Show EXTORTION IS ALLEGED. Porto Rlcan Fruit Growers Appeal to Exeeutlvo Council. San Juan. P. It. The Porto ltlcr Fruit Growers'' aseoelatlen has ap pealed to the executive couuel! against the proposed new freight tariff of the Ameilean Railroad eommn which will booome effective In Novein her Tho association claims tint an fifcYSaee amounting to from 2f0 f SO per cent over the present rale waul ' be ruinous to the development of th fruit Industry. Tho railroad traterse thousands of a.ores of pineapple an ' orange lands from which the Pr shipments were made thl esr. I'n der the terms of the company's frn chlse the power to fix rates la vegti1 In the executive council. |