Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-02-18
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Two Heads FALL
COUNTY ATTORNEY AND SHER-
IFF OF CREEK COU<TY
SUSPENDED.
LAW ENFORCEMENT Seen
A Dozen Places Are Under Lock and
Key and Plastcred with In
Junctions--Locailons Desired.

SAPULPA, Okla, Feb. 17.-(Spe-
cial.) 1.-TWO official heads in the
basket, and places of notorious law
violation under lock and key and
plastered over with permanent in
Jupnciions, is the net result of the
first round with the law violators OF
Sapulpa, 50 long in control that they
thought themselves impregnable,
with a judge on the bench who fear
ed and respected and dared to ad-
minister the law as it was Intended
should be when enacted.
Promptly at o'clock Judge AL
len assembled court sitting as special
judge in the absence Of Judge Stan
field, and NTH rights and ATS to
jaw in the petition, demurrer, ana
motion presented by the attorneys
Of County Attorney V. T.. Decker in
an effort to save the bacon of that
otficial he had the official in sus-
pension for neglect of duty in al
most less time than 1t requires to
write it.
Sheriff John w. Berry, still among
the missing, followed in rapid sue
cession to the custer list. Both Ore
to be given a chance in a week to
tell why the order should not be made
permanent.
To the Well Once Too Often.
With these cases out of the way.
the court turned to a resumption of
the many cases of the offenders
against the liquor law who had fall
en- before the inquiries of the late
special grand jury, and the greater
part of the remaining hours of the
forenoon were spent in standing
these gentlemen up and in ordering
their places Of business permanently
enjoined and locked up. These are
of the laws mandates; The Red
Cross Drug store, Turner Drug store.
OIL Exchange. The Stag, II North
Water, Ripley Hotel. Eagle Restau-
rant, Smoke House, Buffalo. Big
Four and Eureka.
Each of these houses has a repu-
tation all its own. Tonight they are
all dark, and the clack of the ivory,
the tlnlIle of the glass, and the rattle
of the chips, as also the shuttle of
the cards, are among the sounds that
were.
They Wuc a Surprised Lot.
1t would be a hard matter to imag-
inc a more surprised lot than the
law. defying element in Sapulpa the
past few hours. Following the get
ting them guessing" that the grand
jury gave them. came the stern hand
Of the law as administered by Judge
Allen, who seems to have some Con-
ception of what law was created for
To say that they are now on the run
would be putting it mildly indeed
They have hardly a peg Of hope to
hang upon, and today they gathered
here and there in little knots as they
discussed the prospects of greener
pastures, or wonder where was the
exact location of the storm cellar.
There is a strong movement on
this evening to make still another
movc for the getting of the goat"
Of other higher-ups whom the peo-
pie seem to think should have been
included In the general houseclean-
Ing. and 1t is predicted that rather
than allow this to happen. there may
be some designations recordtN in a
few days.
People whom have stood. for de-
cency and LAM and Nder are encour-
aged as never before in the history
Of this end of the state. They have
had 80 liNle encouragement hereto
for that the innovation comes as a
surprice that can hardly be corceiv-
ed They have an appetite for more.
The officials whom Judge Allen ap,l
pointed in the places Of the deposed