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Show DRUG STORES RECEIVE NOTICE WARNED THAT SELLING OF COCAINE CO-CAINE MUST STOP. Police Deportment Determined to Break Up the Sate of the Drug to the Boys of Ogden. Chief of Police Browning today issued is-sued a circular notice to the dm stores of Offden, Informing them thai ;iny infractions f the law prohibiting the sale ol cocaine, particularly to minors, will be traced to the utmost ability of the police force and trie violators brought to an accounting in the police court. The circular quotes the law as follows: "It shall be unlawful lor any person per-son or firm, or corporation to sell or otherwise dispose of cocaine, or auy preparation wherein it is an Ingredient, Ingredi-ent, except upon the prescription or a practicing physician, dental surgeon, or veterinary surgfcon, nnd said prescription pres-cription shall not bo tilled; provided, that the above provisions shall not apply ap-ply to sales at wholesale by Jobbers, wholesalers and manufacturers to re-tall re-tall druggi3ts. nor to sales at retail druggists to regular practlcioners ot " medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine, me-dicine, nor to sales made to manufacturers manufac-turers of proprietary or "pharmaceutical "pharmaceuti-cal preparations for use In the manu facture of such preparations, nor to sales to hospitals, colleges, scientific j oi public Institutions. "Penalty Any person, firm or cor- , roration violating any provision ot this chapter shall he deemed guilty ot a misdemeanor, and be fined In any sum not less than $25, nor more than $100." |