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Show STONECUTTER F010 DEAD fiUIIS I0M Excessive Use of impure Cough Medicine Thought to Be Cause. TV. H. "Brown, a middle-aced stonecutter, stone-cutter, who had resided at the Angelus ; hotel, Zi Last First South street, was 1 found dead in his bed yesterday after-. after-. noon and the police were summoned. A search of Brown's rooms disclosed the the fact that he ha i an entire washtub full of empty medicine bottles bearing the label of a cough medicine firm. An examination of the contents remaining in , one of the bottles showed that it was I composed largely of chloroform, ether and opium. j Dr. Keyiing stated yesterday that tin- der the Harrison drug act, which interdicts inter-dicts traffic in narcotic and other opium-bearing opium-bearing drugs ompoundei into patent medicines, the manufacturers of these drugs just barely escape the penalties of the law because they hold l he limit down to one-fourth gra in of opium to the ounce. This is enough, however, he asserts, as-serts, to cause a n'ru - - using habit in adults and fatal effects in children if used to any considerable extent. A determined'' campaign to drive out of the market all patent medicines that conduce con-duce to the drug:-for mi jig habit will be undertaken immediately by Dr. TV. Scott Keyting, police surgeon of Salt Lake. Dr. Knyting declared yesterday afternoon after-noon that the babies of the country were systematically being educated into "dope fiends" by the patent medicines that unknowing un-knowing mothers are giving them for colds and other troubles. "1 am going to make a fight to save the babies, ' said Dr. Keyting yesterday. "I have enough evidence to prove that what their innocent mothers think is a remedy for colic, colds and other ailments ail-ments is a decoction of opiates, and this city must be rid of this class of drugs, advertised as 'home medicines.' The man who died in the Angrelus hotel died from 'dope' in a cough medicine that you and I can buy at any time." Brown leaves a brother, Charles Brown, at Tonopai), Nev., and the authorities have notified him of the death. |