Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 231, Hammond, Lake County, 20 March 1912 — Page 1

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AND THTTRSDAT-. vol. yi.;o. 23i. IT GETS Wlth-six counciVmen absent and one voting "no," the Gavlt-Kennedy avenue franchise was just barely passed at the regular meeting of the Hammond city council last night. Those voting for it were; Morlarty, W'hitaker, Pascaly, I'-frgers, Ilower, Markniueiler. Fastwood and Lauer. 'John' Kane voted against It. The councilmen absent were Sturm, Stodola. Cotton, Schutz, Kahl and Hubbard. Whether there was an explicit or tacit agreement among these councilmen to remain away from the meeting. In the hope of delaying the franchise, remains to be seen. If this was their object , they needed only the accidental absence "of ona- of the other members who voted for.-it, and their purpose would have been accomplished because. in . ihl n a. niitjiiriiy vole. EAST CHICAGO F The city of Kast Chicago is confronted with a serious problem owing to the failure on the part of the city councli to meet on Monday and pass the appro- . i prlatton for the bunding of a $5,000 " bridge, " t'nless something; Is done in the matter and done at once, the East Chicago company is likely to lose p:itlenee and proceed with the work of 'hi tin through trre west branch of the canal, over Fcrsyth avenue, regardlsp of bridge, a , the company has a perfect right to dp under the law. ThiJ would leav on of the main arteries between Chicns' and Hammond impessiblc, .tying rip the street cars and closing Forsyth avenue to trpffie of all kinds .intit the city could build a bridge as -it would of course eventuj i;i obliged to !-(. ; In tins r?i the city woulvf nnj itself TO CONFER -AT CAPITAL The question as to whether or not the bond . attorneys will accept ' the bonds' on Sheffield avenue if the. street ;s made wlderthan twenty-four , feet has come tip and City Attorney. John Oavit will go to Indianapolis tomorrow to talk with some of the leading bond attorneys about -this phase of the question. . ', ."" If the bond attorneys indicate' that they: will not accept tlfe bonds-for a 30foot street pavement then it will be necessary for the city to assess the the abutting; property owners for the ex- . tra cost. of the street. Th- - county commissioners arg going ahead with the plans for .the.' street improvement just as though-" "there would be no difficulty wit h the bond buyers. It is hoped that the bond attornrys t an b- dissuaded from the view they I'ave "taken of the propp-iiUon. PLANNING TO FREE . ALLEGED POISONER JOMW 6.SCWFNK Jrvd WIFE Prcecutor Hatidlan, of Wheeling. W. Va., has agreed, it is said, to dismissal of the charge against Mrs. Laura Schenk, accused of attempting to tr.urder her wealthy husband. Both Schenk and his wife are taking an fccttve interest in the -Billy Sunday revival meetings being heiJ. in Wheeling. Schenk takes th evangelist to and from the tabernacle Jo his big automobile almost daily. .- !:

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HIS . Ftaal Action Taken. - Hut there were enough councilmen present to adopt the franchise, which is now ready for thp mayor's .signature. The amendments made by the council as a committee of the whole at a meetinga week ago last Monday night were referred back to the board of public works last night, and that body, being in session for this purpose, embodied them in the franchise and save it back to the council tor final action. There was no argument in connection with the pnspBge of the franchise. John Kane alone explained his negative vote by saying: "We are denouncing A. I'. Knottfl for having givn away the bridge, but for that franchise the city received $5,000, while in (Continued on page S.) out not only the cost of the bridge in that event, but also it would be out 900 feet of splendid dockage property, the concession offered by the Kast Chicago company to the city to do what is Its plain duty, without being forced into It by arbitrary methods. C. A. Westberg, vice president of the Bast Chicago Company In n interview this morning regarding the delay on the part of the city council in passing the appropriation ordinance ; providing for the building of a temporary bridge over the canal at Forsyth avenue, declared that his company regrets the delay very much. Said Mr. Westberg: "We are at a los tpj.uii'-stand the motives ofcfhe councilmen in failing to act on so important a matter, and do not know whether to (Continued on page I.) SOCIALISTS : HOLD THEIR : COMVENTIO The socialist party of Lake county held its nominating convention of county officers in Hammond last night In a room at 141 Sibley street.' J. I. Day, chairman of the party, opened the convention, and Attorney Paul Glaser of Gary presided as temporary chairman. The various locals and branches - were represented by about fifty delegates. Not all the nominations were made yesterday, but those which were ratified by .the convention are as follows: Treasurer D. Wilcox, Hammond. Auditor William Malett, Hammond. ; Recorder William Musjrrove. Indiana Harbor. Sheriff H. H. Kriek, Gary. Representative Rev. Carpenter. Indiana Harbor. Coroner Dr. W. A. Wiser, Indiana Harbor. 4 Superior court judges (room 1) Stanley Grabara, Kast Chicago; (room 5) Henry Soitwedel, Hammond; (room 3) Paul S. Glaser, Gary. TO WD THE eillLDiriG ORDINANCE Committee on Public Safety to Take Action on Important Question. An amendment to the building ordinance regulating th size of stairways !ri ccwnTnerclal btMings was Introduced in the city council last niglit and was refsrred to-, the committee on public, safety.' The amendment is aimed to strengthen section 39 of the building ordinance and provides for a uniform size of stairways in buildings of a given slate. The ordinance grant inp permission tcf the firm, of Downer t Porta to construct a side track across State street, east of Columbia avenue, for a storage yard north of the Michigan Central tracks went to its second reading, final action having been impossible, the required two-thirds of the council were not present. . An ordinance fathered by John Moriarty providing that for gates on Towle street and Sheffield avenue, to be main- ! tained by'the South Shore line, and also gatemen to operate the same went to I its second reading. The ordinance rro- i vides for a fine, the minimum of which shall be $10 and the maximum $100. The contract btween the board of public works and the J. B. Clow & Sons Co. for 60 tons of eight-Inch water pipe Lat $23.50 a ton was passed to its sec ond reading.

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HAMMOND, INDIAN A, WEDNESDAY, MARCH

JASPER HULL IS SENTENCED AT HUB Lowell Man Fined $50 and Costs and Sent to Jail For Thirty Days. (Special to The Timbb.) Crown Point, Ind., March 20. Jasper Hull of Lowell, charged with operating a blind pig, was araigned in th t.l,. Circuit court before Special Judge Otto uce mis morning and pleaded guilty to the charge. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail at Crown Point and was fined $50 and costs. He began serving his sentence March 19. Hull is the second Lowell citizen to go to Jail under this charge. Two weeks ago Louis Berg was found guilty of running a blind tiger by a Jury in Special Judge Bruce's court and was sentenced to 30 ttays in Jail and was fined $50. This was the first conviction in Lake County under the new blind tiger act. It will be remembered thatthe regime of Thomas E. Knotts as mayor of Gary that folowtng the ar rest or a number of men charged with running blind pigs, while Calumet township was dry, that a number of the mappeared before Knotts and pleaded guilty. Knotts imposed the minimum fine of $50 but he did not follow the law which demands the imposition of a minimum sentence of 30 days in jail in each case of a conviction or a plea of guilty to this charge. So that the sentencing of Berg and Hull may be said to be the first instance in Lake county in which the new blind tiger act was Invoked and its drastic provisions are beginning to be appreciated. The Times was in error yesterday in stating that it was Peter Berg who had decided to plead guilty. Ieter Berg is a responsible- citizen of Lowell and is no relation to the Rerg who was sentenced this morning. The error arose through a slip made by Ths Times Crown Point informant. The case of the State or Tndiana ve. Frank Ahlprim, charged with the same offense was continued for the term. When the state won a victory in its prosecution of. Rerg, whose influence was calculated to save his hide it ij believed that Hull decided that h would plead guilty and save the court costs on the theory that to firht th. ease would be futile. Thp . ...T .. vvmri -iBe opera lMns-rffcr!fni pigs in the southern part of Lake counts'. MEETING PLACE IS HOW CHANGED Burnham and West Hammond People Requested to Turn Out. A big Impetus will be given to the plan to build a viaduct over the Michigan Central tracks at Burnham avenue at the meeting which is to be held at Hein's hall tonight The meeting was to have been held at the offices Of the West Hammond Trust & Savings bank, but it was afterward thought advisable to user! em hall foi1 the reason that there "would -.be more room there. ' ' ; A hundred letters hare been ent out to residents of Hegewlseh arM Burnham. and it Is believed that there wiU be a large atetndance of West Hammond citizens. Ways and means will be riev.V finance the building of the viaduct and I is nopeu mat tne project will be got-H ten well under way. The fact Is becoming more and more appreciated that ! w est mmmond and Burnham and Hegewisch must have a north and south thoroughfare If they are to be factors In the development of the great aClumet district. LAKE CO. BOYS GRADUATED (Special to The Times.) Chicago, March 20. GeraiH Vwmt r Crown Point, Ind., and Claude Humphre or w nittng were both graduated from the University of Chicago yesterday with a degree-bachelor of science. FATHER HIT T IT A -r-r m i XiAJj HAKL) j Susan Masko appeared 'for her husiband John Masko in Judge Prest's jurt yesterday afternoon and swore Joist a warrant for the arrest of Joe , Vi8ko on a charge of assault and batjiy. She charged that Joe Masko wh j is a nephew, struck her husband over !the head with a brick and is laid u;j from the effect of the blow. The date iof the trial has not been set. Hawkins Still Absent. No clews have been learned bv the police or relations of Frank Hawkins, f l Sibley stret, who mysteriously dishupeared from his home last Saturday r.iorning. when he left for his 4ork at the F. S. Bets Company and has not been seen or heard of since. He did not leave the slightest clew to work upon and the police have - a difficult case to clear up. When he left his wife was sick in bed with a Tour day old baby. -

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.j-j-:",- Wii: C. .H. Anthony and her oailty lq a tnj toer allpper heels OUT FOR ASSESSOR West Hammond political circles were interested in the announcement tia morning, that John J. Brehm had withdrawn from the race for mayor of West Hammond at the urgent request of his friends and had decided to make the race for ' republican! candidate for assessor for the town of Thornton. CooK county. Ills., at the election April 2. This determination came last week in answer "to the appeal of many of the Cook county out-towns and townships was .-a candidate before the convention a Rarrey, and succeeded in capturing 1.02 delegates, his nomination being finally made unanimous. Mr. Brehm teels' iia.t"-what his friends term the outrageous attacks that have been made aboojt.him are so foreign to hisycareer in West Hammond, he refuses to take part In the, citjcampaign ts a candidate for city-office. - Mr. Brehm has been a resident of Cook county.: all his life. - He was born in the old Third ward, in the i-lty of. Chicago; -35. years ago. For the last 14 years he has been a resident of Thornton township' and an active worker In the republican ranks. .. This is the first time that he has ever been a candidate for offie in the township. Mr. Brehm is in the teaming and contracting business, having done a great deal of the road work in the past ten years, in the township. h is a member of four organizations the Elks. C O F K. O. T. M. and K. C. ." In the year 191 The finished that portion of the sewers to be built-in the village of nolton that was left unfln(Continued on page fitfe. BIG HORSE SALE. (Special to Thf? Times.') Crown Point, Ind., March Jo. Yesterday's horse market proved to be a record-breaker in more ways than one, the crowds being the- largest ever known here on a sale .day, and the prices for horseflesh probably reaching the highest nojch ever jjaid at a local market. The crowd of farmers and buyers rarne early and the sale continued without any appreciable decline in activity until late In the afternoon? As high as $400 Is reported af being paid for one horse. This price, of course, was an exceptional one for an? extraordinary good anfmal. but the prices on the whole ragged, for above the average. It is estimated that nearly sixty horses were bartered and ex-j changed during the day's transactions. The March horse sale of ;1912 will go down in. history as a. record breaker. J .

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diamond Slipper heels. '"" with diamonds. DEMOCRATS FRO COuNTHT CAPITAL Lie Bunch Helping to Make Tilings, Merry atJ3tate CapitaL - V.; Fifty live Lake county demoupats are at Indianapolis today for the state convention, which will be Wid tomorrow. The district conventions will be held this evening, as the same delegates who are to sit in the state convention are also the delegates to the district conven ion.' ' ." Lake. county, democrats are hoping to the last minute that by some good turn of the wheel of fortune Judge Lawrence Becker will come out of the convention as the nominee for governor, but this was admitted only as a remote possibility by the judge's , friends In Ham mond. Judge Becker himself has thrown cold water on the -boom, and all that his friends,will try hard to get for him is a seat a a, delegate from the Tenth, district to the national convention at Baltimore.' " Every train carried Its quota of demo-' crats to the state capital, all eager for a fray, which lacked the ginger of former years, however, because Samuel Ralston loomed up as the undefeatable candidate for the gubernatorial nomination. ; Some scrappir.g is expected in the district convention, and also for some of the state offices. DYER FARM LANDS INCREASE IN PRICE (Special to The Times.) , Dyer, Ind., March 20. The rapid increase of real estate values in and around Dyer was demonstrated last Saturday when the Martin Becker farm, two miles northwest of town, was sold on the real estate board In Chicago. The- 120-acre home place was bfd off at $82.50 per acre,..whiie the "Marsh forty" brought JWe fancy price of $102.40 per acre. TJie jfaterJTyeoe. has not a building of. atry krid. An butis nevertheless 'a very dcstjcable - piece of property.. -'1"'-,. '.''. "MILLIQKAIRE -". KII OUT OH BAIL Cleveland, brtv" March? 20.-John C. jurgens, x.e .vouuuut sj'e-riiiMn iu, ar-j rested last week in Hammond, who wasj Hiairiea on a i-iidi sc. ui riTiifciiinjs $49,00) "from the Xorcrosi Marble itompanyv was releaseifbn $5T?0') bond'. to day.. Ti. L. Palmer,; a concrete block manufacturer, signed the bafl;.;" "bond. Jurgens went immediately to "th "of fice j of his attorney. "' '- 'f v. j ARB VOB HEADING THE TIMES f

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TIMES Bl'REAf, AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., March 20. It was generelly understood that when Thomas Taggart came up from French Lick today for the democratic state convention tomorrow, he would bring along In hla Inside pocket the following list of nominations to be ratified by the convention: THIS IS "THE SLATE. Governor Samuel M. Ralston of Lebanon. Lieutenant Governor Dr. T- D. Scales of Boonville. Secretary of States Lew G. EllIngham of Decatur. Auditor of State William H. O'Brien of Lawrenceburg. Treasurer of State William H. .Volmer of Vincennes. Atorney General Thomas M. Honan of Seymour. Reporter of tho Supreme CourtPhilip Zoercher of Tell City, or B. E. Cox of Hartford City. Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles A. Greathouse of Indianapolis. State Statistician Thomas , M. Brolley of Xorth Vernon. Judge of Supreme Court, First District John C. McNutt of Martinsville. Judge of Supreme Court, Fourth District Richard K. Erwln of Fort Wayne. Judge of Appellate Court, First District Joseph II. Shea of Seymour. RALSTON' HAS CICH. The nomination of Ralston b hun a settled fact for several weeks Th Taggart machine, is said to hav picked Scales lor lieutenant- governor for several rea.sons. Scales is a dyed-ln-the-Joint Gathering io Discuss j Best Means of Preseiiting Calumet Region Waterway Data to U. S. Army Engineers. ' The committee composed of representatives of the various business, manufacturers and commercial clubs of Indiana Harbor, East Chicago, Ham-M mond Whiting to consider, ways and means of best .presenting before the board of United. States engineers data which will prow that the Calumet region is the logical place for the'goverment to make the bulk of its harbor and waterway improvements, instead of "cago, met yesterday in the clubronfejof the Commercial club of IndJanii-' Harbor and East Chicago in an aojournea session, tne original meeting having been held on Monday. Bridge Proposition I' p. One reason of the adjournment was the expected meeting of the East Chicago council set for Monday night, at which It was expected the city would pass the ordinance appropriating a fund for the erection of a temporary bridge at Forsyth avenue. Had it done so this would have been an important item for the budget of-data and would have had much weight with the board of engl(Continued on page S.) GARY HEARS THAT JAmiESON MAY QUIT Nothing Official From Calumet Township Republic can Leader, However; : There is much, talk Jn Gary today that Sandy Jamtesorv'assesor of Caluiiivi luniisuip. una doss or artatrs republican down around .Ross and the GrifTith farms., may. withdraw from the race for tbe, republican nomination for auditor in favor of John A. Brennan. - . Mr. Brennan's candidacy continue to meet with favourable attention throughout the county and 'he is pretty weil confident of the nomination. - ?' The race which he txiad-or mayor of Gary under hard eonditioris and ' the fact that, he has been.- a hard party worker ; has won for him : widespread recognition. Efforts to "obtain definite information from J.tr. rami'iBon . n-r.-o useless this afternoon a;she cnuld not be reached. -;'

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Man Who Will Be Nominated for Governor wool Taggart follower.' ' He la a rlaii coal operator and banker at' Boonville. Two weeks ago lie put through a resolution in the Warrick' county convention indorsing Boohne ; for governor. Thus, although at heart he" was a machine man, he put the "Bdehhe supporters under obligations to him, and he is now making good use .of .this fact In his race for the nomination. He has (Continued on Pare g.) '

110 MORE VVIGGLERS V AT PTY FAIRS Freaks .rjfajpp forth and Oriental Dane- ; . - ". ers Passe. ',.":''.

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tionalisms wil be barred from the state i-V falra of the Middle West-next Fall, ac- , cording to an edict'lssued at a meetlnx of state fair officials at the Auditorium Hotel last night. "We have shut, out the freaks and offensive dancers thie.r. eyar," said J. C. Simpson, secretary or the Mlnesota state fair, wljo presided at the meeting.

QOSTS " HIM JUST 94a. Washington, D. ,C March 20. Forty-two postage . stamps, costing , Si cents, represents the total outlay of E. D. Crumpacker in his campaign for re. nomination, for congress in the Tenth Indiana district, according, to a statement which he filed under oath with the clerk of the national house of rep-, resentatives todayARB YOV "JBADISQ1 TUB TIMES f KAISER'S DAUGHTER SNUBBED BY PRINCE PRIWCESS VICTORIA LOotse. vrThe long hoUday which Princess Victoria Louise, daughter of Kaiser . IVilhelm, is taking in Switzerland Is : now said to be due to an affair of the heart. Prince Adolph of Meek-Slenbure-Strelitz. selected by the em- . peror as the prospective husband of the princess, balked at the profmm It la saM i. . . . . . -- -''"t iie man jrant to marry anyone just yet. The Drincess felt th. o-.v. i :. ... he had been, satisfied with her father's choice. ,

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