Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — WAR ON GAMBLING. [ARTICLE]

WAR ON GAMBLING.

French Uck (Ind.) Hotels Are Raided hy Sheriff. ---- America's. alleged Monte Carlo, the French Lick Springs (Ind.) hotel, a sumptuous resort, in which women as well as children are said to have "been permitted to play for high .stakes, was raided by ■ Sheriff- Mu ris -of—Orange eoun! y Tuesday, while Deputy Sheriff Jones led another raiding force on the West Baden hotel, another elaborate place. When the officers, armed )vith search warrants, swooped down upon the two

health resorts many women in fashionable attire Were at play\ while the children were courting the goddess of chance at the slot maidlines, ■ One guest jumped through a second-story window, but was captured by the deputy sheriffs who surrounded the buildings. None but the attendants wefe~arreste<l, but the gamblmg machinery, valued"nr thousands of dollars, was confisi'ated. While the raids were in progress, the State of Indiana, througit the Attorney General and on instructions from Gov. llanly. filed quo warranto proceedings in the Orange County Circnit Court against the French Lick-Springs Company, asking that their charters as corporations be revoked, that they be enjoined from permitting gambling on their property, that receivers Be apir'itrual, andTfifffTi®nm r istration of. the assets be made among the defendants ami their creditors. The suits antTTfie raids are the result of a long standing errmpttrgn of the women of Indiana.