The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-01-20

cation by the Commission. The hear
ing in the Sioux City case was al
journed on the night of the 18th
and again resumed in the Federal
building at Chicago on October "a,
and closed on October IS. Briefs
We're filed in that case on December
10th but the date for the oral argu-
ment before the Interstate Com
merce Commission at Washington
has not yet been fixed.
Rate Matters Pending Before This
Commission.
On November so, 1910, COM
plant was filed by the Farmers
Grain Dealers Association of South
Dakota, an association composed of
Farmers Cooperative Elevator
Companies, within the state, attack
ing the local rates on grain. Imme-
diately upon the filing of the com
plant a hearing was called to be
held at Huron on December 18th, at
the time of the hearing of the Mil
lers' Association of South Dakota in
tervened. A large amount of testi-
mony was taken at the hearing at
Huron. At the close of this hear
ing, upon the application of the at
torneys for the Farmers Grain Deal
er's Association of South Dakota and
the railway companies, the final
hearing upon this case was set for
January II, 1911, at the office of
the Commission at Pierre Immedi-
ately after the close of this hearing,
such schedule will be promulgated
as is justified by the evidence.
On November 80, 1910, one by
the citizens Of Belle Fourche, and
vicinity, one by the citizens of Rap
id City, and vicinity, and one by the
citizens of Lennon, in Perkins
county. and vicinity. were filed at
lacking the class and commodity
rates within the state especially
those in force at the present time
west of the Missouri river The first
hearing on these complaints was
held at Lennon on the goth of De-
cember and by request of the citi-
zens of Lennon, as we'll as the rail-
way companies who protested that
the time before the filing of the COM
plant and the date of the hearing
was insufficient to enable them to
prepare for trial, the hearing was
adjourned until January IL, 1911.
The second hearing on these com
plants was held at Aberdeen on De-
cember 21st and the third hearing at
Rapid City on the %. The final hear
ing will be held in these cases at the
offices of the Commission in Pierre
on the 18th and 18th of January,
1911, at which time such a schedule
will be promulgated as the evidence
may Justify.
On the morning of January 10,
1911, Honorable P. J. Tscharner,
member of the House from Perkins
county, residing at Lennon, receiv-
ed from the citizens of Lennon a
telegram of which the following is
true and perfect copy:
Lennon, s. D., January 9-1Oth,
1911.
Hon P. H. Tscharner, Pierre, S. D.
You are hereby requested by the
nnHnTciUnnd of
mon Commercial club and citizens
of Lennon to withdraw your COM
plant to the railroad commissioners
affecting the freight rates west of
the Missouri river.
(Here follow the names of about
100 citizens of Lennon
After consultation with the coun-
sci for this commission, the above
telegram was filed in the office of
the Commission, but Mr.. Tscharner
refused to withdraw the complaint.
AS the Commission is to hold
hearing at Lennon on the 18th in
which the citizens of Lennon are
expected to make showing as to
the reduction desired in the rates
west of the Missouri river, the sig
nificance of this telegram has be-
come at once apparent.
Passenger Rate Case.
Over three thousand pages of tes-
timony were taken and sixty-eight
exhibits introduced upon the trial.
The case is now in the hands of
Special Master, Mr.. J. H. Gates, of
Sioux Falls, who is preparing find
ings.
Express Rate Case.
In the annual report of this Com
mission for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1910, appears the opinion
in full of Judge Garland, of the
United States Circuit Court, in which
he holds that the commission has
no authority to make a schedule of
rates for express companies.
Under the opinion of Judge Car