The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-11
TAKES NEW TURN
Attorney General Tightens
Another Screw on Breweries.
This Is Aimed at Holding Com
pany for Helm.
CLAIM 1T is A FAKE.
Organized as a Land and I'm
prOvement Company.
Real Purpose to Secure Kansas
Property for Brewery.

Attorney General F. S. jackson today
started custer proceedings in the KAN
sas supreme court against the Fremont
Land and Improvement company, a
$6OO,OOO corporation which it is claimed
is the holding company for the real
estate of the Helm Brewing company,
and other brewing concerns now in the
hands of the three brewery receivers.
1t is claimed that the Fremont Land
company, which is a Missouri corpora
ton, obtained a license to do business
in Kansas on October 3, 1905, by misrep-
resentation and fraud The attorney
general not only asks that the corpora
ton be dissolved, but that it be ousted
from doing business in Kansas, and that
receiver be appointed to take charge
of all the property.
Justice SilaS Porter this morning
granted an application for a temporary
restraining, order to prevent the COM
pany from diSpoSing of its property in
Kansas. The applica ton for the ap-
pointment of receiver will be heard on
July %, and the answer of the company
must be filed on or before August q.
The charter records of Kansas show
that the officers of the Fremont Land
company are Joseph J. Helm president;
Ferd Helm, secretary and treasurer and
Mike G. Helm and Geo. Bul1en, direc-
tors. Bullen is cousin of the Helms.
The concern is very evidently a Helm
corporation, and the brewery receivers
claim that it owns ten different proper
ties in Wyandotte county. nearly or
quite all of which are now in the hands
of the receivers. Some of these We're
seized as the property of the Kansas
City Breweries' company, and some as
the property of the Helm Brewing COM
pany. These brewing concerns are both
supposed to be under Helm control. The
suit against the Fremont company is
started as a back6re against the Helm
breweries, which are trying vigorously
to dodge the clutch of the receivers on
the ground that they don't own property
in Kansas.
Chartered as Townsite Company.
The purpose of the company, as set
forth in the charter is as follows:
The purchase, location and laying out
OF townsites and the sale and convey
ance of the same in lots and Subdivisions
or otherwise; the erection of buildings
and the accumulation and loan of funds
for the purchase of real property; the
accumulation and loan of funds and the
erection of buildings, and the purchase
of real estate for the benefit of it's
members"
The complaint of the attorney gen
era1 goes on to say:
1.-The plaintiff further alleges that
while the foregoing corporate purposes
were expressed in the application to the
state charter board for permission to
transact business in this state, yet this
defendant, its incorporators and off,
GERS, never intended to transact such
business but on the contrary such pro-
fessed purposes were merely preten-
sions to deceive the plaintiff and it's
state charter board, and the said cor
poration, its incorporators and officers
intended at the time to use said cor
poration as a holding company to take
title to property belonging to foreign
brewing corporations which were at the
time doing business in this state with
out authority of law.
The plaintiff alleges that the said
defendant corporation has acted and
does act as a mere subsidiary company
of certain brewing corpora tions organiz-
ed in other states of the United States,
and particular the Helm Brewing COM
pany, a Missouri corporation not auth
orized to do business in the state of
Kansas, and other brewing corporations
unknown to this plaintiff.
1.-The plaintiff alleges that the said
defendant corporation holds title to
real property within the state of Kan
sas which now is, and which has here
tofore been used for saloons, where
persons are permitted to resort for the
purpose of drinking intoxicating liquors
as a beverage, and where intoxicating
liquors are unlawfully kept for barter
and delivery.
And plaintiff prays judgment of
forfeiture against said defendant of
all it's corporate liberties, privileges
and franchises within this state, and
that defendant be ousted, prohibited