Show HOP GROWERS ASK FOR LOWER RATES Coast M Men n Send Petition t ta to the Transcontinental Transcontinental Trans Trans- continental Fr Freight ight Bureau Witness Is Arrested PORTLAND Ore Feb 20 Pacific Pacific coast hop-growers hop and dealers have petitioned petitioned pe pe- for lower freight rates to the East The petition is to the transcontinental tal freight bureau It has been signed by the most moat promInent prominent prominent prom prom- dealers in Oregon Washington and California by leading growers and by the Hop-Growers' Hop associations of three States A reduction of the freight rate from 2 cents cent to 1 Is sought |