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Show CRUSADE IS AGAINST BOYS YOUNG FELLOWS ADDICTED TO THE USE OF COCAINE. Police Arrest Three Boys and Intend to Follow Up Their Efforts to Stop the "Fiends." The police are making an initial move today in the crusade against tho : use of drugs. Three boys who are 1-nown to be "cocaine fiends" and "hop heads," are already confined at tho city Jail and others will be gathered in immediately. Although it has been known for two years or more that "drug fiends" were increasing rapidly in number In the city, there has been no particular crusade cru-sade started against the evil until the present ono launched today. Not only aie boys becoming confirmed opium smokers, but numbers of them ' havo contracted the habit of snuffing cocaine co-caine and other drugs, the probable outcome of which Is known to all. |