The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
CALL 1T A TRUST.
Railroad Board Gives Out Letter
About Creamery Combine.
Government officer Gives List
of Those in Deal.
CHAPTER IN FIGHT.
Board Seeking Justification OF
Strange Action on Rates.
Has Reached Injunction Stage
in District Court.
CHAPTER IN FIGHT.

| The Kansas board of railway COM
missioners are now defendants IN an
| injunction suit in the Shawnee olstrlc'
court begun by the Continental cream
cry of this city to prevent the board
| from enforcing new and higher rates
on cream shipments in this state. Many
charges have been made back ana 1oftn
by the parties to this suit me latest
is a letter from the federal bureau OF
animal industry made public by the
board in which it is alleged that the
Continental is a part and parcel Oh
gigantic creamery trust
The railway board, not long ago,
hoisted the rates on cream shipments
in this state on the long haul abovo
the interstate rate, alleging as an ex-
cuse that the action was necessary u
protect the small creamer1eS OF tne
state. The Continental opposed TINS
rate and charges the board with ols-
elimination against the big creamerles,
with playing into the hands of the ex-
press companies by granting higher
rates than even the express companies
had dared ask for The board, to :
fend their position, sent to the fedora.
bureau above mentioned and secured
the following letter which they offer
in defense of their high rates on cream
shipments
Replying to your favor of Soth ultimo
in reference to the various creamery
companies owned by the Beatrice
Creamery company will say we here :
with give you a list of the names under
which their creameries are being oper-
ated:
Beatrice Creamery company, Lincoln.
Neb.
Beatrice Creamery company, DeS
Moines, Ia.
Beatrice Creamery company, Chicago
Beatrice Creamery company Butte,
Montana.
Cheyenne Creamery company, Chey-
enne, Wyo.
Littleton Creamery company, Denver
Colo.
Colonial Creamery company. St.
Louis. Mo.
Continental Creamery company, To-
peka, Kan.
continental Creamery company, Okla
homa City, Okla.
Meriden Creamery company, Kansas
City, Mo.
Queen City Creamery company, Beat
rice Neb.
Hanford Produce company. Sioux
City, Ia.
Elgine System Creamery, Deadwood,
S. D.
Enid Creamery company. Enid, Ok.
We understand the latter company
creameries the names of which we
are unable to give you. According to
testimony of Mr.. George Haskell,
president of the Beatrice Creamery
company, he stated that the Beatrice
Creamery owned the controlling stock
in the Hansford Produce company at
Sioux City. So far as we know they
own outright all the other concerns.
They also own a line of refrigerator
cars of which Prof. E. H. Webster,
dean Of the Kansas Agricultural col
lege, can give you detailed informa-
ton. The object of putting on these
refrigerator cars Mr.. Webster informs
us was for the express purpose of
cutting out refrigerator service from
points in Nebraska to Denver. Mr..
Webster was in the employ of the
time.
We shall be glad to give you any
information we have at any time. We
wish you success in your efforts to
build up the local creameries of the
state of Kansas. We see no reason
why the farmers of that state should
not be paid as much for their butter
fat as their neighbors in northern
Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
We have also been reliably inform
ed that the smaller creameries dare
not raise the price paid for butter
fat above that paid by the larger con-
Germs for fear of being put out of bust
ness. Nearly all the creameries in
Kansas are paying rather low price
for butter fat.
Yours respectfully,
In charge of Dairy Manufacturing
Investigation.
This man White is the same individ-
ual who broke into the interstate COM
merce commission Tearing on cream
rates at Chicago some time ago with 4