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Show CLEANING UP THE UNCLEAN. Not until the Tribune started Its anti-vice campaign In Salt Lake City, did the authorities of that municipality municipal-ity discover any form of vice. Strange that tho newspapers are forced to employ bludgeons before po-llco po-llco officers can see what every one else sees. NOW. if tho Trlhuno will nrnnnnd in close the holes in the wall whore liquor li-quor is sold, reformation will be fairly underway in the capital. This notico was issued by Chief of Police J. Parley White yestorday: "Owners, proprietors and agents of rooming houses and hotels in Salt Lake where immoral women havo been known to visit within the past thirty days, will be notified noti-fied today that a future visit or habitation by undesirables will mean tho enforcement of tho abatement law." Chief White proposes to close houses under the state nuisanco and abatement acL This not only refers to rooming houses and hotels, but to all other resorts which harbor undesirables. unde-sirables. In case this state law is Invoked tho district court will be asked to enforce en-force tho law to the limit, which will mean that the property cannot be used for any purpose for one year. The notices no-tices -will state that while the owner may bo ignorant of the presence of undesirables un-desirables on his property, the law requires re-quires that ho should know the class of people-who visit his establishment. One or two examples of this kind will piit an end to the harboring of women of the underworld. |