Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-01-16
NO LIQUOR IN
IMMORAL RESORTS
Judge Gould Revokes All
Malt or Liquor Licenses
Issued in "Red Light
District.
KEEPERS MAY LEAVE
Applications OF Others For Licenses
for the Ensuing Year Refused
County Judge Refers Ia Ruling Of
the Supreme Court.

County Judge James Gould yester-
day issued an order revoking all IL
censes issued to keepers Of immoral
resorts, white and black, and which
gave them the privilege to sell malts
and liquors in their places, a majority
Of which are located on East Barraquc
street. At the same time Judge Gould
refused the applications Of others, who
conduct similar resorts, which were
presented at intervals since the first
Of the year, asking that they be grant :
ed licenses for similar purposes.
In the order Judge Gould also in
structs Sheriff c. M. Philpot to return
all money collected from the keepers
Of resorts, those WHO had already Sc
cured matt licenssg for the ensuing
year. He names four OF them, to each
OF whom the collector Of the county
will return $15S. Four others, who
had deposited similar amounts with
the collector pending the issuance OF
their licenses, will also be refunded
! their money. making total of $1,26i
returned As many more applications
were under consideration al the time
Judge Gould issued edct, revoking
and refl.sin" licenses for bawdv
houses
The order Of Judge Gould was issued
after the county Judge thoroughly in
vestigated the law as to immoral re-
sorts. He cities the law in his rul-
ing and displayed the sections in his
office yesterday afternoon, when visited
by newspaper men. The Supreme
Court of Arkansas has held that none
other but moral persons should be is
sued licenses to sell ulalts or intoXi
eating liquor. This ruling was made
in the case of the State against;
Blanche Rowland, a former keeper Of
a resort here, now deceased.
Judge Gould's edict will, in all prob
ability, result in the complete elimi.
,
The new ordinance of the City Council
which became effective last night, re-
Quiring saloons and other places that
sell Intoxicating liquors to sell no
liquors from midnight 10 o'clock each
morning, was taken as 4 severe blow
: to immoral resorts, which are Largely
and almost solely operated with pro-
ceeds from the sale of beer. The COM
plete CLOSING up" of this department
in them will, no doubt. result in a
general getaway" from the Red
Light Districts here. The resorts are
conducted on most expensive plans, it
is said, and with the revenue from the
sale Of beer from them the places will
! be closed in Self-defense. There are
no less than twenty of these resorts
on Barraque street and there are Oh
an average of ten occupants in each OF
| them.
! Judge Gould's order reads: "In the
matter of granting liquor licenses TO
the keepers of bawdy houses in Jeffer-
son county, Arkansas, for 1908, am
clearly of the opinion that the law
does not contemplate the granting n
licenses to sell liquor at these places,
as laid down in Kirby's digest, page
1899, and also in Supreme Court re-
port No. 60, pages SIC and 521. The
order heretofore made granting liquor
licenses to Emma Allen, Clara Wilson,
Lille Draper and Mamie Riley, is
hereby considered. ordered and ad-
judged to be revoked, and the appli-
cations for licenses to sell malt liquor
for 1908 are refused and the collector
Of Jefferson county, Arkansas, is
hereby instructed to return all sums
collected from the above-named par
!, ties for malt licenses for 1908, and
this order is to be in effect from Jan
uary II, 1908"