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Show TEXAS TO BE DRY SMEJPIl 15 AUSTIN, Tex., March 12. Texas will practically become a dry state April 15 as a result of tho bill passed by the legislature in special session yesterday creating dry zones of all ierrltory within ten miles of army camps. The bill received more than the two-thirds majority in each house to make it effective as an emergency measure. Not only will the saloons bo closed by the law but residonts in the ten -mile zones are prohibited from Importing liquor into their homes or places of business for any purposes except sacramental, scientlc, medical or mechanical under pain of felony. I Transportation companios aro forbidden for-bidden to transport liquor into such zones. The law will close saloons in Galveston, Gal-veston, Port Worth, Sari Antonio, Houston, El Paso, Wichita Falls, Orange, Bonumont, Eaglo Pass, Del Rio, BrownBvIlle, Laredo and other smaller plnces where minor detachments detach-ments of troops are stationed. Austin, Waco and Dallas, which are already dry, also como within tho provisions of the zone bill. A state-wide prohibition is practically prac-tically suro of passage at this special session and will become effective about Juno 27. |