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255. HAMMOND, INDIANA, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1911. EVENING PRESIDENT DIAZ-HAS PLANS LAID SO HE CAN LEAVE COUNTRY QUICKLY LATEST NEWS THE STREET WW 111 IU1(M Hlli GIRLS ARE ACCUSED LAKE I of DlA'Z BoOV "Portion Mexico Two men lost their lives on the lake Shore railway in Lake county during the past 24 hours. The body of an unknown man killed by a Lake Shore train, was discovered on the right of way of the Lake Shore railroad early this morning about 100 "feet west of Broadway in Gary by Fred Schroeder a watchman employed by the company. The head and left leg of the man were nearly severed from the body and the track was covered with blood and bits of flesh where the body had been dragged for a dstance of ten yards.

It Is thought that the late theatre train, east bound local No. 24S struck the man as he was discovered shortly after th passenger left the Gary sta- tion. I MAN IS ARRESTED FOR STEALING A BICYCLE Zosimir Zuk was arrested early this morning at 'Calumet and Highland street by Officer Herman on the charges of petit larceny. Officer Herman was making his beat when he noticed Zuk fall from a bicycle several times, A According word from MexLo City, President Diaz has made preparations for lc-vlng Mexico quickly in case the occasion requires. He will directly to the Gulf coast where he will embark at Ve.a Cruz, probably for the United States.

His personal bodyguard will escort him to the coast. thinking he waadrunk Herman asked him where he was going and he replied that he was going to Gibson to work. On question Zuk Officer Herman found out that he could not ride a bicycle and he admitted he had taken the wheel from a porch on Waltham street. Said that he had noticed the bicycle last night on the porch and had slept last night in a box car and came back and took the wheel this morning- wisch and that he was OOklrfg for work, he is thought to be implicated In a number of petit charges and is thought to be the party that has been stealing the chickens in the south end Hammond. He will be held at the itation today and his trial will come up efore Judge Barnett tomorrow morn- Indianapolis, April 17 (Times' Bureau) Edward H.

Schmidt of this city was today by President Taft as United States marshal for Indiana. Schmidt is a medicine manufacturer, forty-three of age. Mr. Schmidt is prominent member of the Marion club and prominent in local politics, but not outside the county. He is not connected with any faction or party, but had the support of the Marion club, Harry New and a number of other leaders.

Seymour, April 17. While masked and armed men stood guard, many men yesterday tore up 800 feet of railroad track, built across a park here, from the Soutnern Indiana railroad to the Seymour Manufacturing company's There Jiad been much opposition to the building of the switch, which was completed last Monday. City of Mexico, April 17. A general call for volunteer soldiers lo serve for a period of six months was1 posted in this capital yesterday. The call is made to all citizens between the ages of 18 and 4 5 years who desire to lend their services to the country.

The pay offered is 1 peso (50 cents) a day, beside clothing and equipment. The customary inducement of advancement in rank and pay to those who prove worthy is included. Washington, D. April 17 The Postofflce Department Saturday approved the Gary National Bank, the Gary State Bank and the Security State Bank of Gary as depositories for postaj savings bank funds. Terre Haute, April 17.

Fred Frey was killed by a street car a few minutes after telephoning his sick wife that he was starting home. Springfield, 17. While a game of dice was. in progress in tin village prison at jAuburn, Lee Itissen shot and killed Henry Lindsey during Jjdisputeyejr thrnw "Roch dHpanoahT though bloodhounds were placed on his trail, he is still at large. The portion of the prison where.

the game' was in progress is -open at night for destitutes. TWO VICTIMS OF KENTUCKY FEUD The old-time Calahan-Hargia feud, or rather an echo of it, has broken out in Breathitt county. Anse White has killed Jason Dea ton. White was a member of tb clan formerly headed by Judge James Hargis and Ed Calahan, and his brother, Tom White, Is now serving a life sentence for complicity in the assassination of James B. Marcum by Wrhite and Curt Jett.

Deaton was the leader of the neaton and Smith faction. Deaton, accompanied by Luke Begley, went to the home of White and created a disturbance, shooting White in the thigh. White got hs rifle Into action by that time and shot Deaton three times through the head and Begley through the head and shoulder. Begley was able to get away. Deaton died where he fell.

WhiSe wai not. He died later. SSUE IS STILL VITAL People on North Side Thor-pughly Aroused Over Proposed Vacation of Johnson Street; Protest Meetings Scheduled. The movement to prevent the vacating of Johnston street, on the north side, has assumed proportions that are likely to make it more formidable than the proomters of that project dreamed. The people of the north side are now thoroughly aroused.

They propose to get busy, and It is said that inside of a week a petition signed by practically three-fourths of the residents of the north side will be ready resubmission to the court. Some of the. developments that have taken place over Sunday are as follows: 1. A meeting of the property owners along Johnston street has been called for this evening and will take place fn City Attorney John Gavit's office, in the First National Bank building. The meeting is for the purpose of preparing a remonstrance against the closing of the street.

May Call Another Meeting. 2. A number of individual property owners have decided to employ an attorney to look after their interests in opposing the closing of the street. This attorney will work with the city attorney In the matter. 3.

Cornelius Burns of the North Side Citizens association expressed a willingness to call another meeting of the association for the purpose of reversing Its action of last Friday tiight providing enough of the members favor such a move. 4. A score of property owners have signified their willingness to circulate remonstrances against, the proposed J. A. Aubry stated loaay uiai ne learned that a number of property owners have taken steps to employ an attorney to look after their interests in the matter ol the attempt to close Johnson street.

Oscar Borchert, who owns eight lots on the north side, said today that there is a decided sentiment against the closing of Johnson street in spite of the action of the North Side Citizens' association. Work on Sunday. John Freymen. at the head of a number of workers, spent all day yesterday in doing a Paul Revere stunt among the property owners. saw scores or them and almost without exception they expressed themselves as being opposed to the closing of the street.

Dozens of the citizens of the north side have congratulated Thb Times upon the fight it has made to give the people of the north side a square deal in this matter of the closing oi ine street. The fact is commented upon that The Times is the only paper which is representing the people of the north side in this matter. If there is any one who doubts that the people of the north side are interested in the matter of having Johnson street left open a trip to that section of the city will convince him that it is a vital issue with the north side. EASTER WAS DAY OF DEVOTION EN CITY Churches Are Crowded With Worsjiippers at Services Yesterday. Raster in Hammond yesterday was a day of devotion of display, of holiday and prayer.

Every church was crowded to its capacity for every service. Goin to and from the churches afforded the first occasions for the display of the new Easter bonnet. Records of the weather bureau show the day was not as pleasant as Easter, March 27, 1910. Then a temperature of SI degrees was recorded. It was the highest temperature ever recorded on a March day in the history of the weather bureau.

There was a high southwest wind, however, last year, with a mean velocity of eighteen miles an hour. The weather during the day; was what is termed "clear to cloudy," according to the weather experts. There was a mean temperature of 46 degrees and a maximum of 54. But while heavy overcoats were con sidered essential by many as a matter of comfort, others, made sacrifices to the wind, which was in the west for a part of the day, and later shifted to the northeast, bV wearing latest offerings of tailors in topcoats and lightweight overcoats. THE ISTERESTIXG TIMES' AD ALWAYS DENOTES THE IXTERESTI KG STORE.

inipini! The police were notified and remains were taken to Jones' morgue where Deputy Coroner E. R. pordon of Ilobart will hold an inquest tbday. The police have no means of Identification other than a white linen handkerchief on which was Inscribed the letters "Gruiita." The description of the dead man is as follows: About 3S years old. 5 feet 8 inches high, 185 pounds, sandy complexion, brown hair, brown eyes, sandy mustache, wore a brown hat, blue serge suit and black buttoned shoes.

The second man was J. S. Richards who was killed Saturday night. There were no, letters or papers found on the clothes of the man. In a pocket book were bills and silver to the amount of $55.25.

Dr. T. J. Toner of Gary was one of the passengers of the theatre train and was standing near the entrance of the coach talking to the conductor when the train passed over the man's body. When the train came to a stop they walked back to the rear end of the train and found the mangled remains.

FRENCH LICK TO GO OUTJFMSItlESS Indianapolis News Tonight Publishes Story Regard -ing Gaming at Resort. TIMES' AT STATE CAPITA I Indianapolis. April 17. The News tonight publishes a story to the effect that all gambling at French Lick is to be stopped voluntarily by the proprietors of the place. The law cannot be enforced because of public sentiment but the managers of the gafnegTl aveitraBe much" money and are willing to quit.

The story says that Thomas Taggart has influenced the ac tion. Mr. Taggart has no connection with the games but his name is at tached to the French Uck places and the story says that Taggarfs family are tired of the name being used there. It is said that if games cease no more will be allowed to open. Lake Shore Railroad Man Found in Shocking Condition at Standard Yards Saturday Night; Discovered by Train Crew.

(Special to Thb Times.) "Whiting, April 17. A freight train on the Lake Shore railroad was switching in the elevator yards, near Indiana Harbor, on rH ir shortly after 12 o'clock, when the crew suddeiitly failed to receive any more signals from the brakeman. Knowins that all was not well, an investigation was made and much to their Jiorror, they found that J. S. Richmond.

a brakeman from Waldo, Ohio had bee.i run over. Richmond was brought to Whiting about one o'clock and taken to th office of Drs. Lauer and Hosklns. Here it was found that his left arm had been severed and both limbs were so badly mangled that amputation of both was necessary. The left limb was amputated, but seeing it was beyonl their power to save the injured man's life, the right limb was not amputated, and at 4 o'clock he passed away.

The body was removed to Hell wig's morgue, and relatives at Waldo were notified by wire. Richmond was well liked by all the members of the crew, and his accidental death was deeply regretted by all of them. Reuben From Nowhere. Reuben Ritnoer, who gave his address as Nowhere, was arrested this noon on Sibley street bj- Officers Bunde and Kinsele for drunkenness. He is 41 years ol dand did not have a cent on his person.

Where he got his drunk no one knows. His case will come up before pntt in the uiornine. Bin IIS BADLY MANGLED Gary Police Get Names of Hammond Girls of Tender Years Who Frequent "Hotels" in That Place; Three Hammond Girls in Raid A sad scene was witnessed yesterday afternoon when three West Hammond mothers, confronted with their sixteen and seventeen year olu ters, who hads pent the previous night in the Gary police station following their arrests in a raidat the Hotel Waldo at 1200 Washington street In Gary. One of the mothers wife of a prominent West Hammond official was so prostrated at the spectacle after learning the condition of her daughter, that she fainted and had to receive the attention of a phyisician so overcome with grief was she. The young man 29 years old, who is said to be responsible for the girl's condition, comes of respectable parents in Hammond and he was only released this morning.fro.il (Continued on Page 8.) CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY I0I0RR011 Tomorrow Is Gary's Fifth Birthday.

moB. April JS, J0O6, ex-Mayor A. F. Knolts of Hammond, the then property agent for he Inltfil States oorportion, nuperintended the anloadinfc of rar of etndera In the north part of Calmnet township. Thin vra the beginning of the Gary of today.

Gary then: Sand dunes, acrb oak, stunted pine andnimg. J911. Gary today: A City of 2O.0OO. Largest steel works In world. Thirty-two iniles of paved streets, and lighted for live miles, most In- Brondway, lOO feet wide, paved posing tiorouRb are In state.

Attrnellve homes. Million dollar water works. Carnegie library. Kight state and national banks and a clearing bouse. $230,000 Y.

M. C. A. Building. Three dally newspapers.

Coke ovens. Kiuent sehool building In west. largest railway yards In world. Three traction systems. Cement mills.

Commercial clnb building. A score of churches. Finest hotel In northwestern Indiana and a dozen other hotels. A quarter million dollar union depot. Bridge and structural steel plant.

Largest police force In northern Indiana. Two hospitals. Twenty-two tin plate mills. Iargest city In state territorially. Fine harbor and docks.

Scores apartment houses. Two theaters. Mar miles of lake roast. Tomorrow Gary will celebrate its fifth birthday. On April 18, 1906, ex-Mayor A.

F. Knotts and his brother, Police Commissioner Thomas K. Knotts, came over-from Hammond and, superintended tl unloading of a car of cinders in the north part of Calumet township, This was the first work done in Gary and marked the beginning of the city. At the Beginning. They had as a background for their stage when the curtain rang up a very dreary landscape, which, with, how- (Continued on Page 8.) READY FOR TRIAL In the case of the state of Indiana on the relation of Nettie Scofleld vs.

Klmer Scofleld, the state got service on the defendant this afternoon and the matter will come up as soon as Attorneys McMahon Conroy, representing the relator, get the ear of the oourt. The complaint charges that Elmer Scofleld Is holding the body of the infant Scofleld in the face of the agreement between the parents that the mother shall have thA custody of the child. advertise: tws times. or EJCICO 1 CO 4 idid jury duty INFLUENCE THE GUY? W. F.

Brunt's Bid at East Chicago Was fefe ected yBoar Hammond friends of W. F. Brunt, who is in the street and sewer contracting business are wondering whether the fact that he was a member of the which indictel Mayor Schlieker and other least Chicago officials, was responsible for the action of the East Chicago board of public work when it rejected all bids on a sewer contract, including that of Brunt, whose bid was the lowest. The sewer which is to be built is to be laid in One Hundred and Thirty-ninth street, east of Alder avenue. The contract involves about $10,000, and the bids are said to have been rejected because they were all too high.

Ehe East Chicago board of public works is composed of Mayor Schlieker, ex-Mayor Edward DeBriae and C. K. Wallace, the city engineer. Contractor Brunt has a suit pending in the courts which he he brought against East "Chicago, and in which asks $1,600 damages, because he says that the city interfered with his work when he was building a sewer several years ago. I1ICK STADISH GETS LAKE FROuT CONTRACT Board of Publicx Works Wade Through Important Business Today.

The board of public works this morning opened bids for the privileges in connection with the lake front refreshment stand and the bathhouse. The refreshment stand contract was awarded to Nick Stanish for $306, while the bathhouse bids were taken tinder advisement until next Wednesday. The refreshment stand bids were as follows: Nick Stadish S306 Bereolos 225' II. W. Roberts 186 The bathhouse bids were as follows: John Flaherty Max Berthod 100 IT.

W. Roberts 77 tiss Mary Seliger A 45 The board aj ordered plans and specifications from the city engineer for a sidewalk on Reese avenue from Indianapolis avenue to One Hundred and Nineteenth street, and for a pavement on Torrence avenue, from Hoffman street to Chicago avenue. Action on the Henry street sidewalk was taken under advisement until April 24th. According to an pgjeement between the board and the Nickel Plate railroad company, action on the open of the alley east of Hohman street between and Plummer avenue was rescinded in consideration for which. the Nickel Plate railroad will open and paved an alley on the east side of its right of way from State street to Plummer.

avenue. The opening of the first alley would have been against public policy because of the many travks that it would cross. 3 west wmm to HAVE AMJELECTION West Hammond will hra. a city flection tomorrow without takinj-Jifecd of the action the presei Vljoaru jnav take" at a special meeting, rich c.ilJe'S for this awanin.R' There was some iicstion last week as to whether an election will be held tomorrow, but. at a meeting of the candidates on Friday evening it was decided to proceed with the election of city officers as though West Ham-; mond's rights' had never been The probabilities are that the village ticket, headed by Mike Berwanger for village president, will havo a ticket in the field, as Clerk Mankowski has refused to sign any ballots for such a ticket, and the members of the independent ticket have failed thus far to ask for a court mandate compeling the clerk to sign the ballots.

VILLAGE ELECTS SCHOOL BOARD OFFICERS West Hammond last Saturday evening held an election of officers for the school board, the voting time having extended from 7 o'clock in the eventng until 9 o'clock that same night. Ninety-six votes were cast for the president of the board of education. The result of the election was as follows: President- of the board John J. Breh'm. Members of the.

board Charles Yoer-ger and Krnest Fruehling. There were two name less on the tickets, in the field, on both of which Brehm's name appeared as candidate for president. Fruehling's name was on both tickets, too. The only opposition was between Yoerger and Herman Rohloff, the former having won out. The other members of the board are Gus Brusscll, Fred Siegrist and Mr.

Knott. EXPERT HARPIST FROM BRUSSELS i Miss Suzanne Yerby has been receding much attention in this country on account of her musical ability. Sbo recently came here from Brussels for a' concert, tour. She Is an cxyert harpist I TWO ARE GIVEN FOREIGN POSTS President Taft will send to the Senate the nomination of former Governor Curtis Guild, of Massachusetts, as ambassador to Russia, and W. W.

Rockhill as ambassador to Turkey. Mr. Rockhill is at present ambassador to Russia. Mr. Rockhill will succeed Oscar S.

Strauss, who was secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor under former President Roosevelt. Mr. Strauss resigned the ambassadorship to Turkey several months.