The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-24

prospective homeseekers in the north
and west The agricultural and for
est resources of Mississippi and the
opportunities in general farmin5 8,
stock-raising, etc, are exhaustively
treated.
The state of Texas has brought
suit against the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas, and the International & Great
Northern railroad companies, seeking
the forfeiture of their charters. The
suits are based on the insolvent cor
poration act, enacted by the legisla-
ture of 1906. 1t is asserted that these
are simply forerunners of similar
suits to be instituted against fifty
other railway companies operating in
the state of Texas.
The supreme court of Georgia has
rendered decision sustaining the
constitutionality of the state law pass
ed in 1908 requiring the railroads to
equip all of their locomotives with
electric headlights. 1t was given in a
test case, the Atlantic Coast Line hav-
| ing refused to obey the law, and upon
conviction of its violation was fined
$3.50.
The latest publication of the West
ern Pacific passenger department is a
| 20-page folder entitled Where's
Where and How to Get There" 1t
gives full information as to tickets
baggage checks, side trips, coast lines,
the Pacific Steamship company, the
new line which is to operate in con-
nection with the Western Pacific, the
connections via Denver with the Den
yer & Rio Grande, etc. In short the
travellers preparing for a journey
across the American continent will
find the folder invaluable, and the
matter it contains, gives just what is
wanted.
The Pennsylvania station in New
York is being used by swindlers as
means for swindles in many parts
o. the country. Vigorous measures
have been taken by the roads Off
cials to end them. One swindle which
has been perpetrated most generally
Is that of a large advertising poster,
which it is claimed will be hung in
the Pennsylvania station in New York
and in addition in various places and
waiting rooms at other stations along
the various lines of the company. The
novel method is used by solicitors for
this scheme, in that way they state
they do not want any money, only a
signed contract and that the auditor
of the Pennsylvania will manage the
collection. When the contract is sign
ed and the town is worked" the So
licitors leave and later on the print
vertiser for the amount of the con-
tract
/ +NOi lOlh A'OuAutll oNONhnOiu VIII
meet next Monday to pass on a pro-
posed issue of $35,O0O,O00 first mort
gage per cent bonds
Owing to the growing Importance
of Cornell University and Ithaca, the
Lehigh Valley will build a handsome
new passengers station in that city.
A large amount of the $5,000,000
Minneapolis & st. Louis ) per cent
gold notes, which fall due next week,
have been deposited for extension
with Speyer & Co.
During the first week of this month
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
hauled nearly thousand more load.
ed cars than during the correspond
ing week of 1910.
New York Central lines handled
l,Sl3,79S loaded cars during the last
month, an increase of Ill, 1897 more
than in the same period a year ago,
and other business also showed an
increase.
Gross earnings of all the railroads
of the country for last month show
a big increase over December, 1909,
the total amounting to s39,5SS,047.
which is a gain of over seven per
cent.
Passenger traffic officials of the H.
linois Central and other western rail
roads say that the holiday traffic has
not fallen off as a result of the refusal
to grant special holiday rates.
1t is alleged that the Pennsylvania,
which has for some time had control
of the Norfolk & Western through
ownership of a majority of its stock,
has increased its holdings in that road
b. s9,000,000.
Proxies are being sent out in the
interests of the present management