Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 251, Hammond, Lake County, 12 April 1912 — Page 1

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I - I tTNSETTLED, BUT PROBABLY NO RAIN; WARMER SATURDAY. EDITION VOL. VI., NO. 251. HAMMOND, INDIANA jpRID AY, APRIL 12, 1912. ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers t Ccata Copy.)

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SPECULATION RIFE OVER BRIBERY CASES

Judge Van Fleet of the ElkhartSouth Bend superior court sits at Valparaiso tomorrow in the Gary bribery rases at half past 1 o'clock. "When the Gary defendants return from Valparaiso tomorrow night It will be either with a brass band' or more gloom flags. As the outlook Is now the state has no other recourse than to stand for a, dismissal of all Valparaiso cases those of Knotts. Bowser, Williston and Nyhoff. If a case is forced to trial the state's main witness, Harry Moose. Is missing. A PoMlble Surprise f However, it is possible that T. B. Iean, the Instigator of the prosecution, may be more resourceful than he is thought to be, and some say Moose may " be sprung as a surprise and that Mayor Knotts has been badly fooled. There is als oa possibility that Governor Marshall will carry out a threat he made a few days ago and see to it that hew STANDARD BUILDING ITUDCKS The Standard Oil company is busy building its dock along the canal at the Junction of the main canal with the west branch. Two pile drivers are already on the scene as are also the dredge, Michigan nd a derrick acow and work on driving the piles will be begun on Monday. Two miles of twelve inch pipe which will be used to convey the oil from the plant at, Whiting to the dock, has already 'been joined and' is stretched along the surface of the ground .between th-plant and the dock, ready ... t !e.' 5c lnto-r s.t iea -d itchy -after ' which a final test of the pipe line willbe made, before covering It to a depth of about" twelve Inches. ' " - All the material tor the dock Is already on the ground and It Is expected that the Standard Oil company will commence to ship oil this year from the new dock. The company has added a new boat to its fleet and this is said to be a splendid specimen of the style of craft used In the shipment of oil. The Standard Oil company only recently purchased fiftenn acres from the East Chicago company and from the McCormick estate and it is along the iial frontage of this property that it Is building its dock. HONOR JEFFERSON WITH MEMORIAL At top. Hoke Smith; below, Ex- Gov. Joseph Folk. One hundred thousand dollars by April 13. That . Is the ambition of the-people back of the Jefferson Memorial fund, and it looks as though their desire fittingly to commemorate the great president's birth, would lie an accomplished tact, on that date. Kx-Governor Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, and Hoke Smith, of Georgia, are two of the men who are actively vs or king for - the memorial fund.

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lawyers claim that the defendants' cases have slipped over three terms and unless the state can show good reason for the absence of witnesses It cannot get a continuance to ithe fourth term the law allows. It is said that the statutes provide, that missingwitnesses in this event must have their names endorsed to back of the affidavits. .As far as can be learned Moose's name is not endorsed to any of the papers. Affects All Local Caaea. However, any dismissal at Valparaiso will not affect the cases at Crown Point, where John Simiasko and the two Szymanskls await trial. Yet it Is possible that anything done either way tomorrow will have an Important bearing on the Crown Point cases. Although the defendants are hopeful that tomorrow will end their troubles, they are all on the lookout for possible surprises,' and on this .point Special Prosecutor Hodges is silent. THE LATE II. P. SHAFER IS HIGHLIT HONORED Scores of Policemen in Uniform Turn Out to PayLast Respects. Sixty uniformed policemen and firemen, together with 200 members of the Loyal Order of the Moose, marched in the funeral parade for, Sergeant Henry P. Shafer yesterday afternoon. The local police department was augmented by officers and patrolmen from West Hammond, Kast Chfcago. Indiana Har bor, Gary and Whiting and by members ( of the Hammond fire departments, the . Hammond police department leading the parade. The members of the board of police commissioners and Chief Peter A list sen rode in a carriage ahead of the parade. ' ; short funeral ritual, and atsecond one at Oak. Hill cemetery, where Interment was made. Sergeant Shafer was the first member of the Hammond lodge of Moos to die, and the way his lodge brethern turned out shows that he not only had many friends who mourned his untimely death, but that the lodge itself promptly! responded to bury one of its members. ' THOMAS A. SPENCER DIES LAST NIGHT Well Known East Chicago Man Succumbs After Two Months' Illness. Thomas A. Spencer, one of the first settlers, and best known and respected cittzens of Kast Chicago, father of City Treasurer Spencer, - died at the family residence of his daughter, Mrs. G. M. Davis, 4434 North Olcott venue, last night at 10:50 o'clock last night, following an - illness of" nearly, three months. . The funeral will be held from the residence at 4434 Olcott avenue, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Crowder of the Congregational church and Rev.' Monroe of the Methodist j church will conduct the services. The i remains will then be brough to Hammfond where Interment will occur at Hoal Hill cemetery. The news of his death this morning caused a shock among his wide"clrclc of friends in East 'Chicago and Hum(Continued on Page 4.) ENROLLMENT AT COLLEGE IS 203 Hammond's Baby ' Institution Is Thriving Splendidly. Although open less than a week, the enrollment in the Hammond Musical college has already passed the 200 mark and the indications are that before very long fifty more students win have entered. The actual enrollment last night was 203. The music students in Hammond and the surrounding cities and country were not slow in realizing the advantages that would come, to. them .as .a result ot ' the united efforts of the best teachers In the region. Herbert Hutchins connection with the college as a cornet teacher has brought together an exceedingly' large class. ABE YOU READING THE TIMES T

CAMPBELL INDIGNANT AT BOARD

Hammond Plumbing Con tractor Says Deal - of Which He Was Victim Is Rawest and Most Brazen He Ever Heard Of. A. J. Campbell of the Campbell Plumbing company of Hammond said today that the West Hammond village board of local improvements had been guilty of one of the crookedest and. rawest transactions that he ever knew when it turned down his bid on the Wentworth avenue sewer, which Is to serve the Hammond Country club, and let the contract to Lavene Bros. Campbell declares that the property owners Interested, with one possible exception, were far from satisfied with the letting of the contracts and they only agreed to let the proposition go ahead because of the urgency of having th country club served with sewers. Other- Hammond business men who are interested in the matter, on account of their connection with the country club, declared today that the action of the board was th rawest transaction they ever saw. Go to Saloon. It seems that after the bids were opened and the clerk was tabulating them that the interested parties and the village trustees went over to a neighboring saloon and started to absorbing liquid goods. Campbell paid that he had been doing the plumbing work for the village of West Hammond and that he had no idea that the board would do anything but let the contract to the lowest bidder. "When the trustees, and those Interested, returned from the saloon," said (Continued on page five.) rs:miRnPUTOII CARPET "Hooky" Players Penitent and They Won't Do It AgainThree high school boys, acting as a committee for twenty-five boys, mainly of the high school, and some of the eighth grade who played "hooky" yesterday afternoon are to make suggestions to the faculty next Monday as to how best j those who played "hooky" can make amends to the school for the bad example given yesterday. Yesterday afternoon about twentyfive boys, at the close of the noon recess hour, marched into the Central building in lock step, a procedure contrary to the discipline. Prof. F. T. McElrov. nrincinal of thp bich anhnr,! in an effort to correct the boys, ordered them to go out of the building and to j come back In proper manner. The boys obeyed in so far as the going out was concerned, and then tempted by the warm sunshine decided to remain out for the balance of the afternoon. Obsessed with a mob spirit In a mild form, they 'paraded up and down the streets in the business districts. 1 This morning their conduct was the subject for a talk' by Superintendent McDaniel. He showed them the error of their ways in setting a bad example to the other scholars, and that if such conduct were tolerated that they themselves would lose respect for the school. The culprits received his words ' in a penitent .spirit and declared themselves willing to abide' by the' decision of the committee. The committee is composed of Elliott Conroy, Henry .Taylor and Robin Amoss. DOCTORS PLAN TO GET1AB0RAT0RY Lake County. Medical Society Holds Session at Gary Hotel. Good progress in the movement to get' a county or municipal bacteriological laboratory in the northern part of the county was reported at the meeting of the Lake County Medical society held at the Gary hotel last night. Dr. E. E. Evans of Gary presided. l)r. Lauer of Whiting read a paper covering anaethesia and Dr. "Hopper of Gary who was scheduled to read a paper did not do it owing to the lateness of the hour. - About a dozen mt-mbers were present at last night's meeting.

WORK BEING RUSHED AT PANAMA CANAL: IT SHOWS MANY COMPLETED PARTS

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Latest vtow of tne lower lock at Gatun. In spite ot the fact that the government has nearly three years la which to complete the Panama canal. It Is rushing the vork hoping to have the first boat through next ummer. .Many parts of the big ditctt already show completed details which are astonishing to the visitors. The lower lock at Gatun t well along in spite of th iact that It la one ot the difficult piece of construction.

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, A new corporation,, t Chicago & Interurban been " formed to , take ovn as .Ail way the has the electric .d, East lihes -in the- Piillma TOsfctg a "Wmtln d is t rlcta a nd ftd Joining territory. The Intention is ul timately to combine, these properties into a new interurbzan system for the development of the f territory ".. which these lines serve. The board of direc tors which has already been elected In cludes Ira M. Cobe, Samuel Insull, F. M. Busby and C. M. Mattison, who was made president. Meanwhile it is an nounced that new Interests not identi fled with these men have opened negotiations for a street car franchise in Indiana Harbor. .The interurban company is closely watching develop ments. ) Great secrecy is . maintained concerning the capitalists behind the application for a franchise. HASN'T LONG TO LIVE . - (Special to Thb Times.) .Florence. Italy, April 12. It was declared today that specialists who have examined Charles W. Morse, the former New York banker, assert that he can not live more than six months. I POPE IN GOOD HEALTH. (Special to The Times.) Rome, April 12. The pope was, in the best " of condition today, without the slightest sign of Illness. KAFFIR CHIEF ASKS rMsV TO WED HIM. J Daisy Mayer. The father of Daisy Mayer, singer of "coon" . soi.gs, was horrified recently wtu i he learned how near be came to having a Kaffir chief for a son-in-law. - Dai?y has returned . to btr home l.i Cleveland after ten years' work in European and South African variety theaters. She' met the chief in the Orange Free State. He proposed to Uer Itnanager, Daisy being averse to enjoying a private tete-a-tete with her suitor and by the assiduous use of cocoa nut oil. placed on her wrist a copper bracelet which sh j hasn't been able to get off to this day. -

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PROPERTY OWNERS ;WI1 Manufacturer Obiects to w Danger of Killing Beautiful TreesThe members of the South Side Im provements association, who are to meet next Wednesday at the Wallace school building, fexpecf .to.: take a de cided stand against the proposition to build the walk on t,he north side of the street, opposite .the CoBkey plant, next to the curb instead of along the prop W. B. Conkey opposes' the'bullding of the walk on the property line for the reason that he would have to more a row of maple -trees which he saw fit to plant just outside the property line. The South Side-Improvement association expects to have the opinion of an expert landscape gardener to prove that trees of. that size can be moved with positively no danger of killing them. In fact trees of twice that size have been ' successfully moved, according "to those who have investigated the subject. The purpose of this movement is to prevent a gross error in city building such - as was perpetrated on South Hohman street', where the appearance of the street was ruined by Jogging walks. There' is no more monstrous piece of street planning in the state of Indiana, than -Hohman street considering Its possibilities. f It is for .the purpose of avoiding a similar error that the matter is to be taken up at the meeting of the South Side Improvement association next Wednesday. ' An appeal will be made, to W. B. Conkey's . public spirltedness to induce him to move the trees in question and build the walk' back on 'the lot line, where ie should be built. Ernest G. Froderstrom of the firm of Cole & Meinersman, Chicago landscape architects, is of the opinion that it would be safe and easy to move . the trees in front of the Conkey plant, but he is of the opinion that the work ought jto'be. delayed until. fall.. THIEVES ENTER TRACY RESIDENCE Approach of Milkman, However, Frightens Them Away. . - - . Two men weref rustrated in an attempt to enter the residence of S. W. jracey, jo v.arrtjn 8ireer early mis morning, when a milkman, who was I el,m'"S u,e Slar l,,enl away. .Although nothing was found missing c unwilling uisiuroeu, tne rear ooor was found open and the thieves were about to enterthe kitchen when the milkman saw them making there get away. Mrs.. Tracey also awoke wiht the noise, and by calling Mr. Tracey, she is also believed to have helped in scaring the two men. ' ' 'it was not learned until this morning that the Tracey home had been entered before, the thief making his escape with a sum of money. At the time of the robbery It was not reported to th police, who now are investigating both cases. , It is intended hat every progressive housewife in Hammond will be urged to join the New Club. Complete details will be announced in this paper on Saturday, April 13th. .. Watch for them read carefully and enjoy it's advantages. ' -

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PANIC' IN THEATRE Annual Spring Rampage of Valparaiso University Students Brings Out Police and Firemen

Valparaiso, Ind., April 12. Three thousand students of Valparaiso University began rioting In the city's streets last night, driving police and firemen before them, smashing windows and firing revolvers. At this hour they are holding the city In terror and are damaging dormitories and other college buildings. The arrest of eleven students for playing baseball in the streets of Valparaiso last week Is supposed to have caused the rioting:. The trouble started at the universi ty when the members of two classes engaged in a rush. For an hour r two the students fought one another. HENRY DUFFNER TO LOCATE III WEST Dean of Railroad Agents in Hammond Tenders Resignation. Henry Duffner for twenty-one years agent for the Nickel Plate railroad in Hammond left for Los Angeles this morning, where he will go into businessfor himself and make his future home. His resignation was tendered to the company shortly after he returned from his recent winter' trip to the Pacific coast and yesterday his books were audited and found O. K. and Mr. Duffner

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of his superiors The news of his resignation comes as a surprise to many of his friends, although he made no secret of it Clilldrcu In I,oa Ana;elee. Mr. Duffner has had the intention of locating in Los Angeles for quite a while. About a year ago he sent his three children to the coast, where they are living with relatives. He himself has been out there a number of times and was very much pleased with the climate and the prospects, and on his recent, visit he made up his mind definitely to locate there. He will establish himself in the mercantile business. Peter J. Thompson, Mr. Duffnef's brother-in-law, succeeds him as th local agent for the Nickel Plate. Until yesterday he was the chief clerk under Mr. Duffner. Mr. Thompson has been in Hammond several years and is well known to the patrons of the road. Mr. Duffner was one of the most popular railroad men in the region. His own pleasing personality has brought the company many friends who wish him success in his new undertaking. HEBRON GIRL HAS DIPTHERIAjll SCHOOL Miss Josephine Coplin Causes 60 Co-eds toBe Quarantined. (Special to Tin Times.) Crown Point. Ind., April 12. Miss Josephine Coplin of Hebron, one of 60 girl students at Northwestern University arrived from her spring vacation yesterday morning at Chapln Hall in Evauston and feeling ill, a doctor was summoned. He pronounced her ailment diptheria and ordered Miss Coplin transferred to the hospital and the other 69 girls quarantined in the dormitory. This Is the second time in less than two months that a contagious 'disease (has tied up a portion of the school and j for aDout a wepk tne falr 8tudent, wiH - jhave an enforced vacation. f ,h irls returned veateriday from their Easter vacations. Some from t considerable distance , Cnica!?0 and SOme had scarcely entered the building when the quarantine was proclaimed. THREE HURT .IN EXPLOSION . Three cement workers were burned about their hands and faces late yesterday afternoon when one of them is said to have lighted a match and caus- j ed an explosion of natural gas Which had collected in the bottom of a sixtyfoot hole at the Calumet river and East Ninety-sixth street. . where a bridge Is being built for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Those injured were James II. Braiser,: 35 years old, of 10057 Indianapolis b.oulevard: Thomas Siimpter. 45 years old, of 3209 East .Ninetysecond street, and Fred Robertson, colored, 22 years old, 'of 3853 South State street.

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Then there was a rush for the town. The classes," joining forces, yelled, fired revolvers and smashed"' windows aa the mob swept through the streets. Cause Opera-Houae Panto. . The students headed for the Memorial Opera House, Svhere a vaudeville show was In progress. In the operahouse was an a'udlsnoe of 800 to 90 persons, many of . them women and children. As kthe students made a rush for the doors of the place there was a panic In the audience. The womenand children, not knowing what had caused the trouble, made a rush to get out m the students fought to gain admission. Side doora (Continued on Page 4.) HAfMID ,1EII TAKEN FOR SPEEDING Fred Heintz and Ed Dibos Said to Have Endangered Lives. Affidavits have been sworn oat against Fred Heintz and Edward Dibos charging them with speeding. ' - The complaint was made by the Harrison park policeman. - '' It IS charge that Heintz and Dibos were racing on South Hohman street and were running at a rate' of at leatt 40 miles an hour. ' They are said to have endangered the Uvea of pedestrians ana the fasei In dr-Rlarwl ' h-tionntir a particularly aggravating one. ' . Another abuse.to which tije attention of the police has been called is the habit of automobilists of running J by standing street cars at full speed and taking chances that no one will get oft the rear end of the car and in passing in bark of the car step in Trot of their machines. Mrs. c. G. Kingwlll was knocked down in this manner and other accidents have been arrowlv averted. Hospital Benefit. TicketS for the St. Margaret's hospital benefit concert, which is to be given at the Hammond theatre next Thursday evening, by the K. O. T. M. band, are selling well, and the indications are that ther will be a large audience to hear this popular band in class and popular music. The K. O. T. M. band gave a benefit performance for St. Margaret's hospital last year and made a big success of it, and an elaborate program is under preparation now for the event next Thursday evening. WASHINGTON CALLS HER BELLE OF OHIO Mrs. Timothy Ansberry. In Washington rhey call Mrs. Timothy T. Anaucrr, wife or Kepresentative Ansberry, of Ohio, the "Ohio belle" of the coneTesa'onal set. Sho Is a cha-mlng person., decidedly popular In society, and one of the moat handsome women in the cajpltaL

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