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Show 3BSJ?; ..,.. ; I who pays the freight t ON THE BAMBERGER LINE ,9: ! J Governor Bamberger, leader of the Democratic Party, promised the T&x- 'sSf j l! payers of Utah a Public Utilities Commission to protect their interests; r-' jk against the corporations. Well, you got your Commission all right and Iff you are paying $50,000.00 a year into the State Treasury to support it; v 1 Now What Do You Get For Your Money? ml - p Here Is The Story FROM THE RECORDS: , " .v w i x .': i Tiere have been twenty-nine cases come before railroads in Utah were denied a 15 per cent in- decision never having been rendered;- the other mt . the Bamberger Utilities Commission, . in which) crease injfoeir rates horizonlly"The7 ibvern-i; case'after th protests,. oi the railroads (D. & R. .''" . companies and cities have asked for increase in' m'ent later' took over the "railroads'" before ' aiiy G;, BambergeV Electric and Utah & Idaho Cen- Mfjv r . - their rates on such things as street car service, further action could have been, taken by the UtiW , tral) were submitted, was dismissed on the motion flfr ' railroad rates, electric light rates, telephone rates ities Commission. t ... of the petitioner. . , ' , ( ; Hflifv '' 'water rates, etc. Of these cased, twenty compan " f-' . , ; V " . ' " """ - , ; ; ; " ,- ... - '-:. ' ' , , m 1 14 ' f have' been permitted to raise or increase the There' are five case's where increases have been Cases where increases have been gfanted'are as I I ' 2Bl,?S,C iSlSltS'ir sked the Panies which are still pending. ' follows: Nos. 6, 11, 12, 18, 19,. 21, 23, 34, 43, 44,50, Mt ,"' . es. lour ot the cases nave been denied, but one j... " .i . i ti.iT . R ! of the four-the case of the Consolidated Stage ?f thcse h- 1S t ie te.lepho"e cf P' l 57' 59' 61' & 68' 76' 78' '& 86 k ' : ):, Line Company, asking for increase in rates be- increase eady in effect since , the , -.;, ::.;-, - M , ; tween Salt Lake and Bingham, which at tlie first - government took over the telephones; another Cases pending are as follows: Nos: 41, 42, 48; 82, m . ,, hearing was dismissed on motion of the company is a railroad case, which the government controls -g ;.J k- " '. L?V;l M' itself,, was later granted, so that there are really and the third is the Utah. Gas & Coke company, .: ;,? . 'T : , , f ' (, . only three cases in whicji increases have been de- wmchl ha? already been granted one increase. Cases denied are as .folIows: Nos, 3 10 52. ' I K'J v i - nied. Of these three, two of them, the cases of the' . " . .'4s V h - ?alt. ake lta r?Ilroa? 5 Saltina City, were ; Cases No.24 and No: 69 are cases where per- Note.-No. 40 was latWranted and No. 52twas ' " : .'&K denied on motion of the petitioners, themselves; mission was asKed to operate a service-conflicting A r ,.. . , . , . : ! t " The lone case where the Utilities Commission has with the governor's railroad. Case No. 24, al- where-.an increase was .asked to raise the rates Hi ' fe denied an increase was case No. 3, where all the though filed February 18, 1918, is still pending, a on water forailroad Use. 4 f'K--'' " -;,' l .': .4 ,i". ; . -, 1 How do you like Paying $50,000 a year for a I COMMISSION to raise freight and Passenger Rat es? H "" ' KL?..; Taxpajer, Think ft" CHwi-- . lb , Cache County Republican Committee. ! F I ' I - j. . - ; . i ii i "M"' l"M Wiir KOTICB OF STOCKHOLDERS H V MEKTUfQ TO iKORKASB H CAPITAL B K sr4 I Notice Is kereby shrM that a U I' taeetlng of the stockholders ot Fr- H r ,, mers Merchants SaTlags Baak, a A "' corporatloB, organised, aad existing mm '' v under the laws ot the State ot Utah, H li Is hereby called for. and will be held mm ; at the banking house of said corpor- b i , - y '- tlon, being Its principal place ot ''.. business at Logan, Cache County, M jO's Utah, on Wednesday, the 13h day H v of November, 1918, at four" o'clock DL 1Q the afternoon of that day for the V purpose of considering and acting feW.' upon the proposition to increase tho v capital stock of said corporation BV, a from Sixty Thousand (160,000) dol- H. ' lars to One Hundred Thousand f $100,000.00) dollars, by amending H " tho flrst paragraph ot Article Six of Kt. the Articles ot Incorporation of said Hr - , ' corporation so that It will read as Hjft follows:" vJss5SrS?K!U' - mMm f; V ' "JTbtk. total autbDrIsed:capltal stock , t.' of the corporation Is One Hundred mmmW$ ' fiwiiiiii ii I' i ' i'11 Thousand (f 100.000.00) dollars, dl- j tided Into One Thousand (1,000) shares ot the par Talue f One Hundred Hun-dred ($100.00) dollars each;" Dated at Logan, Utah, this list day of October, 1018. 3. A, HENDRIOKSON, 4a President ot Farmers ft Merchants Savings Bank. a. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING i v) Good dry farm land tor sale or trade. Newbold, the Clothier. Adv-c-tt MOmnr TO LOAN One hundred aad fifty thousand dollars os farm . ' aad atty property. H, A.-Pederson ft o. a a DR. A. J. BROOKING & Dentist Over Sharahart Chris- tensen's. " Phone 03 -.(Office Formerly Occu- pied by Dr. S. B. Thatcher Makes Suicides, According to a Yale scientist, .climates .cli-mates that are too 'stimulating have nn effect In' Increasing tho snlcldo rate. " . |