The Old story Chicago 17Representatives of the Iowa trunk lines and a delegation delega-tion of Omaha wholesale merchants will hold a conference in this city on Friday The merchants complain com-plain of the rigidty of the freight tariff They say that previous to January 1st jobbers could get special rates but tliat since then retailers could get precisely the same rates as themselves They claim that unless they can get concessions con-cessions the wholesale business at Omaha and other points must perish