Show NO COMFORT FOR PASS HOLDERS justice baker of the supreme court of indiana according to the Denver news handed down a decision in the case of payne vs the railway company of interest to railroads and to people who ride on passes payne while using a pass w injured in an accident and brought suit for damages the railroad company set up the plea the contract under which the pas wag issued relieved it from liability payne claimed that the contract was void aa against public policy on this issue the case went to the supreme court in his opinion justice baker gave a full exposition of the law governing common carriers railroad corporations he taid creat edl by the state are granted special privileges in return for which they are held among other bilings ti lings to use due care and diligence in transporting passengers and goods therefore continues the judge a contract by which a common carrier assumes to abandon a duty it owes to the public generally is void as being against public policy but judite baker drew a line between the public generally and the pass holder they alq creatures of favoritism he averted they voluntarily separate themselves from the gen eral public aliey do not approach tho companies as part 0 the general public to be carried on the usual terms of bervice aal compensation and aliey are certainly under no compulsion to enter into alie contract of exemption the rea eon on which is bawa the rule eliat public carriers will not be permitted to evade a cudlic duty fail for railroad companies are under no obligation to transport the general public gratuitously justice bakers ruling is a fair one but nevertheless is open to debate common carriers are not fully justified in discriminating against the public in favor of individuals and when they do they be allowed to plead that discrimination as exempting them from liability t justice cannot take cognizance of the pass system if justice does should it not consider it aa evidence justifying a penally salt lake is fast becoming a strike center an agitation for shorter hours and more pay is affecting many of the trades of that city i M fidell lakes mayor and chief of are 0 o deeply concerned over wel fare of each other they have not had cutoff cut off the time to read on when was asked by a friend aa 0 o what he of the cutoff cut off he is 1 cui why d as reply hig the mayor vuu riot beable be able to tat off my head ina thorand thoi and days it I 1 desire would make an it otherwise allton excellent member of the committee from salt lake to wait on harraman Harrl man tor he displays na much knowledge of the cut oil as the boobier from alkali not called salt lake aco thos paliner Pali ncr sf di from chi cago says i very frequently mistaken for smallpox A inird attack of the latter is often very hard to differentiate from a s brero attack of the formey even by the most skilled diagnostician agnost ician when pustules pus tules and scabs disappear within four days is a sure sign it ilai not smallpox thia same doctor palmer is the editor of the chicago medical clinic and is credited with being one of tho authorities |