The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-16

MILLION EGGS |
ARE SEIZED!
First COnfiscatiOn Is Ordered at
Kansas City.
Seventy Thousand Pounds of
Beans Ordered Taken.
S445,0OO HAUL IN DETROIT
Great Quantities of Butter and
Eggs Held.
VIII Be Sold at Auction Soon,
1t Is Announced.
ARREST ALLEGED SUGAR HOGS
Great Quantities of Butter and
Eggs Held.
VIII Be Sold at Auction Soon,
1t Is Announced.
ARREST ALLEGED SUGAR HOGS
Two Chicago Dealers Made Too
Much Profit, Charge.
New York and Boston About To
SwOOp Down on PrOfiteers.

Seizure OF boarded food by gov
ernment officials increased today,
particularly in the middle west.
Several arrests of alleged profitcers
also were made.
Federal agents in Detroit con-
fiscated eggs and butter worth near
s445.0OO. This will be placed on
sale August rs
In Chicago, two officials of a fob
bling house were arrested, charged
with making illegal profits on sugar.
1t was announced that other prose-
cutions would follow.
FederaI officials in Kansas City
asked permission to seize $4,000
pounds of beans in storage here.
Government agents announced
that thousands of tons of boarded
food had been discovered in Boston
Federal agents I'm New York City
intimated they would be ready TO
Degin seizure OF vast quantities of
stored foodstuffs next week II IL is
not released voluntarily I'm the mean
time.
The National Grange, reprcscnt-
ing 100000 farmers, announced n
program of legislation including re-
penl of wartime food control and
abolition OF exports control.
st. Louis, Mo-, Aug. 16.-
Seizure of 42,026 cases of eggs,
16,569,360 eggs in all, held for
seven owners by the Mound City
Ice & Cold Storage company
here, was made today on a libel
warrant, issued by the United
States attorney. The names of
the holders of the eggs were not
announced.
Phil Ball, owner of the st.
Louis American league baseball
club, is said to be president Of
the Mound City Ice and Cold
Storage company.
Seize Seven Million Eggs.
Detroit, Mich. Aug 16.-In a sec
ond raid today on food supplies stored
in the Detroit Refrigerating company's
plant here, agents of the department
of Justice today seized 7,4O4, 900 eggs
and approximately 100000 pounds OF
butter.
The stocks seized were valued at
close to $445,000.
Two concerns we'll known in the
central west-the Fox River Butter
company and the H. L. Brown COM
pany, Chicago-were said to be own
ers of the food
The Fox River Butter company.
makers of Meadow Brook butter.
known also as the Beatrice Creamery
company, according to federal agents,
owned 100000 pounds of butter, worth
S155.o0o and 10000 dozen eggs,
worth 5000. of the food seized
As property of the H. /. Brown
company. agents enumerated 121,2b0
dozen eggs. valued at s1s9,562.
August IS. federal officers said.
First Seizure at X. c.
Kansas City, Aug. 16.-The seizure
of $4,000 pounds of beans, said by fed
eral authorities to have been stored
thruout the war, was ordered today by
District Attorney Francis NJ. Wilson.
The lot OF beans included, II was
said. 44S bags of Manchurian Pinto
beans, said to have been imported
green beans. stored In a warehouse
controlled by grocery brokers and said
to be owned by nonresident COM
panies.
This is the first confiscation to be
made by the federal authorities here.
but it was intimated by officials that
another libel action might be forth
coming today.
Sugar Dealers Arrested.
Chicago. Aug. 16.-John F. Camp
bell and John f. Bunker. officials of
the John r. Campbell company here,
were arrested today on charges Of vio-
lating the food control act The war
rant alleges the two exacted an undue
profit in the sale of $40 900 worth of
sugar purchased from Arbuckle
Brothers of New York at 1882 per
hundred pounds and sold to retailers
at s13 per hundredweight.
In a formal statement. District At
torney Clyne said the arrests were
only beginning and that more Will
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