The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-27

Comes now the United States OF
America by j. w. Ady, United States
attorney for the district of Kansas, and
the Missouri Pacific Railway company,
the defendant herein, and thereupon
your orator complains and says:
That this action is brought by the
authority of and under the direction of
the attorney general of the United
States, which said authority and direc-
ton is given and made in pursuance of
the request of the interstate commerce e
commission of the United States, that
the United States attorney for the dis
triet of Kansas be directed and author
lied to institute and prosecute all neces-
sary proceedings, legal or equitable, for
the enforcement of the provisions of the
interstate commerce law against the de-
PENDANT in relation to the matters here
matter complained Of.
And your orator further AYERS and
shows unto your honors that the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway company, defend
ant herein, is corporation organized
and existing under and by the laws of the
states of Missouri and Kansas, and that
said defendant was at all times herein
after mentioned and now is common
carrier of all classes and kinds of
freight and commodities which are COM
monty moved, carried and transported
by railroad companies, in the freight
traffic of such companies, between the
city of ST. Louis. in the state of Missouri,
and the city of Omaha, in the state of
Nebraska, and the city of Wichita, in
the state of Kansas, and between all
points intermediate and beyond cities on
the line of the defendants railroad,
which said points of shipment are sisuat-
ed in various states OF the United States.
And your orator further AYERS and
shows unto your honors that all ship
ments of freight between the city of ST.
Louis and the city of Wichita, aud all
shipments of freight between the city of
st. Louis and the city of Omaha by said
defendant company pass over the same
track between the city of ST. Louis and
the city OF Holden in the state of Mis-
souri,, distance of 232 miles. That
from said last named point said de-
PENDANT has two lines of railroad, one of
which runs in northwesterly direction
TO the city OF Omaha, In the state of
Nebraska, distance over said de-
PENDANTS railroad of FIVE hundred and
one GOD miles from the city OF Sts
Louis. and one branch of which railroad
runs in q southwesterIy direction to the
city of Wichita, in the state Of Kansas.
a distance over defendants railroad
from said city of ST. Louis of ASS miles.
That said defendant owns, controls.
manages and operates both of said lines
of railroad in connection with many
other lines Of railroad owned, controlled.
managed and operated by it and form
ing the Missouri Pacific system. and
extending into and through many states
Of the United States. and that said de-
fenqant Is constantly engaged as COM
| mon carrier of freight aud passengers in
the interstate commerce between the
several states of the United States. and
that the freight traffic between said city
OK ST. Louis and the city of Wichita
over said defendants railroad IS very
extensive IN volume, amounting to many
thousand dollars per annum, and that
said city OF st. Louis is 4 general dis
ributing point situated on the Missis-
sippi river and furnishes market for
large amounts of live stock and for
freigh. of all classitications, and that
the city Of Wichita is general
distributing point for central and
southern Kansas and the In
dian Territory and Oklahoma, and
furnishes an extensive market for
freight of att claSsifications, and has ex-
tensive stock yards and Is largely en-
gagged in the shipment OF live stock, and.
but for the acts complained OF, would
. carry on large aha profitable trade IN