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The Parker post., 1917-04-14

Beneath the hotel lobby, cafe,
and general store will be a base
| ment, part of which will be utilized
by Mr.. Spence for a furnace and
engine-room, and will contain the
generating set for lighting the build
ing, and boiler for furnishing hot
water, The remainder of the base
ment will be used for store rooms.
wide stairway will connect the
hotel lobby with the second floor,
which will be subdivided into
twenty-eight rooms, and a large COM
binatiOn music room. library and
parlOr This parlor will occupy
3O-foot front on California street,
and will be f1anked on both sides
by two large private parlor suites,
with private baths, hot and cold run
ming water, etc.
Twenty-six other sleeping rooms
will be II feet wide and II feet long
each. Between every second room
there will be bath, with connect
ing doors, so that it may be said that
every room will have a bathroom
in connection. Each room will have
a private lavatory and toilet.
In addition to opening into a CEN
trail hallway which will run the
length OF the building, each room
will open onto the veranda, through
double folding French window-doors.
All rooms will be lathed and plas-
tered and furnished in first class
shape throughout
special feature of the construc-
ton will be the improved desert
type ventilating system worked out
by the contractor, Ora Page of Port
land, Oregon, who built most of the
town OF Oatman, including the Ari-
zona hotel there. This system is so
designed as to permit the free cir
culatiOn of air currents beneath
the caves and to permit the warmer
air in the rooms below to escape.
All in all, the new hotel will be
a decidedly valuable asset to Parker. |
o. NJ Spence, the popular president
Of the Commercial Bank and perhaps !
the best known citizen of Parker. !
believes that the future of the town |
warrants the construction of a |
more substantial type building than
is common here and is now construc-
ting a modern garage and an artistic
in addition to his hotel
and bank building.
There is every reason to believe
that his building activity has start
ed a general move to replace the
present ramshakle structures with
permanent and more comfortable
buildings. If such proves to be the
result Parker owes to Mr.. Spence a
iebt Of gratitude it will take her
'ome time to repay.
The Parker post., 1917-04-14

houses being constructed of adobe
bricks. 1t soon became the supply
point of the surrounding country
and maintained a population of
about $4,000.
La PaZ, by reason OF it's impor-
tance, was made the first official seat
of Yuma county, and continued so
to be until the first of the year 1870,
but by an act of the Legislative AS
sembly of Arizona, which convened
in Tucson during the winter of 1869,
the county seat was removed to a
point down the river then known as
Arizona City, name that was later
discarded for that Of Yuma
The population was made up Of
every nationality to be found in
America. The Mexicans, however,
greatly predominated There was,
Of course, the usual percentage of ad-
venturers, gamblers and confidence
men, always to be found in large
numbers in communities of this
kind. 1t was an era of wonderful
prosperity. Men were lavish in
their expenditures and money flowed
as freely as water, for each and
every Individual of this nondescript
population was moved by that same
spirit of reckless extravaganza and
feverish excitement that invariably
pervades the adventurous throngs
who flock into new places Of rich
discovery.
That the placer fields Of La Paz
were decidedly rich was shown by
the fact that nuggets OF. gold were
taken out in great quantities. The
largest Of these, which was found
weighed three and one-half pounds;
a number of others were discovered
weighing as much as three pounds,
while still others of smaller size,
ranging from $5 to $50 were un-
covered in large numbers. A great
deal of gold was encountered daily,
and dust was panned in abundance.
The supply seemed inexhaustible and
the people became wild with excite
ment There was probably in the
neighborhood of s8,OOO.OOO in gold
taken out
The method OF extracting the
metal. however, was extremely
crude The miners did not even
have the dry washer machines. and
the recovery of gold was effected
solely by means of the Mexican
which was used in the same manner
The Parker post., 1917-04-14

Adjoining the entrance to the
hotel, and occupying the full width
of the building with entrances in
front and from the hotel lobby. will
be a cafe. Adjoining the cafe, with
a 30-foOt frontage on Arizona ave-
nue. and a total floor space of ap-
proximately 1900 square feet. space
is provided for general store. In
the west corner of the building a
space 16 feet wide by 81 feet deep
will remain for a meat market
The Parker post., 1917-04-14
ApropoS of the War.

A dairyman OF Marin, who said he
had been hanging on to cows tail
for twenty years. once told me that
it was "a hell OF good thing that
was worth a row. By that token
| think | would have been one of the
six to vote no, but for one thought.
We began to protest against Kaiser
ism in 1875. 1t behooves us to fin
lsh the job. 1t is our manifest
destiny, not only, as Lincoln said,
to see that government of, for and
by the people shall not perish from
the earth, but also, to see that
such government obtains through
out the world. Let's go.
By the way, if regiment of the
seasoned men of Arizona, over fifty
years of age, were formed, what do
you think would be done with that
regiment? And, say, what do you
think it would do, if given the
chance?
The Parker post., 1917-04-14
To Yuma as Witnesses.

Constable John Roberts and B. B.
Brown went to Yuma Monday to ap-
pear in the superior court as wit
nesses against a negro. recently ar
rested on charge of having
burglarized Mr.. Browns place of
business.
The Parker post., 1917-04-14

the iegend-wk0 chased gold all
over the desert for many years and
returned, worn out and heartsfck. to
find it III plenty in hts own back
yard.
I wonder if you folks will let me
stay here and tell others to come
too?
The Parker post., 1917-04-14

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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
HARDY FOUR
TIMES SUSTAINED

The case affirmed in the supreme
court yesterday upholding the $4,000
verdict for the Byron f. FuItz estate.
is the fourth out of five cases in which
Judge Walter Hardy of Hammond. has
been sustained by the supreme court.
In this case ne was sustained in every
point
The case recalls the death of Fu1tz
while employed by Contractor NJ La
vene on che Taper building in Ham
mond in August, 1909. In the first suit
for damages before Judge Becker. a
jury returned a verdict for $1,000
against Lavene and the Pennsylvania
Casualty Company which insured the
contractors employees. By agreement
of attorneys a new trial was granted
and renewed before Judge Hardy in
December 1914. Attorneys Peter
Crumpacker and G. y. Tnkham of
Hammond. and Attorney G. n. saum of
Watseka. EL. a towusman of Fultz.
represented Charles Friedrich of Ham
mond. administrator for the Fultz
estate.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
BOARD CONSIDERS
VOTING MACHINES
Increase in Vote Will Al
most Make Them ObIig
atory for Lake Co.

CROWN POINT. IND. March 1s.-
When Governor Goodrich signed the
wonen's suffrage bill he signed an
argument for voting machines in Lake
county.
The large vote in the county and the
large foreign percentage makes the re-
turns unwieldy to handle. Already the
county commissioners are figuring on
redistricting the precincts. particularly
those in the cities. which means addi-
tional election boards and additional ex-
pense all around
Under the old law this redistrictine
would have had to be made this month
but new law requires the rearrangine
Of the voting precinct lines to be made
not later than June.
With voting machines in Lake counts
the casting of ballots would be a simpli-
fed matter Not only would additiona.
precincts be avoided. but Of the 193 all
ready in existence many could be cut
out all together.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
OFFICER
OUTMITS
RUFFIAN
Ambush Of Police by Sam
Howard Who Shoots Up
East Side, Takes Woman's
Hair and Overpowers a
Watchman, Fails.

After sam Howard of 1902 Forsyth
avenue. East Chicago. won a combat
with a lady. oyerpowered a night watch
man and terrorized the neighborhood at
Calumet and Michigan avenues in Ham
mond with revolver shots. he led police
a merry chase across the river late last
evening.
Employing military strategy Howard
lodged in and out and behind a tele-
phone post on Calumet avenue near One
Hundred and Fiftfeth street officer
Emil Bunde jumping from the police
patrol came upon the disturber unex-
pectedly. Face to face with the 3S
calibre revolver which Howard held
ready for Service, Bunde was for the
moment in dire straits. Before he. could
draw his own gun or lurch onto the
desperate ~nan Bunde expected that he
would be shot and so he adopted the
tactics made famous by John Mason. the
actor. in that mental teIepathy play.
The Witching Hour
A street lamp threw circle of light
on the two men-one cornered. armed
Continued On page fve0
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
(BULLETIN.l

WASHINGTON, March 16.-The gov
ernment has acted in an EFFORT 20 pre-
vent the progressive nationwide strike
scheduled for 6 p. m tomorrow. Secre-
tary Of the Interior Lane, Secretary of
Labor Wilson, Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of La
Dor, and Daniel willard, president of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, were this
afternoon named by President Wilson
to confer with brotherhood chiefs and
railroad managers in a final effort to
avert such a calamity. All will leave at
once for New York. Following a meet
ing of the cabinet this afternoon at
which the strike situation was discuss
ed, Secretary of War Baker issued the
following statement: "Acting under a
plan suggested by the National Council
of Defense, Secretary Lane, Secretary
Wilson, Daniel willard and Samuel
Gompers, all members of the advisory
council of the Council of National De-
tense, viii go to New York to confer
Immediately with representatives of
both Sides"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
DEATH Of MISS
ETHEL HOFFMAN

| The alumni Of the Hammond high
school. graduates of the Chicago Bus
mess college, employees of the e. u.
Minas store. the congregation of the
First Methodist church and MANY other
people who knew and loved her. today
received with sadness the word that
Miss Ethel Vivian Hoffman had died
at her home in 446 Summer street
where she had been bedfast since the
first of August. she passed away at
7;45 this morning.
sweet Christian characted Miss
Hoffman endeared herself to hundreds
of Hammond people who in the hour Of
bereavement share the grief of her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Hoffman.
her brother. Chauneey Hoffman. and
her sister. Mrs J. J. Mccarthy Taken
i'll last July Miss Hoffman was compel
led to resign her position in the office
Of the +, G. Minas Company which she
had held for seven years as stem
ographer and paymaster.
Miss Hoffman was born August 81,
1887 att Boone Grove. and was educat-
ed in the Hammond public schools
graduating from the high school in the
class of 1907 She completed her bust
ness education a the Chicago Busi-
ness college Since March . 1905 She
was an active member OF tile First
NJ thodist church and the funeral sarv-
lee is TO lie held there Sunday after
noon at > O'Clock with the Rev Bassett
in charge Tnterment Viii 10 made at
oak Hin cemetery
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
ERIE TIED UP
COMPLETELY

HUNTINGTON. IND. March 1e.-If
a strike comes it cannot tie up the
Erie railroad more completely than it
was tied up Thursday.
Because of the threatened strike Of
trainment nobody can ship any kind
Of freight. either perishablo or 9TH
erwise
The Erie has informed all connect
ing lines of the c. & E. division that
no freight viii be received from them.
The connecting lines have served the
same kind of notice on the C. & f.
That was the way the situation stood
Thursday. Not even perishable goods
could be shipped.
1t is understood that the c. & F.
division made adequate preparation
for the crisis by cleaning up the divis-
ion Of all kinds Of freight. Practically
everything eastbound has been hustl-
ed of the division and is now weu on
its way to New York. This even in
cludes the shipments from Hammond
and the big mills between Huntington
and Chicago Eve sthing has moved.
ana moved apidly
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
COUNCIL
HELP FOR
NEW COURT
Special Session of Lake
County Court at Crown
Point This Month Will
See Appropriations Asked
for Many Things.
Especial to THE TIMEs)

CROWN POINT. IND. March 16.-
Appropriations for the new Gary court.
for number of voting machines and
for small bridges and repairs. VIII be
asked of the county council when that
body is called into special session the
latter part of this month. The session
viii probably be called for Monday and
Tuesday of March 26th and 27th.
The budget for the Gary court Will
include everything that is necessary to
maintain the court.
The county commissioners are said TO
he figuring on getting an appropriation
to purchase eight voting machines.
which cost approximately $3.50 apiece.
This limited number viii be asked to
give the machines a trial in Lake coun-
1y and if they prove satisfactory in the
election next fail. it is expected the
county council will be asked to buy an
additional sixty machines to take care
Of the whole county in all the elections.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
CBy United Pressl

NEW YORK. March l6.-Indic lea tions
that President Wilson may he asked
to mediate IN the threatened railway
strike scheduled 20 begin tomorrow
evening developed today. when the rail-
way managers hurriedly went into
conference shortly after ". @. Lee.
speaking as president Of the Bother
hood of Railway Trainmen. suggest
ed the step. The brotherhood chiefs
followed the example of the managers
and also went into informal confer
ence. Lee made his statement in talk
ing with newspaper men and the
quickness with which the railway man
ayers went into conference led to the
belief that it was being favorably con-
sidered.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
| THE PASSING |
sHow|

At that we feel that We are not
wholly unprepared for war
WE ate four navel oranges last nlghl
and got all the dandruff out Of our
MILITARY hair brushes as war
measure
COME on you spies!
UNCLE SAM is to establish naval
base at Coco Solo near Panama
HIST sounds like sec Daniels and
the hon Grapejuice Bryan
NEVER did take much stock in the
lady BARRIERS
ALWAYS used to make Us peevish to
have mother cut our hair
WISCONSIN is the home Of freak
things including Lafollette the human
What-is-it.
POTATOES require a warm climate
says an exchange
YES and potato spectators ought e
have a hot climate
THE hottest. in fact.
~sUFFRAGETTE's husband" says
the New York Mail
rs patient old ealoot who hasn't
got a button on his old union suit
THE bull moose in Russia are just
simply raising the old Ned that's all
there is to it
THE four year old heir to all the
patrfmony and estates of a friend
SHOCKED him BY sizing up COW
and asking where she kept all
HER milk bottles.
NOw il the weatherman would only
turn on the fine weather tap
AND go out on strike
OF course it was an Ohio paper that
carried the following
1T has been reported over town that
this is the srd trip of my husband tc
the penitentiary but I wish the public tc
KNOW this is the 1st time he was
ever in the pen''-EAIAIA MEYERS
ALL right En- we forgive YOU
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
On
BLANKET
EMBARGO
Railroads Not Accepting
Freight Today, 900 Men
Expected to Go Out in
North Township Tomor-
row Evening in Strike.

Paralysis Of freight traffic. industry
and commerce appeared almost in
evitable in Hammond today with the
railroad strike order apparently be-
yond recall
At O'Clock tomorrow evening nearly
1000 men engaged in the transfer and
switching work of freight service ON
railroads in North township are eN-
pected 70 obey the strike order Of the
four brotherhoods. In anticipation Of
a complete tie-up railroads in Ham
mond refused to receive freight Of any
description after 10 o'clock this morn
ing. and the only freight that Is NOV
ing this evening is that accepted be-
fore the blanket embargo was affixed.
The engineers. firemen. yardmen and
switchmen in transfer and switching
crews of eighteen railroads entering
Chicago which are engaged in termin-
al work are members Of the first group
ca He'd ont at 8 o'clock saturday even
ing
The crews Of the b & O. c. r. Ry-.
are not Included in the order. it Is
stated. as their agreement does not
come under the head Of the others
and it is rumored they viii Keep a
portion of the Indiana Harbor Belt
freight moving. The Erie. Monon, c.
& o. F. J. & L. and Chicago Belt Rail
way, Chicago Junction and Pennsyl-
vania Yards VIII be quiet
Between 500 and roo men are affected
at the New York Central and Indiana
Harbor Belt yards at Gibson and the
l. O. T. The Michigan Central is not
in the first order.
It is freely predicted that Ham
mond's industries viii have to close if
the strike comes up to the expecta-
tions Of the brotherhoods. that the
coal shortage viii become acute if cold
weather continues; that auto trucks
and automobiles viii have to be de-
pended on to bring in the supply Of
edibles and milk and that food prices
VIII soar.
Some railroad officials today ques-
toned whether majority Of the
trainment would respond to the strike
order not caring to lose the privileges
OF seniority The railroad men have
no local grievances and their rela-
tiones with their superiors Iii local
offices have been the friendliest and
the result Of years of association.
Union yard hostlers are also ordered
out
1t is estimated 100 men employed by
the Erie out OF Hammond viii 20 out
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
BY ROBERT J. BENDER.

WASHINGTON. March 1e-Faced by
the gravest domestio situation which
has threatened the country in many
months President Wilson today called
his cabinet into session at 2s3o to de-
termine course of action in the fight
ing between the railroads and their en-
ployes- The presidents hands, it is ad-
mitted, are tied in so far as adopting
any drastic measures to ward off the
threatened strike Of the brotherhoods.
He appeared to have but two courses
a patriotic appeal TO both sides in the
controversy to make concessions in view
OF the grave international crisis and
prevent the impending tieup.
The other course was to summon TO
conference with him representatives Of
railroads and brotherhoods in an effort
to mediate their differences. Announce
ment of the presidents plan is ex-
pected at the conclusion Of the cabinet
meeting
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
SITUATION
IN DOUBT
(By United Press.)

LONDON. March 16-Up to noon the
fate of the individual members or the
former imperial ministry in Russia had
not been made clear in Petrograd ad-
vices One dispatch declared that the
majority of the ministers had been re
leased but that Minister Of the Interior
Protopopof had been detained, earlier
dispatches had reported his execution by
the revolutionists.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
(BULLETIND

CHICAGO, March 16.--Nore than 1000
general and local chairmen OF the four
railway brotherhoods met here at noon
to hear the plans formulated by their
leaders for the progressive railroad
strike set for tomorrow evening. While
they were in session behind locked and
guarded doors, railroad managers and
executives OF roads entering Chicago
were comforting on means Of defense
against the strike. The brotherhood
members were po1led before the meet
ing was called in order that no railroad
sympathizers might be admitted TO the
session. AS the afternoon wore on lit
tie information was permitted to leak
from the meeting, though frequent
cheering was heard from the room.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
6By United Press.l

WASHINGTON. March 1e-Presi-
dent Wilson will act on the suggestion
oy the railroad brotherhoods or man
ayers that he mediate the eight hour
strike set for Saturday Il suggestions
reach him. This can be stated on high
est authority. No such request. how
ever had reached the white house up
10 mld-forenoon. In event that all
moves fail and the strike does come.
the president viii take occasion to in
form the country as 10 where he be-
heves the blame rests for a situation
OF perilious possibilities whereby the
transportation systems of the country
are tied up in the midst of a great
crisis.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
The Mexican
Situation
By United Press.

Ell PASo, March 16.-Two Americans
were murdered by Villa and his follow
ers last week at Magistral, according to
information received here today. The
victims were L. A. winn of New York
and Bert Siegel of Pittsburg, Pa, both
employees OF the National Mine and
Smelling company. 1t was said the
Americans were tortured and their
bodies burned.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
Latest on
K. r. Strike
(RULLETIN.)

vICKsBURo, MISS, March LET
suggest that President Wilson put the
railroads Of the United States under
military control" said w. L. Parks of
Chicago, vice president of the Illinois
Central railroad, here today "The
president has this power and it is the
only solution of the problem" he said,
discussing the proposed strike of the
brotherhoods.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
SHOCKING MATRICIDE

LAPORTE, ND. March 16.-Amos
Casteele aged 40 years. Killed his
aged wife with a hammer. set fire to
the home and then ended his own life
by shooting himself through the head.
The tragedy occurred at New Carlisle.
thirteen miles east of here. The
couple had been separated for some
time and this morning Mrs. Casteele
came to see her husband in an effort
to adjust their difficulties
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
Wilson May Mediate I'm Threatened Strike
GIVE THEM NOTHING

Information comes to THE
TIMES that a weIl-dressed
couple is soliciting money for
the Newcastle cyclone sufferers
GIVE THEM NO MONEY!
If you want to contribute send
it to your local Chamber of
Commerce or the Indiana Red
Cross.
TURN THE KERS
AWAY.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16

STOCKHOLM. March I6. -
Twenty were killed in Mondays
fighting in the Petrograd revoIm-
tion and I2O were wounded, accord
ing 10 Information received today
from the Russian capital by the
newspaper ExtrabIadt. According
TO this information the mob on
Tuesday also destroyed several
bakeries and the railroad line to
Finland was blown up at several
points.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
BASKETBALL
RACE IS ON

BLOOMINGTON, IND. March Is. ~
The following scoores have resulted
in the state basketball turnament here
today:
Kokomo 10: South Bend, lG
Mdncie. 31 Linton s.
bloomington, 23. Lafayette.
Martinsville. q; Washington -
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16
United Pregs Cablegranl.

LONDON, March 16.-The czar of
Russia is at Tskoff and the empress
is at the imperial palace at Tsar-
key, according to latest tnforma-
tion from Petrograd this afternoon.
The empress IS said to be in per-
feet safety, contrad1cting earlier
rumors that she had been detained
by the revolutionsts.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-16

Daniel Willard IS president of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad and q
member of the advisory commission
of the Council of National Defense.
In the latter capacity in war tine he
could be of immense service to the
country in controlling all railroads
as Colonel Thornton has control CT
all railroad transportation ia Eng
land