The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-27
Trying to Drive Women From
Stockade to Uptown Room
ing Houses.
BLUFF MADE BY HANKS
is REALLY LAUGHABLE
Young Men Charged With Gamb-
ling Released Because
They Can Vote.

Joe Sharp is great fellow TO do
things with his fingers crossed. IT
You see Joe Sharp going down tho
street. you are safe in betting that he 3
coming back. Tho way 10 play Joe
Sharp is to copper everything he does
that looks on the square
In this highly entertaining. if not
decctabIe, campaign. Sheriff Sharp is
the centerpiece or the table. lie has
made up his mind that the church Re-
publican party must win in this coun-
ty. and he stops at no lengths TO make
good that determination. Sheriff Sharp
has played the spotlight position ever
since Governor Spry wrote his Infamous
slandcr on Salt Lake City aud its peO-
pie, and, in his zeal, Sheriff Sharp has
gone tho governor several better. In :
deed, Sheriff Sharp has done things
that even the ghastlv imagination of
Governor Spry. did not eonjnre.
And everything, even To the smallest
detail, of what Joe Sharp has done has
been so crooked that corkscrew is
n straight line IN comparison. There
has been no suggestion of sincerity IN.
any of the outrageous stunts that Joe
Sharp has pulled off.
peculiar thing about all Of Joe
Sharp's schemes is that somebody else
Is always the goat. just now VIII
liam Boyd is the pcrsonilication of that
unfortunate animal. it is upon the head
Of William Boyd that the ouus rests
for much of Joe Sharp;s double deal
ing.
William Boyd has for a long tme
been sincere in his efforts to bring
about the removal of undesirable wom-
en- from the so-calied stockade and from
Salt Lake City in general. In this am
hi rrl., oh ar1
altogether a laudable one, he was
earnest, sincere and painsiaking- Per-
haps Mr. Boyd believed the elimination
of the socially dead would be the
means Of saving the morals Of Salt
Lake s Younger generation, and older
too. for the matter of that. Whatever
his, motive. Mr.. Boyd sought patiently
this city of the practices whereby WON
en- without the pale make their hveli-
hood.
Complaints Are Refused
With this aim in mind, Mr. Boyd ap-
pealed to County Attorney Job Lyon.
Mr.. Lyon refused to Issue complaints
against the women. saying that he did
not deem it within the province or
functions Of the Office of county attor-
of Salt Lake City. That settled it SO
far as Mr.. Lyon was concerned. but it
did not settle it so far US Mr.. Boyd
WAS concerned, and when Joe Sharp was
given the authority TO, and did APP
point his horde of miscreants, William
Boyd saw another ray of hope. Here
was chance TO bring about that i'll
Mr.. Lyon.
At the same instant that this raw
of hone flashed into the mind of vii
liam Boyd n radiantly brilliant scheme
hit the gigantic intellect of Joe Sharp.
So the two of them got together, and
one afternoon after County Attorney
Lyon bad gone home, his assistant, John
+. Bowman. son-iD law of Joseph Is.
Smith, sneaked number of blank COM
plants out of the office and, in the
secret room Of the sheriff S Office. drew
complaints against sixty-five of the out
casts.
In passing, it may be said that Mr.
Bowman promptly got fred for his
zeal.
The "deputics" served the warrants,
and presently Joe Sharp's Jail corri-
Jors were filed with choice collec-
tion of fluffy ruffles. who performed
high links to the great delight of Joe
Sharp and 4 few select friends assem-
bled to see the conturtionating
"ladics.
Hanks's Little Bluff.
The next day the women were
brought before Stanley Hanks, q jus
ticc Of the peace. This eminout lurise
consulted his ever-readv Hostctter s
almanac and found therein warrant for
accepting from them pleas of guilty TO
vagrancy. On another page OF the
trusty almanac his honor found aushor-
itv for promising the defendants thai
he would not enforce tbc sentence "
they would leave town. Some of them
- TnNi Sof,
but didn I. The rest were to have lett
yesterday-but didp t.
Ear from leaving town, the
. ladies who entertained Joe Sharp
and his select friends so lavishly on
the night of their arrest. are each and
every one in town. For The lpforma-
ton Of Sheriff Sharp, if he wants it as
nm aid in enforcing the orders Of
Hanks S court in plugging the female
into Jail, IL may be said
that thirty hvo of the band are snugly
ensconced in one rooming house Inc
rest Of them are scattered about other
rooming joints Az Of them are where
Joe Sharp and his IynXeyc dcpntics
can easily iud them.
But there is nothing further from
Joe Sharp's thoughts than the ending
Of these women and the imposing of
The penalty. Ip fact. that WAS imposed
bv Hanks us a bluff. The reason the
lstutc Joe does not seek theSc women
is that be has promised aud pledged
ard pledged aud promised each one OF
them. il is believed, immunity from
further moIcstation if they will vote
he church Republican ticket What do
YOU suppose the women said when this
alternative WAS bcld out TO thcmi
Scheme Is Working.
Al the snmc time Joe Sharp is al
-eadv beginning to make good his
promise TO keepers OF questionable
dcns that if the church Repub-