Show IS THE AsA assistance stance in the case now before the interstate commerce commis commission gion tiled filed by ly the consolidated fuel com coin piny and the castle valley coal e of utah in february of this year la Is promised in a petition in intervention filed by the league of 0 southern idaho commercial clubs the league desires to become inter lenors and be bo permitted to bear testimony to the truth of the allegations made in the original complaint against various railroads charging discrimination in freight rates on utah coal consigned to points in southern idaho the petition in intervention was sent to dashington Nas hington last saturday the complaint filed against the railroad companies carries various charges of discriminating in rates as well as discrimination in ing cirs cars for shipment of coal to certain coal raining mining companies op r acing in wyoming twentysix twenty six railroads are named as deft defendants in the case including the lines operating in utah the difference in rates as shown by the original OTO om plaint held to be in discrimination are from twenty five cents to 1 85 a it ton making it prohibitory for the utah operators to ship coil coll into the idaho territory in open competition according to the allegations the petition in intervention presented by the league of commercial clabe has to do only with ith the idaho territory affected by the prohibitory hibi tory rates the petition Is signed by riley atkinson secretary of the league of clubs and was drawn by ira D barber an attorney it f dolse boise city the petition Is in seven sevell sepa ee pant roto pra paragraphs graphs and recites the facts as set out in the complaint the petition goes on to say that the towns and cities of boise duricy burley caldwell cambridge cumbridge gooding Oo hagerman halley alley II mccammon mountain home nampa pocatello roseberry seberry no rupert st anthony shoshone twin falls and wendall all are within the natural market m arket field of the product of the complaining coal a and that the towns named consume more ahn tons of bituminous coal annually and that under existing freight rates coal Is heir hele at an a average price of ellet dollars a ton and that by reason of a monopoly ef the market made possible by the discriminating rates coal cannot be obtained at a less cost furthermore it Is alleged this brings about coil cod famines especially in winter and that relief cannot be found it Is asserted the complaint flir furthermore ther sas thit if the defendant jdant j are permitted to continue the pr ent rates that more distress will follow among the people of the die dis brict named as the vast mijo minority rity am are dependent upon coal 1 as fuel the petition avers that it if the die dis crimination ta Is abolished b the in lon of the commission it would tend to lessen the cost of coal coat la in the district mentioned and would also tend to void coal and fuel famines and the discomfort and suf suffering fring incident thereto |