Show HEARINGS BEGUN IN RENO RATE CASE SAN FRANCISCO CISCO Nov No 2 Hearings weri begun this morning before Special Examiner Lyon Lon acting for tho the Interstate commerce commission in tho Reno neno case Tho rho C case lse Is one In tho local merchants merchants mer mer- chants are aro seeking to protect their dis- dis territory The complaint was vas flied rl h by the hur bureau au oC or th the Merchants Merchants' Merchants Merchants' Merchants Merchants' Mer Mer- chants' chants exchange It Il attacks tho the rates of the tho Southern Pacific from this city and Sacramento to to points between bet the thc western western west west- ern era Nevada un und and Ogden Utah as an un unreasonably unreasonably J.- J. high The Tho commission Is 18 asked to order a general rc reduction of oC the tar tur- iffs S Figures are set act forth In the complaint to su support pot the charge that tho per ton per mile rate over this section Is greater than In any other part of western Amen Amerl- ca |