Show I I AMERICAN MERICAN HOUSE IS I CLEANSED BY POLICE I Twenty eight bt guests at the American Ameri Amen can cm aro are being beins held b by tho the police pending ingo the investigation of ot the tho brutal murder JJ of John C. C Barnett Barnott at that place early yesterday morning Tho The notorious resort of criminals is IB is to bo be cleaned out says Chief Barlow and if it the tho house is to remain remain an inn inn for the tho underworld orld denizens so EO strict a watch will trill be bo kept on it that the dangerous criminals will not ant dare to resort there Its reputation has been hen estah- estah established lisped both through the thc courts and bv by general knowle knowledge c and it is mv my purpose I Itu to tu clean dean out the elements that makes I it an vi unsafe place for the laborer who I Ire re resorts orts there thero for a nights night's lod lodging in said tho the chief For several weeks the new chief ha has been contemplating a cleanup of such places as the American house and the late discovery of the tho murder yesterday af afternoon afternoon af- af hastened matters Late last night three wa wagon on loads of the people who matte make the tho I place their headquarters were taken to tho the city jail nail and locked up They will all nIl bo be subjected to severe tro examination and if jf found to 1 hein bo he boin 0 in anyway connected with the thc horrible I crime will be bo held Most ost of them will willbe willbe be given floaters I |