The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-04
BOSSES JOB OF
ENFORCEMENT
Carpenter to Enforce Dry
Law from Headquar-
ters in Denver.
TERRITORIAL OFFICERS
Was Co-Worker With the
Famous "Pussyfoot John
son in Earlier Days.
pu c. NJ. SARCHEr.

poNc,A CITY, Okla, April a
ol1abonan for over a quarter
y" injury. with all that period
v1L.,s,cd 10 the duties of an officer
- -tr law, is TO be the ddViSion
v.,d man for the enforcement OF
soIorni prohibition in eight or the
-, ,,cstcrn states, with headquar
IT, ~. d, Dcrvor. Col. lie Is Charles
~ Carncnter. who has recently re-
..rne1 a place as special lnves-
.,cator for the department OF JUS
No. at Washington, ID. c.. TO accep.
this new position.
4, was perhaps more than quar-
a.. ~ century ago that Carpenter
gts,.,n service as an officer OF the
-, ,yben he was appointed deputy
.to-4fe and later undersherfff of Lo-
80, county. with his office In Guth-
80, nv sheriff Frank Reinhart, and
S,or peinhart had served four years
@arnonter succeeded him as sheriff
.,d mi in four years more. during
tho early 1900s.
+, was during that period that
oklahoma Territory was passing &
IRON, the wild and woody to the sub
siantiai. and there was still con-
siderable outlawry with numerous
band,,s and desperadoes of the BIZ
C,avens types. Guthrie was the seat
81 federal authority In the terri
to-v and the old federal jail. with
accommodations for perhaps so. was
sreouently housing anywhere from
Ib0 40 200. The sheriff OF Logan
county was, naturally, the best
trown OF his kind in the entire state
and II was under such conditions
that Carpenter served his eight to Il
years.
Carpentor can sfow credentials
from "Pussyfoot'' johnson, the man
who fs now stirring England and
France and who has been invited
Hlso to make Turkey dry. II was
while Johnson was chasing bootleg
gers In the Indian populated sec
tions of oklahoma and Indian ter
rHories that Carpenter broke into
the prohibition enforcement work,
and he served under Johnson sev-
eral years In fact he remained in
that branch OF the service until the
United States entered the Euro
pean war and was then transferred
Ia the department which looked
after slackers and other violators,
doing special investigation work.
with his headquarters at Kansas
City, Mo. the greater part OF the
war period.
His experiences as such inveatiGa-
for have been many and varied. in
clding the running down OF Just
common military slackers to getting
the evidence which has convicted
profiteers dynamiters, 7. w. w. and
spies II was Carpenter who worked d
up the evidence that sent to the
penNenttary the mon who dvna =
nited the home IN Muskogee OF Fed =
eral Judge Ralph Campbell.
Wherever thore IS an Indian tribe
in Oklahoma Carpenter has become
well known for whore there are In
dams there are always bootleggers,
and the government has striven for
years 20 break up tho sale of liquor
10 tho red men. He has done n
lot Of work among the Osages. Pom
cas-, Otocs and Kaws in this imme-
date vicinity.
Carpenter is now in Denver and
has started organizing the force
That will work under him. 1t Is
understood that he will take at least
Two and perhaps several other men.
VINO have worked with him in this
STATE and upon whom he knows he
car depend, men with whom he has
befn In the pinches many time
There are many people who be-
IA heVe they can manufa cture some
scrt OF drink with "a kick In n. ani
OF course they are all trying IT,"
tald Carpenter who was here during
tne past week, Just prior 10 leaving
ior Denver TO assume his new du-
tes. Then, there Is the fellow who
u tSlng to run n still FROM q
commercial standpoint, and we find
many ot these throughout the co1ln-
Wy With federal prohibition. how
ever the next generation will not
NOW very much about booze"