Show The Railroads Chicago 303 F Tucker gen eneral manager of the Illinois Central Cen-tral yesterday assured Commissioner Commis-sioner Middey that the Central would continue to compete for Omaha business as long as other Iowa lines continue to demcialzs rates from Sioux City and other points on the Iowa division ot the Central The latter have a contract with the St Paul and Omaha line dome business to and from Omaha via Sioux City It can n ake a westbound west-bound rate at six months notice This is the only fight on hand In the northwest The earnings of the Chicago and Alton have so tar increased in-creased 629000 over lat year the total earnings being 8022000 this year New York 30 Keernans News says the advance In Denver and Rio Grande yesterday was undoubtedly undoubt-edly due to the covering of a large short Interest assisted by buying orders from Amsterdam and the manipulation by the Oaborn pool That the Denver will work in unison uni-son with tho Union Pacific is not generally believed nor can any au aentic source be found for the statement state-ment It ia not unlikely however that a uniform schedule of rates will be adopttd and that the roads will work in harmony Hugh Riddle of the Rock Island will in a few days leave for California Califor-nia where accompanied by his family he will spend the winter returning turning in the spring |