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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-09
OPENING
Of STREET
ASSURED
Next Year at This Time
State Line Will Be Paved
to Ridge Road -opposi-
tion Found From Plum
mer to Sibley Streets.

The opening and paving Of State
Line street, the most important i'm
provement that has been proposed in
Hammond in recent years, now seems
assured. It is believed that the street
will be ready for paving from Plummer
avenue to the Ridge road by next
spring.
The greatest difficulty is with the
property owners between Sibley street
and Plummer avenue. Notwithstand
ing the fact that this improvement
will add hundreds of dollars in value to
the property in the immediate vicinity
of the intersection of Sibley and State
streets and Plummer avenue with state
line street, there seems to be consid-
erable opposition to the improvement
on the part of the property owners
who are compelled to sacrifice part
of their property.
However, it is believed that they
will be prevailed upon to make a set
tIement with the city and condemna-
tion proceedings will be avoided To
be compelled to condemn the needed
property would only delay matters,
and the property owners might not get
nearly as satisfactory a settlement.
Agree to Move Houses.
In the cases where the houses en-
eroaeh on the Indiana side of State
Line street, Homewood, 1t is under
stood that the owners of the property
are all willing to make a settlement
with the city for any fair figure. These
people see the great value of such an
improvement and are willing to move
their houses to another location pro-
viding the moving can be done with
out cost to them.
w. B. Ewing, the village engineer
of West Hammond has prepared blue
prints showing each of the property
owners on State Line street, between
Sibley street and Plummer avenue, just
how much will have to be taken of
from their property to make the open
ing of the street possible.
1t is understood that the plans con-
template the opening and paving Of
State Line street clear through to the
Ridge road and that the growth of the
city beautiful and city convenient
ideas should have made an improve
ment possible is almost unbelievable.
When State Line street is opened
and paved to the Ridge road the peo-
pie of both Hammond and Cyest Ham
mond will point to it as A proud ac-
hievement..
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-09
WATER IS
AROUS|NG
INDIGNATION
Pollution of Hammond's
Drinking Water Supply
Still Continues and Smell
of Fluid Is Nauseating to
Those Who Use It.

The offensive water which is now
being drawn from the faucets in HAM
mond. is another reminder that ths
drinking water that is being consumed
by 10000 Lake county people is not fit
to be aiken into their stomachs.
The principal sources OF water pol.
luton are the Calumet river at South
Chicago, the Whiting sewer. the Amer
lean Maize Products company and the
dumping of dredgings in the lake.
Dr. ". d. Weis, secretary of the
city board of health, reports that the
American Maize Products company is
rapidly constructing a sewage purifica-
tion system that viii enable it to elim-
mate all Of the offensive and deleteri-
ous substances from the sewage that
y dumped into the lake.
The contamination that results from
the flow of water from the Little and
Grand Calumet rivers into Lake Michi-
gan will not be avoided until the auxiI-
iary drainage canal is built through to
the Sag and the flow of this river is
reversed just as was the flow Of the
Chicago river
No Immediate Remedy.
There appears to be no remedy that
can be adopted to prevent the pollution
of the water of the lake at this time.
except that the city of Whiting should
be induced to provide system Of sew
age publication that would protect its
own as well as the general water sup
ply of the cities of this region.
The American Maize Products COM
pany has been over a year prepar-
ing its system of sewage publication
and the people Of Hammond are get
ting rather impatient with the delay.
The company is not permitted 10 dump
its sewage in Wolf river. where the
Knickerbocker Ice company gets its
ice supply. but it is permitted to dump
its sewage into Hammonds drinking
water.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-09

Why TAKE CHICAGO PAPER
FOR SPORTING EVENTSs THEY
DON'T GIVE YOU LAKE COUNTY
EVENTS. THE TIMES DOES, AND
ALI, OTHERS as WELL
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-09
OUTPUT is
10000 TONS
Population of Big Steel City
to Be Increased by Five
Thousand Souls.
Especial to TIE T1MEs)

Indiana Harbor, Nov 9.-The big
best deal that has been put through
in Indiana Harbor since the location
of the great Inland mill, which was
really the beginning of Indiana Har-
Dor, and the foundation of its i'm
portance as an industrial center, was
put through yesterday.
The deal represents the sale Of fifty
acres from the Potter Palmer tract,
southwest Of the Inland Steel com
pany's plant, the purchase price for
the entire tract being $250,000, rep
resenting a price per acre of $4,000.
The purchasers. are the McClintic-
Marshall Construction company of
Pittsburg, Pa, Pottstown and Car
negie. Pa, who Will begin at once the
construction of $2.0O0,0O0 plant.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-09
BIG APPROPRIATION.

AS a beginner, 100000 has al
ready been appropriated. this sum to
be utilized at once in the immediate
erection of the first building. AS the
work goes on more will be appro-
priated and the plant already in
sight will cost not less than 81, ,000,-
600, and this will be duplicated in
the near future, making the total out
lay on buildings and equipment in
the neighborhood of s2,00O,000.
The plant will employ between
twelve and fifteen hundred men at the
(Cont1nued on Page Fivel
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-09
WEATHER

Partly cloudy tonight and
Wednesday; rising tempexa-
ture "Wednesday.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-09

6continued on page iive.l
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Continued on Page Five.1
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13
BATTLE TAKES NAME FROM CHURCH
BY HOWARD ENRIeHT SEXTON.

Early year command
In military parlance this scouting
lines by capturing point the Memphis Charleston
railroad
left solid into
compliment with
shells that fired building the the hill AS the boats
landed hostile They
Corinth Miss miles little
Shiloh Smith
the the
the
road
In Shiloh holds
conflicts
who in
day. spoke exutingy great victory
handled epeed
enemy bloody Sunday
humiliation.
Albert Sydney Johnston sgnally design
battle against
accident Haleck recall Washington
passed into obscurity.
field of Shiloh marked the the
He years physically younger
varied banker teacher
n raroadn all
had been unsuccessful.
had commanded regiment. from
himself had dordey extreme His
that regarded him mentally while
acting unseHsh
the bgadier. Shiloh
who twice wounded still animated his Crazy R Sherman
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13
WTZEE TH1NEVOY 1T NFZMGI0W GEIKEZERN

tunies release quarters
a said moth
bone mathematics and French I'd like read
novethe lighter anything
contraband. Ships
of the pillar the end of the acove wall
table The Shpp
Carolina forgotten and the cassmate ad There book
A or Shipp
secene Of story a
maliciousy possible that he will learn that
the which
Shpp southener from the slavehodng and.
tion
in the a when he shot and killed.
A Tourgee's North Carolina town.
block the spot where John NJ Stot
hurled Stotsenburg
cred them a his Sotsenburg
captain Regular cavalry He appointed colonel
Philippines y...
that his miamen
to He made them drill and he taught them the duties of
called him martinez
lie and
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13

colonel. He was killed while leading the Nebras-
ka volunteers in a charge that brought the regi-
ment everlasting fame. The men of the command
raised the money for the monument to their COM
mander
Near the Temple of Fame" is the grave of
Maj. Liscum of the Ninth infantry, who was killed
at rientsn during the invasion OF China. The
Liscum monument beyond all question is the
handsomest memorial the National cemetery holds.
This field officer of the Ninth in initiative and
bravery upheld the best traditions of the American
army and he was deserving of his memorial but
the shadow Of 1t falls across the grave OF Maj Gen
Henry W. Lawton, unmarked save by the small
stone bearing number and name which the
government places at the resting place Of all who
die in the service major-general and private alike
Gen. Lawton was killed In the Philippines
and his funeral was matter OF pomp by his
countrymen. but time seems to have dulled the
edge OF remembrance and his state has failed to
honor him with stone in Arlington, though 1t
has remembered him in lndianas chief city.
In justice to the family of the dead soldier 1t
should be said on the best army authority possible
TINT Gen. Lawton, before his death. put the wish
virtually into the form Of a command that part
Of the left given for the support OF his wild.
ow and children should ba used for monument to
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13

The 1909 National Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be-
14th. An unusually attractive folder in
red ed-white-and-b blue. replete with infor-
and the ROCKY Mountain region. is he,
ing distributed by the Passenger De-
partment of the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad. One feature that will be OF
particular interest to Grand Army men
Is the reproduction of speaking like
nesses of all the s-in-Chief
from B. F. Stephenson, the organizer
in 1866. to Henry Nevius. the present
Commander. This is the first time that
this set of portraits has been assembled.
Ambrose E. Burnside. John F. Hart
ranft Russell A. Alger. John c. Black,
James Tanner and many others appear
in this Interesting series.
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13

ASHINGTON.-In wooden Arlington Just across the
Potomac from the city of Washington 10000 of the
country's dead at rest.
Arlington holds sleeping army, and no soldier
host ever camped upon ground more nobly beau
tiful. Many of the great captains of the federal
forces in the civil at rest here. Grant and
Sherman sleep elsewhere, though their place is
here Generals. colones, sergeants, corporals and
prvates side by side in this burial ground of
the nation. for DEATH like love- levels all ranks.
The tents of Unionists and Confederate are pitched
not far apart, and picket walks between 'All
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13

Be Start Start ,wI payer WItn in The Sss
Of Western" superior ready prints YOU can
issue a very creditable paper at small ex-
pense For particulars and prices address
Western Newspaper Union. Denver. Colo.
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13
Sheep.

Ewes . ................ 700 a :, 10
Wethers ..................5 10 n 90
Yearlings . ................ .6.25 q 6. 10
lambs .................... 1000 $50
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13
Grain,

Wheat. choice milling, per 100 lbs.
$2.20. Rye. Colorado. bulk, per 100 lbs.
$1.4o. Oats. bulk. Idaho No. 2, white.
s2.oo: same in sacks. s2.15; Nebraska
oats sacked. $500. Corn. In bulk. S1.4O.
in sacks. sl.47; corn chop. sacked, s1.4s
Bran. Colorado, per lbs. $3.50. Rolled
oats; cwt.. sl.7S. Flaked barley. cwt-
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Soldiers OF many wars here. Revolutionary
veterans lie not far removed from descendants who
met death in the Philippines The victim of the Semi
mole rests at Arlington, and with him is the who
1ei before the earthworks of Moino del Rey Sailors
VINO served on the Constitution and the Maine are
In port in Arlington. 1t is a camping ground of the
united service.
The troopers stationed Fort Myer look
through the iron gateway at Arlington and see the
grave of a man who for II years commissioned
ohcer OF the United States army-the veteran Harvey
OF the old Second Dragons He fought in the Black
Hawk and Seminole wars, in Mexico the plains
ana IN the war between the states. He was soldier
after the soldiers heart. Harney sleeps unforgot
ten of the army.
Near the Harney monument rises the shaft
beneath which lie father and son. both of whom
gave their lives for their country A little re-
moved is the grandson. killed while leading his
rough rider company in Cuba. Three genera
tons of the Capron family represented in the death
rolls OF the American army. Erastus E. Capron. the
grandfather, killed Cherubusco; Allyn Capron,
the son. died the result of and hardship
in the campaign before Santiago; Allyn X. Capron,
the grandson was killed while at the front with the
Roosevelt command in the charge Las Guasimas
The younger Caprons grave is in of the Spanish
war sections of the cemetery. Near him rest Col.
Alexander NJ. Wehere of the Sixth infantry and Maj.
Albert G. Forse of the First cavalry, their
death together the slopes of San Juan hill Capron.
Wetherel and Forse sleep under noble monuments.
Scarce the length of sentry's post from them lie
the remains of Lieut.. William II. Smith, killed the
mead OF his dsmouned troop of the Tenth cavalry
San Juan hill Smith gallant soldier the
army has produced. but for the government
er and for the flowers which comrades place there
his grave is unmarked. Smiths West +
E. Shipp The two men cadets and officers were
were members OF the same regiment and they died
In 1879 William E Shpp a country lad from n
ported candidate for admission the United Stat
my. He was quiet. studous fellow. and made the
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13
DENVER MARKETS. MAY .TH..
Cattle.

Cattle.
The following quotations represent
the range of prices paid on this mar
ket:
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13
DENVER DIRECTORY

You take no
chance when
buying n har-
ness from us ,
every set war
ranted to DO
as represent
ed. This dou-
BILE team har-
ness complete
with collars
and breech-
lngs. Concord
style, 2-inch
traces. I or
$1,000. SoId
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13
Hay.

Upland. per ton. s1700@1s.00; second
bottom. $3.50 q 1850; timothy. slI,0ow
1900; alfalfa. $4,000 1900; straw, $3.50
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13

I
Gibbon of the Iron brigade and the sterling soldiers Cook and
legions of Arlington.
beautiful
the The the native
the birds those wild woodthush
this soldiers reveies vany
Arlington house would be a if there
Doric stoldy
tomac hills and the itself foundations laid and its
white massive mngling
of the strength and beauty its lines.
left
1t nothing kindred
of the could brought
ordering The
frepace which gorged
which
cheering with
Stoves Y, Detroit Mich, supply
warmth and make the interior look crossroads station
walls of the Robert E. Lee and
speeches sundry
printing
instances at least the sentiments tawdry.
lies register where everyone
this of supplying
making the
tourist opportunity his and resi-
in either
cawng the walls chipping the OF
who lie without
E Arlington times he
22d
Washington.
Richmond offer his the south He
Arlington.
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13

medallion of the general is the face of the
stone and below it is the word Sheridan
Nothing else is needed, for the knowledge of all
men supplies the history of the sleeping soldier.
Lieut-Gen. John NJ. Schofield was buried
two years ago in grave not far from that of
the Shenandoah raider Schofeld's grave is on
knoll under lordly oak that has stood for a
century. Near the hero of Franklin lies the body
of Cen Joseph Wheeler, who died in February
1908. At the time of his death he was brigadier
general. though during the four years of the
Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-23
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would result from a doubling of the
New York state law and proposed fed
eral law, presupposing, of course, that
these millionaires estates at their pres
ent figure were entirely settled in New
York and were left intact to their chill
dren: The heirs of John D. Rookie
Teller would have to pay $24,OOO,OOO;
of Andrew Carnegie, $16,OOO,OOO; of
William Rockefeller, $4,000, 900; of ]. P.
Morgan, $6,OOO,OOO of Hetty Green, H.
M Flagler and w. A. Clark, each $4,-
600, 900; of John Jacob Aston $4,000
900; of George ]. Gould, $2.S00,000, and
of H. A Havemeyer, $2,000,000.
OF these amounts the state of New
York would receive One-fOurth and the
federal government tnree-fourths, the
New York state inheritance tax for
lineal descendants being a fiat rate of
l per cent, while the proposed federal
rate is per cent for legacies over
$500 OOO
New York state now derives an an
nual revenue of about $5,000,000 from
inheritance tax. This equals the re-
ceipts from the same source of ali tie
other thirty-five states put together
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-23
WITH SIMILAR MEASURES IN
FORCE IN STATES, is MA
TIONAL LAW FAIR? i.
Payne Bill Superimposes Death Duties
In addition to Those Established
BY Commemorative.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April %
(SpeciaD There being an inheritance
tax in 36 states already, is it fair for
the federal government to superimpose
the death duties provided for in the
Payne bill?
One must pay the government 5 per
cent of all property, real and personal
which you may inherit from an uncle,
aunt, cousin or other collateral rela-
ton. or from any stranger in blood. OF
such property above 10000 which you
may inherit from a direct relative you
must pay from 1 per cent to per cent
according to sliding scale, depending
upon the amount. Thus 1 per cent is
assessed on from $4,000 to 100000;
3 per cent on from 100000 to $780,
600; per cent on all above 100000.
Under relatives paying this smaller
rate of 1 per cent to per cent on
$4,000 or over are included the llneal
descendants of the deceased, including
his children, grandchildren or great
grandchildren, also his parents, BROTH
ers and sisters, sOns-in-laW, daugh-
ters-in law, stepchildren, adopted chill
dren and those to whom the deceased
has been on the mutually acknowl-
edged relation of a parent" This last
named class would let in many pro-
teges were it not for the fact that it
is stipulated that this relation of a
parent" must have commenced before
each such child's fifteenth birthday,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-23
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PUZZLES THINKERS

and for the further fact that both par
ants of children of this class must have
died before such relationship COM
menced. Besides these named, all 9TH
er heirs must pay per cent-one-
twentietn-of all inheritances above
$50 In other words, all children whose
father or mother has remarked and
left them to the care Of uncles or aunts.
who have not legally adopted them, are
shut out of the smaller rate on lnherl-
tances from those uncles and aunts,
provided the remarrying parent has
survived after their fifteenth year.
Now. as was said, thirty-six states
all save ten-already have inheritance
taxes of their own, and these yield a
total annual revenue of about $4,000
600. In these states, therefore, the new
bill will impose double tax. The only
ones which have none are Alabama
Florida. Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, MIS-
sissippi, Nevada, New Mexico, Rhode
Island and South Carolina. In these
ten states and the continental terrltor-
les, including the District of Columbia
then, there would be only one lnherl-
lance tax to pay-the federal-should
this provision of the Payne bill go
through.
In the other tnirtysix states, also
Porto Rico and Hawaii, which already
have inheritance taxes, the doubling
would have a varying effect, due to the
great variety of state laws Ihere
would be no doubling in the Philip
mines. however, since the Payne bill
specifically excerpts that dependency.
And if can be seen how some of these
&c states, already having inheritance
taxes. would be affected by the dou-
bling. In California, Idaho, North
Carolina and Wisconsin the possible
assessment on big legacies to collateral
relatives or strangers would go up to
a maximum of 80 per cent, or one
fifth, since those states have sliding
scales, or progressive taxes" up to
a maximum rate of IS per cent. This
Is per cent added to the federal per
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-23

being payable while property Is pass
ing under the eye of the probate court
and would therefore be an improved
method of reaching personal property
otherwise easily hidden; because 1t
would tax the stocks and bonds OF Dig
corporations upon the death or thelr
owners; because its progressive 1ea-
ture would even things up with the
rich. whose wealth, chiefly, property
tax fails to reach; because 1t WOULD
be a capitalized income tax paid once
in a generation instead of once a year;
because it would be paid after death
and hence at the time most convenient
for the taxpayer; and because it would
encourage the distribution of large
fortunes during the lives of owners and
thus tend toward better distribution
of wealth
One of it's stanchest advocates is An
drew Carnegie, who once declared in
favor of a schedule rising as nigh as
so per cent where big fortunes are
concerned And Theodore Roosevelt
in his address fiaying the muck rakers
predicted that we should Ultimately
have to consider a progressive tax on
all fortunes beyond a certain amount
either given in life or devised or be-
uueathed upon DEATH an idea upon
which he elaborated in his message Of
1906
How the multimillionaires would be
affected by the proposed law is inter-
esting to consider On the basis of
table giving the alleged fortunes of our
richest men-a table said to have been
recently compiled by New York
financier-it can be computed that the
following amounts of inheritance tax