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Show We seem finally in a fair way of shaking the enviable reputation that has been Salt Lake's portion for ten years past of being one or the j worst cities between Chicago and the Pacific coast for the illegal sale of drugs of all kinds, from cocaine to opium, to dope fiends. Police Chief Barlow has declared he will jail the next druggist his operatives can find supplying supply-ing habitual users of "dope." If he means it there will have to be a new cell house at the central station, for the business of selling cocaine, co-caine, opium, choral and half a dozen other dope drugs to men, women and boys have reached such proportions here that the sales are the big end of the business of two-thirds of the drug stores in the city. Police officials, judicial and juvenile court officers of a half dozen western cities who have investigated the local situation have repeatedly declared there are more dope fiends in Salt Lake per ratio of population, and that they can. secure their drugs with less trouble than in any other city in the west, and the police hero have admitted the condition just as often. Those who find it hard to realize that the chief is in dead earnest in his efforts to clean " things up, shouldn't, however, also make the mistake mis-take of thinking Chief Barlow lacks the nerve to finish what he starts, for his record the few i weeks he has been in office furnishes rather convincing con-vincing and Interesting evidence to the contrary. His activities will, of course, not worry the six or seven reputable druggists of the town. It begins to look as though Salt Lakers will be able to entertain the Grand Army veterans and their friends tills summer with some degree of security to homes and persons. " ' |