Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 158, Hammond, Lake County, 4 December 1912 — Page 1

THE LAK COUNT TIME EVENING EDITION VOL. VII., NO. 158. HAMMOND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1912. ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers 1 Centa Copy.)

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HUBBARD GETS 01 HIS HIGH HORSE

Councilman - Grocer Demands Explanation From City Market Master Why He Afforded Public Eene- - fit of Cheaper Turkeys. HIS DEFENSE. When I induced men to come Into the market to sell turkeys and chickens for Thanksgiving day. lower than most of the merchants were selling them. I had but one thought in mind and that was how to benefit the general public. I have heard no objection from the- consumers. If the people at large are not to be benefited by a. public market there is no need for having one. Farmers who came into the market told us that merchants threatened them for coming into the market, and told them they would not buy heir goods in the future. When noma of the farmers on the market tried to organize to raise prices, ,we drove them off the market. Market Master O'Rourke in defense before Hammond council. Frank J. O'Rourke, Hammond market master and city sealer, who last week manipulated the "coup de tur- j key" on the public market, much to j the delight of the consumers and to j the chagrin of the middlemen, was i "called on the carpet" before the Ham mond city council last night to defend j his action. Charles ;W. Hubbard, eouncilman-at-large, demanded an explanation from Market Master O'Rourke for the em barrassing situation that he had ere- ,

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Hubbard is in the grocery business ; himelf, and about a dozen of other middlemen were at the meeting as ' spectators. Mr. Hubbard'3 quo warranto ques- ' tion was really oimd at Mayor Smal- ! ley and his a ministration for giving J the market master practically free rein ; to make the market a success, or In other words, why the city does in any J way countenance an action which j plainly is injurious to the business j methcd3 of the Hammond grocers. Look n to Public's lntcirst. Mr. Hubbard wanted an answer to two specific questions, the first of i which T.-as tn effect, why the market master in bringing about the lower j trices on poultry for Thanksigvlng ! had played into the hands of a West ! Hammond dealer, and the second of s which was why he had caused so much Cont:i.uci on Page 6.) AMEPJCAX WIFE OF 1L. AJ.V4.G U A3 LlA. WIl Kli ill S7r Mccaroe Luis F. Corea. Aladam Luis K. Corea is an American firt, mo at the ace or eiK&teen triarrjJ the Nicaragua a minister to VVaitutigion ovtr ire irottsts of her famiiy. He was Zeiaya's rpresent.it;r and at the -nd of the Zviaya rrs.:r left the filtlomatte service an. 5 eniracei la th- practice of :nterna tkcal law in New Icrk clur.

DOCTOR TO BE HALED BEFORE MEDICAL SOCIETY

Life simply seems to be one Blank-ety-blank thing after another for the Lake County Medical society. It just sloshes around in trouble whenever there is a new quarter of the moon. For the second time within a few weeks it has another .large basket of eggs to unscramble and the next gathering of the society promises to make a union meeting of the Jefferson club and Wilson Progressive League look like an adjourned session of The Hague peace tribunal. THE CAST OK CHARACTERS. The dramatis personae of the litest tragedy in which ' the "members of the society find themselves involved clear up to their auricles are as follows: DR. T. WILLIAM OBEHLIN, Hammond, secretary of the Lake county board or health, B. of I'., and possessor j of titles too numerous to mention. j JOHN KLIMES of No Where in par- ; ticular and nothing, to be still mora particular. The action of the drama is on HohI man street. Klmbach avenue, bioiey street and State street. Picture to yourself the cast of characters as they met on Ilohman street just as the sun went down and the orchestra playing shivery music. OH! THE POOR FELLOW! "Can you give me a dime so a starving man can get something to eat?" said John. " r "Yes. I can give you two dimes," said the health sec, as he sized up the beggar, extracted his family history, diagnosed, prognosed, felt his pulse, took his temperature commanded him to stick out his tongue, and thumped his chest. "but I fear me you will exchange my wealth for booze in yon taproom, or ; some kindred groggery, and withal ; spend it in riotous living." J John sighed very softly and vowed by his father's beard and other hirsute appendages that he would shun the wassail and flowing bowl and instead would chortle gaily In some inn over a mess of pott.ige or a pot of message. HAl A BAD COUGH. I Then the doctor coughed up the two j dimes and bid the empty-stomached j godspeed, j But suspicion rankled in his breast I and he watched carefully the peregrln1 atlons of the Klimes aforesaid. The canny doctor started, sleuthing. He followed Klimes hence and thence yonder. He saw him slip in one store ,

after another, accost this man and that, ' Vndoubtedly there will be more of collect and collect again. this anon. Of GARHARM 1WATGKES OUTCOME KEET WITH ACCIDENT?! OF P. 0. FIGHT ! i Manufacturer Wonders Judge W. W. McMahon InWhat Happened to His j terested in Fulton Coun-

Son's Clothes. Although the Carmania. the Cunard liner on which the Betz boys returned to New York, arrived in that port safely, F. S. Betz, Hr.. is convinced that the boat was wrecked 1,000 miles out and that the wreck was so serious that the He received a cablegram from ttiem that they wore l.ono miles off New j York, then a day later he received a j message that they were still 750 miles away. Only making 230 miles a day convinced him that there had been an accident. Then when they arrived In New York they telegraphed that they would remain there for a day or so, to see if they could not get the company to settle for clothes they lost. They have said nothing about an accident, and Betz says that there Is nothing in the papers, but he is convinced that one occurred. He is not worrying because he has riroof of the fact that the boys are safe in New York. TAKE 4 CHINKS OFF TRAIN Four Chinamen, who are thought to have been smuggled into the United States via Canada and Detroit, were aken from a N'.ckel Plite train at Nickel Plate Junction yest.-.lay. They are being held at the tfouth Chicago Police Station tind will be arraigned before United States Commissioner Foote this morning. The mm aroused the P'iSpU ion of the conductor in charge of the train by IiplaIrg a large sum of Canadian money. Honeymooners Back. I Councilman Arthur Sihutz of the Kig'nth ward and his bride of a week returned tost night from a short stay I In Grand Rapids, Mich. They win stay at a hotel temporarily aid after the holidays will establish themselves in their own home. liefore doing this, however, they intend to take another trip, to visit in the east. Will Meet. Wednesday. 1 he houth M.le Improvement associa-

tlon. which was to have met last night minal. Eleventh avenue and Broadhas pos'.por.e.l its meeting until next I way. AVednesday when a number of matters

of importance tl!l come up for consideration. ARE VOl A TIMES HEADER!

THE MOOT QUESTION. After giving a whining beggar twonty cents of his hard-earned hoard with heartfelt benisons, has a doctor of medicine, regretting his action, any moral right to afterwards follow the chap seven. or eight blocks, lay rude hands upon him, arrest him and turn him over to the bloodhounds of the law as an impostor? "By hek," muttered T. William J. Burns Oberlin. "the fellow is trying to get enough to board ten days at De Jonghes," and the more he thought Cf Klimes' the more he thought of his zwanzlger pfennige. II E HITS THE TRAIL. Finally he gave chase and ran into the object of his charity on State street. "I thought you were hungry?" quoth the doctor. "Come on I'll get you some thing to eat." "I don't want anything to eat," said Klimes, recognizing his benefactor, "here's your 20c" Then the doc. bubbled over. Hecuba's seething cauldron couldn't hold a Tungstein light to his seething breast. "John Klimes," he hissed, "by the authority vested in me as an officer, I arrest thee in the name of the great commonwealth of Ohio (the doctor used to jwell in Mansfield), come with muh," Did John come? E'en so and then some. The doctor saw to it that he did. THRII.LIXt; EXPERIENCE. John was turned over to the corner cop, who bunnyhugged him to the donjon keep, where he was booked on charges of begging and drunkenness. When askqd by a busy body reporter what he would have done had John threatened him, refused to come and raucously consigned him to the nether regions, the genial doctor said: "Why I'd run, of course." But the question at the head of this screed remains unanswered. The Lake County Medical society vows it will take action. The society's ethics expressly forbid a doctor acting as a sleuth and usurpIrg the-functions that belong to another part of the municipal government. ty Squabble. Judge W. W. McMahon of Hammond is watching with interest the outcome of a postmastership fight that has broken out in Rochester, Ind.. and in which his nephew. Otto McMahon, is one of the principal figures. Charles K. Emranns was considered the logical man because of the light he waged in behalf of the democratic ticket, he declined, because he had lucrative law practice in sight. McMahon was the next claimant in line, but a compromise was finally effected, according to which, Harold Van Trump was decided upon. He has rented Congressman Barnhart's newspaper, and inasmuch as the recommendation is up to the congressman. Van Trump will i will very likely be satisfactory to him. CARS CHANGE OPERATINGJCHEDOLE Many Gary People Inconvenienced by the Sudden Change. Although the company evidently forgot to issue a notice to the public, the air line cars between Gary and Laporte are operating under a new schedule. Many who did not know of the change in time were inconvenienced by the sudden change. Trains will leave Gary for Laporte on the odd hour insipid of the even one from now on. The first train will leave Eleventh avenue and Broadway at 7 o'clock and the last one at 9 o'colck in the evening. The first train leaves Laporte at 7 o'clock and the last one at 9 o'clock. On Saturdays and Sundays the last train will leave Gary at 11 o'clock and the last one will leave Laporte at 11:30 j Hammond and Broadway cars con- ! nect with the Laporte cars at the ter-M'HIE-S. TOR. CO. I MO M l T SOUP ha rtackt tb- nagnrra. 1kr kn cood qua Iitj. 2y oa. for 3c Ad.

UNCLE SAM EXPERIMENTS IN CAPITAL WITH NEW. POSTAGE kVENl)JLNU MACHINE

In, the effort to glro ' ta public Kood postal ervtce t b postmuter general la trying out a new invention In the forp ot a poste.ee stamp - . machine. vending One of the machines la In the lobby o the Washington post office building and a penny placed In the slot, marked "one cent atamps" will - operate the Interior mechanism which forces the penny stamp out of a horizontal slot. The same operation is necessary for the two-cent variety. There Ms a letterbox below where the mail may be deposited. WILL TRY TO Hi PUT THE OWRER Mayor Knotts Is Subpoenaed to the Lake Circuit Court. Mayor Thomas E. Knotts of Gary will have the opportunity to come into court at Crown Point in the near future and say whether or not he is the owner of the $5,000, which was found in his desk, after ' the memorable Interview with.. Thomas C Dean. Sheriff Thts.' Grant yesterday served him with 'jino(tMX9teamHand say whether or not the money Is his. That Knotts overlooked a little item of $5,000 In his desk seems to be a matter of concern to the authorities, and they are going to attempt to establish its ownership. The date of the hearing has been set on the 13th of this month. It will be a matter of interest to the general public to learn just what disposition is to be made of this money. LET INSURANCE RISKS. (Special to The Times,) Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 4. The board of county commissioners today let the Insurance on the courthouse at Crown Folnt. There was about JS0,000 and It was distributed among the local agents at Crown Point. This Is the quarterly meeting of the board and visits are being made to the poor farm and county jail. The board will end Its session tomorrow. HERE'S GENEVIEVE'S LATEST PHOTOGRAPH G'.-nevluve Clark. This is tlie very latest picture of Hiss Genevieve Clark, daughter of the speaker of the house of representatives, who has Jupt celebrated her eighteenth birthday. She is greatly interested in newspaper work and 1 4 being tutored by a Washington newspaper-woman. She has already written one or two news stor!'S nd i of the opinion that she would rather be a newspaper reporter than almost anything- else.

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COAL DEALERS MUST GET ANOTHER EXCUSE State Mine Inspector Shows 1912 Production Is One of Greatest in History. TIMES IlVUEAr, AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 4. The annual report of State Mine Inspector Frank Pierce rather puts a crimp In the contention of the coal dealers over the state that a lack of production is responsible for the present high prices ot jeiLHt-ii jiftrt : efi'c wa. uLat-' ni ore coal was produced in Indiana during the" fiscal year of 1910, ending on Sept. 30, than In any other year but one in the history of the state. The total production for the year was 14.204,573 tons of bituminous and 513,700 tons of block coal. The only year that ever exceeded this production was 1910, when the Illinois miners were on strike for seven months and thus permitted the Indlana mine operators to take a large part of the Illinois business. In 1912 fiscal year 8,023,701 tons of the bituminous and 198,622 tons of the block coal were consumed in Indiana. In the year the Indiana bituminous miners received in wages a total of $12, 302,047.71, and the block miners received $786,053.61. SATURDAY SCHOOL FOR GARY PUPILS Supt. Wirt Gets Permission From . the Board of Education. Beginning December 7 kids In Gary can go to school on Saturdays. Gary public schools have so many attractions that the pupils have been coming to the buildings on Saturday so Superintendent V. A. Wirt secured permission from the school hoard to hcM Saturday sessions with the regular hours that obtain on week days. The principal departments to be opened on Saturdays will bo the play grounds, gymnasia, swimming pools, library and machine shops :and manual training rooms. Another feature of the Saturda' school work is that it will enable the pupils who have missed classes during the week to make up their studies. For the most part, however, the Saturday classes will be confined to th gymnasium, playground and manual training departments. Organize New Club. The Jovial club, an organization of young men of St. Paul's Lutheran church, lias prepared a program of entertainment which will lie given tomorrow evening and Friday at the school hall, ;i t the corner of Oakley avenue and S.bley street. The members of the club have rehearse! faithfu'ly and have a reportoire of songs recitations and dialogues which will undoubtedly be entertaining. Several hundred tickets have already been sold for the performances. Benefit Performance. The Hammond Moose have made arranpemerts. according to which they wiil give a benefit performance on the afternoon and evening of I'ec. 20th. at the Orpheum. Seats can be reserved for both performances, and exchange tickets will be sold for 2') cents. The proceeds am to be used for charitable purposes. Toil will say that a I.a Vendor cigar cannot be beat, if you try one. Adv.

CANADIAN PACIF

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Following almost within a few hours the announcement of the sundering of the Southern Pacific-Union Pacific combination by the Supreme court of the LTnited States, comes the announcement, on authority that seems to insure its authenticity, that the Canadian Pacific Hallway company is negotiating the purchase of the Michigan Central line from the New York Central. "Whether the ruling against the Harrinian merger could be made effective against the New York Central ownership of the parallel competing lines between Buffalo and Chicago Is an open Question. But It is believed in railroad circles that the r'ecent decision will have a tendency to accelerate the deal for the purchase of the Michigan Central. It has been rumored for a long time that the great Canadian system was trying to secure an entrance into Chicago from the East and that the Michi With five of the Hammond city councilmen absent from the meeting last night, those of the city fathers who wire present found themselves in a quandry for a short time to pass soma urgent appropriation ordinances. Incidentally the council heard from th.j Wilson Progressive League of Hammond, which sent in a communication slKned by its president. Dr. W. F. Howat. and its secretary, C. H. Herber, askj,!i:tBfcra, actio:-'e.M;'i.!P;2-ci-.y council on the ornamental lighting I system as a general proposition for the t city until after the next meeting of the ' legislature." i The league, which is said to have t about a hundred members, who repre- ! sent a wing in the democratic party, is , looking forward to legislation estab- : lishing a public utility commission. which it hopes will have some bearing on the proposed contract. The communication was placed on file. Act on Land Purcliane. The council accepted the report of Judge Iawrence Becker, who had been appointed by the council to represent j the city as arbitrator on fixing the ! boundary lines on the site for the proproposed sewer pumplnc station. The proposed site, located on Columbia avenue, and north of the Grand Calumet river is the property of John W. Ulm, and Judge Becker and Mr. Vim's representative on the arbitration committee, P. W. Meyn, were both agreed that, according to custom, Mr. Ulm should be paid to the center of the street. The acreage Involved in the deal is 12.33 acres. Judge Becker's report was unanimously accepted, but on the vntc instructing the board of public works to enter into negotiations with Mr. Vim for the purchase of the property, Frel Cotton voted against it. The board hopes to make an agreement with Mr. Vim. according to which, he is to be paid $3.0fl0 an acre in annual installments of $3,000 each. Gnvit Sent to Washington. . . One of the apr ropriat ion ordinances on which final action had to be taken last night to make it effective providiPd for the .ippror-rl.it ion of $200 to defray the expenses of a representative from the city administration to the National Rivers and Harbor' Congress, which convenes in Washington, 1. C, j tomorrow, and which will be In session J for a week or ten days. All the surrounding cities have taken similar ac- ! tion, and City Attorney John A. Gavit was elected to represent Hammond. iThe timely arrival of Councilman Jo- ' seph Stodola, who had been summoned ! by telephone, made the suspension of ; the rules for the appropriation possible, ! as under the law' two-thirds of the council must vote for suspension of J rules on an appropriation, j Appropriation IaNel. Councilman Cotton's inconsistent vote on another appropriation for $3,000 to pay public improvement inspectors carried, makes it necessary for the or- , ilinanee to come up for final action at 1 the next meeting. He voted for the ! suspension of the rules, but voted against the final adoption. He did not ' explain his vote. I Appropriation ordinances were passed providing $2,;HiO to pay delinquent speeial assessments, which money will lat- ! er be refunded to the city, and one for i $53 to pay for additional delinquent sprinkling assessment . The councilmen absent last night ! were Moriartj, Whitaker, Pascal y. j Schutz. and Kastwood. Mr. Pascal y Is ( sick in bed with rheumatism, and Coun- j cilman Schutz returned late last night! from his honeymoon trip. j M'HIE-S. TOB. CO. I FOREX XXXX Kcntn.kr Ping Cut! Rmoklns tobacco hn made tbc nmokcr lw. lie Itnona (iinlll.i. 2 . foil package for 5c .lv. I

CITY DADS HOLD A MEETING

. CENTRAL

gan Central offered by far the most attractive proposition. Its lines run from the Immense terminal facilities of the Canadian Pacific at Windsor. Ont.. and parallel the Grand Trunk, the rival of the Canadian Pacific, all the way from the Sarnia tunnel Into Chicago. Furthermore, the Michigan Central runs cast from Windsor, on through the province of Ontario to Niagara Falls, serving one of the richest agricultural and manufacturing sections of Eastern Canada. IWADIXi CHICAGO OISTI1ICT. iThe Canadian Pacific interests have been steadily invading the great lakes and Chicago territory, and for some time have been known to be struararl-ijr to secure a direct Eastern connection with Chicago. Their main line now reaches Windsor, Ont., opposite Detroit, and with the Michigan Central from Detroit to Chicago they will have completed a new transcontinental (Continued on Page 6.) SOUGHT BY POLICE Search Made in Calumet Region Cities for 17-Year-Old South Chicago Girl, Who Has Disappeared From Her Home. All efforts ' made by police in "the various cities of the Calumet region to get any clues to the whereabouts of Edna Foster the South Chicago girl have failed. s Absolutely no trace of the missing girl has been found. Miss Foster, seventeen years old and a sophomore student at the Englewood High School, has not been seen since she left home Monday morning for school. Whether they believe the girl was lured to a lonely spot and slain or was abducted and is being held a captive neither the police nor her parents would say last hignt. A third theory (Continued ou Pace 8.) WOULD RESTORE ONE-CENT RATE Wsshington, D. C, Dec. 4. One cent letter postage within a city where mall is fl-st deposited would be provided by a bill Introduced today by Senator Penrose. The measure would extend the 1-cent rate now applying In towns that have no carrier delivery to all cities, restoring the general "drop letter" rate. ENTHUSIASTIC OVER MANILA HOSPITAL t -V " M Jrj- I.? fee V CV'.'if.:-AlrVj-.lS'tWkv r D-. Helen EabcccVc. Dr. Helen Babcock of Seattle, v,ht returned recently from the orient rnay give up her practice In ths Washington city to iakt charge of a department of the general hospital in Manila. Dr. Babcock went to the orient to make a study of the far fnstern hospitals. She return! filled with enthusiasm for the Manila hospital, v. hich she declarea la superior t anything of its kind In the United States.