Show WESTERN RATE WAR 4 Hot Fight For Educational Convention Conven-tion Business 4 RATES WAY BE CUT IN TWO 4 NO REDUCTIONS FOR STUDENTS RETURNING HOME + I Western Roads Withdraw the Rates For Volunteers Reduction In Time On Southern Piscine Rio GrandeWestern to Be Extended to Heber Railway Notes Chicago May 22 Owing to the fight in progress among the transcontinental roads over passenger rat s for the atonal a-tonal Education associations convention conven-tion in Los Angeles it is said the rates to Colorado points will be cut in two and that the affair will probably liilng about an extensive western rate war All the western roads have replied to Inquiries sent out by the chairman ft the Western Passenger association notifying no-tifying him S at they will not make any reduction In rates for students returning re-turning to their homes for the summer vacations A call was Issued today for another meeting of western lines to resume the consideration of the immigrant question ques-tion and the proposed revision of the Western Passenger association agreement agree-ment where it was left off at the adjournment ad-journment of the meeting last week The adjourned meeting will be held next Thursday by which time it is hoped all the roads will have reached a definite I conclusion as to the course to be pursued pur-sued Western roads have agreed to cease making any reductions from the Missouri Mis-souri river to California for the transportation trans-portation of volunteers returning to their homes This arrangement will go into effect June 1 At the same time it is expected the Southern Pacific yfill put into effect the same arrangement from New Orleans |