Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 278, Hammond, Lake County, 12 May 1913 — Page 1

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START NATIONAL FIGHT AGAINST CAR ROBBERS

First Indictment Under New Law, Obtained in Chicago, Beginning of Campaign

A nation-wide campaign against baggage and freight car thieves, who are one of the Calumet region's greatest pests, who have been reaping a rich harvest throughout the country, was begun yesterday by the federal government when Indictments were voted by the Cook county grand jury under the new "shipment protection law." The first Indictment was against James Barnes. He Is charged with having stolen a bundle of clothing in transit from the Wells-Fargo Express company station, Plymouth place and Taylor street. It s value was $50. Under the new law Barnes, If convicted, may be fentenced to ten years In the federal prison or given a $5,000 fine or both, instead of the ten days to "LITTLE LOST SISTER" TO ' BEDRAI9 ATIZED Brooks-Washburne Production to Be Staged at the Orpheum Theater. "Chuck" Washburne of The Tribune isn't such an impediment to Virginia Brooks in her flight towards fame as some were wont to remark at the time of the Washburne-Brooks nuptials. He appears now as the tail of the kite. Aside from household duties. Virginia has found time to write picturesquely of Chicago's tenderloin, and now her husband is said to be busy on an arrangement of a play on, the "Little Lost Sister' for Immediate production, " Ulnas'erIIaQlCsd'n!ieard Tffe rum" ble the announcement caused on the. Rialto and by diligent 'phoning secured a date, May 30th, Decoration day, for Hammond knowing that the show will go big here no matter how hot the weather. It is under verbal contract now and the parties of the second part are sure to deliver the goods, according to Hankenson. Those who have never seen a play of the underworld composed from the experiences of a social worker who has lived with the habitues will have an experience in store. GRAND JURY TOMORROW The grand jury whirji is summoned to consider cases for the May term of court convenes at Crown Point tomor- ' row. It is expected that it will return an indictment charging murder in the first degree against Grace Smith the Gary woman who is held at the county tail for the death of Clarence Murphy who was shot in his father's saloon. ARE YOU A TIMES READER! ASKS CLERGY HELP UNDERWORLD WOMEN

Rudolph Blankeaburg. Mayor BIanknburg of Philadelphia has called upon every clergyman in the city to co-operate with the city authorities in poshing to auecesaful completion the yica quarantine recently eta Wished orer the city's tenderloin by the polica department. One of the chief necessaries', the mayor declares, is to obtain reputable employment for the women who have been driven out of their unlawful habitats by the police order, and he a:iks the ministers to and fti thia jritrjg'Hrrn.

six months' nenalties which the state laws impose. Text of w I.arv. The new law. whtch went into effect Feb. 16, is entitled: An act prohibiting the breaking of seals of railroad cars containing interstate or foreign shipments, unlawful entering of such cars, the stealing of freight and express packages, baggage or articles in process of transportation in interstate shipment and the felonious transportation of such freght or express packages, baggage or articles therefrom into another district and the felonious possession or recep-

(Contlnued on Page 8.) HAMMOND SHUS AJDALLAS Sharrer and Ray Made FullFledged Members of Order of Woodpeckers. (Special to The Times.) Dallas, Texas, May 12. Orak Temple delegation of Hammond under the lead-; erahin of potentate ILIl. Sharrer .arrived "Here at 2 p. m. yesterday anil Is already taking prominent part in the festivities incidental to the imperial council meeting. They arrived at St. Louis yesterday morning, where they helped to receive . Tast Imperial Potentate Frank Treat and the Osman temple delegation of Fargo, North Dakota. The Pilgrimage from St. Louis, to Dallas was made in company with Moolah temple on a special deluxe train of ten pullmans. Splendid quarters have been reserved at the Hotel Adolphus. At three o'clock they were met by Mayor Vv M. Holland of Dallas and entertained with a luncheon at the Dallas Club and they will have the mayor as their guest at a diner at the Adolphus. Potentate H. E. Sharrer and Chief Rabban W. D. Ray of Hammond have been made full fledged members of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Wood Peckers. LUMBER JACKS ARE WANTED NOW Messrs. Rhode and Thomas Looking for Gallant Axemen. If you see a man who makes a noise like a democratic politician or one who sounds like a side-bearing, deftly moseying along in search of a lumber jack or rail-splitter hurry to the tail woods. jnese men are A . w. Thomas of Simplex Railway Appliance Co. and J L. Iiohde of the board of public works. It came about this way. President A. M. Turner of the Hammond Country club is arranging to have a nice lot of timber to store away for use in the big fireplace at the Country club next winter. The club owns a lot of timber, but it is poor and can't afford to hire the wood cut down and chopped. He has therefore decided that the club members must cut it down themselvesi so he has appointed two captains who will choose up two teams of timber-jacks to compete. Messrs. Kohde and Thomas are the captains and they are looking for axemen who never heard of the song, "Oh, Woodman Spare That Tree." There are to be ten men on a side. They will meet at 6:30 a. m. at the club, have breakfast and the side that is the poorest lot of lumber-jacks will pay for the breakfast. Time to be called at 9 a. m. That's, all except the blisters. Six Were Jingled. With the exception of six drunks nothing of importance occurred at the Hammond central police station over Saturday night and Sunday. They were arraigned before City Judge Barnett in the city court this morning and fined $11 each. It is thought that three of them will be taken to Crown Point in default of payment.

BOARD IN IMPORTANT

SESSION Lake County Commissioners Overwhelmed With Work, Compelled to Remain in Session the Greater Part of the Present Week. (.Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind.. May 12. Various county improvements which ned the immediate attention of the county commissioners have prevented an adjournment thus far for the May session and the indications are that the board will continue in executive session the greater part of this week. Board Said to Favor It. Indiana Harbor, Whiting and East Chicago taxpayers who went before the commissioners last week to plead for the Dickey Place bridge were given to understand that the commissioners- favor the bridge and that they will ask the council to make a sufficient appropriation. To do this the county council will have to meet in special session. Today the commissioners took up the Cochran road and Brennan road No. 1 matters in Eagle and Calumet townships respectively, these being the roads for which Judge A. C Huber had the paving contracts, but which tie abandoned after having done some work. The Cohran road involves eleven miles, and Contractor Huber's bondsmen may be asked to finish them. He Is said to have found his contracts to be big losing ventures. 'Will Vlnit West Creek. Tomorrow the commissioners are ex pected to visit West Creek township on road and bridge matters and on Wednesday they are scheduled to meet with the Newton county commissioners at Shelby relative a bridge over the Kankakee river at Shelby. On Thursday they are to visit Miller to take up road ad bridge repair matTEAMSTERS AND MOTORISTS CARELESS Aggravate Contractor Prohl With Tracking Up Newly Oiled Pavement. Like small boys who espy the first glazed icy coating of winter and head straight for it, teamsters and motorists in Hammond take a fiendish delights in tracking over the freshly oiled portions of streets and doing an irreparable damage that thwarts the city fathers in their purpose to blanket the dust. Its a case of biting off their collective noses to spite their collective faces. Enters a Protea. J. H. Prohl, teaming contractor who has the work of street oiling under fair headway, is almost distracted by the destructive actions of those he Is directly benefiting. He has appealed to the commissioners to have an ordinance passed making it a finable offense. It is absolutely unnecessary for teams and machines to travel over the oiled side before it is ready in preference to the other which is dry, he says. Only one side is oiled at a time, so that traffic can continue on the other. Prohl is on his second carload of oil, but the work is going slow. It cannot progress ahead of street cleaners, who precedes the two oil sprinklers. The streets that have received half of their portion of oil are Plummer, Fayette, Summer and Calumet. The work could be dope In ten days, but will take much longer than that. HAMMOND MAN IS ACCUSED Washington, D. C, May 12. Venders of adulterated and misrepresented grass seeds are exposed in a bulletin issued today by the department of agriculture. The publication gives the names and addresses of the firms and the analysis of samples of their seeds found to be impure or misbranded. The firms named in Indiana.are: INDIANA. South Bend Warner Bros. New Albany H. L. Graff. New Albany Supply company. Goshen Harper. Seed company. Terre Haute Frank Hoermann. Indianapolis- Huntington Seed store. HAMMOND. A. Schutz. The bulletin states that samples of seeds will be examined for purchasers at the seed testing laboratory here or at any of the branches, those for the middle west being situated at Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind., and the agricultural experiment station, Columbia, Mo. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING glvea to roar offer your vraat HIGHLT SPECIALIZED PUBLICITY.

TWENTY-YEAR-OLD GIRL STAR WITNESS IN CASE AGAINST MILLIONAIRE BIXBY

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Miss Kitty tn Angeles, Cal., Stay ll.Miss Kitty Phillip, it .SO-y-old girl, is the Trtngpi"wnnes8 ' In s r Bffltfb'fiiagg George H. Eixby of Long Beach, accused of assisting In luring "young girls to questionable resortar A grand Jury is looking into the case. , The Phillips girl, has 'told the Jury of orgies in which girls of from sixteen to twenty took part In apartment houses and roadhouses. She Implicated several prominent men. LAD WILL RECOVER.! Injuries fro mAuto Accident Not Likely Fatal. (Special to The Times.) Whiting, ' Ind., . May 12. Joseph Dvorsak, 12-year-old school boy, who was struck by a motor car Friday afternoon, is beyond danger of death. The fear of physicians that internal injuries might prove fatal did not materialize. Mike Kozacik, formerly a Whiting alderman, but now of Gary, has been exonerated from blame for the accident. The boy was struck by Kozacik's car while crossing 119th street and New York, avenue on his way home from a funeral. His father is a Robertsdale saloonkeeper. He is being cared for at home. HE WILL REPRESENT UNCLE SAM AT TOKIO 'f rr ''XL it .9 ;v; ? a , George W. Guthrie. The nomination of George W. Guthrie of Pittsburg for ambassador to Japan has besn sent to the senate by the president and in all likelihood will be favorably acted upon. Mr. Guthrie is . former mayor of Pittsbure where he became- famous 3 a reformer. He defeated Alexander M. Jenkinson, the millionaire candidate for the office In 1906, and from that time until tha end of hia term he kept the p'itieians of hia city in constant turmoEL

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-Bixby 'declares that he is the. victim q a "eonsplracy; that tbe Phillip girl arid""6ther girls " who ' have testified against him have done so because they failed In their efforts to blackmail him. Other prominent and wealthy men of southern California who are mixed up in the white slave scandal also declare that they are innocent and that the girls are trying to ruin them because of their failure to extort money by threats. MYSTERY OF WOMAN'S DISAPPEARANCE SOLVED Whiting Mother's Remains Found on Beach Near Buffington. LEFT HER HOME IN MENTAL LAPSE (Special to Thbs Times.) Whiing, Ind. May 12. The mystery of th strange disappearance of Mrs. Mary Taraj of Whiting, was cleared up yesterday, by the identification of the body, which was found at Buffington on naiuraay aiiernoon. rsotning but a stocking and a shoe were found on It. Mrs. Taraj who was 22 years of age. had been missing over a month. On April 11th she prepared breakfast for her husband, who worked nights, and (Continued on pace .) ROB SOUTH SHORE TICKET OFFICE Company Shaved While Its Agent Gets a Shave. Another daring robbery happened at the Hammond South Shore interurban depot Saturday afternoon, when a bold sneak thief broke into, the ticket office during the absence of the station agent and made his getaway with $120 in cash. Shortly after the robbery a stranger was seen coming out of the station and today a wide search is be ing made for the intruder. The robbery occurred Saturday aft ernoon at fi o clock while the station agent was at a barber shop. Not un til he returned was the robbery discovered. Entrance was gained by opening a door through the ladies' waiting room. DEEP SEWER MEETING. There will "be a meeting of ihe tax payers of the city of Hammond at the Lafayette school house corner Sibley street and Calumet avenue, Tuesday evening. May 13, 1913 to discuss and re monstrate against the deep sewer sys tern. COMMITTEE. subscribe: foiwtiie times.

NEW PLANT TO BE

Johns-Manville Co.

with Buildings and Switches Employing 8000 Union Employes .

That the Johns-Manville company will employe 8,000 people, 1,000 of who will be women at its monster new plant to be built on the 150 acre tract a short distance southwest of Hammond is the latest Information given out by the company. The labor will be unionized. The plan is surrounded on three sides by the Calumet river and the company will use three million gallons of water per diem. It will duplicate the one at Manville, N. to include 12 large buildings. WORK IS BEING RUSHED. The company is proceeding now to build an enormous factory, which will In fact with switch tracks cover almost the entire acreage. The machinery to be used is so varied and intricate as to LATEST NEWS WORK IS REALLY BEGUN. True to predictions made by this

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me uew Ddiuvtia sue ai r.asi uuicuku Contractor Hartigan putting teams at work on the excavations. 25 MANY DIE IN SEVERE TYPHOON. Manila, P. I., May 12. The worst typhoon in many years struck the Philippine islands yesterday, causing many deaths and wrecking several small steamers. The known fatalities at sea aggregate fifty-eight, but the total death list from the storm ia swelling with incoming reports. It is beileved no Americans have lost their lives. WON'T FLY AGAIN. San Francisco, Cal., May 12.- Lincoln eBachey, bird-man, will never fly again, according to a statement he made at the Olympic club here last night. "You could not make me enter an aeroplane at the point of a gun," he solemnl declared. "I'm done. Look." He held up a ro6ter of aviators. Those who have died were marked with an asterisk. Beachey looked at the list for some time in silence and then began to read the names. VESUVIUS' CRATER COLLAPSES. Naples, May 12. The activity of Mount Vesuvius, which has been apparent for several days, reached a climax yesterday when part of the crater collapsed. The tremblings of the mountain could be distinctly felt and after the explosion observations showed that a funnel 250 feet deep had been formed. From this dense sulphurous clouds and white somke ascended. HE PREDICTS . FINE CROPS Foe of High Cost of Living Is Extremely Confident. Frank O'Rolirke, city sealer and mar ket master, has visions of low cost of living in Hammond and environs as the result of good crops and judicious planting. "Though the farmer hates like the dickens to have someone who is not a farmer tell him about his own business we have helped them to see that it isn't so much how much they raise as what they raise that counts," said O'Rourke. "We'll have the biggest crops this year you ever heard of. Of course, there is A chance that we might get stung yet, put it looks fine now. The wind has kept the frost away and the ground is moist. O'Rourke intends spending the large part of this week out among the farmers talking,, it over with them. The city markeq will open the last Thursday of the month. Judge Prest's Court. John Wayne who was arrested on a complaint made by Mary Schall Saturday morning, was found guilty in Judge Frest's court and fined a sum of $13.30. The complaining witness filed charges of assault and battery. In an insanity inquest held over Mrs. Mary Reltzer Saturday afternoon, physicians gave a verdict to the effect that she was a fit subject for treatment and will be taken to Logansport today. OTHERS ARB WISE, talon Scoot Scrap. Coaa try Clna Lost Cat. Pores Fine Cat and Sweet Lomn Flic Cat Tobacco, save ticket 1 arood foi Bade. : arood for prmlnma. Sec the list. I'aloa McHlc-ScottCB Tobacco Co.

ENORfiliOUS AFFAIR

To Cover 152 Acres be beyond description, and the most complicated will be used in that division of the plan where magnesia is manufactured. The first building erected will be only temporary, to be used for about two years, while the permanent stc-el buildings are being constructed, th cost of which will be about $8,000,000. ASBESTOS MAIX OUTPUT. Asbestos, a kind of mineral unaffect ed by fire, occuring in long delicate fibers or in fibrous masses or seams, and usually of a white, green or gray color, is found in a number of localities in this country; but the best quality known comes from the mines located at Danville, Quebec, and from these mlnes the Cihcago branch of the Johns-Manville company will procure all of its raw material. (Continued on Pac SEVERAL AUTOS WERE WRECKED to Have Suffered Slight Injuries. Motor cars turned turtle, . skidded. suffered blow-outs and were ditched in and around Saxony yesterday witii miraculous escapes to occupants, according to Emil Schreiber and ' othercitizens of that locality. Two were injured, but their names are unknown when a big touring car was nosed oft , the road at a corner near t a a Schreiber place by a 'speeding 'ttiachlne. In ordefa to avoid amixup the tourist took to tins ditch. One occupant of the rear seat jumped and sprained an ankle and an other staid still and received, painful bumps. In a little while the machine was back on the roadway and off to wards Hammond. Rumors of a more severe accident between Hammond and Dyer were unconfirmed except by mere rumors. In this case the machine is supposed to have turned turtle and spilled passengers all over the road. As hundreds of cars pass through Lake county on Sunday It is hard to obtain accurate in formation of narrow escapes. Buy a Gas ellatlng Stove now. Don't wait until your home Is cold. No. Ind. Gas & Eleo. Co. NEW AMBASSADOR ON JOB AT WASHINpTON J S . U 4' (C) Harris & Ewing. Sir Ceeil Arthur Sprint-Rice, Sir Cecil Arthur Snrinjr-Rice. tha new British ambassador to this ?eunrry. has taken up hia work at Washington and bids fair to be almost as popular at the national canHal as was Ambassador Bryce. ITe is most democratic and approachable. Of mdinm height and medium build, with a pood head and forehead, blue eyes, deep set and a prizrled pray Van DyVe t eard. srivinr a business ah" to a Veen intellectual face, he Is not of tr e physical typ of the Hk, imposing ruddy faced diplomat, plcTirinr masrnincent audacity: but his lool:s betoken rather methods of preat affability, powers of analysis and the ability to use the lancet in-jtead of tha big tick.

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