The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-07
CLEVELAND
Gets KATY
DIVISION
RAILROAD ORDERED TO
MAKE CHANGE FROM
OsAGE JUNCTION
TRAVELLING PUBLIC
WILL Be Benefited
Many People Forced to Stay
Over Night at Hotel Owned
By Railroad

Removal Of the division and juno
ton point OF the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railway from Usage juno
rion to Cleveland was today ordered
ny the corporation commission The
Crdels include abolition Of all night
Wal,s for transfer passengers at the
junction and direct the running OF
passenger trains on the Tulsa diyi-
sion from Cleveland instead Of Usage
junction.
The commission makes u finding
that Usage Junction is bad place
to live in. A majority of the inhab-
iiants live in box cars and there are
no sanitary facilities The commits,
sion finds hat the deaths in the 100
population for a year were t., while
IN the city OF Cleveland, two and Il
bali miles away, the deaths were
only thirty in a population OF per
faps 5000. II found that many peO-
pie we're forced to stay all night at
the Usage Junction hotel, which is
owned hy the railway company
The hearing in these cases was aA
elaborate affair. over 500 Witnesses
were examined The railroad claim
ed that the cost of removal would be
$4,000. rhe commission found that
a plan to secure Indian lands ada
cent TO the junction was no more
than townsite scheme, The origin
al cause Of complaint was that an
early morning train for the direction
of Tulsa started at the junction and
that 1t was Of vast inconvenience 10
the Cleveland people and the travel
ing public generally. People going
that way often waited all night The
same condition existed TO some ex-
tent in the freight business The
complaints were brought by J. p.
Martin and others.
There are three orders. The pass
enger train for Tulsa must be started
from Cleveland, beginning May l..
The freight service must begin at
Cleveland The division point must
be moved to Cleveland and II the
M. X. q y. has not land enough for
the division purposes the land Is to
be provided by Cleveland. Transfer
cf the division point is to be made by
October 5, next.
These orders are of direct inter
EST 10 Guthrie. Usage Junction has
long been the dread of travellers.
Union station At South CoffeyvIIe
The corporation commission. in an
order today, directs that a union sta
ton shall be built in Sonth Coffey-
Vile by The Iron Mountain and the
Katy railways The roads, il is stat
ed, agreed 10 build the station, but
have neglected TO do so. They are
ordered to equip the station and pro-
vide an agent competent to bulletin
trains. They are to start work by
April % and complete the job by June
! The case was brought by Charles
A. l5tcben and others.
The Iron Mountain road is fined
5000 for not providing depot facili-
ties at Nowata as ordered last Octo
ber Plans were accepted and the
commission understood the work was
to be done by December last. The
suit was brought by T. +. Caldwell.
secretary of the Nowata chamber Of
commerce.
IN the case Of the Plansifter Milf
ing company. against the Frisco, thf
commission directs that the road Dat
costs in the case. without fine The
charge was violation OF order 1858, III
lait moving freight within tweuty.
four hours, holding II three days. In
another instance the railroad failed
to deliver empty cars.
Cases against the Western Union
aud Postal Telegraph companies for
failure TO file reports according TO
orders were dismissed, the compan
les having complied.