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Show I CONSPIRACY CHARGED. Northewestern Lumber Men Make Complaints Against Railroads. Washington. Forty-nlno lumber companies doing business In Oregon, ' ff (Washington and Idaho, havo Hied complaints against twonty railroad 1 companies operating In that . region S and tho states tributary thereto, al- 1 ;loging that thoso roads havo unlaw. I fully combined and raUod tho rato of h freight on lumber from 3 cents to 12 cents per hundred pounds. Tho complainant list Is headed by tho Pot- latch Lumber company. Tho other ' "forty complaining firms -aro said to '; comprlso tho most prominent lumber i , companies of tho Oregon region. Among Uio defendant railroad companies com-panies nro tho Northern Paclllc, Great jnorthorn, Union Pacific, Burlington, , Southern Pacific, Chicago, Milwaukee !& St. Paul and tho Oregon, Short Lino. Consplrny between tho twonty defondnnt roads 1b chnrged, and It Is charged that tho proposed now rato Is unreasonable. |