Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-11
RAIL WAYS LIST
FAVORED ONES
RECORD OF ALL PASS HOLDERS
NOT EMPLOYED BY
COMPANY.
TO BEELECTRIc LIGHTED
Nos. 5 and IL Will be. Put on Par
With Nos. | and 6-FIagmen
Will be Forced to Cut
Out Visitors.


road companies must file with the
stare executive council annually a list
5 OF the persons to whom they have is
sued passes.
Their first annual report is now due,
covering the period from July 4, when
the law took effect. to the end of the
year 1907.
Blanks for the lists of names have
been prepared by the secretary of the
executive council and will be sent to
the general offices of the companies
WITHIN few days. Provision is made
on the blanks for an affidavit by the
officer in charge of the matter sub
stantiating the list furnished as cor
rect and complete.
Swear To 1t.
FOLLOWING are the blank and affidavit
the document providing space for the
names and addresses of kind of trans
portation issued and date of issuance
to all pass holders:
statement of free transportation by
company made in compliance
With the requirements of section S,
chapter 112, act of the Thirty-second
general assembly Of Iowa
To the executive council Of Iowa.
A statement showing the names of
all persons within the state of Iowa to
Whom this company has issued, fur
nlshed or given free ticket, a free
pass, free transportation, or discrim-
mating reduced rate since July 4, 1907,
and o5December 81, 1907, except wage
earners IN their ordinary employment,
and families of such wage earners.
State Of County-ss.
i, $780,, being first sworn, on oath
state that ! am $1,000. of the ....
railway company and that the forego-
ing statement is a true and complete
list Of all persons residing within the
state of Iowa to whom the -. -. rail-
way company has issued, furnished or
given anv free ticket, free pass or free
transportation, or discriminating re-
duced rate of transportation Except
wage earners) during the period ccv-
cred by this report
Witness my hand, etc.
signed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
What Are Wage Farmers
When the anti"pass bill came before
the legislature in its original form it
provided for a report of the names Of
all of the persons to whom the COM
panY issued transportation. Attention
was called to the fact that this would
require them to list all Of their en-
ployes of every kind, even the sec
ton hands sent from place to place to
40 work. So an amendment was put
on, which took out of the list to be
furnished the names of wage earn
ers.''
1t was necessary for the executive
council therefore, to construe the
words wage earners.'' 1t was decided
to make the following note on the
blanks furnished for the list of pass
holders:
.The word wage earners' in sec
ton 5,@chapter 112, acts of the Thirty
second general assembly, will be con-
strued to mean working men as that
term ordinarily is understood
1t will be impossible for the COM
panies, therefore, to class as wage
earners and fail to report the names
of lawyers and doctors and other en-
ployes.
Will Have Electric Lights.
Tomorrow evening No. leaving
Chicago on the Burlington route and
on January IL, No. II, leaving Lincoln,
Neb., will be electric lighted. Up to
the present. time these trains have
been lighted by serviceable lamps, but
the introduction of electric lights on
that 1T will be further extended.
With this installation of lights, Nos.
and IL will be as good trains as Nos.
and 6. The equipment in every par
ticular will be the same. The power
for maintaining the lights will be fur
nished by a dynamo run by the loco
motive.
No Visitors in Shanties.
An order which has been posted by
the Burlington route is to the effect
that the fagmen at the various cross
ings in the CITY cannot entertain Wis
itors in their little houses There are
a number of loafers who hold forth
at these places during the winter abb
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