The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-08
BINGHAM sToCKApE AGAIN.

BIN CHAM STOCRADE AGAIN,
On the morning of ,hly 9TH, The
Tribune printed and commented upon
communication from Bingham, writ
ten by Mr.. \. Christopherson, drawing
the attention of Sheriff Sharp TO the
conditions Of the Bingham stockadc'
4 den of vice and immortality, more
shameful, more haunting, more repre-
hensibIc and i'm greater need of the at
tentou of the Shcrfl than was tho red
bght district OF Salt Lake And YET
the Sheriff pays 70 attention whatever
10 Shat stockadc, because there is no
political capital to bc made for his
party by mcddliug with it. 1t was
stated in Mr.. Christopherson s commu,
nication that the Bingham stockadc was
outside OF thc corporate limits of Biug-
ham. This, however, is challenged by
another correspondent, who writes, us
as follows. giving n more detailed and
specific account:
Bingham Ctah July i, 1909
Editor Tribun";-Ecfcrrng to Mr..
stocIsad'e is within the city limits Of BIng,
ham, and so more directly under the law
Of the city officials than OF the county
The city Chief of Police collects, or by
his orders. Is collected, $40 per month, by
fiuing each woman inmate Of the so-Called
stocllade.
Each woman pays rent OF from s. to SO
per day TO an incorporated company who
own the building.
This (Which is Il stock company is
composed of some Of the best citizens and
professional men of the camp Also, for
nj. or ShHrn M, stock and
II IS said Sheriff Sharp now owns block
of the stock
Deputy shorEHs have never prohcd very
bard in any case Of cutting af1raN or
shooting that may have come under their
office. but the city police have from time
Ia time made unGcsirahles get out Of town
by giving thcm noatcrs.
The Sheriff and his deputies, as is nm
dcrstood. have the legal right 60 enforce
the laws in this StoCkad" as elsewhere
in the county; but by being financially in
tercstcd in the above named company are
lax in their efforts 10 enforce any law.
\ parlor house and a saloon and restau-
rant combined Is at ono end of th" stock
adc. and another saloon is at tho other
end while short distance from all is
lanother Italian grocery store. saloon ana
parlor house combined tthc last named Is
n veritable he'll itselD. all OF which pay
heavy revenue TO the County, sheriff and
city OF Bingham, who state they need the
money.
Not until the incorporated company,
County. Sheriff and city of Bingham do
not need this money Will Bingham BE- rid
OF her stockade, or den OF Vice Cease
The graft attached 10 them. then the camp
will begin 70 put on some moral Clothes
and not before. Il. ii. Low ESh.
This letter puts the case very
straight TO the Sheriff, and also TO
certain others who may own stock in
that Bingham stockadc,
II also makes the Bingham stockade
precisely a parallel ease to that Of Salt
Lake, as each is in the corporate linn
its of a municipality, and inasmuch as
the Sheriff "closed up the stockade
of Salt Lake, he should, in order TO
be consistent, close up the stockade in
Bingham, more particularly as it is his
clear duty under the law 30 do so.
Our Bingham correspondent quoted
above claims to he absolutely sure of
his facts as stated We believe that
he is sure. Certainly he makes a case
against the Sheriff of malfcasance in
office, with probably interested personal
motives for his negligence to enforce
the law. that is discreditable TO him
in the highest degree, and i'll view of
the case as made. we do not see how It
is possible for the Sheriff of this coun-
ty, if he maintains a spark of self
respect, to neglect any longer the
stockade at Bingham, 1t is clearly his
duty. both under the law and to square
his action in Salt Lake, to proceed
vigorously against the Bingham stock
ade and wipe it from the face of the
earth,