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Show Railroad Notes. 1 Executive officials of Western railroads, rail-roads, in readjusting the schedule of grain rates and trying to settle the grain-rate war, have Incidentally started another war. This will probably prob-ably result In the reduction! of tho Iowa rates 33 1-3 per cent. The now fight Is over the question whether the new rates from Omaha and Kansas east to Chicago Chi-cago shall be considered local or proportioned pro-portioned rates. The ticket scalpers of Chicago are preparing to make a bitter fight against the Injunction wult to be brought by the railroads to prevent the ticket brokero from scalping the low rate tickets sold by railroads from Northern and Eastern East-ern points to the St. Louis exposition. exposi-tion. The Chicago Great Western Railroad company has filed with the Ullrtolsj Secretary Sec-retary of State a "certificate increasing its capital stock from J30.000.000 to $50,-000,000.-' , Hereafter if an excess-fare train does not run up to tho time' schedule laid out for it, passengers recclvo a rebate, |