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Show ATTACK NORTHWEST FREIGHT RATES WASHINGTON. Jnua I. -Freight rates in the northwest were attacked today before be-fore the In ta rata too ommerce com ml salon by tha Mlaneapotla Traffic aaaoclatlon. The petition alleges that tha genera) freight rates between Minneapolis and point a In South Dakota and other potnta In the northwest which take th aame ratee are e&ceealve and In soma Instances exorbitant. The complaint la framed by all of the great shlppera of that section, who assert that the rates from Mlnneapoile to South Dakota and contiguous points are ao high aa to render them unable to do bualnesa. I. Nearly all tha cheese factories la Oer- 1 many are en the borders of Holland, Dea- I mark. Russia and Hwltaerlsnd. |