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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-23


1t is reported that John Lehman
will own the nickle show business in
Crown Point in the near future, pur-
chasing the interest held by Clarence
Rudolph in the business. Clarence, 1t
is said. will assume the management
of the Crown Point Telephone cou-
pany in the place OF Frank B. Krin-
bill.
Mrs. Lenora Hart delightfully."- enter
tanned a party of her lady friends in
Chicago at the grand opera produc-
ton. Those from here were Mesdames
Rockwell Fisher and Krinbill.
Minor Decamp and family will oo-
cupy the Kopelke house on Ridge
street in the near future.
County Surveyor Bridge transacted
business in Crown Point yesterday.
Carpets. rugs and other furniture
are now being installed in the court
house
Ex-senator Kopelke and sister, Miss
Augusta, attended grand opera in Chi
cago recently.
The funeral of John Huber yesterday
was attended by a large crowd Of Lake
county people, many coming from
Hammond.
Miss Johnson, nee Minnie Hack, is
visiting relatives in Crown Point for
q few days.
Amos Dyer Altman has the measles.
Mrs. Charles Meeker is reported as
being on the sick list and under the
doctors care.
The baseball team has commenced
practicing and has scheduled a game
to be played in the near future.
Gary merchants buy good deal OF
their hay and grain from farmers In
this vicinity
crown Point is well represented in
Hammond tonight at the oratorical
contest
Miss Loie Hughes is visiting friends
in Hammond.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-23
Library List-Continued.

The following is a continuation Of
the library list as given in yesterday
TINES:
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
REnIANps NOTES

REDLANDS, July 20.-Because of
more than half of the board of trade di-
rectors being out of the city on vaca-
tions, a quorum could not be found for
the monthly meeting and 1t was passed
over. The members present informally
talked over the communications and
PROPOSITIONS to come up, including the
entertainment of party of eighty Jap
anese nobility in September, the drug
gists' excursion in August and other
parties.
Trainmen are making complaint that
hunters are careless in shooting near
trains In one case few days ago it
is said a hunter deliberately pulled his
shotgun on the rear of a passing train
and fired a load of shot into the vesti-
bule. Of1cers here have been asked to
aid in the capture of the hunters.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Ayers of Mentone
were arrested today on a charge of
stealing chickens, Mrs. V. Martinez, q
neighbor, preferring the charge and
asking for a search warrant to look for
the property
Jesus and Juan Martinez, brothers
who attacked Lee Yount, proprietor of
an apricot drier, were sent to the coun-
ty iail for three months today by Judge
Clifford.
John d. Shorty was fined IS for in
toxication by Judge Clifford today and
J. Romero, who attacked the arresting
officer, was fined $40.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
SALT LAKE TO BUILD
BRANCH TO REDLANDS
ROAD TO TAP RICH ORANGE
DISTRICT
Persistent Rumors That Line Will Be
Constructed as Part of Route
from Riverside to
Daggett
[snecial to The Herald.1 j

REDLANDS, July 20,-Another ru-
NOR has reached Redlands from Los
Angeles that the Salt Lake Is soon to
build through Redlands as a part of
it's line from Riverside to Daggett on
the desert. The report appears to have
originated from private telegram con-
cerning some real estate transactions
in connection with the work and 1t is
stated that the road Is to be built with
in a year into Redlands, coming from
Riverside to Victoria, a point on the
Santa Fe halfway between Redlands
and San Bernardino and from there
following the right of way of the Santa
Fe into this city, leaving it several
blocks from the Santa Fe station and
crossing Orange street at the foot of the
Casa Iona hill near High avenue, fol-
lowing at the foot of the hill to a point
west of the site of the Redlands uni
versity and there turning north to
Highland, tapping that rich country,
then running back of Little mountain
and into Cajon pass at higher eleva-
ton than used by the Santa Fe.
AS far as can be learned, the road has
not secured a right of way along the
route reported, but surveys were made
in that direction several months ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
TRIES TO BREAK
FROM CITY JAIL
ALLEGED BURGLAR HIDES IN
EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
SECURES HYPoDERMIc OUTFIT
AND cRAWLs UNDER COT
Happy Dream of Prisoner Is Shattered
When Nurse, Searching for Miss
Ing instrument, Looks
Under Bed

Willard Bebee, who was arrested
Monday night by Patrolman Denman
of the university police division on
charge of burglary, made an attempt
to escape from the city jail last night
during the evening ''show-up."
Bebee is alleged to have entered
house on West Thirtieth street and to
have been ransacking the place when
Patrolman Denman caught him. lie
was taken to the Central police station
Yesterday morning and placed in the
upper tanks. Last night, when all the
prisoners in the jail were paraded be-
fore the members of the night watch,
Bebee watched his chance and slipped
from the corridor of the jail into the
receiving hospital. There he stole
hypodermic syringe and several NOR
phine tablets from a case in the oper-
atine room and then crawled under a
bed in the detention ward to await his
chance to slip out when patient be
brought in.
The Jail, from top to bottom, was
searched when Bebee was missed, but
he was not discovered until Nurse Earl
Whitney, missing the hypodermic
syringe, began search for 1t and
finally found Bebee curled up beneath
the bed. The prisoner was placed In
the lower dungeon for the night. He
will be presented in court on the bur-
glary charge today.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
AROUND TOWN
Time for Trial Changed

Time for Trial Changed
w. T. Rice of San Diego. charged
with attempting to defraud the United
States by forging a signature to a
postal money order, will appear for
trial in the United States district
court September 81. the date having
been changed from October l by Judge
Wellborn yesterday Rice is being held
under bonds of $4,000.
Mexican Held for Trial
Y. Alcantra, charged with having re-
ceived a small quantity Of silver and
1880 from Patrolman Arguello for the
purpose of making an ornamental
bride bit and then disposing of the
same, was arraigned in Police Justice
Frederickson's court yesterday on a
charge of misdemeanor embezzlement
and his trial was set for July 2S. On
the recommendation of Aguello. the ac-
cused was released on his own
recognizance.
Held to Superior Court
Louis Pena, a Mexican laborer,
charged with knocking down and rob-
bing a countryman of a purse con-
tanning $1.65, and who later was ar
rested by Patrolman Aguello after a
desperate struggle, was given his pre-
liminary hearing in Police Justice
Frederickson's court yesterday on a
charge OF robbery and held to answer
in the superior court in bonds of
$4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
FORM PLANS TO
BEAUTIFY RIVER
SERIES OF THREE LAKES CON-
TEMPLhiED
ALLIED IMPROVEMENT CLUBS
START MOVEMENT
Estimated Each Three Thousand Foot
Section Of Stream Could Be
Made Over at Cost of
$4,000

In the committee room of the cham
her of commerce last evening new
Los Angeles river was pictured in the
plans and projects of the committee
representing the federated improve
ment clubs of Los Angeles. They spoke
sadly of the present actuaIlty, these
men who dream of beauty IN place oil
the great streak of ugliness which now
is the first thing visitors gee of the
boasted Beautiful Los Angeles" but
they told of their dreams with assur-
ance, as dreams that must come true.
Yet they were practical men, recog-
nizing the fact that material interests
go farther than sentiment in rearing
dreams in steel and stone.
They discussed the question OF
whether the gravel haulers could be
made to pay 10 cents load for gravel,
and if, through the devious ways of po-
litical manipulation, the collection of
such a tax might not absorb the in
come, leaving nothing for the fund for
improving the Los Angeles river
The plan, as presented in profile
map and calculations drawn up by W.
O. Secor, engineer, at the request of the
committee, contemplates a series of
three lakes, confined between cement
walls at the sides and gate weirs at
the ends, each 5000 feet long, extending
from Buena Vista street to Ninth.
These lakes are to be cemented, bot
tom and Sides reducing friction to such
a minimum that any amount of flood
water which the freshets Of future
years shall send down may pass
through swiftly and do no harm One
hundred feet across the basin, with a
water depth of fifteen feet at the lower
and two feet at the upper end, will be
built walls at the side of sufficient
width for sidewalks, rows of ornament
al lamps. an automobile speedway and
strip of parkway, too.
Endorsement Necessary
+ Dr. w. A. Lamb, as representative
of the playground commission, was
present at the meeting, and made many
quaint suggestions, making the dream
more real to those gathered in the COM
mittee room.
No representative Of the chamber of
commerce appeared. though expected
and anxiously awaited
We've got to have the Endorsement
of the chamber of commerce." declared
Secretary Garner Curran of the COM
mittee, "if we are to get the council
to take the matter up
After extended discussion of many
details the meeting adjourned to re-
convene next Tuesday evening, at
which time, the members hope, the
chamber Of commerce will be repre-
sented and report favorably on the
plan to make thing of beauty and a
joy forever of what is now the ugliest
part of Los Angeles.
Each 30O0-foot section, according to
the painstaking estimates of Engineer
Secor, will cost the city approximately
! $751; 900.
"Tf we could get one of the sections
! finished" declared one member voicing
the manifest sense of all, "the other
two would follow quickly"
J. M. Flowers is chairman of the
committee and Garner CurIan secre-
tary. The other members are Horace
Karr A. A. Bailey w. H. McGill,
George Rheinschield,. F. e. Johnson
and Joseph Mesemer.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
WOMAN BITTEN BY DOG
AS IT DIES OF POISON
Tries to Save Life of Pup That Had
Eaten Cyanide of Potas-
sium

SAN BERNARDINO, July 20.-While
endeavoring to save the life of a pet
bull pup which had been poisoned, Mrs.
was bitten this morning, and for several
hours 1t was feared that the results
would be serious. The arm was lanced
and the infected blood allowed to pour
out of the veins.
The dog had become poisoned by
cyanide of potassium which some one
had thrown in the yard and died in
Mrs. Alisons arms while she was en-
deavoring to relieve the suffering of
the canine with antidotes. The pup
was an Australian bull and highly
priced by its owner.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
KILLS SELF AFTER
ATTACK ON FATHER
TEAMSTER FEARED He HAD
SLAIN AGED MAN
Returns to PaternaI Home After Spree
and Blows Out His Brains.
Leaves Bride of Two
Months
Especial to The Herald ]

RIVERA, July 2O.-Roy Broadbent, a
teamster of this town, celebrated Sun
day by filling up on drug store whisky,
beating his aged father, and finished
the days excitement by shooting him
self. Early Sunday evening young
Broadbent, who was 2S years of age,
visited a local grocery store and re-
turned to his home under the influence
of liquor. His father reproached him
severely, and in the quarrel which fol-
lowed the son struck the old man and
left him unconscious.
Thinking that he had killed his
father, the youth rushed from the
house and. shot himself. Broadbent
leaves wife, to whom he was recently
T. arried. The two were living at the
home of the mans parents. The widow
was formerly Miss Eva Pickering of
Redondo Beach.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
JOB ATTEMPTED
BY SUPERVISORS
CONTINUED from Pare One,


had such confidence, and believed that
the pledge of the supervisors would be
kept, that there would be no politics in
connection with the good roads.
yes, now they'll submit the appoint
ment Of BiXby to us. The people are
aroused. But these officials have not
shown any intention of dealing with us
fairly and doing what the people
counted upon them to do"
The weary note was gone from his
voice, and ne spoke with indignation
again at the supervisors faithlessness
to their pledge.
I'm not well," he said in EXPLANATION
of his trip, which begins today. I'm
going away for little while to recover
my health, that is ALL"
Again Mr.. Blanchard declared his
conviction that "Tus" Eldridge has de-
liberately planned to place the ad-
visory committee In as difficult a po-
sition as possible, by any means, in an
effort to turn the attention of the peo-
pie from the supervisors violation of
their pledges; but he declared his be-
lief that the people would not be
deceived.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
MOVEMENT STARTED TO BUY
AUTOMOBILE FIRE WAGON

SAN BERNARDINO, July 2O.-A
movement to purchase an automobile
fire wagon was started hast night at the
city council meeting when the matter
of equipping the new Pennsylvania ave-
nue. station was brought up. 1t Is the
plan to transfer the present hose wagon
at the central station to the new resi-
dence district and purchase additional
equipment for the downtown hall, and
on comparing figures the mayor has
decided that it would be as cheap to
acquire an automobile hose and chem
ical wagon as a good team and outfit
for another hose wagon.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
Annexation Election carrles

SAN BERNARDINO, July 2O.-In an
exceedingly quiet election here today
the supporters of the annexation of the
strip of territory lying north of the
city from A to G and from the limits
to the rancho line, mile in width by
half a mile in length, won by vote of
321 to 21S. A total of 302 votes were
polled in the city and 10 outside for the
annexation, while 212 in the city and
outside were Ggainst the movement.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
MEXICAN is ON TRIAL
CHARGED WITH MURDER

SAN BERNARDINO, July 2O.--Felipe
Garcia, a Mexican charged with the
murder of Niccio Esparza last April at
Cotton during the process of a bloody
fight, is on trial for his life in the su-
perior court. 1t was at first thought
the wounds which Garcia received dur
ing the struggle were inflicted by him
self, but the testimony so far advanced
tends to show that Esparza's son, after
the death of his father, fell on the mur-
derer and stabbed him. The chances
for Garcia escaping with light sem
tence are small
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Save sickness ana stomach trouble by
drinking the best spring water. The
Glen Rock Water company will supply
you. Phones C1456, East 437. Prices
right.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21
THE CITY

Strangers are invited to visit the exhibits OF
California products at the Chamber OF Com
merce building, on Broadway, between First
and Second Streets where free information Will
be given on all subjects pertaining to this see-
Non.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21

The Herald will pay $40 in cash to any one
furnishing evidence that will lead to the arrest
ana conviction OF any per5on caught stealing
copies of The Herald from the premises OF our
patrons.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21

Membership in the Los Angeles Realty Board
is virtual guarantee of reliability. Provision
fs made for arbitration OF any differences be-
tween members and their clients. Accurate In
formation on realty matters is obtainabe from
Them Valuations by a competent committee
Directory OF members free at the office OF
Herbert Burdett secretary. b25 Security bldg.
Phone Broadway 1896
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21

Lose a good-pay tenant, or boarderf Lee
a want ad help you TO take 1t like n philoso-
nhaP.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21

The Legal Aid society, at 2Ss n. Main. is
Charitable organization maintained for the pur-
pose OF aiding in legal matters those unable to
employ counsel The society needs financial
assistance and seeks Information regarding
worthy eases. Phone Home F6203; Main 1866.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-21

The Herald. like every other newspaper, is
nisrepresented at times. particularly in cases
involving hotels theaters. etc. The public will
pIease take notice that every representative of
this paper is equipped with the proper creden-
uals, and more particularly equipped with
money with which pay his bills.
THE HERALD.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04

"He went out into the country to find
solitude"
did he find it?''
mo. quite the opposite; he sat down
on an ant hill."-Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04
BELIEVED TO Be
LIGHT-FINGERED
FOUR ALLEGED CROOKS ARE
ARRESTED
Prisoners Are Suspected of Robbins
Visitors to Opening of Laguna
Dam, Near Yuma,
March 81

Charles Wade and Charles Murphy,
said by the police to be two of the most
notorious pickpockets in the country,
who were arrested as they stepped from
a Southern Pacific train several nights
ago, on suspicion of being members OF
a gang of light-fingered crooks VINO
operated in the crowds at the Laguna
dam opening at Yuma, March 81, plead
ed guilty yesterday morning TO charges
of Vagrancy and were given 1SO-day
suspended sentences by Police Justice
Rose. They were ordered to leave the
city.
Wade and Murphy were arrested with
]. Ward and George Wainwright. The
two former are alleged to be clever
pickpockets and their photographs are
said to adorn the rogues' gallery collec-
ton of the police authorities through
out the United States.
Because of lack of sufficient evidence
against Wade and Murphy they were
not prosecuted on charges of stealing
from the person, but instead were ar
raigned on charges of vagrancy They
seemed eager to plead guilty to the
charges, and though their trial was set
for Tuesday, they asked to be tried at
once so they could get out of town as
soon as possible.
Their two companions, ]. Ward and
George Wainwright, are being held
pending investigation by the detectives
1t is believed they can be Identified as
the men who helped fleece a number OF
persons who lost considerable money
and valuables at Yuma
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CITY IS BARRED
TO WIRETAPPER
MAN C0NFESSES TO PARTIcI-
PATTON IN SWlNDLES
Tells Police He Contracted Tubercu-
Iosls While Working as Teles-
rspher-Banker Caught
for $4,000

T. c. Diffenbocker. who claims to be
the leader of a gang of expert wire
tappers which swindled William F.
Walker, treasurer of the New Britain,
Conn, savings bank out OF $4,000,
which the latter embezzled and later
was caught in Mexico, brought to trial
and sentenced TO fourteen years In
prison several months ago, pleaded
guilty in Police Justice Roses court
yesterday morning to charge OF
yagrancy and was given a suspended
sentence of $50 days in the workhouse
and ordered to remain away from Los
Angeles forever, under penalty of being
compelled to serve the term imposed.
Diffenbocker was arrested In room
ing house in this city a short time ago
by Detectives Jones and Boyd. In his
graph instruments used in tapping
wires.
Diffenbocker was placed in the city
jail and the paraphernalia was con-
fiscated. The officers could find no evil
dence to connect him with any crooked
work In this section and he was re-
leased after promising to leave the city.
Dlffenbocker is suffering from a fatal
malady and went from Los Angeles
to Arizona. Several days ago he re-
turned, was recognized on the street
and arrested.
Gives Police His Story
He told the police he had been in the
telegraph business for many years, and
by his close confinement to his desk
contracted tuberculosis. He Is alleged
to have stated to the police he found
he could make more money by fleeing
victims by overlapping schemes and
that he organized a gang which ope-
rated extensively in the east. AS re-
suit of his schemes he told the officers
the band had swindled victims out of
more than 81 100000 within a few years.
This money, he stated, was spent in
dissipation and in trying to beat the
races.
In speaking OF the Walker affair Diff
fenbocker is said to have told the police
they gained the bankers confidence and
allowed him to win $4,000 on a wire
tapping scheme in which they are sup
posed to have obtained race results by
stealing ii from a race circuit. Walker
received the money and was persuaded
to wager 1t and $4,000 on another race.
This time he lost ana was compelled to
flee in order to escape arrest for enl-
bezzing the money from the bank, Of
which he was trusted official.
In pronouncing sentence, Justice Rose
told Diffenbocker he would be conf
PEELED to leave the city at once, and If
he returned, no matter IL II was within
ten years, he would be compelled to
serve the six months sentence In the
workhouse.
In addition to fleeing Walker, the
alleged wiretapper stated a number of
other prominent business men had been
heeced out of large amounts.
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NINE. MODJESkA
NEARING DEATH
HAS BEEN IN CONDITION OF
COMA MANY HOURS
Physicians Consider That There Are
No Prospects for Recovery, AL
though Patient May LInger
Several Days

For the last twenty-four hours Nine.
Helena Modjeska, the noted actress,
has been in an unconscious condition at
her home on Bay island, near Newport.
This is believed to be the beginning OF
the end, and DR.. J. p. Boyd, who has
been with Nine. Modjeska constantly
for the last forty-eight hours, made the
statement last night that although his
patient might live a week. in his opin-
ion two or three days at the most would
bring death.
A consultation between DR.. w A. Ed
wards and DIR. j. II. Billiard Of Los
Angeles, with DR.. Boyd of Santa Ana,
was held at Nine. Modjeska's Bay
island home yesterday.
Count Bozenta, the husband Of Nine.
ModJeska, and her son, Ralph Mod
jeska, and his family, are constantly
with the patient.
FIN the illustrated magazine of to-
days Herald will be found excellent
photographs OF Nine. Modieska. taken
at her former home, Forest of Arden"
and views Of that beautiful residence.1
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COMMITTEE TO
STUDY HARBOR
MEMBERS BENT ON GETTING
EXACT INFORMATION
Propose to Acquire Comprehensive
View of Situation Before Ad-
vising Measures for
Consolidation

The Los Angeles consolidation COM
mittee will pass the next thirty days
in securing a comprehensive idea or the
harbor situation, with view to haV-
ing every member thoroughly informed,
not only on the general details of the
harbor question, but equipped also with
personal knowledge of improvements
to date and the actual work that may
be accomplished by means of consoli-
dalton. This was the sentiment at the
organization meeting Friday afternoon,
and the idea was voiced yesterday by
a number of members that the first
step was 10 be fully Informed on the
harbor and its possibilities.
II think you had better go slow on
Interviewing us until we go over the
ground and have some more meetings,
said several members of the commit
tee to a reporter for The Herald yes
terday This is an extremely impor
tant matter both to Los Angeles and
the beach cities, and in justice to all
1t will not do to rush AT the prob
lemY
The idea has been expressed so gem
orally by the committeeman that 1t
would be a good plan to go over the
harbor, from Long Beach to Point
Firmin that a trip of this sort Is under
serious consideration. Several mem
bers have traversed the ground. but
others want to get the lay of the har-
Dor anew, especially as much that has
been heretofore apparent has developed
since the first of the year.
No consolidation election can be an
nounced legally before May II, when
the law granting Los Angeles CONSOLE
dalton rights will become effective. and
up to that time most of the work Of
the consolidation committees will be
entirely of preliminary character. BY
that date, however, the Los Angeles
committee hopes to have well de-
veloped plan under way and every
thing ready for vigorous consolida-
ton Campaign