POLICE STATISTICS

The chief of police furnished me with the following statistics of arrests for liquor violations:

He stated that the usual sentence for driving while drunk was about $200 fine and 20 days in jail; for plain drunk, $5 to $10, or 10 days.

No annual reports have been made by the police department of late years.

The chief stated that the "old-time drinkers the starters are not as many.

were dying off and

THE SHERIFF OF MARICOPA COUNTY

The sheriff of Maricopa County, with office in Phoenix, stated that he thought the general conditions were wonderfully better where officers are inclined to enforce the law; that he has been in office about two years; that when he took office there were bootleggers and conditions were bad; that in the surrounding counties the sheriffs do not stop liquor traffic and there is manufacturing; that none is manufactured in Phoenix, but there is liquor being transported from the coast and from Old Mexico by certain syndicates or organizations; that he has caught large cars with copper-lined containers. He thinks the liquor is also coming in by airplane.

GLOBE AND VICINITY-CLIFTON-MORENCI

The acting deputy administrator stated that at Globe, a mining town, the liquor conditions were not very good; that there is lots of local liquor, mostly moonshine; that there is a considerable foreign element there. He says that at Clifton and Morenci the conditions are better, as the sheriff there keeps after them constantly.

TUCSON AND VICINITY

The acting deputy administrator stated that at and around Tucson there is quite a lot of liquor, but that the police force is constantly after the operators, although the sheriff's force is not quite so strong, he being rather short-handed; that most of their trouble in that locality is from stills, beer gardens, and road houses on the edge of town; that they give the most trouble; and then they have the transportation of smuggled liquor from Mexico, a little bonded liquor, and quite a good deal of the Mexican products mescal and tequela; that some "American" whisky comes in from Juarez and from the American distillery in Mexico.

INDIAN RESERVATION LOCALITIES

The acting deputy administrator stated that they are very badly in need of some kind of enforcement around Phoenix, Tucson, and

Yuma in connection with the Indians on the Indian reservations in those localities; that in the northern part of the State they have three or four special officers in the Indian Service working among the Indians, but they have none in Phoenix, Yuma, and Tucson, and a good deal of trouble is had with the Indians in the drinking of specially denatured alcohol, canned heat, etc., which they get from general stores.

COOPERATION

The acting deputy administrator at Phoenix said that cooperation by State and city officers is good in some places and very poor in others; that the sheriff of Maricopa County (at Phoenix) is very good; that the police there are good, but there have been three or four changes in chief of police in the last year. However, the present chief is very good.

The chief of police at Phoenix said that the cooperation by and with the Federal agents is very good.

The sheriff at Phoenix said that the cooperation is very good by and with the Federal agents. That his county is almost 200 miles square and he has only 23 men to cover it as to both criminal and civil matters.

DRINKING GENERALLY AND BY YOUNG PEOPLE

The acting deputy administrator at Phoenix stated that he does not think drinking generally is increasing, but that on the whole it is improving; that at public dances there is some drinking and drunkenness, but those drinkers may not get drunk again for a year

or so.

BY YOUNG PEOPLE

He said that there is some drinking by the young people at dances and in autos on joy rides, but it is not on the increase, and that conditions are just as good, or a little better, than a year or so ago. The chief of police at Phoenix said that he believes drinking generally is decreasing, and that he does not hear so much of "wild stuff" at parties now-it is only occasional. He thinks the "newness" has worn off.

UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS

INFERIOR COURTS

The acting deputy administrator at Phoenix thinks the proposed plan as to United States commissioners is a very practical plan, if it can be done legally; that long waits for trial are had now and it clogs the court dockets-loses the "pep" by delays. He thinks that if it will relieve the court conditions he believes it will be a great improvement, and he has thought so for a number of years; that now trials are six to eight months behind. Bargain days do not appeal to him.

STATE CASES IN FEDERAL COURTS AND FEDERAL CASES IN STATE COURTS

The chief of police at Phoenix said that all violators of the city ordinances are disposed of by the police magistrate, but the larger cases, involving transportation and possession, they can not handle and turn over to the prohibition agents.

JONES ACT-EFFECT OF

The acting deputy administrator at Phoenix said that the Federal court in that district is sentencing under the Jones law.