Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-04 | Page 3 | Interstate Commerce Body on Barbed Wire Freight

INTERSTATE COMMERCE BODY ON BARBED WIRE FREIGHT WASHINGTON, July 3 The Interstate Inter-state commerce commission decided today that barbed wire, no a part of an emigrant's outfit, should take tho Bame freight rate as other movables, a difference In the rate of 40 cents a hundred pounds his question has assumed as-sumed large proportions in tho west, where differences In opinion between' the railroads and emigrants have been arising continually. Today's decision Is directed against the Northern Pacific Pa-cific railroad and other northwestern carriers In the case brought to the commission by A. B. Hoodma, a Montana Mon-tana ranchman, oo