The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-18
CORPORATION COMMISSION or
OKLAHOMA,
OFFICIAL NOTICE.


To An Whom Il May Concern;
Notice is hereby given that the follow
lng application will be heard ON behalf
Of ali parties Interested. IN the office Of
the Corporation Commission. Guthrie
okla 81, 10 oelocg a NJ, February lstho
1910
This January 70, 1910
Witness, J.'E. LOVE, Chairman.
Corporation Commission.
BEFORE THE CORPORATION cont
MISSION OF THE STATE or OK
fAliuMA
PETITION
"a re Application Of the Kansas City,
Mexico Il orient Railway Company,
for an order cXe-iPting 1t from the
provisions Of Seaton 81 Of Article
OF the Constitution OF Oklahoma.
Comes now the Kai as city Mexico \
0ricnt Railway Company and asks enc
Honorable Commission to exempt It from
compliance with the provisions o. Section
81 of Article of the Constitution OF
oklahoma, and ia support of its applca-
ton, alleges aa ,j.lgms,
First. That tho Kansas cry. Mexico
4 Orient Railway Company Il a rairoad
corporation organized under and b. Yir-
tue OF che laws Of the State Of Kansas
and that II has duly filed copy of lts
Articles of incorporation with the Secrc-
inry Of the Territory OF oklahoma prior
TO tho admission Of oklahoma into the
Union as state and has since that
time complkd with an the laws OF the
said territory aud the state Of Oklahoma.
That I, has constructed and now has IN
through the entire western part of the
state Of Oklahoma. That II enters tho
state Of oklahoma on the northern
boundary thereof near Anthony. Kansas.
aud passes out OF snid statc at o point
near Finer, oklahoma.
second; Your Petitioner alleges that
It's line of railway has only been con-
structcd short line Tint II Is no.
balastcd and not In position whereby
it can be operated most economically and
to the best advantage.
Third: Your Petitioner further AYERS
that n. the time the said provision Of
the Constitution hereinbefore refentd 10
went Into force and effect, It put in a
passenger rate of two 60 cents per mile.
and has ever since observed the same 20
It's grca. loss and damage.
Fourth: Petitioner further alleges that
ts line OF railway Is parallcled for a
great distance IN Oklahoma by the
Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Compnny's line. and az another poln, for
a great distance It Is parallcied by the
49,. Louis x san Francisco Railroad
lines and that the passenger traffic upon
its line Of road is light and insufficient
to dasray the operating expenses of its
passenger trains when passengers are
carried at the rate Of tw9 90 cents PEI
mile
Fifth: Petitioner further alleges that
the entire receipts from all sources what.
aocvcr upon its line Of railwa 10 OKLA
bona, are now and have been insufficient
90 defray the operating expen es ana that
during the year ending June 20, 1898
the not revenue from operation laclIct
over one Hundred Dollars Of being suf
lifiNNf 10 HNN hNt fhitii't'a VI RB'AfffiFf
81 IT'S snld limo of railway all Of whici
facts more fully appear aud arc specific
ally get forth m rs report fled with thu
Honorable Commission for tie fiscal yea
oudlng as aforesaid. ava which fully ar
pear from ihe testimony adduccd bofor
thls Honorable Commission IN the hear
INK upon The Commodity Ea.cs made b
sald Commission. The said annual rt
port and the testimony offered before tll
said Commission upon said Hearing ar
hereby referred to- respectfully ceiled
ne attention OF this Honorable commla
sion the same as II sct forth hercln. an
aIl OF when your Petitioner praYs tl'
Commission 20 take into considerable
aHa rnpiow ln passing nron this Peiiiioi
Petitioner fnriher AYERS that sald nm