Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-07-29
POISON ENOUGH
TO KILL 10000
That Quantity, or About 600
Ounces, Sold by Sioux City
Druggists Annually.
MORPHINE MOST U
How Dope Fiends Are Made and How
Druggists Fear Helping Suicides
20 Accomplish Their Purpose
New Law Liked.


Take a shot. It'll ginger you up.p
Midst the rafting dice and the whir-
ring machines OF the Fourth street
gambling houses along In the "woozy'
hours of the morning, when energy is
ebbing and interest in the game Is
costing dollars to the gamblers OF less
endurance, this is the advice often Civ
en-. It's the phrase that means a hypo-
derrnic injection OF morphine or cocaine
or some other opiate which for a time
permits the over-wrought gambler To
forget his WEAKNESS and temporarily
stay in the game.
The gamblers are as q class. dope
fiends,' saia a we'll known Sioux City
druggist who has occasion 10 observe,
Mot only are they fiends, but they
each young fellows the habit When
some OF the young sports get lifeless
with dissipation the old gambler VIII
say. take a shot. It'll cheer you up
and then hand over the cocaine"
More than 500 ounces of deadly poi-
sons or enough TO kill $4,000 people is
bought by Sioux City people in a year,
according TO an estimate of a local
druggist. The larger share OF this is
purchased by dope fiends, az the
amount which enters into physicians
prescriptions Is small in comparison to
the amount purchased by the dope
hends. Morphine Is used the most free
iy, IL being estimated that 325 ounces of
that drug are taken; cocaine and it's
preparations are second with $50 oun-
ces: strychnine, 20 ounces and arsenic
about 10 ounces. A large amount OF
corrosive sublimate is used in surgical
operations, TO wash wounds, sterilize
instruments and kill germs.
Since the advent of cocaine as ar
Rnesthetic some fifteen years ago, a
train or deyotees has followed in its
$3.50 ..l4A a..aIM 4.AeDAafrx ~. A~--
that most stringent laws have recently
been enacted against IT'S sale. Not a
druggist In Sioux City will sell IL *
cept under a doctors prescription, yet
the dope hends get II. Otherwise they
VIII be liable TO serious entanglements.
The law passed by the Iowa state legis-
lature two years ago forbids its sale
under any circumstances except q doc
tors prescription. The hospitals for
the insane have been taxed to their
limits the past few years, with inebrf-
ates addicted to the use OF this drug.
IL attacks the delicate nerve tissues OF
che brain and excites them rs does no
other drug. II came into use as q
medicine for the eye and ear. When
uscd in a prescription for the eye or ear
IL is I'm a solution of five grains of CO.
~gafne to one inc of water. One
tenth OF oue-half grain Is the amoun
usually administered hypodermically,
while two grains is the limit.
some addicted to It's use will place a
5ittle quantity on a stick and suck the
stick as DO the SNUFF users OF the south.
While others will use IL as they would
tobacco Al number of so called ca
taIrh remedies are mostly cocaine, and
nlaUy Of the fiends use these continu-
onsly. These they can buy when the
reaf unaduiterated article is not to be
had
asheYn are ,ay4,lar anium dena ia
Sioux City In some of The resorts ten
snted by colored people where original
packages OF opium direct from the
joints ia Chinatown. san Francisco, can
be- purchased. Its users In Sioux City
ne sah TO be negroes.
Morphine fiends are said to he fewer
Ahan formerly. This Is due to the care
fulness az the physician in It's prescrip-
flon. and 70 the fact that Ii Is more
commonly administered hypodermicaI-
siy than otherwise. But in the oper-
iating room or as a deadener OF pain In
these days OF numerous accidents and
surgery there is nothing which will
take its place. The mode OF admin
astrRtion now is almost always hypo-
leyfnIc since In that way 1t gets into
the blood Immediately and does it's
work more quickly.
sioux City druggists are suspicious OF
buyers OF potsons. When any one OF
t&tltt3SsAHt| nOiSOtir IL i1EhtQ iDtt the Al1~
pllGant Is required to sign a register
and give q satisfactory explanation for
demanding II.
5000 woman came into our store one
might not long ago very much agitated"
said a Fourth street druggist. she
asked for prusstc acid, one OF the most
deadly drugs known to the profession.
She was wild-eyed, excit and her
face showed the marks OF dissipation.
! asked her what she wanted 1t for
ard she gave u lame excuse. I told her
'we didn't have any OF II in stock. 4
then M~dmonished her that 1t was a
deadly poison and could not be bought
woman on the street 10 wonder liz
she is glad she couldn't set that prussic
aeta2"
Arsenic, generally regarded by the
Salty as a comparatively mild drug.
Del known to the profession as one OF
sbe MOST deadly, one-fftieth OF d
rain being the ordinary dose and uNe-
twefth being considerated dangerous, Is
II favorite with the demi-mondeS. Ii
nas q peculiar way OF putting out the
hollow pisces In the face and about the
eyes and wliitegs the complexion. It's
users become addicted 10 II and chronic
diseases often develop as a result.
oftentimes h patient dying In great
agony from an ovGrdoses II attacks
n N4+HNER N1fA N0NN(H tfEiA ~ &tGHkH AWa<f
IL lis the medicine ordinarily used by
the dentist 70 kin the nerve OF a tooth.
pentists also Use cocaine. but with
great caution.
Some college athletes are becoming
strychnine fiends, but It's use IN Sioux
Gigy IS not common. ~Strychninc, one
~of the deadly poiSons, rs great heart
Asifapiant and athletes are often able
80 win through It's Stimulation. The
winner Of the broad jump at the recent
Iowa state field meet Is said TO be a
xlcvutee or this drug. "A trainer In one
81 the big colleges OF Iowa IS also one
8is advocates.
Just what the criminal uses gol
k~npek~out drops lis a puzzle 10 the drug
Rists, although most or them believe Il
n be chloral hydrate. "A physician Ii
prrs3ribing this drug seldom puts In
more than twenty grains. The crImin-
IN uses fifty to eighty fer KNOCK -out'
drops. and 100 graina IL he wishes II
XIII. The stun II usually given 10 the
victim In An innocent looking drink.
With the physicians and pharmacists
a certain amount az the deadly p0isonx
Is ~revoEnI2ed az catering Into 4 pre-
eScriDtion and should a doctor send 4
rre8c<Iption 10 A drug store with mof<
fnaI3 tne ordinary amount or the poison
III Is Immediately called up Nv III
Wh9fmktiSt = asked ABOUT I'll "