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Show A FREIGHT WAR LOOKED FOR. The Union Pacific Will be Interested in the Fiffht. Chicago, Aug. 6. The Great Northern Railway people are impatient to enter the Pacific Coast trade line, now completed to Spokane, but it will take ten months yet to reach the coast. The management is trying to make traffic arrangements with the Union Pacific for placing a through service on the line at once. This would precipitate a sharp competition between the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific for transcontinental trans-continental traffic. A consultation with the Union Pacific officials looking to the proposed pro-posed arrangement is now progressing at Omaha. If effected, a war in passenger and freight rates is looked for. |