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Show MORAL CLEAN-UP Bingham, Feb 14 A moral cleanup clean-up wave struck Bingham about 11 o'clock this morning. A small force of deputy sheriffs, armed with Jane Doe and John Doe warrants, quietly slipped into the "red light" district, roused the inmates of the houses from their beds and herded thirty-nine of them down the canyon into the court of Justice of the Peace E.'E. Dudley. Several men, charged with living in houses of ill-fame, were also arrested In the raid The women of tho underworld, under-world, the entire thirty-nine of them, were booked on charges of vagrancy. It is understood to be the plan of the county authorities, under whose direction di-rection tho raid was made, to put tho present restricted district In Bingham out of existence. The Bingham "clean-up" came as a direct result of information, laid before be-fore tho county attorney and sheriff, charging that state laws were being violated in Bingham. Otto Kappele signed every complaint com-plaint on which a warrant was issued and served todaj'. Kappele says he has the private backing of many prominent prom-inent men of the city, who do not support sup-port him In-the open because of the power the city administration jiolds over them. Kappele said that howas not complaining against the restricted district,, but of the way it was managed, man-aged, or bossed, by the city administration. |