The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-11-03
1916
1915.
Denver Chief Protests at Fake

Denver Chief Protests at Fake.
The publication of these statistics
simultaneously BY the South Dakota
Local Option League and the chi
cage Brewers Association caused ac.
Invites among the drys and the Den
Yer officials. In response 70 a tele.
gram Of inquiry Chief OF Police Arm
strong or Denver promptly wired the
following reply.
Denver, Colo. Sept. s, 1916.
y. IL Hoagland, President South la
kota Anti Saloon League, Mitchell
8 ~:
Total arrests for drunkenness for
first six months 1915 was 1,343. Total
number DRINKS for first six months
lo16 was $40. Female DRINKS for 1915
some period was i0l. Female DRINKS
for 1915 same period was ffty-two.
"a. ARMSTRONG.
Chief Of Police"
As II appeared from chief Arm
strone3s telegram and from other Off
cial returns that the vet press agents
had added th'rty-eight to the number
OF hrunks during the first six months
OF prohibition and practically divided
the number Of hrunks for the CORE
spending period or last year BY ten,
the dfys gave the fake very wide
publicity.
Vets Pciterate the Fake.
III ~ ATTEMPT IL make good on their
original imposition the South DakDta
Local Option leasne published
throughout the state All advertise
ment reproducing a facsimile Of what
was pttrported to be a clipping from
the Denver Post giving the disputed
figures and declaring that they we're
copied direct from the police records
by the police clerk himself. With this
alleged Clipping az a text and a pre-
text Superintendent Hnlsa pie of the
A~rti-Saloon League and the drys gen
orally were saraparered FOR doubling
the veracity 0, the South Dakota 10.
cal Option League and the Chicago
Brewers Association.
Then Come More Deniais.
Then something else happened. The
Denver people We're further stirred
ur Robert q. Dill, city editor Of the
Denver Post. the very paper hat had
been quoted BY the vets, not only
took A hand In the game to deny the
4
ness in Denver. but r. r. knight, po-
lice clerk at Denver, who had ALSO
been quoted. made a denial Of the
same statements in the following
/ kilograms:
City Edfto- Dill's Denial.
Denver. Colo, Sept. 20. 1915.
IN. r. Hclsaple, Care n tisaloon
League, Mitchell, 8 D.;
Statements made by wet orators
and press to the effect that there has
been an increase in the number OF
Intoxicated persons arrested in Der
YER are not su~bstantiated by the po
lice figures. According to the records
there were arrested in 1915 for in
toxication go persons. In the pc
Rod embraced between Jan. |, 1915,
and today, Sept 70, the arrests for
tnis cause have totalled 1,h3s. At
tho same rate ~ for the last nine
months the arrests for the entire
year 1916 would not sxcssd 400
Stress has been laid on the nnmnes
- convictions as Indication thar
trankenness has been more prevalent
! Hnce prohibition became effective
ian befors. snt this is controverted
nv tha fact that prior 10 Jan. |, last,
jntoyicater persons we're not prosecut
ID but were merely held IN fns city
jail until sober.
"PORTRT @ Dill,
CITY Editor Denver POST
Police Clerk Knights penisi.
Denver, Colo, Oct 8. 1915
- ! Hoagland, President South ID
kota Anti-Saloon League, Mitchell,
!. D..
Po'ica. coroner and criminal cour
records show decided decrease in
crimes in January, first published fg-
,res are misleading Disturbance
cares arraignad IN poitce court first
half Of 1917 total at, same period
this wear, $50. Total DRINKS arrest
ell some period 1915 Was 1,343, but
Only l36 held for police court. Total
arrested Same period this ysar, 5T5,
OF which 5ss were tried In police
court. September, 1915, 1873 arrested
for drunkenness. Of which twenty-five
were tried in police court dGreonbsr,