The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-06
CLOSE UP JOINTS
Wichita's Mayor, Alarmed by
Stubb's Quiz, Puts Lid On.
Woman JOintist Put Out OF
Business Tells Secrets.
GO DEEP INTO PAST.
Investigators Will Dig Into Rec
ords of Chief Burt.
Peerless Prophets Week Must
Be Dry Occasion.

wichita. Kan, oct. 6.-Following q
strictly secret inquisition starting
Tuesday, Governor W. r. Stubs mas
ordered the Joints" of Wichita raloeu
Monday. the first day OF Junllee
week" The sjointists" have received
j. carloads of liquors the last few days III
preparation for the Peerless Prophets
carnival, which opens Wednesday
A report is current here that Cover
nor Stubbs has said that he will bring
the militia to Wichita next week, II
necessary. to stop liquor sales
Chief of Police George T. Cubbon
TODAY notified all "jointists'' that they
must quit business and vacate their
building by Saturday night
sThere are $50 alleged joints or
bootIegging establishments in Wien
tia declared the chief in statement
sEThev undoubtedly have been operat-
ing under some sort of an understand
ing with the former police department;
wichita is going to be closed up ana
kept closed Mr.. Cubbon becIme
chief of police Tuesday He states
that he is amazed at the loose Was
the police force of Wichita has oeeH
Although the strictest secrecy had
been maintained for two days, the tact
that the governor had been holding an
inquiry in his office in Topeka regard
ing the conditions of the liquor traffic
in Wichita leaked out, when a local
newspaper tipped" off the 'JolntlSts-
Although pressure was brought to
bear on the paper to suppress the story
until the inquisition had been COM
pleted and information filed against
the alleged law violators. the editor in
formed the representative from the
governors office that the public was
entitled to the information
It was stated that already infOrma-
ton has been received sufficient to file
actions against policemen, state Tenn
r,erance union workers and about sew
entv alleged jointists. In addition. 1t
lis alleged that the wholesale liquor
dealers have been violating the inter
state commerce law, that this is the
root of the whole trouble in Wichita.
and that prosecutions will be started
against the wholesalers first.
Woman Starts 1t.
The inquisition which is being con-
Quoted by Assistant Attorney General
Brewster. started two days ago when
Anna r. Tarbill. until recently pro
prietor of the City hotel, which was
closed last week and padlOcked by the
judge of the district court, appeared
before the governor and stated that |
she had quit business in Kansas and |
wanted to help the governor clean up |
Wichita
Immediately. other witnesses from !
Wichita were called The inquiry be- I
gan when Mrs. Tarbill. it is declared, /
stated that she naQ purchased iQuOt
from one wholesale dealer in Wichita /
for more than a year, that she had or !
dered any amount of goods she desired, /
and that it was delivered to her in less I
than fifteen minutes after the ordei |
was placed.
Mrs. TarbiIl, it is said. gave the gov
ernor and the assistant attorney gem
eral the names of about sixty jointists
she claimed had places in full opera /
tiOn this week, naming the location OF /
- f,-t
investigated thoroughly by the stat
officials, and if corroborated, the Of
ficers of the state will cause a great
shake-up in Wichita, and wholesale ar
rests
Policemen Accused.
It is said that several witnesses as
serted that policemen have been wink
ing at law Violators for the last year,
that several uniformed officers had
been in the habit of visiting the vari-
GUS joints and that plain clothes men
had been taking tips
The report was circulated that Mrs.
Tarbill started the inquisition to in
duce the governor to grant her par
don from several jail sentences pend
ing against her in the supreme court
on charges of violation of the liquor /
laws. Mrs. Tarbill stated that she had
made no request for immunity and
that she would not ask it. She added:
II simply have quit the business, and
I want to see Wichita clean city. Yes.
I have quit for good. but in doing so I
am going to use what information
have to help the governor clean up the
city"
Mrs Tarbfll will go back into the his
tory of Frank Burt's experiences while
he was chief of police. One of the in
teresting possibilities of the case may
be the disclosures that may make
Frank Burt subject to state prosecu-
ton on the charge of having received
money from liquor dealers-if Mrs.
Tarbills testimony can be substan-
tiated.
The intention of Governor Stubs. as
stated today. is to spend several weeks
stirring up the animals in Wichita in
order to prove that his action during
he last few days of the recent mayor
atty campaign was not for political
purposes
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