Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-04
State Capitol News

SldlnR ABOUT midway DelWeen INC
towns OF Lankin and Adams, In Walsh
county, giving the railway company
sixty days in which to complete the
work. On account of the frozen
ground the company asks an extern
sion of time in which to make the i'm
proyement. The matter was referred
to Commissioner Anderson for inves-
tigation.
Afidavits we're filed with the com.
mission by parties who wanted to
take passage on 500 Line trains at
Kenmare, who by reason of the time
of the arrival OF the trains not be-
ing bulletined and no information
could be had as to the probable tim"
of their arrival, owing to delays, who
he'd suffered It great deal of loss or
time and expense. The statutes pro-
vide that the tine OF arrival of trains
shall be bulletined and it Is made the
| states attorneys duty to investigate
complaints and prosecute in behalf or
the commission. The matter was re-
ferred to the states attorney Of Burke
county, with the request that an a C
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be reasonable grounds for complaint.
A number of verbal complaints have
been made to the members of the com
mission as to the poorly lighted de.
pot platforms in many places and this
matter will be taken up with the sew
eral companies with a view of having
a better condition of things prevail.
The Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany requests permission to close the
stations at Cashel in Walsh county,
and Schiable in Cass county. State
ments of the amount of earnings at
these stations for the past twelve
months will be asked for, and if the
earnings are not sufficient under the
law, permission will be granted. The
earnings from freight and passenger
business must aggregate $4,000 a
year before the company can be re-
CURED to maintain an agency.
A petition was filed with the COM
mission someN time ago by farmers
living neal the Canadian border, north
of Walhalla, on the Great Northern
Walhalla-Morden branch, asking thai
the railroad company be required to
put in a siding just south of the
boundary, a distance of about five
miles. The law gives the commits
sicr authority to order in sidings,
where theer appears to be business
enough to warrant, between stations
twelve or more miles apart, but one
OF the towns between which the sid
ing is anted is on the American side
and the other o. the Canadian side
of the line. The attorney generals
office has issued IN opinion, holding
that the commission has no authority
to order the siding put in.
A petition has been before the com
mission for some little time, asking
that the Great Northern Railroad com
track between Glenburn and Deering,
and it is likely that the commission
ers will visit the proposed site very
soon, to investigate the needs of the
community seeking the Improvement.
More than two hundred patrons Of
the Great Northern and Northwestern
railroads in Dickey county petition the
commission to issue an order requir-
ing the companies to join in the cost
of providing a suitable waiting room
at the junction of the two lines, near
Ludden, for the accommodation OF
those waiting to take either of the
trains. Commissioners Anderson and
Mann have visited the site, known as
Newton, and it is likely that the i'm
provement will be ordered in, though