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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

Dickie. Peter wants a sled and a new
81 oqii efsns Mary wanas do Pease
do not forget TO bring some nuts and
candy We wall net giys se ne p mnrh nean n
some presents.
GERTIE SCHOON.
r. r. No. 1. box 20.
Hammond. Ind, Dec 10. 1911
Dear Santa Claus: How are you?
thought ! would write you letter.
sending letters to you. / thought
would write. too. I want a story book.
CINE and some cars. and a few toys if
you spare some. and some candy
s an th nst Are ana w saTF my viii Ss a
''''''''e'' 0 HARRY BLOCKER
COZ Michigan avenue.
Hammond. Ind, Dec. 10. 1911.
Dear Santa Claus: / am a little boy
four years old How are you. old fell
low? ] want you to bring me box
tree and that is all Piease do not for
thins, GOOD bye. Wishing you a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Your W WILL flifn aouNa.
SIC Smiley street.
Hammond. Ind, Dec. 10. 1871;
Dear Santa Claus; I'm a LITTLE au,, girl
and doll. Don't forget the rest and
poor people. Good bye,
GEoRGfANA RITTER.
| 757 Alice avenue.
| Hammond. Ind, Dec. 10. 1911.
many Santa Claus letters l thought
would writesone. too | SUPPOSE you
journey. / do not want much because
z you will have to have some presents
left to give to d the poor And to I'll the Re
! OF rolling skates and a pair of ribbons,
get red If you can.
| remain your friend,
OLLIE SMITH.
Griffith. Ind Dec. 10. 1911.
Dear Santa Claus ! am seven years
4 Please bring me pair. of skates and a
ba seball My brother Emery. wants an
wants rubber ball and nuts and
Your little friends
JOHNNY BLINK.
EMERY BLINK.
EMORY BLINK.
Hammond. Ind! Dec. 10. 1911.
how are you? i see you got to Michi-
. gan last year. but here am again; I
| want q set of dishes. trunk of doll
poor folks ssa 'A''s VERA RITTER RITE -"
75T Alice avenue.
Hammond, Ind. Dec. 10. 1911
Dear Santa Claus. l am little boy
: four years old. l want drum and a
horse; Don't forget sister. she wants
GLENN AND RUTH RITTER
| 757 Alice avenue.
P. S-Don't forget my baby sister
. Ingie, and the rest of the poor people.
Griffith. Ind. Dec. 10. 1911.
Dear Santa Claus: / saw Others
| writing TO you and l tn ,ugnt I would
4 write too. l want flexible sled. a
pair OF hockey skates. some nuts and
I candy. Do not forget my sister Katie.
She wants rubber dolly and q fur
: coat new pair of mitens. some nuts
3 and candy. That is all for this year.
: wishing you. a Merry Christmas and a
tHappy New Year.
Your friends.
JACOB AND KATIE SCHOON.
Hammond. Ind. Dec. 10. 1911.
! Dear santa | a 0oy years old
u and l want union tool chest and a
r soldier tent and a cvontown target
' game and don't forget my mother
;. bring her a nice overcoat. black one
: and don't forget my father, and bring
7, | hi ma pair of high topped shoes. and
9 would like a moving picture machine
r oh, yes. and don't forget the nuts and
candy. Oh. yes. and the Christmas
tree That Is ali this time Don't for
get the poor children.
: Your loving friend,
il ARTHUR HICKMAN.
t GAS Ann street.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20
THE GAS PROBLEM.

The coke ovens at the Gary steel
mills emit ninety-five million cubic
know 1t. but it is true just the same.
Unfortunately some of the gas is
finding its way into the Lake Circuit
Court room at Crown Point and is be-
ing used there during the Gibson
trial Bailiff will you please open a
window?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

EXCHANGE says that "A woman
liqueur while man gulps his as If
he was taking a draught of lager
beer.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

PROF. of pathology at Cornell
says distrust of doctors is growing.
Well why don't they give people
those ofd-fashioned nauseating doses
any more9 That's why the doctors
are distrusted.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20
Trial bv jury.

Mike Benze of East Chicago. arrest
ed on the complaint of truant officer.
William P. Ray, for refusing to send
his son, Andrew Benze, to school, is
being tried by Jury in the Lake SUI
perior court before Judge Becker.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

JUST four days left to make some
poor family or some poor little tot
happy for the 25th of December at
least.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

SO far no one has started pardon
for Steve Miller but there is time yet
before he goes to the pen. Where
are all the sickly sentimentalists any
way?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

1T is now declared that the 1nfanta
Eulalia may lose her income. Our
idea of something to lose sleep over is
Eulalia losing anything
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

INDIANAPOLIS Sun says that IF
Billy Sunday goes to heaven there
will be an awful stampede to get
out" Here too
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

THE civil service commission needs
xylotomist or an expert in
cerembyind beetles. Now never say
we didn't tell you where you could
get nice easy job.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

A PRETTY girl who never helps an
|overworked mother will never be very
popular as long as people find her
out.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

MILWAUKEE, is after the National
Prohibition convention. Great news
for sWhitefish Bay and the Whale
back. IS
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

NEXT Monday is childrens' day
Remember the children, If you ever
did You were a kid once.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

NO use taking up the tipping evil
until you have decided what you will
get to eat when you get it. after you
have cut out the tip.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

PEOPLE have forgotten all about
having a safe and sane Christmas
and are going to it" as II their lives
depended on it.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

TIME to be getting your feet read
for that pair OF crocheted slippers
you are going to get.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

THERE are 10000 dogs in New
have two legs.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

SUPPOSE of course you are get
ting your share of flannel cakes and
flannel blankets these days.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

THE question is. just how much a
"champeen of the pee-pul' is our
worthy Alderman Cast1eman.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-20

HOW Laporte must hate to par
with that Charlatan Oliveri
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
RIDDLE BLACKS WITH SHOT
Six Negroes Taken From Florida Jail
by Mob Of Infatuated Citizens
Lined up and Shot to Death.

Lake City, Flask negroes were
lynched here early Sunday after
party of more than dozen men, mas
querading as officers, appeared at
the county jail and secured possession
OF the men by presenting bogus tele-
gram to the sixteen-year-old son of the
sheriff. ordering the release of the
blacks to the alleged posse of officers.
The negroes were being held for
safekeeping on the charge of murder
ing B. b. Smith. a sawmill man Of
marlborough, Leon county. and
wounding another man named Regis
ter, May 12
The men, who had come from Tai
lahasse to this city in automobiles.
took the negroes about mile from
town, compelled them to stand abreast
and about ten men commenced firing
with rifles and pistols until every one
of the prisoners had been riddled with
bullets. The firing last about half an
hour and at daybreak citizens found
the negroes mutilated beyond recogni
| finn
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
LORIMER CASE is REOPENEU
Committee on Privileges and Elee-
tions Seeks Authority to Investigate
Election Of Illinois Senator.

Washington,--An immediate inves-
tigation of sweeping scope OF the re-
newed charges that Senator Lorimer
OF Illinois is not entitled to his seat
is provided for in two resolutions,
called up by Senator Dillingham; and
La Toilette in the senate on Monday.
Senate La Toilette called up his
resolution and made speech arraign-
ing the Illinois senator, whom he
charged with personal knowledge of
the spending of money in behalf of
his election.
Both the Democratic steering COM
mittee and the Republican members
of the committee on privileges and
elections discussed the charges and
Senator Dillingham;, chairman OF the
elections committee, presented his
resolution of inquiry as substitute
for the La Toilette resolution.
The La Toilette measure provided
for a renewed investigation by a spe
cial committee, while the Dillingham;
resolution directs the committee on
privileges and elections to make 1t
The Democratic members supported
the Dillingham; resolution.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
MONOPLANE KILLS WAR Chief
Minister Berteaux Meets Death When
Big Machine Plunges Into Group OF
Distinguished Frenchmen.

Paris.-All France is in mourning as
the result of terrible accident on
Sunday, when a monoplane, the driver
of which had lost control, plunged into
a group OF cabinet members who had
gathered to witness the start OF the
race from Paris to Madrid, killing
Henri Maurice Berteaux, minister OF
war, and injuring Antoine Emmanuel
Ernest Monis, premier and minister OF
interior; Antoine Monis. son of the
premier; and Henri Deutsch De La
Mourthe, aged patron of aeronautics,
automobiling and other sports. Many
Of note had narrow escapes. The ac-
cident occurred on the aviation field OF
Isay-Les Molineux, where 100000 per
sons had gathered to see the start oil
the race.
NJ. Train was plotting the mono
plane. With him in the car was M
| Bounier, passenger. Neither was in
| jured; the machine was wrecked.
| Minister OF War Bsrteaux was hor
ribly mangled. The swiftly moving
propeller cut of his left arm, which
was found ten feet from the spot where
he was struck, the back of his heaC
was crushed in, his throat was gashe'
and the whole of his left side LAGER
| ated
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
SLAUGHTER OF JEWS FEARED.
Horrible Scenes Enacted at kishineff
and Odessa May be Repeated.

Horrible Scenes Enacted az NisnineH
and Odessa May be Repeated.
New York-The American Jewish
committee, when asked for its views
respecting the recent dispatches from
Kiev, authorized the following state
ment:
The committee is satisfied that
only wide publicity can avert re-
currence of the horrible massacres, in
stigated by the government. which
took place between 1903 and 1906,
especially at Kishineff, Odessa and
Bialystok, when thousands of Jews
we're foully massacred and millions OF
property destroyed.
THE monstrous and infamous
stories recently sent out by the Rus
sian government from st. Petersburg
Kiev and Moscow, and published in
American newspapers, respecting the
alleged murder of boy at KieV, are
precisely similar to the unfounded
tales circulated by the Russian gov
eminent previous to the Kishineff
Odessa and Bialystok pogroms.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
PEACE PACT SIGNED
AGREEMENT WHICH is INTEND
Ed TO END WAR WHICH HAS
BEEN WAGED IN MEXICO.
% Practically a Concession by the
Government Of Those Demands
Which Caused the Revolution
lists to Take Up Arms.

Juarez, Mexico.-Offl cially desig-
mated representatives Of the Mexican
government and the revolutionists, at
10 o'clock Sunday night, signed
peace agreement at the customs
house here intended to end hostil-
tiles which have been Waged in Mex
leo for the last six months.
Though covering only the principal
points which have been negotiated
thus far. it practically records the
concession by the government OF
those demands which Initiated on NO
vember 20 last armed revolution IN
Mexico.
kilograms announcing the signing
Of the agreement were spatched
throughout Mexico to revolutionary
and federal leaders alike.
Constitutional restrictions prevent
ed the inclusion in the peace agree
ment Of the fact that the rebels Will
DO permitted to suggest 8to various
state legislatures the names of pro
visional governors and likewise the
fact that six OF the eight members oil
the new cabinet have been chosen BY
the revolutionists, but the agreement
records that President Diaz and Vice
President Corral will resign and thai
the government is to concentrate III
attention on desired reforms.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH.
Chopped Husbands Head Off With An
Ak After a Quarrel.

Saulte Ste Marie. Ont.-From all
over Canada letters Of sympathy and
inquiry are pouring in regarding the
case of Angelina Neopolitana, who is
in the lookup under sentence to be
hanged as soon as her child is born.
The execution has been set for Au-
gust 9. The date was determined af-
ter a calculation by the jail doctor.
She chopped her husbands head on
with an ak on April 16, this year. after
quarrel If public interest in the
woman spreads at the rate it has been
growing, it is considered likely the
governor-general at Ottawa will soon
find the case one worthy of his at
tention.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
RAISE CROPS ON ALKALI SOIL.
Discovery Made in Australia Which
May Result in Retaining OF
Vast Areas.

washington.-A discovery which, it
is believed, will make alkah soils fit
for agricultural cultivation, has been
made in Australia, and is made the
subject of report by United States
Consul Henry d. Baker at Hobart
Tasmania.
A series of experiments have been
carried out In the artesian area OF
New South Wales by R. S. Symonds'
agricultural chemist, to ascertain the
effects of applying nitric acid to soils
impregnated with carbonate of soda
from artesian water. The results
achieved have been astonishingly sue
cessful and seem to justify the hope
that vast areas of Australia where ar
tesian water can be obtained by Dor
ing, but is ordinarily so alkaline as
to injure the soil, can be made In the
future capable of yielding large crops
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26

or three horses of the six to this linn
Der were then dead or dying, and the
Confederates were very close and very
hot" This comrade asked Dean
why he did not save himself as others
were doing. Dean replied: my SER
geant ordered me to hold this team
right here, and by Cd, I'm going
to do 1t or die till get proper orders
to do something else" Next morning
he was found still holding his team
right there with death grip ON his
bridles-Dean stretched dead-aIl
those six horses dead, but still hitched
to the timber. He sleeps under the
tree with the rest.
The Confederate reports of the hat.
tie pay the highest compliment tn
the battery. In his official report of
this battle Confederate General PRICE
in specially complimenting his Third
Louisiana and Third Texas regimenta
for their prowess In charging this hat.
terry, after noting their previous glori.
ors record, says: IN this, the hard.
est fought fight which have ever wit.
messed, they well sustained their
bloodily won reputation, as the accom-.
panying report Of killed and wounded
will testify"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26

in the next few hours on both sides
was appalling. The fight went on
without interruption for five long
hours. Then came the retreat and
our decisive victory. We read about
the enemy's retreating in good order,
but my experience does not supply
any illustrations: certainly nothing
Of this sort was seen at Antietam.
when the break came 1t was all
one wild desperate scramble. In the
picture books the troops may retire
in regular column formation, with
every line straight and all the hags
flying, but in actual warfare 1t Is very
different. Our fire was whitening, and
the Confederates ran for their lives.
We had come so close together by the
end of the five hours engagement that
In many places 1t amounted to hand
to-hand conflict. The enemy ran.
jumping, stumbling over their dead
and the earthworks they had defended
a few hours before. And we followed
them SO closely that in many places
the two lines intermingled. We ran
shouting, stumbling, over the rough
ground in long struggling line, with
the careful alignment of our parades
all forgotten. 1t was glorious VIC
tory, but the field looked very little
like the conventional pictures of the
story books. New York Herald.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
TROUBLE NOT ENDED.
Madero Has Yet to Deal With Sol
diers of Mason.

dAGtS w N"NSSHs
Ell Paso, Texas.-Now that politi-
cal peace has spread its wings over
the federalists and Maderists. the Ma
dero and Diaz commanders have low
cred their united horns at what they
regard as the common enemy. The
latter is socialistic element which
took up arms on the Madero side and
now refuse to lay them down. These
Socialists, 1000 of them, are known
not as Maderists or soldiers of Ma
dero, but as Magonists, or soldiers
of Magon.
Magon, their leader, aside from any
sentiment OF Socialism, has personal
grievance. He says that by way OF
inducement to get him to lay down
the editorial pen, take up the sword
and lead his brethren to battle, Ma
dero promised that ne. Magon. should
be vice-president whenever he, Ma
dero, was made president.
Madero marks this statement as
false. Never" says Madero, did
promise Magon anyth ng. l do moi
like the man, do not believe in him
He must accept peace as arranged OF
take the consequences.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
TO RESTORE MANUEL
SERIOUS RoYALIsT PLOT AGAINST
PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC NOW
BEING ORGANIZED.
Funds Collected by Supporters OF
Former King to Cover Cost OF
Military Expedition That viii
Start From Spain.

London.-The Brussels paper, The
People" on Thursday stated that 1t
has learned from an authentic
source that a serious royalist plot
against the Portuguese republic Is
now being organized.
The plotters are anxious not to
move without a reasonable chance OF
success and are seeking to raise funds
to cover the cost Of military expedi-
ton which will start for Vigo, Spain,
and enter Portugal at Ohio. where the
conspirators have sympathizers in the
garrison.
The journal adds that representa-
tive of a financial group, which has al
ready collected 100000 for the pur-
pose, is now in Brussels where he is
interesting various financial person
ages, to whom he is offering mining
and railway concessions in Portugal
hould the expedition be successful.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26

The American Civil war presents
the unique spectacle Of conflict ar
raging a whole nation In arms for
ideas-for principles SO firmly held
that both sides were ready to die for
them II was the trial of the issue
between conflicting ideas of society
and government before the tribunal of
the God of Battles.
1t was waged on both sides with a
zeal born of absolute conviction in
the righteousness of the cause. 1t was
waged until the victors had well-nigh
exterminated their opponents, as the
scars of the south after nearly half
a century still bear witness And it
was the final Civil war for the Ameri-
can people. They may disagree, and
disorderly factions may rise In arms.
But never again can they be so divid-
ed as they were then. In a furnace
heat that tested human will to the
limit Of endurance has been welded
their national unity.
The character of the conflict whose
glory and whose sorrow 1t recalls Is
what makes our Memorial day festi-
val unknown to other nations. On
this day we honor, as we should, the
memory of the brave In all the repub-
lies wars. But we also celebrate as
that which gives to the day its unique
and distinguishing significance and
that which sets us apart from all 9TH
er peoples the Great War that in very
deed truly made as we'll as saved the
American republic.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
Five Burned to {, eath.

Utica, Kan.-Five daughters OF Mr..
and Mrs. Harvey Roach, ranging in
age from seven to sixteen years, were
burned to death Sunday night in a t1re
which started in the Roach restaurant
The parents were badly burned. The
mother of the girls filed lamp with
gasoline by mistake. Preparatory to
ascending to the second floor, where
her daughters were asleep, she applied
a match to the lamp. An explosion fol-
lowed. the FIRE being communicated to
a two-gallon can of gasoline, sending
n hurst of flames up the marrow stair
way to the children's bed room.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
Plot TO Blow up eulIdlna.

Los Angeles.-Two men are prison
ers here, and both of them are being
accused OF entering into a conspiracy
to dynamite the million-dollar Hall OF
Records building here on the Sth OF
last September. One of them is B. H.
Corners, former structural iron
worker of this city, and the other Is
John Mansell Parks. also known as
John Smith and James Hendricks
who has been prominently identified
with the local strike situation.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
Changes Date of Inauguration.

Washington.-A revised draft of
the proposed constitutional amend
ment changing the date of the presi-
dents Inauguration to the last Thurs
day in April, providing for the con.
yening of congress the second Tues
day Of each January and eliminating
the biennial short session of that
body, was presented to the house
Thursday by Chairman Henry OF the
committee on rules.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
Canadian Parliament Adlourns.

Ottawa-Parliament on Saturday
finished practically all the business
of the session except the ratification
of the American reciprocity agree
ment. The house of commons ad-
journed until July Is and the senate
until August o. Both sides have ar
ranged meetings covering practically
the whole recess. The liberals will
conduct campaign of education in
favor of ratification. and the opposi-
ton members will oppose.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
SETTLERS MAKE DEMANDS.
Threaten Congressional investigation
Unless Relief is Granted.

Notwithstanding w. H. King OF
Utah, who is here in the interest OF
settlers OF the Minidoka reclamation
project, says that If the reclamation
service doesn't grant the settlers re-
lief from the burdensome regulations
which have been imposed. upon them
he will endeavor to have the house of
representatives make congressional
invest CATION of conditions arising out
Of the administration of the project
by the reclamation service. Under
that administration Judge King states
the settlers are being charged three
or four times the amount for main
tenance rates originally promised by
the officers of the service.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
AIIened Bandits Released.

Ogden.-Bryan o'IIara and Victor
Clore. the Michigan suspects in the
Southern Pacific holdup and murder
at Reese, January 2. were discharged
from custody Monday by Judge J. D.
Murphy of the municipal court on the
grounds that sufficient evidence had
not been produced to justify holding
the men. despite the fact that the cap
ture was heralded by Pinkerton detec-
tiyes as certain to end in conviction.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-05-26
Retaining Lands in California.

San Francisco. Cal.-Announcement
was made here Sunday that the Great
Western Power company will build, at
Rig Meadows. in the northern part of
the state. a reservoir which will sur
mass In capacity the Roosevelt dam
In Arizona and the Asso uan dam in
Egvpt. Sufficient water will be stored
for the irrigation of 100000 acres Of
land, eventually to be disposed OF Tor
the irrigation of large tracts in the
Sacramento valley.