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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
DRINK CAUSES TROUBLE
Father Charged With Tres
pass Is Found Not Guilty
by Judge.

Martin Sunenstine lived with his wife
eighteen years and has been divorced
fro mher for seventeen years, accord
ing to the testimony he gave in Judge
William McMahon's city court this aft
ernoon when he was on trial for tres
passing in the residence of his daugh-
ter. Mrs. Evans, of this city.
According 70 the testimony Of Mrs.
Sunenstine, her husband and Mrs.
Evans. their daughter. the husband and
father is a good. kind man until ne be-
gins drinking and then he makes life
unbearable for all Of them
In Akron, Ohio. where the Sunen-
stines formerly lived, his conduct be-
came so reprehensible that his wife was
compelled to break up her home and
leave for Hammond, where she could
have the protection of her daughters
family.
Sunenstine followed them and again
began drinking. AS soon as he began
to imbibe too freely he caused trouble
and the result was his arrest on the
charge of trespassing.
The judge did not find him guilty of
trespass for the reason that he had
not been ordered off the premises, but
he did warn him that if he went back
he would be arrested and convicted of
the charge.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
CONSIDERING PHONE
RIGHTS FOR BURNHAM
Chicago Telephone Com
pany Seeks Franchise
Suburb.
ADJOURNED MEETING SAT.
Provisions in Franchise VIII Be
Gone Over Again By the
Board Members.
Especial TO The TrMEs.)

Burnham, H.. March 25.-The village
board will hold an adjourned meetins
next Saturday afternoon in order to
give further consideration ia the Chi
cago Telephone company franchise. for
which the corporation is asking. The
matter was brought up at the board
meeting last night, but no decided ac-
ton was taken, as there are a number
OF clauses in the proposed franchise
about which the board wishes to have
thorough understanding with the
telephone company.
Burnham has a number of telephones
now, but there is no general service.
and the people Of the town are gen
orally in favor OF the installation of
the system provided a reasonable fran
chise viii be granted.
There having been only one bid re-
ceived for the pumping station. which
is to be erected on Howard avenue,
they will go over this bid as com
mittee Of the whole and decide on the
manner of investment The bid was
submitted by a Chicago Heights firm.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
ATTENDS GRAND
LODGE NEE TING
Grand Lodge of Perfection
Meets for Work in
Indianapolis.

DR. H. Z. Sharrer is in attendance at
the sessions of the grand lodge of the
Masonic lodges at Indianapolis. Sixty
fixe master Masons received the degrees
of Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfec-
tion yesterday afternoon ad last nisht
at the opening session of the forty
fourth annual convocation of the Scot
tish Rite of Indiana. The initiates
come from all parts of the state. and
the degrees conferred were to IA
inclusive. James ". Lilly was master
of the lodge and Frank T. SauIter acted
as master of ceremonies.
The same class of candidates this
morning received the fifteenth and six
teenth degrees from Saraiah Council.
Princes of Jerusalem. under the direc-
ton of Charles s. Barker sovereign
prince, and John A George. master Of
ceremonies.
Indianapolis Chapter of Rose Croix
conferred the seventeenth and eigb-
teenth degrees this afternoon. Homer A.
Sampsell was master of the council and
Arthur E. Baxter was master of cere-
monies. The annual convocation din
ner Will follow the work in the coun-
ell and will begin at p. m. Tomorrow
beginning at 10 a. m, Indiana Con
sistory. which controls the nineteenth
to the thirty second degree, will take
up work Of initiation and will close
the convocation at 10 p. m
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
SEARCHING RECORDS
Chicago Police Hunting for
New Clews in Mys-
terry.

Believing that the hunter. whose
rotting skull bones were found in the
Kankakee marsh in Lake county sew
eral days ago. might be Chicago man,
the local police began a search of the
records and of all missing men for the
last six months yesterday. The place
where the body was found is mecca
for Chicago hunters.
The Lake county authorities have no
further clues to the identity of the
missing man and will probably never
be told further.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
Especial to THE T1mEs.)

Indiana Harbor, Ind, March 25.-
The Calumet Traction company. the
new interurban enterprise connecting
the cities OF East Chicago. Indiana Har-
Dor, Hammond. Gary and Crown Point
has reached an agreement as to the
streets its wishes to occupy with it's
proposed lines. through Indiana Har-
Dor and East Chicago. It will ask for
a franchise over the following route
most likely at the next council meet
ing.
The start as planned will be from
the Lake Shore depot in Indiana Har-
bOr along Regent street to Waiting; on
Waiting to Block; on Block to Michi-
gan avenue, on Michigan avenue to
Pennsylvania avenue; on Pennsylvania
avenue to Washington street; on Wash
ingtou to Cedar street; on Cedar to
One Hundred and Thirty-seventh; on
One Hundred and Thirty back
TO Michigan: on Michigan avenue to
Kennedy on Kennedy to One Hundred
and Fifty-hrst on One Hundred and
Fifty-frst to Todd avenue on Todd
avenue to One Hundred and Forty
eighth and thence on One Hundred and
Forty eighth to White Oak avenue. the
dividing street between Hammond and
East Chicago.
Other Plans Not Yet Public.
The company is not yet prepared to
make public their plans as to what
streets they propose to occupy in other
cities which viii be traversed by their
lines.
The route as mapped out by the
Calumet Traction company is one that
viii lanswer the purpose of the people
Of Indiana Harbor and East Chicago
as well if not better than any line that
could be proposed.
It gives a direct connection between
the Lake Shore depot in Indiana Har-
Dor. the Inland mills. and the business
portion of the Harbor. through the for
eign district of the city as well as the
best residence districts and at the same
time viii ltake care of the travel to and
from the various plants along the canal
It gives Oklahoma transportation as
well as all that part of East Chicago.
lying south of Chicago avenue. The
proposed line will also give direct com
munication without changing cars be-
tween the Lake Shore depot in Indi-
ana Harbor. and Hammond by way of
East Chicago. The running time will
not exceed thirty five minutes from
terminus to terminus.
The route laid out will also give
Grasselh, Gibson. Osborne and Hess
Vile cas- yaceess to Indiana Harbor and
East Chicago, as it will all the towns
along the line TO Crown Point. which
will be the southern terminus of the
main line.
Provided n reasonable franchise can
be had from the city of East Chicago /
ana there seems to be no reason why !
the council should not be very glad +o |
grant such a franchise. the citizens Of /
East Chicago and Indiana Harbor can
look forward to unexceIIed transnor-
fation facilities in the very near fu-
ture- The men who are behind the |
new organization are ready to begin /
the practical work Immediately on the
granting of the franchise
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
GIVE POLICE TROUBLE
Four Drunks Are Picked
Up by the Police Last
Night.
Night.

Four drunks were picked I'M bv or.
fcers Borchert and Trinen and sneciot
Officer Winkler last night and talar
to the station. where thev were All
found guilty and were fined the us1,a1
81 and costs, amounting to s11
Frank Vanderburg was the most un-
ruly Of the four men and caused the
police considerable trouble. He tried
to break some beer bottles on the ce-
ment sidewalks in West State street in
Hammond, after he had been to the
night in West Hammond and when the
officer told him to stop he became abus-
i've. The result was his arrest and uI-
innate conviction.
Burt Davis Joseph Miller and George
Oasley were the other men who were
arrested. Davis was from Peru. Miller
from Seattle and Oasley from Marion.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
DEVELOPMENTS OF DAY
IN KIDNAPPING CASE

Suicide of Mrs. Mary Diemer
Of Toledo, o., in Cleveland af-
ter her arrest for some unex-
planned connection with the
case.
v W Y
2-Positive Identification by Will
lie Whitla of James Boyle and
the woman arrested with him
as his kidnapers.
& " "
3-Confession of the mysterious
Mrs. Boyle" that she is Willie
Whitla's Mrs. Jones'"
Y " u
4Proceedings against Boyle and
alleged wife before the grand
jury in Cleveland.
" " "
5-Rumors that some skeletons
in the family closets of con-
nections of the Whitlas may
De disclosed as a result of the
kidnapping.
Y " M
6-The dragging into the case of
the name Of Harry Foraker's
wife and the evident unwill
ingness of Foraker to face the
woman who has confessed her
part in the crime.
Y " "
7-Disinclination of the Cleveland
police and prosecuting officers
to allow the return of the
prisoners to Pennsylvania for
fear that the case against
them would not be pushed to
the limit.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
DENY KILLING OF MAN
South Chicago Police De
partment Today Disclaims
Murder Story.

The reported murder of a cook by a
man named Burns. who keeps a re-
sort on Wolf lake. was vigorously de-
MED today by the South Chicago police
department. They assert that as far
as their knowledge is concerned there
was no killing there, and the desk ser
geant declared that there was no re-
port on the blotter of any reported ar
rests superintendent Thompson Of the
Wolf Lake Ice houses, says that Burns.
while under the influence Of liquor had
some trouble with a hanger-on at the
place AS Burns lives on the Illinois
side. no report was made at the local
police station.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
Co. GOES DRY
Ohio Joins the Ranks of
Temperance, Making So
Out of 90.

Indianapolis. Ind. March 25-Ohio
county yesterday voted dry" by q ma
jority of thirty-two. This makes a
total of fifty eight dry counties in the
state.
Ohio is a small county and only four
saloons are effected. The contest was
heated, however. The temperance
forces opened the day by an early
morning prayer meeting. Women dis
pensed coffee and sandwiches at the
polling places.
Today Elkhart and Orange counties
win vote. The result in the former
county is admitted to be doubtful. Both
Elkhart and Goshen. cities of over 10
600 population. are in the county and
are being claimed by the liquor forces
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
DEATH OF A. HAZARD
Hammond Pioneer Passes
Away at His Home in
Chicago.

Alex Hazard a. pioneer of Hammond
died yesterday morning at 10 o'clock
at his home in Chicago, 6543 Peoria
street He had been i'll for some time
and his death follows shortly after that
OF his wife and a daughter, Mrs. John
Wedel.
Hazard lived in Hammond for near
ly twenty five years, having been en-
ployed for greater part Of the time
on the killing floor of the G. H. Ham
mond company. He was still with that
company after he moved to Chicago.
He is survived sby two daughters. the
Misses Bertha and Charlotte Hazard.
and by one son, William Hazard The
funeral has been arranged for tomor-
row and interment will be at Oak Hill
cemetery, in Hammond at 2 o'clock
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
WINTER COMES AGAIN
Snow, Sleet and Rain Ac-
company Chilly Breezes
and Bad Weather.

DID winter return to Lake county
Yesterday. probably just to see how
Miss Spring was getting along and
how she was conducting herself. If the
truth must be told he was not gladly
welcomed The weather man is au-
thority for the statement that the visit
OF old winter, this time at least. will
be short and that he probably viii
blow himself out of the vicinity BY
Friday. Winter brought with him a
left over assortment of snow. sleet. rain
and some chilling breezes He viii
be on the scene again today and will
cause the temperature to drop some
what lower than it did yesterday. in
the meantime Miss Spring is arrang-
ing her new wardrobe.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
INTERURBANS
TO Be SLOGAN
Membership of Hammond
Business Mems Club
Meets.

'Interurbans for Hammond" that IS
the slogan of the Hammond Business
Mems association. It has been decided
to make campaign for interurbans
in this city that will attract the eyes
States he grea possibilities of deveI-
opment along these lines.
The fact will be pointed to that
Hammond is the center of a population
of $4,000 to $4,000 people. That the
region is sure to grow until in a few
years 1t will have a popuIa ton of a
quarter of a million. That Hammond
is the natural roadway to Chicago and
that by passing through Hammond on
the way to Chicago. the various lines
will be benefited by the enormous traf-
fic which now exists between Hammond
and the metropolis of the west.
Interurbans! Interurbans! Interur-
bans. Dozens of them, if they will
come, will be welcomed into the city.
Their entrance into Hammond will be
made easy and no franchises will be
awarded which will give any one line
a monopoly of the streets of this city.
The Hammond Business Mems asso-
citation will be back of this movement
and every property owner in Hammond
should join the organization so that
the attracting of more interurbans can
be done unitedly.
Must Get Ready.
This will involve the widening of
streets, the opening of thoroughfares
where stub end streets now exist. the
careful guarding Of the streets from
monopolistic companies who desire
franchises and an enlightened public
sentiment which will not think that
every interurban company is backed by
set of corrupt franchise grabbers.
If necessary, fnterurban officials must
be received with open arms, they must
be wined and dined, they must hear
honied words Of affection, they must
be given franchises upon which it is
possible to sell their bonds and in re-
turn it Is expected that they will bring
in hundreds of people from the coun-
try districts who will trade in Ham
mond merchants and who will make
Hammond the business center of the
region.
That is the plan that has been out
lined by the membership of the Ham |
mond Business Mems association. and |
1t is with that kind of a plan in CON !
temptation that the work of securing |
members will be undertaken.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
Falls TO FIND HEALTH
Aubrey Lewis Dies at the
Home of His Brother
Yesterday.

HaVlhg come to Hammond in search
OF MS last ebbing health, due TO con-
sum ption. aubrey A Lewis died yes
terday AFTERNOON at the home of his
Orotner' omer Z Lewis, 321 Walter
street
aubrey A Lewis was musician and
came from MS nome IN CSloma. Ind, in
company with his wife, hoping that
the change Of location would benefit
him They had been married only a
little more than year.
services VIII be held this evening at
o'clock at the Walter street hone
Inc body will be shipped to CMcago
tomorrow morning and from there over
the c.. L & S. to West Melcber Tnd
and from thence to Coloma. Lewis vas
81 years old.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
MAYOR BECKER BETTER
Friends Show Solicitude
But Cold Is the Only
Trouble.

Mayor Becker although somewhat
improved today. was not able to be at
his Office, being still afflicted with a
bad cold He hoped yesterday that his
illness would not prevent him from
tending to his business today. but the
desired improvement did not come as
fast as ne wished It might Neither he
nor his friends see anything serious.
however, in his present ailment. which
is due to a bad cold.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
Superintendents Here.

The county superintendent and the
city superintendent from over the
county are IN Hammond TODAY making
an inspection of the local schools one
mas been assigned to each school room
and they will make a study OF the
methods IN vogue here.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
Standard Steel Car Workers
Employed on Piece Work
Not to Be Cut, But no Step
Has Been Taken Yet on
Day Men.
FEW CARS ARE
BEING BUILT NOW
Local Concerns Are Waiting for Ac-
ton on the Part of Their Com
petitOrs Before Taking Steps -
Simplex Officials Do Not Look for
Wage Reductions.

The reports over the country that
there is to be a general reduction in
the wages of the men have raised the
question as to whether any of the
Hammond plants are to be affected by
the wage reduction
Superintendent Douglas of the Stand
ard Steel Car company's plant in Ham
mond was interviewed this morning.
and asked if there would be any re-
duction of wages among his men.
Mr., Douglas said that manv of the
men in the employ of the Standard
Steel Car company are on piece work
and that they would not be affected
AS to the necessity for making re-
ductions in the wages of the men who
are being paid by the day, Mr.. Doug
las said he did not know what would
be done
Depends on Competition.
He stated 1t would depend largely
upon what their competitors are do
ing. He said there are SO few cars
being built now that all OF the car
builders are making their bids as low
as possible. Some of these bids are
based on reduction in the wages of
men.
Mr.. Douglas says all Of the car man
ufacturers must pay the same price for
steel and if one is able to underbid
another to any great extent 1t is on ac-
count of his ability to get labor cheap
er.
As long as the Standard Steel Car
company can get orders and keep run
ming at Hammond and make little
money on the orders that are taken. it
will continue to do so. but when its
competitors start to cutting the wages
of their men the Standard will have
to do likewise in order to meet the
When Mr.. Thomas of the Simplex
Appliance company was asked
If there was any reduction in wages in
he said he had not heard of
any.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
Lulu Pho Accuses Her Hus-
band of Giving Her Only
Six Tenths of a Cent Per
Day for Spending Money
for One Month.
BRINGS MANY
SERIOUS CHARGES
Alleged Sensational Acts of Hus-
band Bring Him Into Superior
Court = Brutality, Non-Support
and Other Shameful Accusations
Brought By Wife.

1t may have been Lulu. nv dear.
and 'Lonnie, my love" away back in
1905 when they We're married. but
Lulu and Lonnie are now at swords $
points, and she even goes to the ex-
tent of accusing him of visiting places
of il-repute in West Hammond in
the complaint for a divorce. which she
has filed in the Lake superior court.
The parties to the controversy are
Lulu Pho and Lonnie Pho of Hammond.
In the complaint she is the pIaintiff
and alleges that they We're married
Feb Z, 1905 She says he abandoned
her Dec. 8, 1907.
Probably the most peculiar allega :
ton made in the complaint is that from
December. 1907. to January, 1908. he
gave her only 81 spending money. she
claims the 6-10 of a cent a dav is
hardly enough pin money and she of
fers this as proof of the fact that he
was not prodigal in his expenditures
for her.
she says she was finally compelled
to live with her parents in Hammond.
because he refused to support her and
that he refused to allow her enough
money with which to return to her
friends at Indianapolis.
Abandoned In Distress.
Furthermore. she says he is a worth
less, lazy, fellow. and at the time of
the birth of her child refused to come
and see her or to bear any of the ex-
penses attending the bringing up Of
their child into the world. She says
at one time he blackened her ewes
and she was compelled to see a physi-
clan on account of her injuries.
She claims that he not only visited
West Hammond on trips of a aues-
character, but has been oon-
PEELED to go there in search of him
when he was missing from home and
she suspected that he was there.
Mrs. Pho claims that Mr.. Pho did
not deny that he associated with wo
men of bad charaeter. and he frequent
ly told her of his esca pades. Just to
make her angry. She asks for an alb
solute divorce and the custody of her
child.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
TEST WOMAN'S
MIND TODAY

Inquiry into the sanity of Miss Nina
A. Pattee, who wrote 1000 letters to
hundreds of persons of prominence in
the past three months. will be made
today at the detention hospitav in chi
cago.
Miss Pattee formerly taught school
In Hammond, and her story was given
in these columns last Monday.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
Il. z. Granger Being Sued.

Ahe chicago Riverdale Lumber COM
pany has brought suit in the Lake
superior court against H. E. Granger
TO recover $3.50. which it alleges is due
the company In settlement for an ac-
count Of So, accrued interest and attor-
ney's fees.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25

Four Of the members Of the Wabash
College Glee club. which appear in
Hammond March 81 at the Methodist
church under the auspices Of the local
high school, are known as "The Big
Four They alone can make things
interesting. II
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
Calumet Traction Company,
New Syndicate to Connect
Cities of Calumet Region,
Makes Public Proposed
Route in One City.
WILL SOON ASK FOR
FRANCHISE FROM CITY

Route Mapped Out for New Line
VIII Answer Purpose of People of
Indiana Harbor and East Chicago
Better Than Any Other Line-Di-
rect Connections Many Ways.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
WEATHER.

Light snow nurries and
cooler tOdayy Friday fair.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-06-11
STORY Of Drowning At
SP|R|7WOODL LAKE, N. D.

back to the lake Immediately.
1t was greatly through Sperners
assistance in locating the site that
bodies were brought to the surface
some distance west from the spot
where Sperner first located the boat
and the sound of splashing and
screams. The tin boat. half full Of
water. the floating check book and
hat of Falck were the first evidences
found of the drowning Friday morn
ing by P. LaBrasche. when searching
for the boat which had not returned
to the dock. All were surprised that
the bodies were found so near the
shore. Dragging was done in some
places forty feet deep.
The systematic dragging of the lake
was commenced at once and three
launches, belonging to w. B. Default,
H. Tucker and P. LaBrasche, were
in commission nearly all the time,
assisted by many row boats. More
than fifty people were engaged in the
search at times. J. A. Buchanan
was one of the first and most per-
sistent and his efforts were rewarded
by finding the bodies. Dynamite had
been exploded in the vicinity.
The boats and launches crossed the
bay time and again in parallel lines,
covering nearly every foot of the bot
tom. Many lines we're broken and
hooks lost. catching in the rocks and
brush. At the time the body Of the
girl was found two launches were
tangled together, their gripping lines
having been snarled. The search
was continued, however, and the body
of Fritz Falck found as stated above.
Both remains were taken to Buchan-
an for, the funeral.
Capt. H. H. Thompson, profession
al submarine diver, came Tuesday
night from Duluth intending to as.
sist in the search at the lake, but
was notified shortly after his arrival
that the bodies had been found. A
crowd of curious people were at the
depot to see the diver and his equip
ment. He brought the entire outfit
along, rubber suit, hose. air pump,
which when packed, weighed about
1900 pounds, and is carried in three
heavy boxes. Capt. Thompson and