The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-26
Goes Into Session After Charge
from Judge Linn to Probe all
Alleged Vice Conditions
in Grady.
IN CHARGE
OF INVESTIGATION
Court Instructs Body in Detail ;
Recalls Military Ban; Men
tions Duty of Citizens to
o. G. w, Here.

With Prince FreeIng. attorney
general of Oklahoma in charge Of the
Investigations, tho grand jury for
Grady county opened its sessions
here at l0:3O this morning, under
Instructions from District Judge VIII
Linn to conduce a rigid probe of all
alleged vice conditions in the city
and county, ranging from murder to
misdemeanors.
Following is list of the grand
Jurors J. A. Corzino, Alex, Qorc-
MANI Otto Baumgardner Tuttle;
w. j. Smedley, Chicbasha II. G.
Ford, Amber; +. r. DawMns, Rush
Springs; G M. Ridley Rush Springs;
c. WhaIen Nerddn; Geo M. Nell,
Tuttle; Farley Kinnard Chlckasha;
q. B. Johnson, Amber A. II, ENG
lish, Rush Springs, Henry Milleur
Rush Springs
In making his charge TO the grand
jury, Judge Linn touched upon the
ban that has been placed upon
Chickasha by the military authorities
at Fort Sill, prohibiting officers or en-
listed men from visiting here. He re-
ierred to the request the military
men that the police fsrce be re-
moved, and of the resignation Of
the city officers Judge Linn caleu
the attention of the jury to the fact
that the Oklahoma College for W0-
men is located in Ghickasha refer
ring to the school as the pride of the
citizenship CT Oklahoma and declar
ing that "we must also MAINTAIN that
moral standard that you would eX-
pect and demand OF any community
before placing your daughter in
their midst. Judging from the past,
the Oklahoma College for Women
will in a few years be the leading
institution in the southwest While
the people of the State Of Oklahoma
are spending annually hundreds Of
thousands of dollars to build up
maintain and support this institu-
tion, Chckasha and Grady county
must maptain that high standard OF
morality in the community, that the
citizenship if Oklahoma may expect
and demand The Judge mentioned
chat the ban Of the military authori,
ties had not yet been lifted, and
stated "While the nation has a
grand jury today of 100000 men
across the seas cleaning up vice
conditions, it behooyes us as patri.
otic citizens to render all assistance
possible and clean house at home.
! Therefore, | appeal TO you to lend
every assistance within your power
to forreting out disloyal conduct of
every character Many such acts of
this character are punishable under
the laws of The state OF Oklahoma,
and where the offcuse is not indict
able under the state laws, see that
such evidence is placed before the
federal authorities aad that all per
sons guilty OF disloyalty in this hour
of our nations peril may be properly
punished
81 call your attention, gentlemen
to the violation Of the -yrohibiuor
laws. There is no doubt in my m.nd
chat the prohibition laws arc violated
+ more frequently than any other sta
uto, and | am convinced from The
number of injuncuous | am call-C
upon to issue. that it is being vic
lated daily in Chicdasha. This, to
gether with the violations Of tn,
gambling laws of the state shoull
be investigated very diligently b,
you. not that one violating thesi
laws should be indicted by you il
! preference 10 one violating an.
other law. but by reason of the fac
they appear to be more prey-,en
and more difficult to suppress.
81 desire to call your attention {
the fact that the statutes provid
that the grand jury must inquir
into the wilful and corrupt miscoi
b duct in office of all public officer
lOf every description, and provide