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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
Stocks Grain and Provisions.
Latest Movements in Industrial oenters by Exclusive Wi

cent a bushel There was nothing
new in the general situation 10 cause
any uneasiness in the corn market Yet
it is believed the bulls on wheat who
have been very successful in none
tary way will turn their attention TO
corn and eventually produce much
higher prices.
OATS-Opened weak and lower with
the July option showing more weakness
than any of the deferred months. Crop
damage stories still permeated the eX-
change, but the selling pressure upon
the market was more aggressive than
the buying. Cash demand continues
brisk with sales large for both do
nestle consumption and TO exporters.
The speculative market closed fairly
steady with a slight rally for the early
weakness.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
Wire to Lake County Times.
WEATHER FORECAST

ebraska-Partly cloudy and cooler
tonight with possibly showers south;
generally fair Sunday.
hansas-Prohably showers tonight
and Sunday cooler east tonight
Alphabetically cloudy tonight and
Sunday.
Illinois and Internationally fair
north; showers and thunder storms
south tonight and Sunday. cooler.
observation-disclosures and thunder
storms tonight and possibly Sunday
colder tonight and east and south sun
day.
Lower Internationally fair and
cooler tonight and Sunday.
sconsin-Generalyly fair and cool
er tonight and Sunday; probably light
frost
Minnesota and South Dakota-Fair
tonight and Sunday, cooler tonight
probably light frost
Iowa-Generally fair tonight and
Sunday; cooler tonight
North Dakota-Fair tonight and
Sunday; probably light frost tonight.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
Hou About the ouaIIty7

The number Of cigars smoked, 70
marks a contemporary, Is an index Of
the nations prosperity. The cigar
manufactures have doubled their out
nut in eight years, the number for
the fiscal year 1866 being s.o70,672.-
GAG. as compared with 1858. 169. 097
for the year ended June 80. 1898.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
CROWN POINT, BESTIR!

1lLl6Sy IKE lIulNluUd4Sr must Gin
brace opportunities when they come
or the chances are they will be lost
forever. Crown Point is in the throes
of a discussion regarding the matter of
building a modern sewer system.
Considering the fact that there is
far greater wealth per capita in Crown
Point than there IS in Hammond, it IS
hard to find better word to desig-
nate man who opposes as important
an Improvement as an adequate sewer
system than ''unprogressive."
There can be no question that for
sanitary and other reasons no city or
village ought to be without sewers, and
it is hard to understand how man
with intelligence enough to appreciate
the Importance OF sanitation could OPP
pose measures that would provide a
means of carrying away the filth that
is a breeder of disease and unpleasant
to say the least.
1t does not seem to have occurred
to the people of Crown Point that the
marvellous development of the Calu-
met region means as much to them as
1t does to the residents of that region.
The people in North and Calumet
townships are optimistic enough to be-
| lieVe that in the near future (within
the next five or ten years. there will
be a population in these two town
ships of 100000 people, And the peo-
pie of the Calumet region are not idle
dreamers either.
This means that nearly a quarter of
million people will have to be fed
from the products of nearby farms.
The eggs, the butter. the vegetables,
the milk and the meat must be provid-
ed by the farmers.
AS every one knows, there is a sand
belt ten miles wide surrounding the
shores of Lake Michigan, in which it
is practically impossible to raise farm
products. This ten mile wide strip,
known as the Calumet region, is so
unfertile that the only things that can
I'be raised on it are rank growths of
manufacturing plants.
South of this sand belt, however, is
as rich and productive farm land as
can be found anywhere in the state,
| and with the coming of numerous in
terurbans over which the products of
the farms may be swiftly carried to
the cities, each farm will become vii
lage and the villages will pour their
wealth into the chief city of a great
| farming community.
Crown Point is the chief city of what
is destined to be one of the most pros
| porous farming communities in the
state and that city must begin at once
to be prepared for its opportunity.
Gary is nearer Crown Point than
is Hammond and Hammond is only
sixteen miles away. An interurban
will reduce the travelling time between
these points to twenty five or thirty
minutes, which will be negligible con-
| sideration.
Lest some other farming commun-
ity rise to the pre- eminence of Grown
Point (and stranger things have hap
pened than thaD its citizens had bet
ter bestir themselves, get away from
the country idea of dumping the sew
age in bitches and prepare their city
for the fullest measure of prosperity
that could come to it, and it will come
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

The market is still under the in
huence of the bearish operators, though
the banking interests are checking
tendencies towards Generalization. We
look for the decline to run some
further today. but in the event of a
break of a point or so from last nights
PRICES, we would buy the good stocks
for turn, especially the Hill and
Hartman issues, st. Paul, Atchison,
Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Read
ing. Louisville & Nashville and Atlantic
Coast. We are bullish for the long
pull on the cheap southwestern railway
issues. Their earnings will be more
and more.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

NOW that the spring season is on,
why wouldn't it be a good plan for the
city authorities to cut down the scrub
willows and rank weeds along the
river and swamps on the north side?
They are breeding places for mosqui-
toes, and their destruction would mean
a mitigation of the pest.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

The market has been rather dull to-
day with the general character of the
trading much the same as for some
days past, the bulk of the business be-
ing among floor traders who are op-
Grating on either side and taking small
profits or losses. This class of trading
makes a sort of market, but it is utter
ly without significance. Today there
was little bulling or selling of con-
sequence. It is believed there are good
supporting orders under the market,
of sufficient volume to absorb all
liquidating offerings.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

A FORMER board of trade operator.
when arrested in Chicago, charged with
a number of cases of forging, embez-
element and burglaries declared that
he became a crook after he lost $685.
in speculation.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

AFTER being attacked on the out
side. and the enemy routed, the Chris
tian Scientists are now fighting
amongst themselves to see who will
have the privilege of spending Mrs.
Eddys money.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
nae WOMANs Christian

THE WOMANS Christian temper
ance Union says that there must be
more purity in the heroines of novels,
and that they must not smoke cigar
cites. They have brought bills in the
Illinois Legislature to prevent the sale
of the paper pill" and now they want
the society heroine of the book and
play to do away with her after dinner
smoke.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
a Clever Device.

A mother with many stockings to
darn has hit on the device of basting
q bit Of net over a large hole and using
It as a foundation for the darn.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
ME IN Mother Earth.

Those former fanatics Of India, the
sikhs. when they come to die, prefer
to expire on the bare ground. Regard
less of rank or age, no rug intervenes
between their bodies and the earth.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

CROWN POINT is advancing in popu-
lation every day, but not with de-
sirable class of citizens. Gary and
Hammond daily send over a bunch of
prisoners TO Sheriff Carriers emporium
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

very listless market during the day
was without feature other than a slight
improving tendency in Union Pacific,
which was in good part due to recov-
cry from the scare and decline of yes
terday. This gave a tone of steadiness
elsewhere, but without stimulating any
business. On the late rapid and large
advance in wheat a selling movement
in stocks quickly carried prices be-
low the early level
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

IT WAS A noble act of self-sacrifice
that was performed by William Nc
Cuntock, the Chicago capitalist, who
gave his life in an auto accident to
save his wife and son.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

JUSTICE HARLAN and Bill Taft met
yesterday at the secretary's office and
the result is that the engineers will
have to make an inspection of that
section Of the building. The justice
has Taft beaten in avoirdupois
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

JAPAN has a funny way of sending
out a peace message TO the world. She
sends Kuroki, her greatest man Of
war, to visit the nations. and the peace
message is delivered from a warriors
lips.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
Receipts and shipmer
Northwest Cars.
LIVERPOOL MARKETS.

Liverpool, May 1S.-Wheat unchang-
ed to one and one-eighth higher; corn,
unchanged.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
BANK STATEMENT.
GRAIN MARKETS.

Chicago, May 18.-Car lots: Wheat,
SO cars; corn, lie cars; oats, IA cars;
hogs, II, 900 head.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
wavs Of the Chiomunk.

The chipnlunk lays by stores and
sleeps from November till spring.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
Cattle closed steady

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES is the
only medium OF exchange between the
employer and the emplOye in Lake
county.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

THE POLICE Of West Hammond had
a number of undesirable citizens" on
the run this morning.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Union Stock Yards. May 1S.-Hogs
II 900; market steady; left over. 1900.
Light, $3.50 to 6.57; mixed. S6.25 to
$50; heavy, $500 TO $40; rough, $500
to els.
Cattle, 500; market steady
Sheep, $500; market steady.
Hogs closed strong to sc higher
Light S6.35 to $50; mixed, SEQ g
6.55. heavy, $500 to Gao; rough So-VU
TO $50.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

70 EUDGCRIBERs-Reade of the
Times aTe requested to favor the
management by reporting any irregu-
IariSies In delivering. Communicate
With the circulation department, or
telephOnss111.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
ADVERTISING HINTS.

The shrewd merchant sees to IL that
hia newspaper announcements are
bright and attractive, that the copy
u changed regularly and that the print
err has his display ads I'm time TO give
them the attention they deserve
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

American stocks in London firm, one
eighth to one-half above parity with
Union Pacific specially strong.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

T. A. Mcintyre & Cove fail to see
how any real bull movement can be
successfully undertaken with the crops
in such a precarious condition. We
think it would be better TO take adj
vantage of every little bulge to re-
duce speculative holdings and wait for
good break before buying again.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

No truth in rumor that Canadian
Pacific bought New Brunswick South
ern railway.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

Conditions seem to US to be favor
able for the demands Of corporations
have not yet had any material effect
on the rates.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

Mestre & Cot is apparent that eff
forts are being made to hold the lead
ing issues up for the purpose of dis
tributing stocks on all strong spots,
but these tactics do not appear to be
very successful. The market cannot
take any considerable quantity of long
stock without goving way.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

Washington-The question of the
prosecution of e. II. Hartman will not
be decided for some time yet. The
best judgment in administration circles
is that the attorney general will search
high and low for any possible evidence
which might warrant prosecution of
Hartman to the limit.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

Edw. Sweet & Co-Whatever bust
ness commission houses are doing is in
the wheat market and we do not look
for any activity in the stock market
for some considerable time.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

Marshall Spader-An inactive mar
ket appears to be about all that can
be expected, but there is nothing in the
forecast to promise depression.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

Chandler Bros.-Indefnite outcome
of the Hartman affair hangs over the
stock market, this with wheat around
81 per bushel has a depressing effect
upon stocks.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

Logan & Bryan say: The underly-
ing conditions, other than the crop sit
uation, are considered healthy, and a
material decline is not looked for
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18
HEARD ON THE BOURsE

London market quiet and idle. antici-
pating holidays. Saturday and Monday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30

missioner of labor to institute arbitration
proceedings, the circuit court Of appeals
rendering final Judgment to give effective
force to the award.
However. even the Erdman act does not
reach the case Of q stubborn refusal OF
both sides to call for mediation or arbitra-
ton. The only possibility Of federal inter-
vention in the event q STRIFE is declared
short of an appeal from the governor OF
state, lies in the direction pursued by Presi-
dent Cleveland during the Debs strike.
when he employed the United States troops
to prevent the stoppage of the malls. This
expedient, however, is hazardous and GER
tain to evoke great bitterness Of resent
ment. The safest way of all is for the op-
posing parties to controversy to submit
their differences to adjustment by impartial
judges or umpires.
The precipitation of this Industrial crisis
now. despite all the influences that are
working for its prevention, would be a
calamity of unreasonable magnitude. not
only in its Immediate effects but In the bad
example set before the workers en-
ployers of the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
The Dust Pail.

One paragraph of the report submitted
by Supt. Twohey OF the District street.
cleaning department on the subject of the
dirty streets should be taken to heart by
all householders and by citizens generally
MIR. Twohey refers to the carelessness with
which the sidewalks are swept and papers
are strewn about the streets Much of the
dust undoubtedly comes from the walks
and II the sweeping of them is carelessly
done there is a serious addition to the VOL
ume of dirt constantly flying about the city
The practice of sweeping loose papers into
the cutters TO be picked up by the first gust
OF wind and blown hither and thither is
bad one. 1t is against the police regu-
lations now TO litter the streets with papers
but this rule is seldom observed II papers
must be thrown away and there Is no con-
venient receptacle for them within reach
they should be wadded up and placed In
the cutters. In that form they will not
blow about and add TO the unkempt appear
ance of the city.
But loose papers are not such a menace to
health as is the dust that drifts about
Washington in great volumes The real
duty in this matter Is TO keep the streets
clean, to remove the greatest possible
amount of the dirt that gathers on the
pdvements. to sweep the sidewalks carefully
and IL keep well sprinkled those spaces
where pavements are impossible and the
dirt is kept well powdered by wagon wheels
few watering carts used in the railroad
freight yards in the southern and north
eastern sections of the city. for instance.
would materially relieve the situation In the
dry period. The same attention paid to the
unpaved roads along which streams Of
wagons are passing in connection with i'm
provement work would hold down the dust
To an appreciable degree.
What Washington needs today is more
sprinkiing better sweeping. better pave
ments and, on all sides. more thoughtful
consideration of the dust dangers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30

Is familiar OF lot Of repeaters headed FOR
the penitentiary after a hotly contested
election They are characterless creatures.
on sale in any emergency at two dollars
head, who at election times are herded In
bum barroo ms and crazy tenement houses
and voted In gangs on the day of contest
II is not difficult to engage them. They
are perfectly willing to take chances. Ii
they vote and escape detection they get a
few dollars extra for their success II
''pinched," they are abandoned to the law
year or so in prison is no disgrace to
men without home or character and no
particular hardship. 1t is period of better
beds and better grub than they are used to-
We shall have improved conditions all
around when the men higher up" are
reached and dealt with Let us see be-
hind the bars few of the men who set
temptations before city, state, and national
legislators and other public officials. And
let US see in neighboring cells politicians
who supply the money for the hiring and
herding of repeaters. and take office OBJ
tanned by such methods. 1t is not an easy
matter to secure the evidence necessary to
convict such men, but it is by no means
impossible. Their escape SO far has been
due 10 a refusal, a neglect, to try to run
them down.
Nothing is truer than that we have the
kind of government in this country that
We deserve. If the people are viglant and
exacting they get the right kind of public
servants; if careless or Indifferent, they get
the other kind. Whenever the field is aban-
doned to the spenders, who for legislative
favors or office, put out their money in
abundance. fraud and foulness inevitably
foIIpU
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We'll Dig the Ditch or Bust"

Speaker Cannon contributes d more than
usually pointed epiGram to the national col
lection of phrases of determination when
he says Wen dig the ditch or bust. 1t
is just what the country expected him to
say when he had looked over the canal and
had seen the kind of work that has TO be
done there. 1t is just the right sort OF talk
to reach the understanding and appeal to
the grit of the American people. 1t needs
no glossary lexicon to translate 1t. 1t
gets right down. as the Speaker himself
might say. to brass tacks.
There is not much danger of Mr.. Can
mons alternative ever coming true. There
Is going to be no busting on this job.
We are in the way of singing today great
national chorus after the fashion of the
war song that thrilled the British people
in 1877: We've got the grit. we've got the
men. we've got the money too.
There has been altogether too much of
disposition in some quarters to be pessi-
mistic about the canal enterprise. Taking
their cue from the interests that for years
selfishly opposed every step of the advance
toward the goal of canal legislation, some
people have always shaken their heads in
doubt as to the feasibility of the project.
Even now there are faint-hearted men who
seize every occasion to proclaim their con-
vIction that we will fail there. fail to solve
the sanitary problems, fail to get the nee
essary labor. fail to overcome the engi-
neering obstacles. Yet every party of off,
cial and non-official visitors returns full of
enthusiasm and assurance.
There is something inspiring in this work,
something calculated to bring the whole ma
ton w standing to toe the mark IL occa-
sion should arise. We are doing bit of
the worlds work something that has been
needed for many years. something diff
the sort of task for accomplishment by the
people who conquered the wilderness of
great continent. who mastered the noun
tains and defed the deserts, pushed the
frontiers back to the coast line and wrought
in a few decades out of a savage waste
Notwithstanding land of riches and progress.
The very difficulties at Panama make for
greater vigor in their attack. The whole
world is watching us critically. France
failed to do this work. and for reasons
which have caused us to determine not to
fail. The main consideration today is to
make certain that the task shall be accom-
plished in the least time and at the least
cost compatible with reliable results. We
but We want a good canal, the best the
world has ever known. Uncle Joe's"
declaration that well dig the ditch or
bust is simply the briefest possible ex.
preston of the spirit that has already
moved mountains and in this case will
unite the oceans.
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The Railroad Strike Menace.

Ii hard times should befall the country
not all the blame is to be laid at the doors
OF the Wall street brokers who have been
juggling with the public confidence and the
credits of corporations in the event that
the railroad workers Of the west and their
employers fail to agree and strike Is
called. 1t Is quite within the bounds OF
possibility that strike of such magm-
tude as that now threatened might unset
the Industrial and financial situation and
plunge the whole country into distress. Just
how far the Homestead strike of 1902
served as a factor to cause the panic of
that year and 1903 has never been definitely
determined. but that 1t was one of the
causes of that distressing slump in indus
trial affairs no one today doubts A gen.
eral strike of the railroad men of the west
possibly extending to the roads of the east
and gradually affecting manufacturing in
dustries, would be heavy blow which
might destroy the financial equilibrium Of
the country.
1t is this possibility that should cause
every one who Is now working for peace
In this natter to exhaust every chance to
bring the contending forces together. Rep
resentatives of the federal government ara
now on their way to Chicago to take a.
hand in the negotiations. They have no
power to intervene on their own initiative
however. Theirs is mission of persuasion
and mediation. Yet if they accomplish their
purpose and induce the contending forces
to invite the United States government to
take a hand TO adjust the contentious, the
United states is vested with ample power
to carry this process to finish. Under the
terms of the Erdman act Of June l. 1898.
when either side has applied to the gov
eminent for Cancellation and Arbitration II
is the duty OF the chairman of the inter-
state commerce commission and the COM
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Almost Due.

There's hint in the air that it's time to
prepare
To receive an old friend once again;
Already the bushes are poisoning fair
And the north wind has ceased to COM
plain.
I. scene once so cherries presents dis
play
That wakens feeling sublime:
The hens start to lay and the world seems
to say
That it pretty near sea-serpent time.
or all the menagerie brought by the year
He is the particular pet;
His haunts are the places to memory dear.
Though few have caught sight of him yet.
The robin may carol in innocent glee
AS the mercury hastens to Climb,
But the thing that rejoices one most is to
see
That it's pretty near sea-serpent time.