The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-23
TINES TOLD The
STORY FIRST
Value of It's News Service
Is Appreciated by the
People.
ONLY PAPER TO GIVE FACTS
Aftermath of the Court Fight Con-
tinues To Be Somewhat
Exciting

The court bills have been veoted.
The news that the governor had exer
cised his executive perogative became
known early yesterday all over the
Calumet region and by word of mouth
it spread SO rapidly that it was mere
~ confirmed by the newspapers in the
evening.
Incidentally the eficicacy of THE
TINES Indianapolis news service was
put to the most severe test and this
paper was able to make positive pre-
diction as early as Saturday that the
governor would veto both bills.
Times Scoop Notable.
While the only other Gary daily was
printing a story it had received news
from indianapolis to the effect that
there was a good chance for the gov
ernor to sign the Gary bill, THE TIMES
printed the following:
There are ominous reports coming
from the state capital which indicate
that both bills are in danger. On the
very best authority TIE TINES learns
that the Gary bill is quite likely to be
vetoed by the governor. The Hammond
bill is in almost as precarious a con-
dition."
The other Hammond paper had not
even pretended to keep its readers &C
quainted with the progress of the Gary
and Hammond bills. Considering the
fact that the people of every city in
| Lake county were straining their ears
in an effort to get even a fragment of
information regarding the probable ac-
ton of the governor in this matter. THE
TINES scoop is the most notable of its
many news gathering feats.
Furthermore, the fact becomes APP
parent in view of the failure of both
Hammond and Gary to get additional
court facilities that THE TIMES told the
truth, even If the truth did hurt and
that only through the columns of this
paper were the people of Hammond and
Gary able to arrive at anything like 8
correct idea of the real status of af-
fairs at the Indiana state capital.
A Hammond manufacturer in speak
! ing of the governors action, yesterday
said Part of the people of Gary
who have been properly advised abou
this court bill expected the inevitable
and are not sorely disappointed, bu
such men as Homer J. Carr, who hav'
hypnotized themselves and a few fol
lowers into believing that a superio
4 court for Gary is possibility ar
heart broken.
Carr" is like a little girl. who ha
! been promised a doll for Christmas
= whose eyes move and the head Of whicl
turns from side to side and whel
: Christmas comes after long weeks 0
: waiting Santa Clause fails to bring tn
!, long looked for gift She cries he
: eyes out and, OF course. we sympathiz
with her
Undecided to Future.
The Lake County Bar association ha
! not yet decided what it will do. ]
= sees relief in the suggestion of Gov
: ernor Marshall that it would be a goo
: plan to establish a separate circui
h court at Crown Point. and it is possibl
! that Hammond will pitch in and do a
r it can to follow out the suggestion c
r the governor along this line. 1t is be
n believed that the Crown Point court bi
n would go through with a whoop. Thi
q would provide relief for Both Harmon
). and Gary and when the interurban lin
is is built through from Gary to Crow
! Point it will only be a twenty-minut
n ride from the steel city to the continu
# Gus circuit court there
le In fact that will propably be til
g next action of the Lake County Bar as
= ISOLATION and the action of the gov
t. ernor is believed to insure Crown Poir
the improved facilities it so badly need