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Show "NEAR BEER" SAID " TO CONTAIN "KICK" State Attorney General Says Prcdnct Sold at Panguitch Is of Intoxicating Intoxicat-ing Aoholic Quality. The brand of "near beer" or malt extract being sold in rauguitch, Utah, as medicine is so near to being clear beer as to bring it within the class of intoxicating liquors forbidden in dry territory, ter-ritory, according to the opinion of Albert H. Barnes, state attorney general. An opinion on the matter was asked of the attorney general bv Hans P. In-son, In-son, city attorney of Pangnitch. lie forwarded to Attorney General Barnes a label from one of the' suspected bottles. The label proclaimed tho concoction as "Premier. ' a malt extract, containing not more than 4 per cent alcohol. In answer, the attorney general wrote: I am in receipt of your favor of the 14th inst., wherein you inquire if a certain malt extract named "Premier," brewed and bottled by the H. Wageuer Brewing eompanv for the Smith-Bailey Drug company of Salt Lake City, comes within the definition of "intoxicating liquor" under the provisions of chaptor 106, laws of I'tah, 1911. You inclose the label from the bottle, from which, label it appears that it is a beverage that contains alcohol to the extent of 4 per cent. In my opinion, this is an intoxicating intoxi-cating liquor and can be sold in dry territory only upon a physician s prescription. |