A complete file will be kept of all these accidents and after classifying them on the basis of causes, they will be examined carefully with a view of recommending changes or modifications in the operation of train or other service, such as might reasonably be expected to prevent their repetition, or, at least, reduce the number of casualties. will be issued directing the correcting of faulty construction or service with a view of promoting the safety and protection of property and lives of the public and employees of the corporations.

Orders

FORMAL COMPLAINTS.

(Cases Nos. 114 to 283, inclusive.

There is here presented a consecutive list of all the formal complaints submitted to the Commission from January 1, 1911, to and including June 30, 1912.

The more important of these cases are discussed fully in other parts of this report. It has seemed sufficient, therefore, for the purposes of this tabulation merely to indicate the nature of the complaint in each case and the final disposition thereof in those instances in which the case has been closed.

This tabulation records only the action taken by the Commission on these cases on or before June 30, 1912. The next annual report will continue this record and show the action which is taken by the Commission on these cases subsequent to June 30, 1912.

Case No. 114.

CHARLES PAFF vs. NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.
(Dismissed February 28, 1911.)

The complaint in this action was filed November 29, 1910. and alleged that the defendant company had made an unreasonable increase in the commutation, round trip, and single fares charged for the ferry service from Tiburon to San Francisco. The complaint requested that the Commission investigate the cause of the increase and establish a reasonable minimum rate.

Defendant company in its answer disclosed a plan already under way to greatly increase the character and frequency of the ferry service, and the complainant thereupon requested that the action be dismissed, which was done.

Case No. 115.

BOARD OF HARBOR COMMISSIONERS OF LOS ANGELES 18. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY AND SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES AND SALT LAKE RAILROAD COMPANY.

(Decided October 4, 1911.)

The complaint in this action was filed February 8, 1911, and drew in question the reasonableness of its class rates and certain of the commodity rates of the defendant companies on their branch lines between Los Angeles and the harbor at San Pedro. The Commission, in its decision, materially reduced the rates charged by the Southern Pacific Company and incorporated in the decision a new schedule of rates which said company was required to adopt. The Southern Pacific Company appealed to the Federal Court to have the Commission enjoined from enforcing its order in this case. The order of the Commission, however, was upheld in the Federal court by Judge Van Fleet, on February 7, 1912 (193 Fed. 699), on which day the Southern Pacific Company's complaint was dismissed without leave to amend. The rates established by the Commission were thereupon put into effect. The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake voluntarily reduced their rates to meet those established by the Southern Pacific Company.

Case No. 116.

TRAFFIC BUREAU OF THE MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE vs. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY AND ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FÉ RAILWAY COMPANY, defendants, AND ASSOCIATED JOBBERS OF LOS ANGELES, STOCKTON JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION, KERN COUNTY MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION, intervenors.

(Decided March 18, 1912.)

The Traffic Bureau of the Merchants' Exchange, representing the members of the association, as well as other merchants and manufacturers in San Francisco, filed the complaint in this action on February 11, 1911. The complaint drew in question the reasonableness of all the rates charged by the defendant companies on shipments of merchandise from Stockton to all points in the San Joaquin Valley.

The Associated Jobbers of Los Angeles were permitted to intervene in this action, and to bring in question the reasonableness of all the rates charged by both of the defendant carriers on shipments of merchandise from Los Angeles to all points in the San Joaquin Valley. The Kern County Merchants' Association and the Fresno Traffic Association were also allowed to intervene.

The Commission found that the rates were excessive, and ordered that reductions be made to comply with schedules of rates compiled by the Commission and incorporated in the decision.

Case No. 117.

GEORGE A. LEGG vs. NEVADA COUNTY NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD COMPANY AND SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

(Decided May 12, 1911.)

The complaint in this action was filed March 6, 1911, and requested that the Commission eliminate a transfer charge of 15 cents per ton collected by the defendant carriers upon all shipments of freight which require transference at Colfax from the broad gauge cars of the Southern Pacific to the narrow gauge cars of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Company; and also that the Commission refuse to allow the defendant companies to make a contemplated alteration in their tariffs, increasing the rate upon shipments of one ton or more, by requiring that there be at least a ton of each article constituting such shipments.

The Commission eliminated the transfer charge in all cases of less than carload shipments, and also refused to permit the carriers to make the contemplated alteration in their tariffs.

Case No. 118.

IN THE MATTER OF THE SCHEDULES OR TARIFFS SHOWN IN THE PACIFIC FREIGHT TARIFF BUREAU 44-A TO AND FROM ALTURAS.

(Decided May 10, 1911.)

The Pacific Freight Tariff Bureau, representing certain railroads, submitted to the Commission a revised tariff which materially reduced many of the existing rates of such railroads. though the tariff contained some advances in rates, among which were the rates charged on carload shipments to and from Alturas. After investigating the reasonableness of these advances the Commission allowed the advanced rates to become effective.

Case No. 119.

HENRY C. CUTTING rs. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

(Dismissed April 18, 1911.)

On March 30, 1911, the complainant instituted this action to get an order of the Commission requiring the Southern Pacific Company to permit the construction of a highway crossing over its tracks in the city of Richmond.

At the time the complaint was filed. a suit in the Superior Court of Contra Costa County had already been filed by the Board of Supervisors against the Southern

Pacific Railroad Company. Upon the termination of this suit, the parties made a satisfactory settlement between themselves. This action before the Commission was thereupon dismissed at the request of the complainant.

Case No. 120.

STEIGER TERRA COTTA AND POTTERY WORKS vs. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY.

(Dismissed May 11, 1911.)

The complaint in this case was filed March 31, 1911, and requested that reparation be granted for alleged overcharges to the amount of $253.09, collected on shipments of architectural terra cotta from South San Francisco to Sacramento. Upon request of complainant, the case was later dismissed.

Case No. 121.

M. S. CURRIER vs. WELLS, FARGO & COMPANY.
(Decided May 10, 1911.)

The complaint in this case was filed April 1, 1911, and alleged that the defendant company, through its agent at Oceano, was discriminating against complainant and in favor of the Oceano Clam Company, his rival in business, by frequently refusing to receive shipments of clams, and by tampering with such shipments as received in substituting therefor clams of a different grade.

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At the hearing on this case the complainant offered no evidence to sustain his charges, and the Commission ordered that the complaint be dismissed.

Case No. 122.

IN THE MATTER OF THE RATES OF CHARGES OF WELLS, FARGO AND COMPANY

EXPRESS.
Case No. 123.

IN THE MATTER OF THE RATES OF CHARGES OF THE GLOBE EXPRESS COMPANY.

Case No. 124.

IN THE MATTER of the RATES OF CHARGES OF THE AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY. These cases were instituted by the Commission upon its own motion in April and May, 1911, and drew in question the reasonableness of all the rates charged by the express companies within this State. The Commission has not yet completed its investigation in these cases.

Case No. 125.

KERN COUNTY MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION vs. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY, ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY, SUNSET RAILROAD COMPANY, SUNSET WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, MCKITTRICK BRANCH OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY AND NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA RAILWAY COMPANY. The complaint in this action was filed on May 11, 1911, and draws in question the reasonableness of the rates of the Sunset Railroad Company and Sunset Western Railway Company, between Bakersfield and the oil fields served by these lines, the rates on the McKittrick Branch of the Southern Pacific Company, between Bakersfield and Olig and intermediate points, the rates of the Nevada and California Railway from Mojave to Owenyo and intermediate points, and the rates of the Southern Pacific Company and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company from Bakersfield to Mojave and intermediate points.