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Show Poppy Tea Had a Kick The government won the first case of the kind and ruined the prospects for t thriving opium business when Sona Singh, a Hindu, was convicted In Federal Fed-eral Judge Bean's court In Portland, Ore., after the jury had deliberated only 20 minutes, says the Los Angele Times. Soha Singh had discovered the cheapest cheap-est method of extracting opium, that of boiling the popp down to a thick tea, wnioh was a favorite heverace with the Hindus of the city. Negroes in the north end were sellinc the tea as moonshine, moon-shine, government agents discovered, and patrons of these bootleggers er Deconuny addicts without kuowing It, |