Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-07 | Page 12 | Unita Indian Agent Confiscates Peyote

UINTA INDIAN AGENT CONFISCATES PEYOTE Buttons of Plant Containing Drug Are Shipped to Aborigines Labeled as Dried Peaches. Word was received yesterday by C. Coiil son ?mith, special" agent "for the state board of medical examiuors, that Albert Kneale, Indian agent for the Tint a basin, recently confiscated and destroyed de-stroyed 100 pounds 'of peyote. The buttons of peyote are sometimes shipped to the Indians addicted to the use of the drug as dried peaches, which they resemble very much. Indian Agent Kneale has learned of this mis-Inheling mis-Inheling of the buttons and investigates all shipments of dried peaches. The confiscation reported was the result of investigation of a consignment labeled as such dried f ruit. As a result of the paper read by Special Agent Smith at the meeting of tho state board of pharmacists in Lo-pan Lo-pan last month, setting forth the evils of the use of peyote by the Indians, a bill to prohibit its sale will be introduced in-troduced nt the next session of the legislature. leg-islature. It is being drafted bv the legislative committee of the state board of pharmacists, of which Alex Head-quist Head-quist o Provo is chairman.