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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
POOR MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTING.

The present system of bookkeeping
In the Hammond treasurer's office is
about as loose and cumbersome as
could be devised 1t is almost I'M
possible for even the small property
owner to say nothing of the owners
or custodians or large estates, TO
know how much taxes they have to
pay.
The average property owner goes
to the city treasurer's office and asks
to pay his taxes. After waiting for
half day to be waited on he gives
his name and a description of his
property.
He asks to know the amount of
his taxes. special assessments and
water taxes. He Is given a list OF
them, pays the amount of money de-
manded of him and in few months
discovers that his property has been
sold to satisfy some claim for a dis
trict sewer assessment that he did
not know about or that he had for
gotten about.
| The city treasurer tells you that
you are supposed to know of every
pavement, walk, local sewer, lead
pipe, water and sprinkling assess
ment and If you forget any of them
| you pay the cost of redeeming the
property
| Any other than a municipal cor
the necessary receipts in full to date
and give it's customer the satisfac-
ton of knowing that all accounts
with that corporation were satisfied
There ought to be a system INSTALL
ed by which the city treasurer would
be compelled to give the taxpayer :
bill for his taxes and certificatior
that the bill included all the proper
Ity owner owed.
The system of accounting ought Il
be so simplified that child could &C
to the office of the city treasurer and
secure a complete statement of the
taxes due from any property owner
in the city. There is no excuse fol
lshifting the responsibility for the
failure to pay taxes onto the proper
lty owner because he or she did no
happen to remember that there wa,
la sprinkling assessment on som,
lpiece of property on the outskirts o
the city.
i No business man who cared a raj
labout his business would go ava.
Z and leave it when his offices wer
: besieged with customers who wer
compelled to wait all of the wa,
: from an hour to five hours to be serv
, ed. There is lots of room for i'm
} lprovement in the conduct of affair
lin the city treasurer's office
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
A QUESTION.

No doubt the people of the state
must have opened their eyes when
they learned that the new city Of
Gary has the most wealth per
capita in Indiana, S1.127.04 to be
exact Whiting, comparatively
young community follows second
with S1,05393 while Indianapolis,
the metropolis of the state, has TO
take third place; with figures of
S90S.45.
Such old and prosperous commune
ties as Terre Haute, nineteenth,
Evansville. twenty-seventh, South
Bend, thirty-ninth, and Fort Wayne,
seventy-sixth on the list are NOT as
wealthy as has been thought.
If these two Lake county youngs-
tiers can show such wealth at the
Ioutset of their careers what will they
have ten years from now?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
The Day in
HIS O r Y
"THIs DATE IN HISTORY


1623-Francis Xavier de Laval-Mont-
morency, first R. C. bishop in
Canada, born. Died in quebec,
May 6, 170S.
17S9-Washington inaugurated first
President of the United States.
179s-Congress passed an act estab-
fishing a navy department.
1S10-A central post-office was estab-
lished in Washington, D. c.
1S12-Louisiana admitted to the Union
1s25-Reception given General Lafay-
cite at Kaskaskia, Ill.
1S61-Gov. Curtin convened the Penn
syivania Legislature in special ses-
sion to make military preparations
for the coming
1s65-A. b. Latta, inventor of the
steam hre-engine. died in Ludlow
Ky Born in 1921.
1S67-Generals Hancock and Custer
marched against the Indians in
western Kansas.
1S7o-Charlesto became the capital oi
West Virginia.
1S77-England proclaimed her neutral
ity in the war between Russia and
Turkey.
1Ss9-Carl Rosa, the first to success
fully produce standard operas II
English. died in Paris Born IL
Hamburg, March 22 1912.
I903-Dedication of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition at st. Louis
|1g11-Fire in Bangor, Me, destroyed
property valued at 100000
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
Up and Down i'm
IN d. A N A
FINDS FARM GONE.

When John Hagner. a we'll known
German farmer living southeast of
Newcastle. came to the county treas
urer's office yesterday afternoon To
pay his taxes he was surprised to learn
that. so far as the records were con-
cerned, he did not own a fine 200-acre
farm, which he has been filling for a
number of years In fact there was
nothing on the records to show that
he owned any land at all. and no taxes
were charged UP against him
An investigation was started. and
latter some time a peculiar situation
was discovered Some time ago Hag-
ner decided to make will as TO
provide for the future of his four chill :
dren afterehe was dead and gone. He
secured the services of a Newcastle at
torney, and what Hagner though was
his last will testament was drawn up
and signed by him, leaving his farm n
his children after his death. Instead
however, the paper Hagner had sign
ed proved to be a warranty deed con-
veying the land to the children.
DEAF MUTE KILLED BY CAR.
Lenny Yodeer, a deaf-mute, was
struck by ST. Joseph Valley traction
car while walking on the track yes
terday afternoon, near South Bend re
ceiving inturiesf which caused his
death an hour later. The motorman
on the car says he thought Yoder was
remaining on the track in a spirit Of
bravado. intending to leap to safety
at the last moment.
SAYS MARRIAGE is FAILURE.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Davis has filed suit for
Idivorce and $4,000 alimony at Column
bus against her husband. stephen N
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
NO SHORT CUT HERE.

1t is as impossible to become A
scholar in the twinkling of an eve
as for Caliban to become a Chester
field sfter half an hour of Deisarte.
You must get little every day.
II is said that Benjamin Franklin,
when boy. became very much wear
led at his fathers long grace before
each meal, and one day, in his
quaint, droll manner. rolled into the
dining room whole barrel of pork
beseeching his father to invoke the
Divine blessing upon 1T all at once,
ness. But his father rebuked him
sharply, reminding him land there
was whole lot of philosophy in the
old mans remarks) that the blessing
of Heaven was wanted, not on the
pork in the barrel, but on such por-
lions of it as were consumed day by
day.
Education is not to be secured in
single moment. but only in the
course of long studious life
A fortune may be made in a day by
a masterfu1 stroke of f1nanciering or
lucky bet on the stock market A
skillful operation may restore a man
to health in half an hour We are
told by certain of the orthodox that
the vilest sinner that ever stood be-
fore the throne of grace may become
saint in the regeneration of a
moment but there is one thing on
earth that cannot be acquired by any
short cut. The thing is intellectual
power
Young men and women are intel.
lectually ruined by the thousands be.
cause they imagine that education i.
a thing to be limited by a school
house and concluded upon the receipt
OF a diploma. while all around then
are successful people lacking earl'
advantages who, because they knew
no diploma, because they knew nj
place to stop, did not stop, but con
tinued to pursue their studies Ion.
after their companions had ceased Il
grow,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

six delegates at large contested.
Roosevelt men concede only Isl of
the delegates accredited to Taft-64 in
New York, 10 in Connecticut, IN
Pennsylvania. 16 in Iowa. 10 in Michi-
gan. 10 In Rhode Island, in New
Hampshire. each in Kentucky and
Hawaii, 4 each In Kansas, Missouri and
Indiana. and each in Vermont, New
Mexico. Oklahoma, Kansas. Porto, Rico
and the Philippines OF the above list
ed as uninstructed the Taft forces clam
in South Carolina. 2 in Virginia and
2 in Michigan. Taft mon will contest s
accredited to Roosevelt from Missouri,
2 from Oklahoma, from Kentucky and
from New Mexico
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
have nothing on the Gary city election

have nothing on the Gary city election
next year.
AN eastern paper reports the New
York police as being obfuscated. The
Webster Unabridged is being used
down stairs in the bindery as a glue
weight. but as far as we know the
Hammond cops aren't afflicted this way.
HAVING had a baseball park named
after him. Bill Gleason, the big smoke
at the Gary steel mills, is now entitled
to wear a monocle.
RECORD-HERALD headlines. Twins
Are Twins of Twins" Damifwe can fig
ure out even If we read it backwards.
THE belle of twenty may be graceful
ana the lady of thirty brilliant, but a
woman has to be at least forty before
she acquires poise.
HUFF VS.. Huff. divorce suit, has been
filed She says he was cross and
abusive. In other words. HUFF got
huffy.
FAT man is no fashion plate.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

These caps can be used for various
purposes No. ] shows an ordinary dust
zap. No. 3 an automobile bonnet, or
travelling hood, and No. > is dainty
lingerie cap for wear with summer
iresses. Different materials are used,
,ercale or cambria for the dust cap. silk
md embroidery for the automobile OF
travelling bonnet. and null. net. batiste
1r dimity for the lingerie cap.
The pattern. No. $500, is cut in one
size No l or requires rs of a yard OF
Il inch material. and No. 3 will need q
Of yard of SO inch material, 1s of
yard of "a inch all-over, X yards of rib
bon and IL yards of edgng.
The pattern can be obtained by sending
10 cents to the Office of this papeE
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
THE HOUSE of NEVER.

The House of Never Is built. they say.
Just over the hills of the BY and BY;
Its gates are reached by devious
way.
Hidden from all but nm angels eye.
Ii winds about and I'm and out.
The hills and dale to sever.
Once over the hills of the by and
BY,
And you're lost In the House of
Never.
The House of Never is filled with
With just-in-a-minutcs and pretty
soOns;
The noise of their wings as they heat
Comes back TO earth In the after
When shadows fly across the sky
And rushes rude endeavor.
To question the hills of the BY and
BY
As they ask for the House of
Never.
The House OF Never was built with
tears.
And lose In the hills of the ny md
by
Are n million hopes and n million fears
A bnby's smile and voman's cry.
The winding way seems bright to-
day.
Then darkness falls forever.
For over the hills of the BY and BY
Sorrow waits mt the House of
Never.
Springfield tMassD Republican.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

THE Joliet News says. "Oh these
glorious Roosevelt days." Now on
which side of the fence do you sup
pose the pedal extremities of the
News are hanging.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

WE saw a man going home with
a lot of incubator and fancy chick
en- catalogues the other night and
from his serenity it was quite plain
against.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
Political Announcements
FOR AUDITOR.

Editor TIMES: Kindly announce my
name as a candidate for the office of
Auditor Of Lake County, subject to the
will Of the Democratic nominating con-
venrfon. ED. SIMON.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

WHITING, having sailed down
triple High school honors, John d.
Rockefeller should no longer hesitate
in presenting that drinking foun-
tain.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

A METHODIST pastor in Elkhart
has been fined SIS for provoking an
assault, the compliments being two
members of his congregation. Gee,
but the way of the transgressor is
hard.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

GIRL who eloped in the east Eve
years ago and disappeared has shown
up with husband and two babies.
BY Jove, they do come back once in
a while don't they?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

PEOPLE do expect too much of
girls sometimes. Here's an ad in an
Aurora paper saying: Wanted
Girl to take care of baby and bellboy
from sixteen to twenty-five years.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

CHRISTIAN Science lady says, Il
consider my Christian Science above
my home work Why certainly
what does home amount to any
way?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
FOR RECORDER

Editor TINES: You are authorized to
announce to your readers that l am q
candidate FOR the nomination of County
Recorder, subject 10 the wishes OF the
Democratic nominating convention. to
be held at date to be decided upon.
JACOB FRIEDMAN
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
FOR SHERIFF.

Editor TIMES: Kindly announce my
name as a candidate for the office of
Sheriff OF Lake County, subject to the
decision of the Democratic nominating
convention. MARTIN s. GILL
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

AND in the meantime the people
who thought Champ Clark's candi-
dacy was a joke are beginning to
look like the man with something
biting him.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

IN Chicago a movement has been
started to clean up the scenery in
the vicinity of railroad stations but
no such good fortune has yet fallen
to Hammond's lot.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
.srHIs Is MX 36TH BIRTHDAY"
Colonel Heistand.

Col. Henry o. S. Heistand, who is ex-
pected to be the next Adjutant Gener-
al of the United States Army, was born
on a farm near Redwood, Ohio, April
80 1856 Few officers in the army have
had a more interesting career. lie
YVES graduated from West Point in
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

ABOUT the only comfort in life
that baldheaded man has is thot
he doesn't have to be bored by hav-
ing the barber insist on his having
trim.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

Stations, diplomas and graduating
days are bad things for men and
women who want to get to the end
of the line.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

ONE sweetly solemn thought
Comes to us DER and DER
Housecleaning's nearer done today
That 1t has been before.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

THE Dance of the Young Hama
dryad is the latest sensation but it
hasn't reached Garden Hall in Gary
yet.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

WE fancy Mr.. Hearst gets worked
up over a lot of foolish things but
this Magdelena Bay looks rather
dangerous to us too.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

DISPATCHES tell of rich an
archist being involved in the Paris
ian. troubles. Do we understand a
RICH anarchist?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

THEY have coined a brand new
word in the east. 1t is Ismayism. II
means me first"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

THE weather mans wife must be
housekeeping and he evidently can't
go to the ball game so he says what's
the use?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

THE latest report from the board
ing houses is that the prune is moi
yet abashed.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

GIRL named Goodnight has mar
ried a youth named Maui Make
your own wheeze. Goodnight, Maui
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

BET your boots Col Henry Wat
terson never yet minced his words
anyway.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
MASONIC CALENDAR.

Hammond Chapter. No III, meets
second and fourth Wednesday Of each
month.
Hammond Commandery, No. A. Reg
ular meeting frst and third Monday of
each month.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

Davis, a wealthy retired business man.
who left Columbus a short time ago
and who is reported to be in Reno,
New, gaining a residence for divorce
purpose. The couple was refused
divorce at Columbus a few months ago.
Davis paid $4,000 to his first wife. and
when he married his present wife he
required her to sign a contract by
which she was to receive $500 in the
event that the marriage proved a fail
ure and the couple separated, but the
wife burned the contract shortly after
the marriage, it is said.
sPEEDER BLAMEs ANXIETY.
When Ernest Neigh, "a years old.
2143 North Rural street. Indianapolis.
was slated at the City Prison yester-
day, charged with violating the motor
speed law, he declared that his mother,
who lives on Harris avenue was seri-
ously i'll and that he was trying to get
to her bedside He did not realize how
fast the machine was going. he said.
Neigh is a tester for the Cole Motor
Car Company. According to Motor
cycleman Wilson, who made the arrest,
Neigh was driving forty miles an
hour.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30

fInstrueted for Oscar w. Underwo God.
constructed for Governor John Burke.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-30
SAYS MARRIAGE is FAILURE.

Mrs. Mary NJ. Davis has filed suit for
divorce and $4,000 alimony at Column
bus against her husband. stephen N
The oasis., 1912-05-04

Wednesday Captain L. w. Mix went to Hermosillo, returning Thursday evening,
The oasis., 1912-05-04

mine. George Westinghouse, the manufacturer of electrical machin- cry, is back of the Duquesne com pany and was forced at the time of the panic in 1907 to abandon the work he had just started of open ing up the Duquesne mines.
 "As soon as there is enough work done on the Three R's and prob. ably on the Duquesne, to attract attention to the district, believe it will be but a short time before other companies will enter the field and secure the Alto, the Four Metals, the Veta Grande and other promising copper properties"
The oasis., 1912-05-04
PATAGONIA MAN AT GLOBE.
E, x. Evans, en Route East, Visits Globe and Tells About Santa Cruz
 County.
[Globe Silver Belt.l


 E. H. Evans of the Washington Trading Company of Patagonia, Santa Cruz county, is spending a few days in Globe on business. Mir. Evans says things look brighter down in his section of the state just now than they have for a number of years.
 "We are going to have one big mine working in the Patagonia district in the near future, and we believe there are several other big mines there that will be developed afterward.
 "Work on the Three R's mine, re- gently taken over by the Shannon Copper Company has already shown forty feet of high grade ore, but the full width of the ore body of course is not yet known.
 "The development of the Three R's into a producer will be the signal for rush of capital into our district and there are a number of properties there that need big work in comparison with the small amount of work that has been done upon them by their owners mostly moneyless prospectors.
 "With one of those properties de- veloped and put on a producing basis by reputable mining com- pany, it will not be such difficult matter to interest capitalists in the district as it has been up to the present time, with no producing mine to show in support of the claims of the district to great mineral wealth.
 During the past few days there has been report current in Pata- gonia to the effect that the Du- quesne Mining Company will soon resume operations at the Duquesne
The oasis., 1912-05-04
To Subscribers.

THE OASIS is fin receipt of a de- mand from the Post Office Depart meut at Washington for a detailed statement of the subscription ac- counts of the newspaper, which must set forth the number of sub- scribers who have paid in advance, those who are in arrears one year or more, and those who are behind more than three years in payment.
 Coupled with the demand is ruling that the department will not continue the second class privileges given newspapers where by they pay very low rate of post age, to subscribers who are more two years in arrears, and that it will be by sufferance only that the second class privilege can or will be continued to those who owe for more than one years subscription.
 This sworn statement has to be made with this issue of THE OASIS
 There are many subscribers to THE OASIS who owe more than two years subscription. All such we anticipate will have to be suspend ed, by an order of the Post Office Department, as soon as action is taken on the affidavit forwarded. To all such statements of account are being sent; and prompt remit. tances are requested, for it is the intention of the paper to forestall any action of the department by cutting off all subscribers who are more than two years in arrears.
 Wednesday Captain L. w. Mix went to Hermosillo, returning Thursday evening,
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-10-12

%jurist and legislator, he has come into
contact with all of the people and has
ever been in deep sympathy with
whom he mingles, the Masses. Has
he ability, integrity? Brains nave car
ried him up the ladder until today he
occupies one of the highest posts of
honor that ear be bestowed upon any
man.
Senator Massey is one of the fore
most members of the upper house of
Congress, notwithstanding that he
was appointed only a short time ago.
His speeches have sweyed Senators
on the most important legislation. He
is chairman of the committee on Mines
and Mining, which has everything to
do with the development of the re-
sources of the west, and he is a
prominent member of the committee
on Agriculture and Forestry, a body
whose decisions so vitality concern Ne
vada.
Nevada needs a man capable of ac-
complishing good for his state and
nation. Massey's the man.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-10-12
LABOR FAvoRs ROBERTS

Congressman f.. E. Roberts is given
a high tribute by the American FEEDER
alton of Labor weekly News Letter,
the official publication of that organi-
cation. In a paper devoted to Con
gressmen favorable to organized la
Dor, Congressman Roberts is spoken of
in this manner
Edward Ewing Roberts, Republi-
can from Nevada, was born at
Pleasant Grove, Suffer county, Cali
%fornia, December II, 1870. Mr.. Rob
erts was a metal miner and a mem
Der of the Miners union, but later on
educated himself and taught school
for several years in California and Ne
vada, pursuing at the same time the
study of law, and was elected district
attorney of Ormsby county, Nevada,
in 1900, and served in that capacity
five terms.
"Mr. Roberts is a member of two
committees-the committee on Alec
holic Liquor Traffic and the commit
tee on Irrigation of Arid Lands. Mr..
Roberts has been active in his support
of all measures in which labor was in
terested. He has been given the NOM
nation for Congress again."