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Show EARNINGS INCREASED. Shippers Give Views in Rate Cast Hearing at Chicago. Chicago. Testimony that the west ern railroads, instead of becoming im poverished, .have in the last five years earned more revenue than ever before in their history was offered at the in terstate commerce commission hear bag on Tuesday of the forty-one western west-ern railroads' petition for highei rates on certain commodities. Answering the railroads' plea thai they be permitted to charge rates thai will yield them at least $10,000,000 a year more revenue, Wayne Ellis, sta tistician of the Iowa railroad commis sion, asserted that the railroads judged by statistics which he com. piled, were prosperous. |