Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-06-26
FLAXT0N.AMBR0SE line
TO Have DAILY trains
500 LINE MUST COMPLY WITH
ORDER OF RAILWAY
COMMISSION,
Great Deal Of important Business
Transacted at Special Meeting Of
te Commission Held Saturday.

&c commission 0eIO SATURDAY.
The board of railway commissioners
held a special meeting at the state
capitol building Saturday afternoon
at which every member Of the board
was preesnt. There was large
amount of business transacted at the
meeting.
Under date of April the cimmis-
sion made an order to the 500 line
to establish a daily train service on
the Flaxton-Ambrose branch in the
northwestern corner of the state and
gave the railroad 80 days in which
to comply with the order. The COM
pany asked for postpon ement and
desired a hearing on the matter
which hearing was held May 9. The
company submitted many statistics
and arguments why it should not be
compelled to establish daily train SER
vice on this branch, the principal rea-
son beng THAT the company has been
loosing mney on the line. In the
Judgment of the commission the SER
vice has been totally inadequate on
this branch and the business there Ia
of sufficient Importance and value to
warrant better train service. The
commission therefore put the former
order into force and the 500 line is
given another thirty days in which
to comply with the provisions Of the
order.
A long time ago travelling men who
make the middle-wesetrn part of the
state complained to the commission
regarding the connections at Leeds.
The arrival at Leeds of any traveller
meant the loss of from % to "a hours
time in getting out, or the expenditure
of several dollars in livery in driving
to some other town where the through
trains stopped. In order to accommo-
date traffic arriving from Leeds from
the south the commission requested
the Great Northern railway to stop
its train No. at Leeds. II any trav'
eller desires to go west from LEEDS
he can take No. into Devils Lake
and make connections there with the
westbound trains. This request was
made under the provisions Of the
new law passed last winter empow-
ering the commission to regulate the
schedules of trains at junction points.
The commission will hold meeting
in Mimic July 10 and published notices
in the Walsh county papers asking
all persons holding storage tickets is'
sued by the Grain Producers Ele-
vator company at Mimic, or by Thos'
Elliot acting as agent of lis company
or for himself, to meet the commission
at this time. ere is said to be $4,000
or $4,000 worth of tickets outstand-
ing which have not been redeemed.
The attorney general has been re-
ouested to represent the board be-
fore Judge Winchester in district
Court on July 8. when the matter
of the Dakota Trust companys IN
junction against the commission Will
be argued.
resolution was adopted request
ing the Great Northern railway to
make Buford a flag station for train
No. 3.
Some months ago a petition was
filed asking that the Great Northern
he requested to move its crossing at
Ayr one block further west. The COM
mission has refused to ta.-~ any &C.
ion on this petition as in it's Judg-
nent it seems to be matter wholly
lp to the people of the village them
selves. The company has offered 10
make the improvement in case the
majority of the residents of the town
ire in favor of it and the village BOARD
will pay for it, The present crossing
las been in use for over thirty years
md has thus become an established
highway, and so far as can be de-
.ermined serves all necessary pur-
poses.
The people of Marmarth have been
Interested in the matter of having
. viaduct built across the tracks OF
he Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
sound railway at their station. The
company has been sidestepping the
natter so often, according to the
commission, that the commission
will 20 there and have special hear
ne in regard to the matter if the rail-
Dad does not take the matter up
Don.
The next meeting of the commission
will be held at Fargo on July 5, 8, and
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