The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-23
7 NEWS OF ~
 ARKANSAS
Three-Cent Rate Now Effective.

Three-Cent Rate Now Effective.
 The threecent intrastate passenger rate went into effect at 12.01 a. m. Monday. Although the Iron Mountain had failed to file it's rates on Saturday morning, the new rates became effec- tive on it's lines also. as officials for the Iron Mountain assert that the new schedule was expressed from St Louis on Friday in plenty of time to be de- liyered to the commission on Satur- day. As the railroad acted, in good faith in the matter, it is expected that the commission will consider that the rates were practically filed on Sat urday.
 w. c. Barnes, local passenger and ticket agent for the Iron Mountain, announced Sunday that all of the short line roads under control of the Mis- souri Pacific will stick to the old two-cent rate. These lines are the Arkansas and Southwestern, Gurdon and Fort Smith, Brinkley, Helena and Indian Bay, Fl Dorado and Bas- trop, Farmersville and Southern, Lit tie Rock and Monroe, Mississippi River, Hamburg and Western and the Arkansas and Louisiana.
 He said that he had not heard that the nine short lines had filed the announcement on Saturday with the Railway Commission to the effect that they would on Tuesday, October 20, apply to Judge Trieber for an in junction against the commissions s freight tariffs and the passenger tar ifs as established by the state legis- lature of 1907 This would make the freight and passenger rates on the branch lines the same as that on the main lines.
 The commission will protest in court that the present rates are just and req sonable and will fight against an in junction being granted to the branch lines.
 The new rate will not affect travel CTS between Memphis and Little Rock, as that comes under the interstate tar if, So on the Rock Island it will i cost but $2.85 to go to Memphis, while it will cost s4.15 to go to Bridge June tion, Just this side of the river at Memphis.
 Although the rates were not all figured out by the Iron Mountain pas. senger traffic men Sunday afternoon, 1t is believed that the same rule Will apply to the passenger who wishes to go to Hoxie, Ark, in that he would save money by purchasing his ticket through to Neeleyville, Mo, at the in- terstate rale of two cents per mile. or course, the companies will endeav- or to prevent such tactics on the part of their patrons, but when people see that they can ride a great deal cheap, CT by obtaining the two-cent rate for a longer distance, rather than the three-cent one for a shorter distance they will doubtless not consult the companies about the matter.
 The fare to Fort Smith, Ark, will be made at the rate of two cents per mile by the Rock Island and it is un- derstocd by the Iron Mountain, also The Rock Island tracks cross into Ok lahoma near Jensen. Ark, on the line to Fort Smith. so that technically Fort Smith comes under the inter state, rather than the intrastate, tar if One of the Iron Mountain trains remains in the state all the way to Fort Smith, using the Frisco bridge from Van Buren while the other skirts the Oklahoma line.
 The cheaper interstate rate, how ever, will only prevail until after the required 30 days notice is given and the new tariff filed with the Inter state Commerce Commission