The Lake County times. [volume], June 18, 1906, Image 1

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Future Kcmo of
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a Vast Industrial Community and the
atest Iron Converter in the World Seen in .
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Sellers of Soft Goodst Plead
Guilty and Pay Fines
JOHN DOE II A BAD WAY
Mysterious Person Shows Up
. . Various Forms and Makes
Himself Scarce in Other.
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on bo! h fcirlcs of a
Ifvh'd sand which
in !. i';l!o;l hollows
'M-o-r-n-i-r.-p; jiaiicrs!" yelled a
lo brown rated, barefooted b(jy a-s
ake Hhore t:iu stopped at the
IvtKQ of U-ni:i
roujjhfiM'f of I
cut through ri !;;c
as it. was'.bfin v, built into the v.'ilder
nesa of Kcru'j oal-.s beyond.
The tent,-, the newly graded
fdrect, and th" liojTes in bed 1st a nee
Btru?;linij with their loads of yellow
sand confirmed the belief that, wo
had arrived at (iary, Hut it re
mained for the iUHiburned, bare
tooted paper boy to i-'how the real
Fpirit that i.; moving thingo so stren
uously in Indiana' i: v. .:.t city.
Jlueh has been writien ' of the
projects, plans, preparations and'
about to be graded."
You walk down to . Fifth avenue
and after looking deep into the un
derbrush you decide that there is no
danger of autmombiles exceeding the
speed limit on that street.
You wander down to Prospect
street and 1'mJ that its course is
along the top of a 20 foot sand
ridge.
Ask the next citizen you meet if
they are going to run an elevated
railway down Prospect street and he
replies to your sarcasm by informing
you that all of the ridges, those 20
feet high as well as those 5 feet
high will be scooped into the hol
lows and that the city, will soon be
perfectly level.
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The retail dealers in soft drinks
and harmless commodities did not
close their stores Sunday.
In spite of repeated warnings the
milkman saw that babies got their
milk, the Italians fed fruit to Ham
mond's r,000 . visitors, the drug
stores dispensed drugs to all comers
and the liverymen rented rigs to the
happy young swains who wanted to
take their best girls for a drive into
the country.
The only man to heed the wa. n
ing wa.3 the undertaker who had the
mourners Avalk to the cemetery in
stead of furnishing them with car
riages. '
"John Doe, John Doe,
They're looking for him high and
low." -
For a couple of dozen of affidavits
have already been filed against the
mysterious fellow and there were
many witnesses who were watching
him all day.
All this morning papers were be
ing made out in John tlavit's office
and this afternoon the arrests are
beisg made. ,
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their probable action.
talked fight.
Plead Guilty and Pay Fines
Judge Jordan's court was a busy
place this afternoon. Every few
minutes some one would come in,
plead guilty and pay their fine or
else have the case continued until
another day.
It is estimated that there will be
at least twenty-five cases brought be
fore tfc.s caurt.
When asked if the work would
continue next Suttday Mr, Jgnt, at
terrej f-g; the. Liquor Dealer's sso-:
ciation said that they Tyuld not only
be fined for; a second offense but the
fine would be much greaer.
Those who were fined up to the
.ime the paper went to press were:
Nicholas C. Creedy, who owns the
fruit store nrar Taussig's jewelry
store. Failed to give bond, goes to
jail. Fine $13.50.
William Mendroll, whose fruit
store is in Hubbard & Griswold's
goes to jail. Fine 113.50.
John Sperio. Pleads guilty and
is fined $12.15.
Paul Scatena owns a fruit store
on Hohman street next to Bicknell's.
Pleads not guilty and case is con
tinued until next Saturday at 9
a. m.
Geo. Bereolos next to Will Mees
music store. Pleads guilty and is
fined $12.15.
Geo. Brahos pleads not guilty and
case is continued until 9 a. m. June
20th.
Angelus Mihas has had his case
continued until June 20th on the plea
of not guilty.
Noble Morelli of South Hohman
street pleaded not guilty and has
his case continued until Saturday,
June 23d.
Dominick Sbuogia plead? - not
guilty and w,ill have Attorney Mc
Aleer defend him June 2 1st at 9
a. m.
Notice to Maccabees.
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this source will come from all parts
of the business district.
The business men expressed them
selves in very uncertain terms as to
A. F. rUSOTTS
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The magnitude of the undertaking
is almost beyond belief and yet you
remember that ton million dollar ap
propriation and prepare for the next
sensation. J
You retrace your steps 'and by so
doing get less sand in your -hoos) to
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
The Mode1 Maccabees will meet
on the first anathird Thursday night
of each month JnUnion hall, 96
Plummer avenue.
6,18,3t. Record Keep1!".
Helpmeet No. 1 Diss Up
Hatchet.
SECOND WIFEJBETS BLAME
Happy Home Disturbed by Dire
Threats from the Woman Scorn
ed. One wants .him; .the
Other Wants to get even
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the grocery store of F. K. Warne of
Hammond.
The scantling on the ground near
by are to support the floor of a bak
ery and Valien & Groat of this city
have already started a restaurant.
Pioneer Cigar Store.
A cigar store and a harness shop
complete the list of business houses
in Gary with the exception of a big
eating house of loose boards over the
Lake Front where the workmen are
charged $4 per week for board.
Anxious to see what is being done
over across the river, you go still
farther north until you leave the
high bank of the river and cross it
on a bridge which soon comes to an
abrupt end twenty feet from the
ground. Beyond, for a quarter of
a mile, lies a low, boggy marsh over
grown with wild rice and you natu
rally ask if the trestle is to be built
clear across the marsh and your ap
preciation of the magnitude of the
enterprise grows when you are in
formed that the marsh for a .width
of a mile and all the way across is to
bo filled to a height of eighteen feet.
As you look over the surrounding
country from the elevation of the
bridge and following the winding of
the river through the rice swamp
your attention is called to a gang of
men with teams working on a hi1
which by projecting out into iue
swamp has forced the river to make
a V?:g turn at this point. But men
are doing what nature failed to do
and the big hill is to be cut off from
the mainland and a channel is to be
dredged to effect the straightening
of the river ,
waiKina: is isaa.
I c vmi turn f i-nni f T"i oca c i a-V t c n r
where it will paralell the ! .,
, , . , , ,. i make your way on railroad ties
oiiio ar.u lnuiaua liar- i . . . ,
en the cuange is s . , . .
appreciate now easy it wiii De lor tne
uuninc W'es;
lovised is a
.e of the men
live in noor
, , j railroad track which is to he straight-
and covered
e::e l and moved to the north side of !
the river
Baltimore c
bor tracks an
made the three railroads mentioned
will bui'd a splendid union depot.
If you are from Hammond you sigh
deeply at the mention of a union
depot, immediately change the sub
ject and turn your attention to the
unpainted shacks that you see
I just ' through the woods to the north.
.' J-5cai:;e owr to Gary to" works like The
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first building you approach
it four wood sheds in size and
unlike them in construction.
A o that h'.x st -a 'it p. Fifth avcu
'i-X-K';GS ri2:i1 i:i there sr. 4 where y
A&'l"- that rids?. Prc?rcct street
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as big as the whole front end and
there under an improvised roof is
steel trust to spend its $75,000,000
in improvements.
Over on the other hank of the
river there is a scene of intense
activity.
Gangs of men are at work in doz
ens of different places leveling the
send ridges, digging hole for open
hearth furnaces, excavating for
sewers, and digging the trenches
for the foundations of the big mills
which are soon to rise in the vicin
ity. A narrow gauge railroad track
which winds in and out through the
sand hills pointed to the solution of
the problem of filling in the big
slough.
A railroad track is to be built out
into the slough on the ties which
were already in place.
Steam Instead of Mules.
Dozens of little dump cars pulled
by dummy engines are to be filled by
enormous sand dredges with a shovel
capacity of two and a half cubic
yards and then by trainloads they are
to be dumped into the swamp as
fast as they can be loaded and hauled
by the minature engines. A double
purpose will be served. The slough
will be filled and become valuable
land and the bothersome sand dunes
will have been leveled.
From the Baltimore & Ohio tracks
on the lake shore, three side tracks
are being run over towards the lake
at a distance of about 200 yards
from each other and it is along these
side tracks that there is the greatest
activity.
T&ere are car loads of supplies and
train loads of building materials.
On every side teams pulling wheeled
scoops are leveling, leveling, leveling.
Although the blast and open
hearth furnaces are to be built on
the lake front yet the sewers which
are to carry away the chemically po
.ated water from these furnaces are
to be drained into the river instead
of contaminating the lake water.
Work on the harbor has not yet
been begun and will probably be de
laved until the dredges have finished
the work of leveling and filling.
One noticeable advantage of Gary
as the location of a city is the fact
that unlike South Chicago or in fact
any of the larger cities of the
Calumet region it is to have an aver
age level of eighteen feet above the
lake in this way insuring a good fall
or sewers.
Vast Territory in Its Grasp.
Perhaps the most impressive thing
about a visit to Gary is the enormous
extent of territory which is being
worked.
Gary is not to be built a house and
a furnace at a time, the millions of
dollars in the strong boxes of the
United States Steel corporation have
made possible the immediate buildin
of a city.
This gold is the Alladin's lamp that
will cause a city to drop from the
skies. . .
An irate woman, armed with pho
tographs, letters, detectives' reports,
etc., started for Montreal yesterday
morning to place before high offi
cials of the Grand Trunk railroad
proof of the deceit and immoral con
duct of Robert A. Benson, traveling
freight agent for the National Dis
patch Fast Freight line, a part of
the Grand Trunk system.
The woman is . the former Mrs.
Benson. Her aim is to "get the
job" of her faithless spouse and
break up the tranquil life in the
cottage at 320 Plummer avenue in
this city, where Benson and the se
cond Mrs. Benson, ."the cause of the
whole trouble," are living.
Benson and his second wife came
to Hammond on the ICth day of
May took out marriage license and
were married by the Rev. L. S. Smith
of the Methodist Church.
Married Five Years Ago.
Five years ago he married Mrs.
Grace Benson, a slim, dark woman of
34 years, But Benson had a mania
for amateur photography, xnd his ex
tra 'iahce'ln this egarcf catiafea the
first cloud. He was getting only
$100 a mouth and his wife worked
in a hair dressing establishment
downtown. He was frequently away
over Saturday and Sunday "taking
tures as he explained. Mrs
Bpn son5 -tears were not aroused un-
one dainty foot placed upon a rock,
and the other was the same woman
perced upon the limb of an apple
tree.
On Husband's Trail
"Who is this woman?" demanded
Mrs. Benson of her husband that
night. He answered coolly:
' Those are some plates I am devel
oping for a friend of mine in the
office. He is paying me for it."
Mrs. Benson apologized.
Things went on as of old, the hus
band still absenting himself with
his camera, until Oct. 24, 1905, when
I a letter addressed to Mr. Benson at
35C South Sacremento avenue found
ts way to the south side flat where
he lived with his wife. Mrs. Benson
put on her hat and went right out
in Sacremento avenue, her old sus
picious revived.
She found the house empty. She
Interviewed the neighbors.
-Mr. and Mrs. Rowell lived there
until a few days ago," she was told.
"They moved to 1301 Jackson boulevard."
Did Mrs. Rowell have any room
ers?
"Why, yes there was a traveling
man named Benson who has roomed
there for two years," she was told.
Smelling salts were brought.
Mr. and Mrs. Benson patched
things up in a way which lasted. for
some time and a- lew weeks later
Mr. Rowell died.
Benson's Second Marriage
On Jan. 4 last Benson and his
wife parted and Mrs. Benson started
divorce proceedings. Mrs. Rowell
started a boarding house and Benson
roomed there. On May ICth Benson
married Mrs. Rowell at Hammond
and made their home at 320 Plum
mer Ave. Mrs. Benson tried to re
claim her former husband and see
ing that she failed she said:"
"I don't know what I can do, but
I will break up that home and get
his job if it kills me and him, too
She has got to' go to work. I wil
spend my last cent to bring this
about. If there had, been a good law
they ioal d not-Ji ay er been rrrr
We would have met again and u.--
til one day broke into his bed
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room and found pictures in
the process of develonmUlt.
One was a picture of a prfcond-
woman sitting at a piano in a dreaiiy.
attitude, another was of the same
woman standing near a bridge with
Found Weeping Before Al
tar of Methodist Church
LONGING FOB HOI
Penniless Oriental, Walking frea
, Pacific to Atlantic Stops ta M
Worship and Attracts tU
tention
influence of that woman would Lse
beeu overcome." . '-i
Mrs. Benson No. 2 of co.urse specks
in no complimentary terms about Mrs
Benson No. 1. Mrs. Benson No. 2
said this morning about her rival."
She is a low woman, a blackmailer, a
woman who confessed that for a
whole year she never drew a sober
breath. Mr. Benson was her third
husband and they all left her. She
fvtd sweet hearts by the half dozen
andri31" Passed lifo is a disgrace."
Before the evening service !t iKm
First Methodist church ,& rigged aad
travel worn oriental was found sit
ting in one of the pewg sobbing ton .
vulslvely. He was approached by oae
of the members of the congregatioa '
and he told a story la broken En
glish. He managed to mil to himself
understood that be was fe refuree
from Corea, having beea banished
for political reasons. He raads ala
way overland to Yokohomt and from
there worked his passage to Hawaii.
Failing to find work there, owing to
his inability to make himself un
derstood, and hearing about the op
portunities afforded to all ciassea and
nationalities In the United States, he
begged his passage to San Francisco,
landing there about the time ot the
earthquake.
How he. reached Hammond he
could hardly explain lu an Intell
igible way but from hia ragged and
emancipated appearance he must
havewalked the better part of the
journey. ; : j
Rev. Mr. Smith became lnUreie.i
in the story and at once took .hirr1
whi h Wn:. tlon-he jiiAsd hiv,ss
become, laf ; ir tls cate and wijl
makV'Hi-e-fort to.ind temporary em
ployment tor him fn Hammond. He
wants to reach New York before the
end of the summer. The disabilities '
which made his residence la his n&t-'
Ive country Impossible, haVe been
cleared up and he hopes to find his
way back to Corea where h6 has a
wife and two children. '
ries and wrhiskies
bay horses
Police Find Ciga?!.
Writes Implicating Letter
About Local Peddlers
Hammond people and especially
the creditors of John Rulf, who took
French leave of Hammond some two
months ago will be glad to learn that
he is still safe at Cincinnati.
From a letter that Rulf has writ
ten to one of his creditors it appears
that he belonged to a gang which
the Hammond police have been un
able to catch red handed. In the
final deal with the gang Rulf seem
ingly received a "dirty" deal and for
that reasonsent the following letter
to one of his former creditors.
"Dear Sir:
You know that I John Rulf owe
you about $18. When I made prepa
rations to leave Hammond I made
arrangements with Jake Diamond
and Sam Levi to this effect, that if
I give into their keeping all my gro
ceries, whisky, wine, tobacco, cigars
and everything else for the sum of
$634, which amount represented
only half of the real value of the
goods, that they pay all my outstand
ing debts. Because they failed to do
so I ask you and the other creditors
to take legal steps to obtain the
money.
"Eight wagonloads of groceries
whiskey and wine were takea from
Mr. Beivogel's place at Crown Point
by Levi, Diamond, a man named
Weis, Rosen of West Hammond, a
blond young man between 20 and 22
years old living in the neighborhood
of Lake Diamond, and a Crown Point
man who was only recently released
from jail. Not satisfied that they
now had my gio
they also stole my two
from the barn. Mr. Beviogel Is
quainted with the proprietor of the
barn and can prove what I say.
Levi and Diamond told me that
they had a dealer at Indiana Harbor
named Bresko to whom they had sold
$4,000 worth of to a jew at Hack
ensack. Barrels may be found there
even at this time.
A liquor dealer named Kinberg
of Crown Point bought whiskey of
Diamond. A gray horse belonging
to John Brehm of West Hammond
was given to Levi and Diamond by
me, provided tnat tney return the
horse to Brehm or pay him fifty
dollars. I do not know what they did
in the matter.
I wish to further state and prove
that Diamond and Levi make their
living by thievery and swindeling.
I had a carriage which I sold to
Diamond. He sold it to an Indiana
Harbor baker named. Martin for only
half of the sum that he paid me and
at the same time he sold him a horse
for $90. Later I learned that Martin
horse and carriage were stolen and
after this I met Levy and Diamond
at Crown Point with this same horse
about their property and Diamond
answered: "What ever is sold by
Levi and myself is always returned
by my men Messrs. Weis and Rosenu"
"Diamond and Levi brag about
their standing in Hammond saying
that they belong to the best people
there, that they have two good law
yers hired and that the police are
all right. I almost beleive it as I had
proofs of the leadstealing.
"I will send the receipts of Levi
and Diamond to Mayor Becker. As
for myself I am ready to square up
my accounts and ara also ready to
appear as witness against Levi and
Diamond and in the near future
will send you my address through
my lawyer. I am unable to do so
now as I am without any financial
means.
. "John Rulf.
The local police located part of
the cigars this morning that trere
stolen from the Kussmaul Cigar; stor
sometime ago in the Sale on 6f An.-
on Kossiba at Hegewlsca John Muel-
citv Is rhare-ed with th
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disposing oi tutiu wfw
tHrf In tho RnnAHnrTrH" WeeSf
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and he is in jail pending tL1"4
McMAHON, HE
HELD THE WAlc
m At.- r T . ti 1 i t
xnereiore ine ocorcners vouia hq
Fool Him on that Third Speed
Story. :
A little fat man. a btg fat man
and a tall black haired taan owner
of a Knox machine will probably bs
saying things about Hammond for
some time to come.
"We were just going through towa
on third speed when an ofScer pull
ed a six shooter on us and demanded
that we pull up and go down to the
police station with him to talk over
a little matter of interest to us
both," was the way they tell it, but W
officer Ed. Murphy has a different
version of the story.
All morning automobiles hr.ve
been speeding through town oa the
Chicago New York tun. Some of
them were going so fast that the po
lice had to get busy.
Officer Ed. Murphy was sent dowa
Hohman St., watch in haad to make
Hohman St watch la haad to make,
some observations.
He spied a machine coming:, ur
there and Indiana Ave. Twelve miit
per hour was the way ho figured it
out.
Blustering, blowing, and threats
did not move Judge McJIahon an.-?
so the owners of the Knox decide'
to Cead guilty and pay the five d '
lars and costs ammountlng to L.K
dollars in all. t
This is the second time the an ar
rest has been made fo: eicedla-5
the speed limit and quite a cro
gathered in the court room to '
"In at the the death."
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