The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-22
MORAL CLEANUP
SWEEPS BRIST0W
CITY Council Follows Up
Visit of Prosecutor;
Pushes Work
CLOSE POOL HALLS
Gamblers, Migrants and 9th
ers Of Questionable Repute
rsl5 to "Move on"
BY r. L. MOORE.
worlds STAFF Correspondent.

WUTl1t blHAl Correspondent
HRlsTOw, oct zf.--The Oft
.1-satened moral cleanup OF Brls-
low s under way.
erurred UP to q realization that
many things were taking place that
.bou'd not exist by the visit here
tbIs week Of Active County Attorney
frank Hickman of Sapulpa, the city
r6ureil accepted the advice OF the
county attorney and adopted an ordi-
nance which practically closes up
ppoi and dance halls.
TAr ordinance regulating their op-
oration and requiring s400 license
was aiopted and the ponce told TO
rrid enforce II.
All games OF chance, slot ma
chimes and the real games, as well,
have been closed and the owners OF
buildings in which they have oc-
,urred told that court closing or
der will be taken out against them
n they ignore the order and reopen.
Deputy sheriffs are busy seeking
out moonshiners and distributors OF
Intoxicants, and inmates OF question
able places ordeded to 'move on"
As result of the 100 per cent CO.
operation existing between the city
and county authorities the church
IhOlAN NfH NildllAlNNAAAA6 htflA dBlIiF
rIatlou Of the program" and some
rommendable expressions are anti
cipated Sunday from the pulplts.
Arrest Traffic NiolatorS.
Fifteen taxi drivers were arrested
cd by Chief OF Police Freshour for
violating the new parking ordinance
an Main street which went into
effect al noon Friday. Seven paid
fines Of s1S, three appealed and four
are IN tail. Mayor Slocum stated
that the ordinance would he strictly
enforced, regardless of who the vio-
lators were.
Hepburn F1nys Crooks.
In his speech here Thursday night
Jim Hepburn, county attorney OF
Okmulgee county and republican
nominee for district Judge for the
Twenty-second judicial district, told
his audience that he did not want
tho votes OF bootleggers, gamblers,
prostitutes and thugs. He said he
regarded his oath OF office as sacred,
and looking his God in the face
promised the voters that II elected
lie would not puriure himself, would
not he dictated to or dominated by
any man or set Of men. The black,
the white. the red the pauper and
the millionaire would receive the
same treatment IN MS COuII-JuSlISet
nbthing moro and nothing less.
Livingston Raids Dives.
Thursday night was a night OF ter
ror for the evil-doers OF Rrlstow
County Attorney Frank Hickman
arrived in the city about O'Clock
that day and the work Of destruc-
ton Immediately started. sheriff
y y. Livingston, with one OF his
trusted deputies, John Farmer.
started out shortly afterward,
Gambling Joints, bootlaggtng
Joints and immoral houses fen be-
fore the sheriff's cycle OF devasta-
ton All gambling pnrapherna,ia
found was carried into the street
and burned, "hooch" and "choc"
aonfscated and the owners arrested
and tailed.
At one place n quantity OF nltroEly-
Cerlne was seized by tho sheriff., The
raid extended from the business
district to little Africa" and
everything found In both places
which savored OF contraband goods
or lawlessness melted away like Ice
before a summers sun, The sheriff
said that every form Of law Viola
ton here must cease.
Slot machinces and punchboards
came I'm for their part, and wherever
found were destroyed