The herald., 1896-08-21
The Valley Road Finds Business
Increasing
A NEW SCHEDULE OF RATES
To Be Issued for Stations South OF lie.
grand
A Postal Decision Under Which Railroads s
Msy Garry Post Free Letters Relat-
ing to Railroad Business
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20.-James
s. jerks has been appointed assistant
traffic manager of the San Joaquin VAL
ley road The increasing business of the
road has necessitated the appointment
of an assistant to Traffic Manager Moss.
MI jerks has had long experience in the
freight department of the Southern Pa
cific.
4 new schedule of rates will be issued
tomorrow for sections south of Legrand.
Five new stations are to be opened to-
morrow at Marguerite, Sharon, Miller's
Siding, Lankershim and Patterson.
Lankershim is one mile from MADEIRA,
and Patterson is sixteen miles from
Fresno. The rates being prepared for
these stations will affect wheat ship
ments to Stockton, Port Costa and San
| Francisco. There will also be rates on
| general merchandise from Stockton and
San Francisco for those points. 1t is
understood that no new rates will be
made south of Patterson until the COM
pany has secured rights of way into
Fresno. The road will reach within half
a mile of Fresno tomorrow, but the di
rates and trying to get Fresno business
while their track is so far away from
the business section of the city. They
hope their right of way disputes in F'res-
no will be adjudged in time for the new
road to get into the city by october %.
y MAIL QUESTION
WASHINGTON, Aug. 90 - Acting
Postmaster General Nelson today mod
ifed the recent order of the postmaster
general prohibiting railroads from car
rying without payment of postage mail
| matter relating TO railroad business.
The modified order was issued to meet
the views expressed in an opinion by
Attorney General Harmon, to whom the
matter had been referred, at the request
of the railway companies. The attorney
! general held that a railroad company
has the right to carry letters without the
payment of postage that are written and
sent by the officers and agents of the
railroad company which carries and de-
| livers them about its business, and busi-
ness only. They may be letters to others
of it's officers and agents, to those of
connecting lines, or to anyone else, so
| long as no other carrier intervenes. The
moment this occurs such other carrier
is transporting letters for third party,
which is contrary to law Letters of
| a company addressed to officers or
agents of a connecting line or company
! delivered to an agent of the latter at
| the point of connection, may be carried
by the latter to any point on its line,
because such letter becomes its own re-
ceipt by any one of its agents and trans
fer to another agent without the inter-
| vention of another carrier, comes within
the principle already expressed. But
any company, or officer or employe
thereof, carrying letters which are nei-
ther written by that company, nor ad-
dressed to it, is liable to the penalties
imposed by law.
This is the rule, though the interven-
ing carrier may have an ultimate inter-
est in the subject matter of the CORES
pondence.
Second-It is not lawful for a railroad
company to carry outside of the mails
letters not in government stamped en-
velopeS and addressed to other COM
panies, corporations or individuals op-
Grating car lines (either passenger or
freighD. hotels, restaurants or any
other class of business connected with
the railroad proper, but these other COM
ranies corporations or individuals may
carry their own letters under the limita-
tions noted in reference to railroad COM
panies.
Mr.. Nelson issued an order in when
he makes the following rules:
First-The monopoly of carrying the
mails by the government is limited u
letters and packages of letters only
Hence not only railroads but others may
carry outside of the mails anything else
if accompanied by matter having the
character of a personal cores spondence.
Second-Railroad and express compa-
MES and other parties carrying matter
under seal will be held to know at their
own peril the nature of such matter, and
whether it can be lawfully carried out.
side of the mails or not.
PLAYFUL CHILDREN.
CANTON, O., Aug 20-A thorough
investigation was made this afternoon
into the deralling of engine 40, which was
hauling a worktrain last night near Car
rollton, the locomotive rolling down an
embankment and killing Engineer Jo-
seph Kirk and Fireman John Hardesty
of this city The investigation shows
the accident to have been caused by
children having placed three spikes on
the outside rail of the curve where the
derailment occurred. Twenty men in
the caboose escaped death by falling
several hundred feet down an embank-
ment, only because the caboose was
caught in the branches of q big tree.
BRANCHING OUT.
CHICAGO, Aug. 29,-The Burlington
road is going into the sheep business.
1t has not been satisfied with the amount
of sheep traffic which it has secured of
late, and has determined to raise its own
sheep and keep them where they cannot
be reached by any of its competitors.
1t has arranged for tract of land along
its lire in one of the western states.
and will stock it with about 10, 900 sheen.
which will be shipped to Chicago as the
market warrants.
WESTERN FREIGHT RATES.
CHICAGO, Aug. 20.--Western freight
rates are now in a worse condition than
they have been for a long time The
fight between the Chicago and the gulf
lines for the grain traffic of the trans
Missouri territory is being waged with
great bitterness. and at present the