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REFORM AT CEDAR LAKE.iSHERIFF HAYES WILL LOOK AFTER LAW VIOLATORS.Failed For Six Week* — MUionrl Claim* the Men— Arreat at Pern—Am Important Rallng — FourFiremen Hart—Other Kerr*.Special to The Indiana poll* New*.Hammond. March 28— A reform movement Is sweeping over Cedar lake whichlids fair to clean out the many evil resorts that have Infested that locality for the past two years. The lake is one ofthe most popular summer resorts In northern Indiana, and Is visited during the warm months by hundreds of people from all parts of Indiana and Illinois, but for the past two years there has been an ele- \ ir.ent there which has greatly-injured the j gcod name of the place. Acts of vice and immorality have been committed In open violation of tho law, causing the authorities no end of trouble. Time and time I again the officers have been called to quell j disturbances, but arrests rarely followed because it was almost Impossible to secure evidence sufficient to convict. It has been only a little over a year since Otto Elwanger killed hla wife and then committed suicide. Since then. If all reports are true, crimes of almost equal magnitude have been committed, yet the authorities could not make any arrests because no one could be found who wouldfile information.Sheriff Ben Hayes has now taken up tho matter and it begins to look as though the place would be renovated and decent, law- | abiding people could again visit the lake without fear of being molested.One day this week Sheriff Hayes was called upon to quell a difficulty which haJ Iarisen in one of the saloons, and as a i result a number of arrests were made, !and to-day the State school fund Ls several ; hundred dollars better off. The sheriff said to a News reporter to-day: “I am going to clean those heft-holes out if Ihave to camp for the next month at the | lake. I have been hiving all kinds of j trouble there this winter. Fights were of such frequ-iin occurrence that they j became monotonous, and now, when 1 have a little time, I am going to do all I • can to make the like a desirable place tovisit. I understand that there are a number of saloons there which are runningwithout licenses, and if such is the fact,they will be closed up, or their ownersHi * “will have to comply with the law and take out licenses. There seemrf to be a number of spies down there who make it a practice to notify these resorts every | time I get anywhere near the lake, and by the time I get there all the places are cio3td as tight as drums. There Is another class of people that I am going after, and • they ure the ones w’ho are taking ftsh Irom the lake Illegally. I i have had people come to me complaining ; that someoody was seining in the lake, but I have been unable to catch them.Sunday Picnic* Interdicted.It is also stated that there will be no Sunday picnics there this summer. Last | year the Monon railroad ran a number of i excursions from Indianapolis, Lafayette and Chicago, most of which were on Sun- j day, but it is said that this will not be j done this year. If excut sions are run j hereafter, they will be on a week day. | The regular season will open there about llie miduio of May, and already the hotels I are receiving Inquiries for rooms. Among ihe principal hotels are the Sigler and Binion nouseu, both of which accommodate hundreds of people every year. Of course, the most or the visitors come from Chicago, owing to the close prox..nity, bat many also come .from Juuianapoka, Louisville, Lafayette and other cities In lmn-ajt*. Besioes those who come to tbo hotels, a large number come every year and camp out on the shores of the lake ana stay for several weeks. A large num-i#er of cottages have sprung up m the past ! 'two or three ytam. Among the more !prominent are thooe of M. T. Hart, M. K. Hart and J. W. Youehe, of Crown Point; K. P. Ames and J. G. ibach. of this city; Mark Ked, of Laruyette, and Captain J. K. Steriy, of Chicago. These cottages are occupied every summer, if not by theowners, by some of their friends. It is said that there are more fish in the lake now than was ever known at this season of the year.tthcIIIrt
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Indianapolis News
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sat, Mar 28, 1896
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