .only nominal, being about $25. The shed iv owned by the Schlltx Brewing Co. The latter blaze occurred at about 7:20 o'clock in the . evening and the Wagner block fire broke out at 9 o'clock. The building is occupied by Julius Nassau, with his haberdashery; , Paulson's tea store and Goldsteen's jewelry establishment. Mr. Goldsteen , lives with his mother in the rear of his Contlnued on Page 8.) nTTTTMrC? TJTVTCJTmT rtTJ VIU11UO -Ll-lJ T Ul' 4 'OHIO CONSTITUTION ' BlOELOW Rev. Herttrt S. B-gelow. Congregational minist er of Cincinnati, ein- ; gle taxer, f.nd tictlve politician, who , hair been elected president of the . '. co.Tventiou in se aion at Columbus, O. to writa a nc- state constitution. lias announced his plttform. He favors the Initiative and referendum, short ballot, greater home rule for . cities, unanimous concurrence by, the supreme court to declare any law unconstitutional, and says he is opposed to writing anything Into the constitution regarding taxation. ; A majority of the delegate? are progressive, and i is likely most of the ' P:anks In the Bigelow platform will be adopted. , ; ..... .,-

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Martin, a chorus girl. He rented car 27,509 to take the girls to the prise fight, he said. . ' . , , ' : "The fight will come off about 1 or 2 a. m.," he is said to have added as he drove the car out toward Hammond. In the intense cold the gasollnej tank contracted and the contents exploded. Girtler and the girl, who were near the state line, were thrown out of the car by the explosion. They bandaged their injuries as best they could, and waited until an automobile came along and took them both to the hospital. The wrecked car was fund later. The fact that residents new- by ha.i heard the screams of a woman in the night led to" a search to unravel the apparent mystery. The car's owner was located thtpugh IJanumber. Ha explained the accidnt. SOME

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Cain, the street construction man, who once paVed a lot of Indiana Harbor streets at "a" high fgure. much "to the sorrow of (hose who now pay the as sessments. Cain talked in several figures, but - whether he bought a few Mocks before he left no one was able to say. Harry Barker, the Gary real estate dealer, also scld some Garyites some stuff near the locomotive works. Judge Homer Ansley go: busy with Bert De Krskine and was successful . in tying up the, agency for everal blocks near the locomotive works site. While some . Garyites who invested several days ago are- being; offered ad vances on their holdings, others are running the truth garrut talking about the 'high trices .for iwhich 'they could sell out but whfcH t ley refuse to 'do. I Flames Consume Bothwell Homestead Between Lot taville and Highland; A Brother of Mistress of House Dies. (Special to The Times.), Merrill vllle. Intf., Jan. 17. SomewHere in the ruins of the Bothwell homestead the Other side of Tttavllle lie the charred fragments of a human being. This morning no trace of them had been found, though searchers from the countryside had poked in the ruins for hours ' - ' - ' -. - '. , One of the most shocking accidents that hasr occurred. In Lake county ' in some time "happened early this morning when the home of Charles Bothwell living four -miles northwest of Merrillville w-as burned to the ground and Hugh Stone a brother of Mrs. Bothwell was Incinerated. , Members 'trf the family were awaken ed about 6 o'clock,this morning by the smell of smoke and by the time they were able to fight the way out of the burning house lt'was enveloped In flames. Those occupying the house were CConttnued on page t,)' LAKE STATION s ' MAN GUILTY (Special to Tkjt Timeh.) ' Crown Point. Ind., janl 17. The jury in the blind pig trial of Steve Orslkana of Lake Station found a verdict . of guilty after four ho tus' deliberation on Monday evening, returning the verdict at 9 p. m. Orslkma was fined J50 and coats, amounting to $100. On account of a faulty affidavit Orslkana escaped a Jail sentence, the form only charging him with one count under which a fine only could be imposed, SHERIFF AFTER "AUTO. -One of the deputy sherfffs from the Hammond office has gone to Black Oak to replevin an automobile which John Jackson says hf took to the XImets! garage for repairs and"whlch was not returned to him. The writ of replevin was secured In the superior court. McA leer Brothers represented Jaekeoti: - - - -. : .

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HOIM6xDf INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, JAXUAR Y 17, 1912.

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City Again Deprived of Water Supply Through Needle Ice; Same Thing Occurs Every Year; Plants Shut Down; Families Suffer. "How long O, Lord, how long" wa the wail that .went up from the Hammond people again today because of the annual trouble and danger to which the city is subjected because of needle Ice in the Intake at the Hammond pumping station. The F. S. Beta plant, relying on the city water department, had to close down at 8 o'clock, and send everybody, with the exception the office force, home. The other plants in the city using a considerable amount of water would have been in the same .predicament but for the fact that they could fall back on private wells. - The W. B. Conkey' company pumped water from the lake in front of the plant. It has 600,000 gallons of water to d raw on. The public generally felt fhe trouble early this morning and throughout the day. Jacob Kasper, superintendent of the pumping station, promised relief this noon. A tug boat belonging to the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. was summoned from South Chicago and arrived this noon. Mr. Kasper said that the bo.it men might clear, the intake In an hour or It might take them ail afternoon. He eald the men would positively refuse to work at night, and that he could., give no guarantee against needle ioe again tomorrow. Needle ice appears most readily when warrn wind blows from the. southwest. as - It -Sid today, Mr. Kasper -said he was bard3y able to get away from the telephone today owlnfc ftb scores", et complaints that c me in. ' -v. rmlt HnSlfl Joint rrt." V " ; The needle to -today;., notr-Aiily '.su.ft' Jected the people of;, the city to imuch inconvenience, but put the city Jn' great danger because of a fire. ' The fire Engines are able to pump enough water out of the mains for small fires, but In the event of a big plazu property would simply be at he mercy of the flames. The only solution to the needle ice problem is a crib' which protects the intake, and this could hare easily been secured years ago if the cities of Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago had united build the crib jointly. " In Hammond- city administrative circles the argument has always beeen that the tax assessments on the city's valution were insufficient to Undertake a city crib and an extended intake, after the city's current expense had been met and the surplus money applied on old deKTs.: The village officials ' of West Hammond are at least temnorarilv estonneri from paying out the enormous legal fee that It proposed-to-pay to the firm of Atwood, Pea-se & Loucks as a ' restilt of the Issuing of a 'temporary restraining order preventing them from paylnv over the money.There wilt be a hearing on-the ques tion of making" the-temporary injunc-I tion permanent on Jan. 25. This is considered a great victory for the people of the village of West Hammond: i In addition to the fee that the village, allowed Atwood. Pease &. Locks, there were big attorney's' fees allowed to Village Attorney Belinskl and to S. K. Markraan, the former special assessment attorney. FOREIGNER KILLED. An unknown man, a foreigner, presumably a resident of Indiana Harbor, was struck by a "J" engine at that place yesterday. The1 victim was fatally injured. The train crew torought him to the eteel corporation' emergency hospital in Gary, where he did yesterday afternoon. ' Undertaker Hoover took the remains to his morgue at 633 Washington street. DEATH OF ST. JOHN LADY (Special to The Timss.) Crown Point, Ind., Jan. 17. Mrs! Margaret Schmitt. - an aged resident of John, died yesterday at that town at the advanced age of 85 years. Mrs. Schmitt was a widow lady and the mother . of five children, namely, Mrs. Jake Schmal, Mrs. ..Aug. Kaehle and Mrs. Auterman. Her two sons, Mat, living near St. John, and 'John, living at Chicago Heights. The funeral will be held. at St. Johnon Thursday morning t 40 o'clock, the burial to be made in the StrJohn cenwtery:

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HONORS NOW !'.WWW.l'JI..SK William F. Attorney W.- F. Hodges of Gary, special prosecutor in the bribery cases, has started an active canvas in the interests of .his candidacy : - for the republican nomination for - prosecuting attorney for , the Thirty:first Judicial district, comprising Lake and Porter counties.- k Although a young man, SS- years of age,' MrL Hodges' is one- of the; pioneer residents of Gary Having come to the steel city in 1908. the: first year -of Rs existence,! "He. is senior -mm' of tl law; Srn of HixSges r Kidgelyv : , -i r -Originallyr.-; Mr. Hodges v 'came . from Kentucky: He was educated at Valparaiso university; having t7radtiated from that Institution with the degree Of" S. B., In 1898. Six years later he was given degreees in aft and law.' Mr. Hodges Is well known to the people of Porter county, having been a professor in Valparaiso university for five' years. He also has' a large acquaintance In the Joseph vB6ue r. foreman 'in the em ploy -of the' Indiana1 Steel company at

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Gary, who declares that he was at one, and the other engineer for the same time a practicing . physician In the interests, were in Indiana Harbor yessouth, "WfcslJouBd' OWte. lhe Cook ' terday looking oyer the Frick property; county grand jury under $10,000 bonds,! Ostensibly ' their mission was with on : the charge of having performed an reference to the extension of Dickey unsuccessful ' criminal operation upon oad onto WhitingTbut it Is believed a young- woman- of Hammon'd. .Delia that 'another and more important "unGraves,a young woman who was pres- dertaking is' in : the ' wind. ' This Is no ent when the" 'operation was attempted, less an undertaking than the filling in was also .bound, over, under $500 bonds, of the big ;Frick ' tract along the lake The fact that she, was merely a wit--front -an'd It now " transpires that the ness to the crime and was not directly proposition; is the Inspiration for h a. participant in it, resulted in her be- organliatlon-of the new dredging coming released, on a , small . bond. The pany regarding which THE Times of bond was signed by Charles Mayer in yesterday published an exclusive story Judge Frank. Greejs- court . In, ,West and Which Is .to compete wj,th the Great Hammond. , " - Lakes,, Dredge and Dock company Bouer was taken to Chicago this which has heretofore had a corner on morning, .where, lie wilt be incarcerated ' all work of the' kind in this region in the Cook county jail until the grand Frick owns the riparian rights for

Jury returns, .the indictment against him and his case comes to trial. - Boiierl told the Judge that he would be willing to pla9 guilty no the charge if the court would release the Graves srirl. Ha said that he would take all of the . responsibility himself, and that" she was not- at all to blame. . . Malcen IJttle Defease. . Bouer also said that the real facts (Continued on page 8.) URGE SUTTON'S CANDIDACY (Special to Thb Times.) ' ; Creston.' Jnd., Jan. - 17. Friends of Otto Sutton are mentioning his name a a candidate -for the republican nomination for state representative. Alhough Mr., Suttbn is entirely unaware of any such use of his name yet there . Is a feeling that if he knew that he could have the support of all the .voters of this section, he might see his way cleat t- enter the race. Mr. Suttwn is one of West. Creek township's substantial farmers, well read and thoroughly conversant, with the needs of all the people of Lake county. As a republican, he has spent a great deal .of his time In aiding his party to win their, campaigns. ... THERfc'S A . CHANCE THAT TOO OTJGHT NOT- TO POSTPONE THAT -SHOPPING" ANY LONGER. READ THE TrTWES ADS AND SEE'IF THIS IS KOT SO. . ..-:' - '

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IN PROSEQJJTORSHIP Hodges. southern part of Lake county. Four kteen years ago when he Gifford rail read was building, Mr. Hodges was employed by it as a civil engineer. He first took up the practice of law in Kentucky, and then came to Jasper county, In this state, whev tie practiced at Rensselaer. Upon-- -utidinir of jGary.he,moved,a-' V A' iy-X". - Kver -since ; "p A i-O i in Gary Mr, Hodge -has . b- " Ve'y Jd cs'ined i I worker :f or-the party.' He also has been fn the"1" foremost ranks of every good citizenship movement and his work In seyeralhard civic situations has stamped him as'a fearless man. "Mr. Hodges is' happily married and lives wlv his wife and two children at Sixth avenue and Virginia street. His nomination will be asked for by the Gary delegation to the Joint convention of Lake and Porter counties. DIM A VISIT W. , Smith 'and C. L. Overholt, the former confidential man for H. C. Frick (Continued on Page 8.) BUSINESS filEN HOLD 1.1EETIHG John Brown Is Re-elected President of I Commercial Organization v ; .- ' (Special to The Times.) - Crown Point, Ind., Jan. 17. The Crown Point Business Men's Association met last evening at the courthouse assembly room with an average attendance present. The meeting was called to order 'by President Brown and the reading of the minutes of previous meetings was heard and approved. The report of the secretary and treasurer was also accepted, the association being in good financial condition. - The election of officers was held which' resulted in the old officers being -returned .. for the ensuing year, namely President John Brown; Vice President, Wm. Parry; Secretary, Fran B. Pattee; Treasurer, Claude W. Allman' The three new- directors selected Continued " on page s.j

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Crumpacker Gets Treasury Officials Promise That Recommendation Will Soon Be Made.

Washington, Jan. 17. A subport of entry will be established at Indiana Harbor, Ind. Representative . D. Crampacker has been working to bring about this result, and developments of the last few days indicate that he will be successful. ' Judge Crumpackef has had the matter up with Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh and Assistant Secretary James F. Curtis. Mr. Curtis has direct charge of the Cavanaugh, Ind., Jan. 17. An operator on the E., J. & E. for the United States Steel company dropped dead I while at his duties here this afternoon. . , .Jjary, Ind., Jan. 17. An employe of tl American Bridge company at Ambridge was killed while at work late this afternoon. Lottaville, Ind., Jan. 17. The first Gary & Southern car left here at 10 o'clock today; and arrived at Ridge Road at 2: 30,- whence it wl r ' ti --r. ' ." " ' and Anna Johns, both 6t -; Hammond, were licensed-to marry here today. The opening and widening of Calumet avenue was practically assured last night when the -Hammond city council went on record pledging itself to allow at the proper time, an appropriation of $8,500 to be used by the board of publlo works to pay the damages in excess to the benefits. The council took the position that the opening and widening of Calumet avenue is a proposition of general benefit to the entire city, and that a few thousand dollars should not be permitted to cause a delay' which might arisee through litigation between the city and . dissatisfied property owners whose property is damaged. , . . ' ' ' John I Rohde, member of the board of public works, laid the matter before the council, and City Engineer Peter Lyons gave further data outlining the district that Is to be benefited. He described this district to be bounded on the west 'by what would be the extension of Rohl street," on the east by the line established by Oak street, Howard and Tapper avenues. He said the immediately benefited district had been assessed all that the board thought it should be, and that an extra appropriation would be necessary from the general fund. Storage Site Too High. The committee appointed some ttme ago by Mayor Smalley to look up a suitable storage yard for the city reported unfavorable on the north s!de site, just north of tht E.," J. & B. railroad tracks. Councilman Lauer, speaking for the committee, said the committee thought the price asked was too high. The site contains approximately three acres and is held by Attorney L. (Continued on page five.) LUNDQUIST REAPPOINTED TIMES BlREAt, AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis. Ind., Jan. ,17. A dispatch from Washington says that the opposition to Harry New's postofflce recommendations has collspsed and Albert G. Lundquist will e reappointed postmaster at Indiana Harbor. Just what New has to do with postoffice ' appointments In Congressman Crum packer's district is a mystery. Mr. I,jn4j'H!t is one of Mr.' Crumpacker's appointees.'-"'1 ' --v .- '

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customs service. He secured front those high treasury official a promise that they will send to Congress av recommendation, that Indiana Harbor be made a subport. TRKASIRV HAS SAY SO. Usually the recommendation of the Treasury Department govern Congress In such cases. If a subport is established there It -will make a long step toward the development of northwestern Indiana, wnicn aireaay aas maae great atriaee industrially. At present all vessels engaged In traffic for this manufacturing center are obliged to enter , and clear (Continued on page S.) LATEST .CJE17S BDTTEE UP TO 60 CENTS. Chicago, Jan. 17. Sixty cents pound for butter was said to be tb price to which retail dealers In Chicago looked forward. Quotations this afternoon reached -47 cents, tha highest in the city's market history. ( This additional burden on the cost of Hying was blamed by- the storekeepers to scarcity resulting from the recent severe weather oondit'"-" but other 1 rr"""' v HQ NEW Y0ZZ 72. k ' NewY"orlt. Jan. 17.- The-ceeven. story warehouse 5 of ' the t Terminal Storage company, occupying a full city square near the North river water front, between 27th and 2Stli streets,, and containing merchandise valued at more i $10,000,000. was swept by f,' 'y today. The Are was diy a few minutea after midn ' . c" was under control until, ;.-( o'clock, when the loss was estimated at $1,250,000. ENGINEER HURT IN J3AR CRASH iB,fayette, Ind.,- Jan. " 16. Evan K. Miller, engineer on the, Monon, was badly scalded in the Monon yards here last night, when his engine was sideswiped and the cab and steam pipe torn off bx a cut of box' cars running wild. - Miller was thrown Infjvthe escaping steam. His injurles"are not fatal. .. NEW POSTMISTRESS. Washington. D. Jan 1", Presi dent Taft yesterday sent to the Senate the nomination of Rosa Lucey for postmaster'of Tolleston, Ind. ' The,, appointment' is made on Representative Crumpacker's recommendation. "C GTJFFEY OLD TIME . EXEMY OF BRYAN-S COL. JAAT&SM. OUTFtY Col. James M. Gurfcj-, tk-mocratle national committeeman from PennFylvania over whose seating at Washington, i n ancient antagonist of the Kansan leader. T)elr enmity dntes from Bryan' first race for the . presidency. .Guffey 1 4 eixty-nine years old. the larrst Independent oil producer In the United States, worth lo.O00.Ooo. and fighting if! his hobby. He would rather ftcht thiin eat. and age hasn't -lessened his ardor -for battle a single wait. ,

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