Show CONDITIONS ARE BETTER DECLARE RAILROAD MEN i J A A. A Reeves general freight agent atthe ot at the Oregon Short Line Lino and C C. I. I Tuttle assistant general freight n agent ent of or th tIme same com company pan have havo returned from a aI visit I lt to tho the east cast Mr l n Reeves was wa-i. summoned to Washington to testify before betor tho the Interstate in interstate In- In commerce commission on lumber rates In the northwest Mr Ir Heaves Keeves said eald that it probably will be Lc several oral months before the commission Is ready to report on oil account of or the large number of witnesses witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses which have havo been summoned Mr Ir Tuttle went to Chicago to attend a rn meeting of the Trans Missouri Freight association Owing to the ah absence of ot several soy fie eral oral representatives of western lines hines tho the meeting was postponed until January Januar 8 Both oth Mr Reeves Ree and Mr Tuttle said bald that financial conditions in the east and middle west are improving |