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Show RAILROAB NOTES A press dispatch from Kansas City sajs that the Atchison, Topeka & Santa San-ta Fe has dismissed C2 conductors, brakemen and porters, many of them long In tho service; and that some of these men aro to be prosecuted In the courts for Irregularities in tho collection collec-tion of fares. The National Wool Growers' association associa-tion has filed with the Interstate commerce com-merce commission a petition for a general reduction in the rates on wool from tho Pacific coast and Rocky mountain states to Boston, New York, Chicago and other eastern markets. It is complained that wool in any quantity quan-tity Is charged at the second class rate, whereas toxtlle fibres similar in weight and value are given fourth cla6.s rating In carloads and are frequently fre-quently moved on commodity rates at much loss than fourth cIubs rates Sierra Railway Company of California. Califor-nia. The Southern Pacific is said to have secured control of this company, and it Is understood -will robulld the road which is now in operation between be-tween Oakdale, Cal., and Angeles, 60 miles. The Harriman Lines have ordered 1,200 tons of rails from the Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia Steel company., Oregon Short L'ne. On the Montana Mon-tana division of tho Aberdeen branch baB been opened for business from Moreland Juncthjn, Idaho, southwest of Aberdeen, 2S 2 miles. |