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Show I. . i ..j Mediators Reach Chicago. .Ir CHICAGO. March 17. When Martin .jli1 A. Knnpp, chairman ot tho interstate ,,'.(! coiiuneice commission, and Hr Charles ,3f !; I'. Xeill, commissioner of labor, ar- ,.'' rived in the cily from Washington to- knju 1 day they were prepared to take up the ajtM matter of settling the controversy be- 'Jjwjl Iwccu the locomotive firemen and the j "uh h western railroads. Meantime many , 's telegianis are I'Oiuing lo (). L. Dieke- ' f''H -i von, Ihe general managers' reprcscnla- j 'H '! tie. urging that the railroads do" ev- i j : )!'!" crvihing in tlicir power to avert, a j V strike. ,1 t'jM i One telegram received by Mr. ,"S jl Jukeson yesterday from the conimer- J " :? cial club 'of Grand Forks. N. I)., in- I ';)' ij sistcd "I hat a railroad strike at this time would result in thousands of I : jl J acres of fruit and farm lands being I ( '.!? unseeded and would prove disas- j H Irons' to busiuess interests in the west. 1 ll'.ljj To each telegram Mr. "Dickesou replied j ,M:l1 l'10 railroads felt confident a set-tlement set-tlement would be reached and that I'll :i. there would be no interruption of ": Pip traffic. |