RULE No. 5. Nothing in this order shall be construed as requiring carriers to keep freight tariffs on file at strictly passenger stations or vice versa. Guthrie, Oklahoma, September 13, 1910. ORDER NO. 429. REQUIRING FILING OF SCHEDULE OF CHARGES OF TELEPHONE COMPANIES. Proposed Order No. 81. In Re Proposed Order No. 81, To all Telephone Companies operating in the State of Oklahoma and to all whom it may concern: It is ordered that the following rules, regulations and requirements be observed by all telephone companies such as are herein designated and all companies of the same class and character as may hereafter be formed. All telephone companies or combinations of telephone and telegraph companies, individually owned telephone systems, mutual or partnership telephone lines or systems, all designated hereinafter as "Each Operating System" shall file in the office of the Corporation Commission such information as is required by the following rules: Rule No. 1. Each Operating System shall file a correct and complete schedule of charges (rates made for service) for Local Subscriber's stations, for all classes of service, rendered within the corporate or natural limits of any city, town, village or community in which such system is operating. Rule No. 2. Sach Operating System shall file a correct and complete schedule of all Long Distance or Toll charges or rates for all points on its system together with information in detail as to how such charges or rates are based. Rule No. 3. Each Operating System shall file a schedule of charges made for individual or party line Rural Subscribers, also a schedule of switching charges for Rural lines. Rule No. 4. Each Operating System shall, when issuing a telephone directory, print in a conspicuous part of such directory the rates for local subscribers stations and toll rates to the principal point on its system for each exchange. Rule No. 5. Each Operating System shall file in the office of the Commission a copy of the by-laws under which its system is operating and shall notify the Commission in writing of any change of principal officers of the system at any time. Rule No. 6. Each Operating System shall notify the Commission of the purchase or sale of any operating property at the time of the purchase or sale. Rule No. 7. Each Operating System shall report to the Commission semiannually, beginning June 30, 1911, the extent and cost of all improvements and betterments made in each city, town, village, or community in which it is operating, and shall include in such report an accurate description of said extensions or betterments so that same may be shown on a map of such city. town, village or community. (This rule covered by orders No. 879 and 1117.) Rule No. 8. Each Operating System shall report any serious loss of property, or interruption in the service caused by Fire, Wind, Sleet or other causes, within ten (10) days after such loss or interruption, shall immediately report serious or fatal accidents to persons and how caused. Rule No. 9. Each Operating System shall, between the first and tenth of each month, keep an accurate record of the number of local subscribers' calls per hour for the twenty-four hours of any day selected between the above mentioned dates, for each and every exchange connected with its system, and shall file a copy of such record in the office of the Commission not later than the fifteenth day of the same month. This Order shall be in full force and effect on and after the 15th day of January, 1911, and thereafter until otherwise ordered by the Commission. ORDER NO. 437. (See also Orders Nos. 519 and 1109.) To All Railroads: Cause No. 1162. You and each of you are hereby notified that the following order shall be in full force and effect on and after the 18th day of February, 1911. On and after the date this order becomes effective, the rates, rules and regulations named herein shall govern the handling of local or through shipments of the commodities named herein, over the lines of the carriers named above, between points in the State of Oklahoma. The Rates named herein shall be considered maximum rates, and no higher rates shall be assessed on such commodities unless specific authority is first secured from the Commission. CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMA. Local and Joint Tariff of Freight Rates on Calves, Cattle, Goats, Sheep and Hogs Between Points Within the State of Oklahoma. This order will be governed by rules and regulations heretofore or hereafter issued by this Commission where same do not conflict with the rules named herein. ITEM No. 1. Rates named in Item 4 will apply on shipments of "live stock in condition for slaughter," as follows: Cattle, straight carloads, minimum weight, 22,000 pounds. Hogs, in double-deck cars, minimum weight, 24.000 pounds. Sheep and goats, straight or mixed carloads, in double-deck cars, minimum weight 24,000 pounds. Calves, in single-deck cars, minimum weight, 18.000 pounds. Calves, in double-deck cars, minimum weight 24,000 pounds. ITEM No. 2. Rates named in Item No. 5 will apply on shipments of live stock as follows: Hogs, sheep or goats, straight or mixed carloads, single-deck cars, minimum weight, 17,000 pounds. only. NOTE Rates apply on sheep and goats when in "condition for slaughter" ITEM No. 3. Mixed carload shipments of any or all of the live stock mentioned in this order may be made at the highest charge that would be applicable upon any one class of said live stock in said mixed shipment, if it were forwarded in straight carload lots in a similar car. Where partitions are necessary in such mixed carload shipments, they shall be provided by the shipper and installed by him at his own risk. Rates shown are in cents per hundred pounds. When exact distance is not shown use next greater distance. ITEM No. 6. When carrier receives an order for a car or cars of specified minimum or carrying capacity, such as are in use on its line, and the carrier, for its convenience and without the consent of the party ordering the car, furnishes car or cars of a greater minimum weight or carrying capacity than ordered, the shipment must be accepted and billed by the carrier subject to the minimum weight applicable on the equipment ordered, and forwarding agent shall make the following notation on bill of lading and way bill: "Car of.......... minimum ordered" (properly filling in the blank space). PROVIDED—If the shipper takes advantage of the circumstances and loads the car or cars in excess of the carrying capacity of the car or cars ordered, the shipment shall be delivered subject to minimum weight applicable upon the car used. NOTE:It is not to be construed from the above or anything in this order, that carriers shall be compelled to furnish double-deck cars for the movement of any of the live stock named herein, but when such double-deck cars are available, they shall be furnished when ordered. ITEM No. 7. Where two or more routes are available between points of origin and destination, the line or lines handling shall assess and collect charges, as though the shipment had actually moved via the route via which the lowest rate could be made. PROVIDED That only the line via which the lowest rate can be made shall be compelled to accept the shipment at such rate, and if it is tendered to other than the initial carrier of the lowest rate line, such carrier shall have the option of refusing to accept the shipment at the low rate, and require the shipper to sign a statement in duplicate that he desires shipment to move via a specified route and understands that a higher rate will be assessed for such service. One copy of the statement shall be retained in the files of the initial agent, and the other attached to the way bill. If the initial carrier accepts shipment without requiring above statement, it shall be responsible for the application of the lowest rate. ITEM No. 8. All shipments shall be through-billed from origin to destination, and the way bill shall show through what junctions shipments are to be moved, and full name and address of consignor, in consignor's column. ITEM No. 9. The rates named in Items 4 and 5 are for application on shipments moving via one line of railroad or via two or more lines of railroad, which are either directly or indirectly under the same management and control. Through joint rates for the transportation of shipments via two or more lines of railroad, which are not directly under the same management and control, shall be made by using the rates shown in items 4 and 5 for the continuous mileage, as provided in Item No. 7, from origin to destination, and adding the following arbitrary figures, observing combination of local rates a maximum To rates shown in Item No. 4 add two and one-half (2.5) cents. To rates shown in Item 5 add three (3) cents. ITEM No .10. The rates named herein apply on shipments in standard cars. A "standard car" shall be considered as either a common or palace car, 36 ft. 6 inches in length, inside measurement, and cars other than this size shall take the following percentage of the minimum weight herein: Less than 36 feet 6 inches, 96 per cent; 38 feet and over 36 feet 6 inches, 104 per cent; 40 feet and over 38 feet, 108 per cent; 42 ft and over 40 feet, 112 per cent; over 42 feet, 120 per cent. ITEM No. 11. Shipments of live stock named herein may be stopped once in transit to finish loading at a charge of $5.00 per car. Such stop must be directly intermediate between point of origin and destination and shall be limited to twenty-four hours. ITEM No. 12. The rates named herein include the following transportation for caretakers an dattendants: One car, one man, one way; two to five cars, two men, each way; 11 or more cars, three men each way; where two or more cars reach the market on the same train, which are for the same shipper, a return pass shall be issued to the attendants to the point nearest the market from which either of said cars originated. Carriers need not transport women or incompetent persons as caretakers or attendants. Return passes will only be issued to those who actually accompany the shipments from origin to destination, riding on the same train with such shipments and the carriers may adopt reasonable means for the identification of such parties. ITEM No. 13. Rates on live stock named herein, other than "live stock in condition for slaughter" will be made by first ascertaining rate on such live stock in condition for slaughter as provided herein, and deducting twenty (20) per cent therefrom, observing rate shown in Items Nos. 4 and 5 for ten miles as minimum. ITEM No. 14. Cars furnished for loading animals named in Items 1, 2, 3 and 13 shall be properly bedded by the carriers providing same before being placed for loading. ITEM No. 15. All rates on live stock named herein in effect between points in this State on February 4, 1911, that are lower than the rates named herein for distances over ten miles shall remain in ecect as maximum rates to be charged between said points until the 4th day of August, 1911, unless otherwise ordered by this Commission. ITEM No. 16. It is hereby ordered and directed that the railways and railroads named above shall prepare joint rates and publish necessary tariffs to carry out the provisions of this order. Two copies of such tariff shall be filed with the Commission for the account of each and every road named herein, and one copy shall be posted in each freight office of each and every carrier named herein, in this state, prior to the effectiveness of this order. This case will be held open on the docket of this Commission, so that if carriers fail to agree on a division of the revenue on joint line shipments moving under this order, this Commission can direct the basis of such adjustment. ITEM No. 17. Rates named in this order, as stated above, are maximum rates, and if any of the carriers promulgate rates applicable between two points in this State lower than the rates provided for herein, copies of such rate shall be posted in their freight offices and filed with this Commission before effectiveness. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 4, 1911. To All Railroads: ORDER NO. 440. SWITCHING RATES. (Modified by Order No. 891.) Notice is hereby given that the following order shall be in full force and effect on and after the 23rd day of March, 1911, a date after publication once a week for four consecutive weeks in the Daily Oklahoman, a newspaper of general circulation, published in Oklahoma City, County of Oklahoma, State of Oklahoma. No railroad or railway company operating or doing business in the State of Oklahoma shall assess or collect for the services enumerated herein a greater charge than provided herein, without first securing the authority of the Commission therefor. This order will be governed by rules and regulations heretofore or hereafter issued by the Commission where same do not conflict with rules named herein. ITEM No. 1. The charges in dollars and cents per car for switching cars shall be as follows: 11⁄2 miles and less. 21⁄2 miles and over 11⁄2 miles-- $2.00 31⁄2 miles and over 21⁄2- $2.70 $3.00 ITEM No. 2. Rates shown in Item No. 1 shall include the handling of a car loaded in one direction and empty in the opposite direction. When a car is loaded in both directions the charges mentioned in Item No. 1 shall be ap plied for both such movements. ITEM No. 3. Charges shown in Item No. 1 as switching charges are to cover the service performed by a carrier in switching cars between industries located upon its own line and the track connection with said carrier from which said loaded car is received or to which said loaded car is delivered. The dis |