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Show Back to Old Rates. New Yoke, April 2. One of the bitterest railroad rate wars that the Western road3 have ever known has probably come to an end. The transcontinental pool was broken 1 1 on the 19th of February by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Company announcing a cut in the rates between New York and San J Francisco? All of the lines in the pool met the cut, and the result has been that travelers travel-ers . and freight have gone to California points at extremely low rates. It is understood under-stood among railroad men that President Strong practically presented his ultimatum to President Huntington of the Southern Pacifio on Thursday, and that Mr. Hunting-: ton asked until to-day to answer it, and by telegraph he did answer it, and immediately his agents announced to shippers that the rates would be restored to the old basis after to-morrow. The Atohison agents have not yet received orders on the subject, though they are expected to every hour. |