The annual report of the chief of police for the year ending December 31, 1929, stated that " The drunks arrested totaled 164, against 297 for 1928, 149 for 1927, and 135 for 1926. Included in the number arrested for drunkenness are 38 charged with driving a car while under the influence of intoxicants, as compared with 34 in 1928 and 18 for the year 1927."

From the annual report for 1928 is appears that "Drunks arrested totaled 297, as compared with 185 for the year 1927, an increase of 60 per cent, and with 135 arrests for year 1926 and 137 for year 1925. Included in the number arrested for drunkenness are 34 charged with driving a car while under the influence of liquor, as compared with 18 for the year 1927 and 15 for 1926."

The chief said that the general conditions are good now; that they have some bootleggers, like all other cities, but they are small operators and home brew is the chief trouble; that there is considerable of that being sold, as well as for home consumption; both whites and negroes are making it in homes and allow people to come to the house and drink for profit; that if he gets a complaint and sufficient evidence to justify raiding, he does. He has raided a good many beer joints, but the district attorney has never been very anxious to bring prosecutions on that beer problem. Frequently beer joints sell beer that does not run one-half of 1 per cent, but others run more than that, about 3 per cent or 3 and a fraction over. He raided a place where he had complaint of high-school students being sold liquor, and the defendant was fined $100 and costs and left town. He said there are no wild-cat breweries and he does not think there are many stills in the city. He is watching some now. Most of the stills are in the mountains. He said there are about 1,000 negroes in the city, but they give little trouble. He said that the "high-power' bootleggers live around the city and are supposed to bring genuine liquor from Florida and Mississippi, mostly in the summer time, during the tourists' trade. He thinks the liquor is not genuine. but a fake. In five years he has not seen much liquor (bonded). The runners make the trip from Denver to Juarez, Mexico, and back in a day and a night. The wealthy people there buy the alleged good liquor in the summer. About two years ago he got a couple of boys from Albuquerque, N. Mex., with supposedly real liquor, but the boys admitted it was made in Mexico by Mexicans and they added some to the Mexican product and put on fake labels. There is an outfit in Colorado Springs who made fake labels, etc., and they got into the Federal court and were convicted.

The chief said they have a large college there and the young people are drinking home brew, mostly, but he doesn't think it is as bad as two years ago. Heard very little about it this school year.

He said his records show an increase of drunkenness last year, but a majority of the drunks in that city are fellows who drink bathing alcohol and radiator alcohol, etc. They are old alcohol bums. The negroes who drink use the bay rum and the Indians drink Virginia Dare, also Lilac Hair tonics. A number of extracts have about 90 per cent alcohol and it makes them wild.

The United States attorney.-United States Attorney Carr, at Denver, said that they boast of having the best force in the United States; that the cooperation is good and the district attorney there takes care of the violators without Federal assistance. He says Colorado Springs has been all right since incorporation and all conveyances of lots contain forfeiture clause for liquor use. The State supreme court has sustained such clauses.

There is no foreign element there, practically; a few Mexicans. The city manager said that there are no large syndicates or corporations controlling the liquor traffic; that the sheriff is a good en

forcement officer of many years experience; that he, the manager, has confidence in the chief of police.

The chief of police.-The chief of police said that the prohibition agents have worked more with the sheriff than with him for the last few years; that there are no prohibition agents stationed there now. He said that a prohibition agent came and spoke to a policeman and claimed friendship with the chief and then asked the officer if he could get a bottle of liquor as he was going out on a party.

The police force consists of 36 men and 1 woman.

Colorado Springs has no liquor ordinance. About one-fourth or one-fifth of the drunks are old repeaters, and three-fourths are intoxicated on concoctions, not moonshine.

The chief of police thinks they can handle the liquor situation with help of the county officers and the Federal agents, but his opinion is that if no police department had no authority one way or another in the liquor situation it would be better. He thinks it would be better to have another agency to attend to the liquor enforcement and let the police enforce the criminal laws other than prohibition. He said it would cut out graft and protection.

PUEBLO AND VICINITY

The administrator said that liquor conditions in Pueblo and vicinity are not as good as he wished, but better than they formerly were, and there has been a change in the city management; that he is led to believe conditions will be better; that he keeps two agents there; that Pueblo is undoubtedly worse than Denver.

Pueblo is a manufacturing and distributing center, there being about 181 manufacturing industries, employing 12,000 employees. There are coal mines operated there by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. and others.

The population of Pueblo, as shown by the Federal census of 1920, was 42,908, and in 1925 was estimated to be 43,787. The chief of police says the population is now about 50,000, but the city serves about 70,000 people around there. They have a large foreign population.

The United States attorney.-The United States attorney at Denver said that the one bad spot in that judicial district was Pueblo, but that the prohibition officers are devoting extra efforts there and the conditions are much improved, compared as to what they were a year or so ago; that the Federal court is in the middle of a session of the grand jury now; that they are dealing with a large percentage of foreign population there. Sicilians and Italians dominate a large portion of the population, and the result is heavy with having murders which may be traced to persons who are at least suspected in dealing in liquor traffic.

The sheriff at Pueblo said that he took the office in January, 1929; that his predecessor in office during his whole term only brought one man to trial on liquor charges, but got several stills in Pueblo County; that his, the present sheriff's administration, has gotten not less than 30 stills, and never brought in a still without one man. Also, at other times, they got four men with a still; that a suit for

$5,000 is pending against him and his deputies for searching a residence. Since that suit was brought, including a justice of the peace, the justice will not issue him search warrants for residences. He thinks conditions are considerably better, as stills were all over the county but now he could not find one. He thinks that the trouble is that bootleggers' attorneys have educated the public to believe that they can manufacture liquor in homes and he can not get a search warrant for the house.

A former prohibition agent said that two years ago liquor dealers were operating openly and soliciting on the streets, but now most all of them are operating behind closed doors; that hard liquor is the greatest problem there; that most all of it is brought in from Agular, near Trinidad, but there is about 50 per cent less brought in since the present sheriff took office; that some large operators, at least two working out of three, live there and dispose of a good deal of the liquor there, also in Colorado Springs and Denver.

A prohibition agent stationed at Longmont, Colo., but who was attending court at Pueblo, said that he has five counties to look after-Adams, Boulder, Laramie, and Weld-and that conditions there are first class; that there is complete cooperation with the judges, sheriffs, and police officers; that there is but one sheriff who is "wet," the sheriff of Weld County, but that county is practically dry. He gets some small stills in his district. The biggest violators are Italians and Mexicans.

The sheriff said that his force consists of 11, including himself and 4 deputies, 1 matron, and the men on the jail force. He serves court papers and attends court; that the governor's enforcement force seldom comes down there. He has not come in contact with them except that he knows the chief. He receives no cooperation from them. The sheriff stated that he takes about 20 or more cases to court a month but the last month or two not so many; that in one week he got three stills and convictions in about all cases.

The chief of police, J. Arthur Grady, said he has been chief about eight years under civil service; that he has been in the service about 25 years; that liquor conditions in Pueblo are bad; that the manufacturing is mostly outside of the city and he doesn't think 5 per cent consumed in the town is brought in from different sections; that they have had a bad break in the liquor matter lately, as in the last few months from 4 to 5 murders have been committed and the general opinion of everyone is that liquor, indirectly, is responsible for them. Some were bootleggers and others informers that were killed.

Two had been working with the prohibition agents and one with the sheriff's office, and he was in the business and carried a deputy sheriff's badge; that made it bad for the town and bad for prohibition. He said there are retail bootleggers there; that the town proper is in better condition than several years ago, and there are not so many retail places; that they have found a new way of distributing the liquor without selling it on the street; that the new way is for the "still" man to have some one to go and get orders and then distribute from the still. He said that the retail places are mostly in residences and it is a hip-pocket proposition. He stated that he has caught some trucks and cars with liquor and presumes

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