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Show I Hi 00 STREET CAR COMPANY I SEEKING NEW RATES I SAT LAKE, May 1. Following the SI granting of increased wages to em-Ployos, em-Ployos, tho Utah Light & Traction com-I com-I Pnny yesterday applied to the public utilities commission of Utah for per-If per-If mission to make effective "forthwith" U a now schedule of rates, providing for D an 8-cent fare to replace the present I 6-;enJt caflli fare. The company also I f8ked for commutation tickets of thir- teen for 51 to replace the presont tic-I tic-I ?l twent' n, and students' I tickets at forty for 2, to replace tho I present tickets costing 3 conts each. I A ent transfer charge is also asked. I Tho proceedings are filed as sunple-I sunple-I mentary to the application now before I the commission, -which asks for a 7-I 7-I cent cash faro, a 1-cent transfer and a 4-cent students' ticket. It is understood f that the public utilities commission will have no objeotion to reopening the caao to pormit tho presentation of evidence evi-dence in favor of tho Increase in fares, |