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Show J. M. GRIES ARRESTED FOR SELLING COCAINE Special to Tho Tribune. OGDEN. Feb. II. With tho arrest of Joseph M. Grles, president and general manager of the Utahna Drug company, on tho charge of selling: cocaine without a practicing physician's proscription, the crusade against the suppression ot this traffic, which has already fastened Its grip upon a number of young people of the citv, was begun by tho police today. The information upon which the ari".st of Mr. Cries was made was furnished Trom a number of prescriptions found In tho possession of young Walter I-uir, most of which the young man admitted had been forged.,, One of the oertlflcitcH signed Powers," is said to be a poor IrrTltatlon of the signature of D Powor. but notwithstanding this. 1-nrr sajs he obtained the drug, and on a t mimbei of other forged prescriptions besides. .Air Grles was 'brought before Judge J D Murphy of the police court tills ornlng and was granted the statutory lime to enter his plea, and was released on his own recognizance. -Chief of Police Urownlng- says that there nre n number of othor druggists iind phvslclans of the city against whom "pnu l ilnts may be Issued If the evidence which Is now being gathered Is strong enough to warrant their attest. |