Custom grinding and Most Mills grind about 3600 lbs of Flour in 12 Hours and the Mill toal would Be 600 lbs Sold at $9.00 the Coal alone to run the Mill will Cost $4.50 it ust to be 600 lbs of Flour would Bring $18.00 Insted of $9.00 now and it Did not take any More Coal to get it then than it Does now and for any thing to Make Coal Cost us More woud Damage us and Do no Body any good. And for the Millers Sake of Ky do Stop the Inditements. Yours, &c., C. D. DAMON. Having carefully investigated and considered the complaint before recommending the indictments, and in no wise intimidated by the literary bureau of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, the Commission, believing that the laws of the State had been wantonly and knowingly violated, and that this effort upon the part of this company to thus invade the court, and by outside pressure and extraneous influences take away from this tribunal the opportunity to hear and grant a fair and impartial trial of these indictments was but the course so often resorted to by the guilty to escape just punishment, ignored the appeals, attended the several trials in person, and assisted in the prosecution of each of them. One case was selected from each of the three classes of indictments returned by the grand jury. Each of these three trials resulted in a verdict of guilty. In the cases for extortion and for discrimination the penalty was fixed at $500 in each case, and in the third case at $100. The cases were stubbornly contested by both sides, and were appealed by the defendant to the Court of Appeals, where they are now pending. So far as advised no such disastrous results have followed these convictions, as the manufacturing and coal interests of the State were induced to believe, nor are the Commission at all apprehensive that any such will occur, but, upon the contrary, should the Appellate Court uphold the Commission, it may enable this Board to procure more just and reasonable rates for all classes of shippers throughout the State and put an end to the evil practice of granting rebates to the favored few. Passenger Station at Harrodsburg. During the last year the Southern Railway in Kentucky has complied with the Commission's order, and erected a suitable passenger station at Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Passenger Station at Buckner's. The attention of the Commission was called by Hon. R. F. Peake to the necessity for a passenger station at Buckner's Station, upon the Cincinnati Division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, in Oldham county. The attention of the proper official was called to the matter, and he was requested and did have erected a suitable passenger station at that point. Glascock & Co., live stock dealers at Shelbyville, Kentucky, made complaint to the Commission on account of the failure and refusal of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company to receive, switch or transport a car load of sheep consigned by said firm at Shelbyville, Kentucky, to Thompson, Ewing & Co., Bourbon Stock Yards, Louisville, Kentucky, via the "Southern Railway Company in Kentucky." The complainants allege that the car containing the sheep was transported by the "Southern Railway Company in Kentucky," from Shelbyville, Kentucky, to Louisville, Kentucky, to a point upon the line of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, where there is and was a physical connection between the tracks of said companies and where the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company had previously received and transported cars loaded with stock to the Bourbon stock yards. The Commission was requested to investigate the complaint and to take such steps as the law and facts might warrant. The matter was at once taken up by the Commission, a thorough investigation was made, and the following witnesses were sworn and their testimony reduced to writing, as follows: G. R. Bentley, being duly sworn, says that he is connected with the freight department of the Southern Railway Company; that on the 27th day of February, 1895, he had information that a car load of stock would come from Shelbyville, Kentucky, over the Southern Railway Company's line, consigned to the Bourbon Stock Yards' Company; that immediately thereafter he wrote a letter to C. J. Klein, who is the city agent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, which letter is in the following words and figures, to wit: "LOUISVILLE, KY., Feb. 27, 1895. "C. J. KLEIN, ESQ., Agent, City: "DEAR SIR: L. S. Car 540, loaded with sheep from Shelbybyville, Kentucky, destined to Bourbon Stock Yards, Louisville, Kentucky, will arrive at Louisville, via our line this afternoon. Please advise by bearer if you will accept same, and switch to the Bourbon Stock Yards, if accompanied by proper trackage ticket. "Yours truly, "E. D. CASEY, Agent." Affiant states that as soon as this letter was written he gave it to Mr. J. K. Baker, who was directed to carry it to Mr. Klein and get an answer; that Mr. Baker returned, and notified him that the Louisville and Nashville people said they could not handle it; that this occurred a short time after he gave the letter to Mr. Baker; that afterwards he was instructed to go out to the Louisville and Nashville local office and have the answer confirmed; that he went out there, and Mr. Klein and Mr. Hawley, his chief clerk, were not in; that he then started up town, but after a little while came back, so as to be able to catch them, but it seemed as far as he could learn that they had him watched, and never did turn up at all after he left the office; that he was there three times, and all this occurred on the 27th of February, 1895. Affiant further states that he was talking to Mr. Winstandley, cashier of the Louisville and Nashville, and he stated that Mr. Baker was there with a letter, and he gave the letter to Mr. Klein, and Mr. Klein handed him the letter back, and said they could not handle it. Affiant further says that after the refusal of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company to receive the car above named, being L. S. car, No. 540, it was switched to the Louisville Stock Yards, at Fourteenth and Lexington streets, and there unloaded; and affiant further says that the conversation which he refers to as having been had with the officers of the Louisville and Nashville was after the car load of stock had arrived in the city of Louisville, and was ready for delivery to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. Affiant further says that he knows the conditions which exist in regard to shipments of stock along the line of the Louisville Southern contiguous to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and that no stock can be shipped over the Louisville Southern into the city of Louisville by reason of this refusal of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company to allow stock to be switched to the Bourbon Stock Yards which comes from any of the points where the said stock can reach the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, or those competing with the Louisville and Nashville. Affiant further says that on a former occasion, within the past month, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company refused to make a like delivery. GEORGE R. BENTLEY, Subscribed and sworn to before me by G. R. Bentley this first day of March, 1895. M. DUNCANSON, Notary Public Jefferson County, Kentucky. J. K. Baker, being duly sworn, says that he is in the employ of the Southern Railway Company, at Louisville, Kentucky, in the freight office; that on the 27th day of February, 1895, he was informed that there would be a car load of stock shipped from Shelbyville, Kentucky, over the Southern Railway, consigned to the Bourbon Stock Yards; that Mr. Bentley gave him a letter addressed to C. J. Klein, city agent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, and on his way to dinner he took this letter out and delivered it to Klien; that the first man he saw was Mr. Winstandley, who is cashier in Mr. Klein's office; that he asked if Mr Klein or Mr. Hawley were in. Mr. Winstandley told him neither of them were in; that he then asked if there was anybody who could answer the letter, and Mr. Winstandley tore open the envelope, took the letter out and read it, went back to the middle of the room, and he then heard somebody talking over the telephone, saying that the Southern Railway Company had a car load of stock coming in this afternoon from Shelbyville, and asking the party at the other end if they could take the stock. They talked a while, and the fellow at the other end answered back that he could not understand what Mr. Klein said, several times; that he judged it was Klein, by his voice. He said: "I will tell them I can not take it then." And he supposed in the meantime he handed the letter back to Mr. Winstandley, for he came back and gave him the letter and said: "We can't take it." Affiant says, to the best of his information, he believes the party who was at the telephone and inquired whether they should receive the stock or not, was Mr. Klein. Affiant says, after this conversation ceased, when Mr. Winstandley came back from the part of the office where this party had been talking over the telephone, he handed him back the letter, and said they would not take the stock, and the letter referred to, and which he delivered to Winstandley for Klein, and on which he received the answer, is the same as that set up in the affidavit of G. R. Bentley. J. K. BAKER. Subscribed and sworn to before me by J. K. Baker this first day of March, 1895. M. DUNCANSON, Notary Public Jefferson County, Kentucky. STATE OF KENTUCKY, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON. Commission expires June 28, 1896. Sct.: E. D. Casey, being duly sworn, says that he is freight agent of the Southern Railway Company in the city of Louisville, |