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Show Poor Railroads Suffer. CHICAGO. Nov. W.-Ofrtcials of the railroad companies which the cattle raisers rais-ers of the Southwest claim are charging charg-ing exorbitant freight rates on live stock shipments were the principal witnesses before the Interstate Commerce commission commis-sion today. A. F. Bailey, chief auditor for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Rail-road company, testified that live stock traffic is the most expensive of any handled han-dled by the road. R. M. Calkins, assistant general freight agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, corroborated this. |