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Show RGTTEH EKUaJ IK SEIZf City Food Inspector Saysjj Will Institute Legal Prill cecdings Today, TWO SALT LAKE FIRMS jlj DEFENDANTS IN cJlr m Nuts Arc Said to Uavc m Turned Down by a Provf i Firm. Ig Two thousand pounds of rottenap1! Ush walnuts have been dumped upofsfc local market, City Food Inspector yfjR B. Frozler said Wednesday rilghMK prosecution for violation of tho pureffrt law will bo Instituted against twoi-ness twoi-ness concerns today. iWl Complaints will be sworn out apn Howard & Merrill, merchandise hreffn i in tho McCornlck block, and the OlSftl Candy company. 272 South Main oik1 Mr. I'razler said. Howard & Morril5 ' inspector says, obtained the nuts, lfir had been In cold stprjgo for almlfi year, from Prvo, and sold S50 pi'Jr-of pi'Jr-of them to the candy company, thiwiH ern In turn retailing thorn out tjrlL public. Where -the other 10n0 pout! rotten nuts have gono to Mr. 5S? says he doesn't know, but ho Is vcf& a. thorough search -for them. Theri company bought tho nuts for nlnot? a pound and retailed them out cents a pound,. It .is said. ?j!ft Tho food Inspector's attention wjfe: tracted to the nuts through tho-IJEr plaints of customers thnt many qioi nuts wero bad. Mr. Frailer then a pouid, and out of sixty nutsl that only fifteen. 2u per cent, werewcf; Out of twenty-five nuts that Mr. 3tfF, took to State Pood and Dairy CoT2 sloner John Poterson in Inspect, onifj wero found to be good, Mr. Fraaletf5f.. Mr. Frazler seized the unsold nutsfJfA?' Olympla Candy company's place ofjfjfi ness, condemned and burned thcm;& city crematory. Wg- ouiypca irom rrovo. Tr-Tho Tr-Tho nut.s wero shipped to a P-ovov cantlle firm. which refused to iSv them, by Now York- Importers, attK year ago. The Provo agent of tbt'l1 porters then placed the refused ni.tis cold storage. Recently, ho went 'iff business and tho nuta wero turnecEMi to Howard & Morrill. Mr. FrazlorSi who placed them upon tho Salt LakfS,. market. The Inspector will reno1 search for tho remainder of tho sm; rotten nuts today, and In tho mcajjt he says It will be well for the nut-Ei public to carefully ' inspect all nuGiJ fore making a purchase. -Wj , The firms will be prosecuted undefW tlon L'G-2 of the city ordinances ;fi makes the standards uf tho depaiiRe of. agriculture as to the quality, ytjr and .strength of foods the city's 'fcy. arde and provides us a penalty, of conviction, a fine- o"f not less thM nor moro than $200. or imprlsonml" tho county Jail for. 100 days, or boijiic and Imprisonment. .'-Un The Olympla, Mr. Frazler antlcSi will fight the case 'undr section 24??-, statutes, which releases a purchaS..1 food products under a guarantee their purity from liability. Tho ;nFI5 is said, woro sold under these gohdJjT What the brokers' defense will boP known. J.H |