Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 11, Hammond, Lake County, 13 April 1912 — Page 1

THE LAK UNTY HI WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT THE VOL. II., NO. 11. APRIL, 13, 1912. EIGHT PAGES. SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION.

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FEDERAL COURT Oil TUESDAY

April Term of U. S. District Court Will Be Called in . Hammond; 86 Naturalization Cases Pending; Several Suits on Tapis. On next Tuesday, April 16th. at 9 a. am., the April term of the U. S. District court will be convened in the Federal Court room in Hammond with Hon. - Albert B. Anderson presiding. The other court officials who reside in Indianapolis will be present there beins Noble C. Butler. Clerk; Charles W. Miller, District Attorney; Edward H. Schmidt. V. S. Marshal, and, the Naturalization Examiners. The docket will be called on Tuesday morning and motions heard, after which the court will proceed with the naturalisation hearings which will make a busy day for there are SS petitions pending, and it will be necessary to examine each petitioner and his two witnesses in open court. On several different occasions the naturalization examiners from the Chicago office have been working on these petitions. (Continued on page 8.1 Meet Tuesday Night. The organization meeting which will he held Tuesday for the purpose of perfecting the organization of a Commercial club in Hammond will be held in the Lake, superior court house, room No. 1. ' i ThnfW(miit. orliirtin-Tf til Jhe take up the"ork'where'tfie temporary organization has left off and , there . Is no question that Hammond will have one of the llvliest commercial organizations in the region. Funeral Is Held. The funeral of John Masko. 128 Calumet avenue, was held from the Emmerlins chapel this morning at 10 o'clock. . Interment was held at Oak Hill cemetery. Masko committed suicide last Tuesday by shooting himself through the mouth with a 32-caliber revolver. A number of friends and rel- i atlvejr from Chicago attended the fu- , "rali ' . Gov. Chas. -.jornf. ot Micnigan. From a sickly youth to health, wealth and honor is the history of Michigan's present governor, Chase Dsborne. He i has just, been in the limelight because of his fight for state primaries to select the people's choice for president. As a boy he was handicapped in every way and his success Is all the more to his credit. It was because of poor health that he left his home and spent two years in tho ten virgin forests of Michigan. He lived throughout the period in the open and scarcely saw a white man during the time. He not only won back his health. but paved the way to his wealth, for It was during the months spent here that he discovered and secured title to certain mines which gave him his start financially. During his1 years as gov ernor he has stood for the people' of his state against the interests, and has put through some very important measures. He has been suggested as a vice presi dential possibility with Roosevelt,

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SWINDLER TAKEN TO SUPERIOR COURT L. D. Packard, Who Defrauded Gary Women, Pleads Guilty.

I- D. Packard, alias Frank Murray, 162T Superior avenue, Cleveland. Ohio, the fake magazine agent who was arrested by Captain Itimbach Thursday morning, after he had swindled the housewives in Gary and Hmmond. plead guilty before Judge Reiter in tho Superior court yesterday on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Word was sent to his home in Cleve land, O.. yesterday, in order to learn of his past record and If Jt is found clean. Packard will receive only a light sent ence in the county Jail, where he is now being held at Crown Point. tacKara posed himself as an agent for the Ladies' Home Journal and the Woman's World. Canvassing from house to house, he collected a neat sum of money, receiving 98 cents on every subscription of the Ladies' Home Jour nal and 25 cents on the Woman's World. He testified that he had been doing thisonly a few days, but papers found on his person, showed that he had been working this game in Gary as early as April 1st. AUTO SPEEDERS PLEAD GUILTY Two Are Fined and One Is Released in Hammond Court. The cases of three automobile speed- . ers cams up for trial in Judcr (turn.ti'i cottrt tUis mofnfhe m a rh'r Jin ' latin the. sneer! ordinance tw t v, entering a plea of guilty, while the other was found not guilty. - Edward Uibos and Fred Helntx, whoi t were arrested on a warrant sworn out by the Harrison park policeman yester-i day for speeding on Hohman street, . pleaded guilty, receiving a fine of $10 and costs, amounting to $20 apiece. ! Both defendants testified that It was dusty and was just a case of neither j one of them wanting to eat each other's ' dust. " Julius Kohlus of Chicago was found not guilty after it was proven that he was not driving at a rate of speed nt exceeding fifteen miles an hour. Kohlus was testing the W'inton-Six. owned by Max Kline, on Calumet ave nue, last Thursday, when the arrest was made. The machine was also dam aged when It skidded Into the curbing (at Highland street, where it plunged j Into a Are plug. ! Expert witnesses in the case this morning testified that the Winton car could not exceed a speed limit of fifty miles an hour, because they were not j geared that fast. Witnesses on the I other side tried to claim that are car ' was speeding over fifty miles an hour. VALUABLE LAND IS TRANSFERRED . One hundred and thirty-six acres of

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Han Crow sum of $14,500. A mortgage has been executed , in connection with the sale but the figures have not been made public. - August H. Klass and wife have sold to John H. Guirtz 13S acres described as follows: the north ',4 of the north , of the northwest excepting tiie south 2 acres of section 36, township Zi north, range 8 west and the west of the southwest 'i and the southeast i of the southwest Vt,, section 25, township 84 north, range 8 west. Blocking Crossings. Blocking crossings was again called to the attention of the police this morning when Officer Cordua reported a freight car No. 61015 of the C, M. & St. P. R. A. loaded wlh telephone poles had blocked the crossing at Hohman street about 9:40 last night for nearly an hour. This is on the Wabash pur leading into the Reid-Murdoch plant and was left in. such a way that an accident might have occurred. Another report came in this morning that the Terminal also, blocked Fisher avenue lasft night when the crew pulled up a string of cars and left them standing on the crossing. This is the third time in the past few months that the Terminal has violated the ordinance and they were notified this morning that if it occurred again they would be prosecuted.

GIRL OF NINETEEN WHO MARRIED AGED MILLIONAIRE SAID TO HAVE LEFT HIM

"5 & mif Mrs. Edward Savannah, Ga., April 13. It has become known in Georgia that Mrs. Edward B. Alsop. formerly Miss Effie Pope of Washington, this staU, the 19a year-old bride of a Pittsburg millionl"' 68 y.rs old. Hw'wtt'ker. husband n5 ' m sanitarium at Utchfl'd' ConB' Alsop la !,ld to be ,n j Pittsburg looking after his financial in(WAY START JUNCTION PROCEEDINGS It Is possible that one of tho contractors w-ho put in a bid on the sewer for Wentworth avenue. West Hammond. will start proceedings to enjoin the building of it on the grounds that the contract was not let to the lowest bidder. One peculiar thing about the deal is the fact that Charles Lavene. the'father of the Lavene Bros., who got the contract, is one of the most active opponents of the action of the board. Charles Lavene also figured on the job and was beaten out by his son. He told a friend yesterday that he would start injunction proceedings to prevent the deal from going through. ASSOCIATION GOES ON RECORD tant Meeting Last Night. The rejuvenated East Side Improve-' ment association held a. meeting in the Ijafayette school- building last night, and in addition to electing new officers. som very Important improvements to east side property owners Were discussed. The new officers elected is as follows: President Edward Dinwiddle. Vice president C. R. Whitaker. Secretary -treasurer Otto Duelke. The association went on record favoring the opening and widening of Calumet avenue and expressed a decided sentiment in favor of oil street sprinkling. ' Ths phase of mprovement wll be dsThls phase of Improvement will be discussed more at length at the next regular meeting next Friday night. Those present spent considerable time arguing the merits of the street improvements on various east side streets, particularly Hickory street, but no definite conclusion was reached on this matter. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING fceta. marketable things and makes all valuable things "marketable."

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0, . 7" t r N5 B. Alsep. terests. . Just what caused the scpara tion cannot be learned, but it is known that young Mrs. Alsbp, after honey mooning with her aged husband for forty-flvo days,isuddnly returned to Se Tork aionev? renistined with her mother. Mm -JflftiF: HVop4wo i days, ana then repaired to-th Litchfield sanl tarium, where ' she Is nqw under the care of physicians. ; With a view of transforming the storage yard in the rear of the city hall Into a public market Dlace. tha ; board of public works and a committee I of the council, appointed bv Mayor Smalley some time ago, held a conference this afternoon to decide on the locatioh of a new storage yard, which is to be purchased. Even if tfle public market were not to be located, it is almost imperative that the city secure a storage yard located near a railroad so that a side track would-be available. The committee already has options on several pieces of '.property. AUTO ACCIDENT OCCORHT DYER Henry Batterman Ditched in Order to Avoid Collision With Train. . (Special to The Times.) Dyer, Ind., April 13. Henry Batterman registered the first automobile ac - cident for the season in Dyer last night,' when in order to avoid a colli-, ston with an E. J. & E. switch engine he ran his' machine into the ditch on the right of way. He escaped all in jury Dut nis uveriand five passenger car was considerably damaged. It was shortly after five o'clock that Mr. Batterman left his home in his machine to go to Louis Hartman's place north of the E. J. & E. tracks to get a party .whom he was to take to Chicago Heights. There being no prate or crossingwatchman at the E. J, & E. crossing, and Mr. Batterman did not notice the switch engine until he was almost on the track. He had but one alternative if he did not want to hit the moving engine, and consequently he turned his machine into the ditch. In doing this he bent the axles on his machine and broke off one wheel. A FEW DIMES FOR CAR FARE OR POSTAGE IF YOU'RE ANSWERING ADS. A FEW DIMES FOR TOUR OWN "WANT." IF YOU'RE ADVERTISING IN THE TIMES AMD TRE :iil, n c-

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DISMISSAL GRAFT CASES RESULT OF CASES' II COSTLY FIASCO

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Thomas B. Dean the Kentuckian who attempted to promote r gas and heat ing plant in Gary and who was the prosecuting witness in the notorious graft cases in which the city administration was involved has said his valedictory. Mr. Dean announced briefly that the state of Indiana today would move the dismissal of the complaints against Mayor Tom Knotts, Aid. E. L. Bowsr. chief of the steel works police, and other aldermen; this In spite of th fact that sworn dictagraph records were secured by him as prinlcipal evidence against the steel town officials. His chief witnesses, he says, have been spirited out of Indiana and lost. Dean Call. "Cleaning" Hopeless. From the outset the Kentucky man. who Went to Gary to' secure a heating franchise and stayed to try and secure conviction of the mayor and most of CContlnued on page t.) VIRGIL IVHITAKER III THT CONTEST Miss Mildred Carter Declared Winner of Girl's Declamatory Contest. Alderman Henry Whltaker'a .son some contest winner himself. In the second preliminary Hammond high school contest. held last night at the First Methodist church, the followlng wlnnners were declared: First Virgil Whitaker, "The Affairs in Cuba" (Thurston). ' Second Edgar Crumpacker, "SupToil Stnr-rr-h of John Adam" (W.l ster). Girls. First Mildred Carter. Sicily" (Longfellow). Second Adele Dunbar, O'Connell" (Phillips). Third Eliiabeth Rack, of Arthur (Tennyson). "Robert of j Flomionca of Th Puilnr

There were five boys and five girls in JJq Been Sick, the contest, and the first prize win- j . . ' ners for both the boys and the girls ! "Later we have the teresting spechave the choice' of either appearing in,tacle ot our c,erk' fH,arr7 r?"the county declamatory contest on , apparently going on a visit to MichiApril 26th, or in the Northern Indiana , an ,and then the statement that he . . . was ill In a sanitarium in Detroit. As contest. The second prize winner ap- I , ... . , , ' a matter of fact Mr. Moose is not nor pears in the contest left open by the . . :has he ever been sick In Detroit or

The contests of the future will be declamations for the boys and poetical readings for the girls, thus allowing each school to have two contestants and giving it a chance to win two firsts. The judges last night were Miss Longenecker of Kirksvllle, Mo., who is preparing herself for a A. M. degree at the University of Chicago. I. E. Neff of Richmond, Ind., and Barrett Clark of Chicago. They were agreed that the tent contestants last night made an excellent showing and It was with some difficulty that they selected the winners. The contest was well attended, there having beeen more than 300 paid admissions, and those who attended wers well entertained and highly edified by the work of the students. Hear High School Chorna. The high school chorus rendered its county contest selection. Cowen's "The Bridal Chorus from the Rose Maidens," it is not known just what strength the , other high .schools in the county will ( develop the winners of last night's con- ... . . . . , " , test win unuouoieuiy matte an excellent showing for the Hammond high 1 school In the final contests. The other speakers and their subjects last night were: "Attempt to Subjugate America" (Chatham) Raymond Mette. j "Euloav of Wendell Phillips" (Cur- I tis) Clure Burge. "The Chariot. Race from Ben Hur" (Wallace) Ellen Peterson. "The Revenge" (Tennyson) Marguerite Knotts. The eighth grade chorus sang one seIf r-tfon, and tha high school orchestra furnished the music. BALDWIN OFFICIALS IN EAST CHICAGO S. P. Vaudplaln, vice president of the Baldwin Locomotive) works, with a number of other officials arrived in East Chicago today looking over the preliminaries which are soon expected to mark tfce beginning of work on the company's new plant. LaVendor Cigars are pronounced exceptionally good by all smokers.

(Bl'LLETIv.) i hotel, Indianapolis, undecidedly rarer-. Valparadao, Ind.. April . 13. Court eating conditions, and these two man convened at 1:30 with Jndge Vu Fleet are the most Interested la Mr. Moose' ob tbo bears. Iroaeeiitor Hod area bt- staying away .from Gary, ed that the eases agaiaat Knott a. Bow- ' aer mm Nyhoff be dlamlaaed. The -tartlUg WOrtt feaae moved that ther all he dla- "It's Up tO Citizen." charred. A hour waa occupied la ar-j "if the eltizena of Gsj-y and tha tax-roina-thia motion, jodse Vaa Kleet payers of Lake county wll stand to the rated that the caaea against Knotta the laws of th state being dragged In and Bowser be dlamlaaed aad yhoflf the dust all well and good, bat I am diacnatrared. IN'othlna; waa aald about sure I shall not put the state to tho the Avuiiaton case. This leaves the expense of having another trial when eases against Knotts and Bowser opea defendants, yet claiming to be lnnoand new charaea mar h Hied aarataat cent, do away with witnesses right and ! them. left ' i

ACKNOWLEDGES HIS DEFEAT (BT THOMAS B. OEAW.) j "Gary is too rotten for me. I'm through. Let some one else clean it." l "I never found such conditions. I went to Gary against the advlcs of my friends, who told me It was impossible i to get anything in the town without f paying the council half as much as It Jwas worth and worse yet, that the (crowd there was Immune from punish- ! ment. j He Has Changed 'His Mind Great Deal. "I didn't believe my friends. I do now. It's the liveliest gang I ever beard of. For slmon pure graft, nak- . ed 'and unashamed, go to Gary. There are good men there, but they don't run the city. See the Gary city hall and die. That crowd is the last word. feel that It would be a waste of money and valuable time to proceeu runner wun ineie cases in mo c uk ulthe fact that our wltnessea .ars- con.tliHially , -heme -''handled ' iand , gottMt away with by. a lot of grafting" politi cians and contractors. . r " Savs Witnesses Were T,-!. Ontrio-ht :iOugni UUlTlgnX. j "When It became known that Anthony Baukus had made a confes8ion he was Promptly taken out of the "I inaiana ana mjona ine rwen of the courts. Later Stenographer Hlmelblau was bought body and soul attempting not only to discredit his work and proclaiming himself a perjurer uui uj.n but to discredit sevI eral witnesses who are men of the highest standing In Gary. Says Moose Has sick anywhere else during the last six weeks. Only as far back as the Democratic state convention he was witn Mayor Knotts. his former enemy, and Contractor Bill Cain at the Claypool At a conference of attorneys for the defense In ths Gary bribery cases It was decided to push at once the perjury charges against T. B. Dean, the dictagraph Instigator. It will be Insisted that Dean be tried at the forth - !""' """" f Dean waa arrested last, fall for swearing to an affidavit that resuitea in Mayor Knotts' arrest. Dean In a way -committed technical perjury, It Is said, as it was necessary to data the affidavit ahead. Tom Wants The S,oO It was reported this morning that tSfayor Knotts would endeavor to recover the $5,000 In bills taken from his , office by deputy sheriffs on the morn ing of his arrest. Tnis money waa , XT A TlClvTfi"N"n TfTAN LOSES BROTHER F. B. Mcllroy, president of the McIlroy Belting and Hose Manufacturing Co., last Thursday buried his brother, Thomas Mcllroy, in Chicago. Th deceased was 50 years old and leaves no family. He died In Baltimore a week ago today, having gone there on a business trip for the Gandy Building company of Chicago, with whom he. was connected for many years and for whom he traveled extensively. His death is ascribed to tuberculosis. Prior to his connection with the Gandy Building company he was associated with his Hammond brother In the manufactur

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"If Mr. Moose or his friends eai KENTUCKIAN WHO GRILLS GRAFT CASES show he has been in an Infirmary si ok for the last several weeks 1 shall be glad to donate $1,000 to their Meroy hospital. In conclusion I wish to thank such citizens of Gary as have supported me In the trying condition I have been laboring under." BE PUSHED placed In a Crown Point - bank. Ths story is that the mayor will give the money to charity if he get's a hold of It. However, the mayor will not have much chance of getting much of a hold on the coin as early In the week T. B. Dean, It is said, took the money from the deposit vaults. Friends of the myor also talk of hi suing Sheriff Grant and his deputies. Dean's Slna Waahed Awijl Today several city contractors were out with a story that T. B. Dean had "confessed" and that Tom Knotts and Bill Cain had given him absolution In recognition of. his repentance. When this was heard many of the faithful predicted that there would no a rush to be shrived. ing busineso. Thomas Mcllroy was a thirty-second degree Mason and an Elk, and as an Elk the Hammond lodge sent a beautiful floral piece to decorate his bier. Department Called OutThe Central fire department was callto the P. B. Lipinski home, 500 South Hohman street, last night to extinguish a blaze in a bedroom, which was noticed before much damake could be done. It is thought that the fire smoldered for some time and was caused by a burning match which fell In the bed clothes earlier in the evening when come work was done In the room for locating a saa leak.

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