The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-03

nave E6En QOAuS DuSlnGSS Oil lhC nan
sas side.
Petitions I'm Custer.
Original petitions in. custer were
filed by Brewster against the Muef-
bach and the Peter Schoenhofer
brewing companies and the Syndicate
agency Al the same time these suits
were filed the supreme court revived
d. tes citing the Dick Brothers and the
Kansas City Breweries company, in
Guiding the Ferd Helm and the I'm
periaI and Rochester bre .Teries. to
show reason why they should not De
held in contempt of court
With the orders which went out
from the supreme court W1nfleld
Freeman. Kansas City lawyer, was
made receiver for the property of the
brewing companies. Officers in whose
hands the papers in the cases were to
be placed. were authorized to seize and
hold any and all property belonging to
the defendant companies and used by
them in the conduct of their business.
The tip which went to the brewers late
Thursday evening, prevented Freeman
taking over a large amount OF prop
erty that would probably have ordi-
narily been used on the Kansas side of
the river
Petitions filed by Brewster recited
that the defendant companies have
been engaged in violation and evasion
of the Kansas prohibitory liquor law.
1t is urged that they have sent their
wagons into Kansas and made deliv-
cries and sales in violation of the law
and the court order or 1907.
Evidence Piles Up.
Evidence of actual sales of liquor
from wagons and trucks of the brew
sion of Brewster. Much of this evil
dence, in liquid form, is now stored in
Kansas City and it was stated today
that Brewster spent nearly 500 from
n fund n herring this
evidence against the various brewing
concerns.
Violations of the Mahin liquor act
are also claimed by Brewster. 1t is
urged that the companies which de-
HVered and sold liquor from wagons
failed to make reports to the county
clerks as directed under the Mahin
act Where reports were made, it is
asserted. the statements were in in
stances untrue or incomplete and did
not set forth the real operations of the
defendant companies.
With the failure of the attorney
generals force to seize the actual
property of the brewing companies to-
day, service in the cases will be taken
through attorneys and agents of the
brewing companies as soon as they en- /
ter Kansas. Henry thinner. former
election commissioner of Kansas City. I
Kansas, is said to be the agent of the
Kansas City BrewerIes company and
will today be served with papers in
the case thinner resigned several
weeks ago while unOer fire by the at
torney generals office.
Contempt Orders.
Contempt orders against brewing
companies included in the suit of 1907
were issued by the supreme court m /
motion of the attorney general. Less
than a half dozen of the fifteen con-
Germs originally included in the brew
cry company custer suit were pro-
ceeded against in the supreme courts !
order The Val Blatz, PabsJ and Z
other brewery companies, OuStcd /
from Kansas by the 1907 court order /
are not included in the contempt ac-
ton and so far as evidence gathered ]
by the attorney generals office is CON
cerned, have not operated on the |
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