Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-02-27
NEWSy MISSOURI
GIVEN BIG CONTROL.
Governor to Appoint and May Re-
move Commissioners.

move Commissioners.
Jefferson City.-Missouri public SER
vice corporations will be placed under
control of a state commission of five
members, appointed by Gov. Elliott
w. Major on April Is.
One member of the commission will
be named for two years, two for four
years and two for six years. AS their
terms end their successors will be
named for a period of SIX years. The
salary Of each commissioner is fixed
at $500.
The power of removal is placed with
the governor. The plan is to put this
public service commission or utility
commission on the same high plane as
the Interstate commerce commission,
without regard to politics.
Gov. Major declared that he planned
to get them of integrity and high cali
Der for the commission. They will
have control of every public service
corporation, including street railways,
railroads, gas, electric light, express,
telephone, telegraph, water and heat
Ing companies-in fact, all concerns in
the service of the public or operating
as common carriers in st. Louis, Kan
sas City and every other city in the
state, unless the corporation be mu-
nicipal.
NJ Immediate Appointments.
The appointment of the commits
sioners n officials under the COM.
m~issioners will not be made until after
Gov. Major returns from the inaugura.
ton of President-elect Woodrow Will
son.
The qualification for a commission.
er provide that he shall have resided
in Missouri for at least five years,
shall be a qualified voter, and not less
than rs years of age. An attorney for
the commission is provided at a sal.
airy of $4,000 q year. There is also
to be a secretary to the commission
and his salary is fixed at $500 a
year. The commission has the power
to employ during its pleasure such
clerks, stenographers, rate experts,
'agents, examiners, engineers, account.
ants, auditors, inspectors and other
persons as it may deem necessary, al
salaries not to exceed $3.50 a month
They are also to receive all necessary
travelling expenses, and all salaries
and expenses are to be audited by the
state auditor.
The jurisdiction, supervision, pow.
ers and duties of the public service
commission extends as follows:
To all railroads within this state,
and to all transportation of persons or
property thereon, and to the person
or corporation wning, leasing, operat.
ing or controlling same.
To all, street railroads within this
state, and to all transportation of per-
sons or property thereon and to the
corporation owning, leasing, operating
or controlling the said street railroad.
To such portions of the line of any
other railroad or street railroad as
lie within the state, SO far as concerns
the construction, maintenance, equip
ment, terminal facilities and local
transportation facilities and local
transportation Of person or property
within this state.
To all common carriers operating
or doing business in this state.
To the manufacture, sale or distri-
button Of gas, natural or artificial, and
electricity for light, heat or power in
the state, and to gas and electric
plants and persons and corporations
owning, leasing, operating or controll-
ing the same.
To all telegraph lines and to every
telephone company, and to every tele-
graph company so far as said tele-
phone or telegraph lines lie and are
operated within this state.
To all water corporations, and to
the land, property, dams, water sup
plies or power stations, and the opera
ton of them within this state.
To all persons, corporations or part
nerships, engaged in the ~transporta-
ton of property Of freight in the
state.
To all public utility corporations
and persons whatsoever, subject W
the provision of the utilities act; aud
to such other and further extent and
to all additional matters and things,
and in such further respects ex,
pressed or implied under the provi-
sion Of the act.
Disappears, Is Found, Dies.
SSdalia.-Mrs. Ellen Louise Mitch
ell, aged so years, who disappeared
from her home in Warrensburg Feb.
IA, was found in a barn here In a dy-
ing condition. An empty ounce bottle
which had contained carbolic acid was
found in her coat pocket. She was
rushed to a local hospital and died
within a few minutes after reaching
there.
Shot, But Won't Prosecute.
Warrensburg.-Frank Willard, a
country merchant, who was shot and
aA.4n..-I.