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Show 4,000 BASKETS OF CHERRIES SEIZED New York. July 8 Four thousand baskets of cherries shipped here from Wenatchee, Wash, were seized today to-day by the commissioner of weights and measures who charged that they were short of a quart by more than nine cubic centimeters each. The discovery was made when one of the baskets was exposed for sale after a hole had been eaten in the false bottom bot-tom by a mouse. Four thousand additional baskets are expected here from Wenatchee tomorrow and these too will be seiz-ed seiz-ed if they are under size. This Is the first time in three lears that false bottom cherry boxes have been sent here by western shippers oo |