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Show FREIGHT RATES. Hi . H A Matter of Great Importance to IB Utah Under Consideration. B i JIB i! the ucbTiMi is saitr.r. rfl P Tin Result Anxiously Awaited ty lIB f Cltlietis Generally. Hajlj' nri'iirHi.irATm: (lAriirmxi i 11 or Itnllroail Ofllclula Ulilrh Alona l Bl Lookeil I'piiK . n Ill tlrlurr Ml (cr th. l'fiilf. UHM ToJjy la an lmH)iUnt on. In tfin (BSh hlitory ol fulght ttanjprt!lou ami eHH builuou oltclea la Utah, l'roiiilui lit HKj mirclmiti mj cltlzenn genemlly ri t BBM of tho opinion that It l thu dawn nf mi HBI If tra long lookixl ntiil lone hourtl and BHf I worliuil for. I'or mora than n ISwJf oar tho Chamber of Comroerco HHt J of thl. city hat fought valiantly atid Mf oirucatly agalmt tliu unjiikt iMhocIihI- Bffft nitlon by tho rallroada In freight tram- Bfi1 ! jwrtatlon to thl. Tcnitorj. Tho Idea HKJ J of conlestliiK tho leKulily of tho notion Br , I Df "10 ralliray couipanlee waa oon- :lw!CJ reived and was bvlui; furced to an BE) M' lue when at tho nuggeatlon of a Iwgu HbKSM number of luiltun men n meeting of Hf arbitration betweou themtelTea and tha BKlij Inllroud reprenentitlvea waa agriud i Bad if upon to bo held In tula city beginning .SJ gb! today. W ffi Anionic tho railway men now hero nl!lii from other poluta to attend thourbltra. iHrKs tlon oonrentlon aru: I'rialUent B.H. tllnlk I' (JI"'kL ot thu Ul.lon l'acltlo, inlif f- Awlctaut Uoncral Muiiuner l'.d, auv nl Dlcl(lnffont J. A Monroo, rcii- iUB ' eral fielKht und tralllo manager, rtUI JuOgo Kelly, legal couuaelor for tha , . Unloul'aclllanudB. W. I'.ccluof tho 1 v friliiht department, nltli headquattira JB J i Intnl. city. ItlJB'S Tt, lo Uramio la repreionttd by llllfl r Colonel Dodge, guncral muniKir, aud HMJ ' Ueneral freight Ai(oiit IlaUock. MKE ,f, Tliu Denver & ltlo (Irando by ticner- Uljf !l a Freight Agent Well.. tttW V Tnu Houtheru 1'aoillo by Itlohard flHf i Uray, Reueral tratllo mnnuger, with iHn ! head iitartera In Han Franilaco. iflH jf The Chicago, ltoclt Iiluiid A. I'ncldo HH i I'y CJeuiral 1- eight Agent M. M, Huge, nt with headquaitcra at Uhloago. IH Tbolluillngtou and Mlntourl Illver II railway by Ucneral Freight Agiut I THHi JorKli.(Jioby, and tho Atchlion, I llSB Tol lktl u"d Hiutu Fu by Ueuorul I bBR Freight Agent F. U. (Iray, I Wtm At 10 a. in. today all thu gentlemen El Hit named above, with thu ixctitlouof I Enl Colonel Dodge, who did not iirrltn U (BIke I bero until thla afternoon on nrcouutof J kuUf :i v ,l", tel" Jly.l. met ut tho 1 Vfm, KnuUford with tbo comiultteo npj olnt- 1 a 1wm"!L- --..- cd by tho tutlnraa men. Tho com mlttee (oniUlaof V. 11. ltemlugtnn, (leurgo llomney, A. V.. Hyde, (,. 1'. Mason, John Clark, Ucorgu T. Udell and W. II. Howe. Tho meeting waa n brief ono nnd waa held behind cloaed doora and nd. Journed at tbo miiiret of thu lllo Urando oQIChla until 2 10 this alter. noon to allow Colonel Dodgo to bo prenent. For many years the railway. Imvo been Mppcaled to In vain to right the wrongathey were practicing on the people of this Territory, but never before be-fore has IheroJiecn such tanglblo evl ilencoof rellornji la now promised. Tho ireaenre of these railway magnutra In this olty a", uno tlmo la n victory In and of luelf. It Is rumored, however, Mint tho railways will only make n partial concession. con-cession. In that ovent tho Chamber of Comiuorco will proticuln lui caso to n finish buforo tlM Interstate Couimerco Commission, and 1'resldciit Dsnncllnn and Hecretnry Hears aro moro iniipulnn of triumph than ever before. Tho trocoodluga of the Investigation will bewntchiid Willi tbo uroitext of tutor-est, tutor-est, and will, to far na they uro obtain, nblr, bo promptly publlshid lu tho Hi v a. |