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Show INDICT FOUR RAILROADS Federal Jurors Believe Roads Have Violated Shipping Laws. Omaha, .Neb., Nov. 1 Indictments against four railroad companies charging charg-ing them with violations of the laws in concessions granted in shipments of alfalfa food from Omaha to points Ju nearby states were returned by a 'grand jury In the federal court here today. The Missouri Pacific railway, the Chicago, Rock Island &. Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Wabash aro alleged to have cut quoted quot-ed rates on 00 pounds of alfalfa 1 and 5 cents. - In connection with the Indictments was an announcement of the district attorney's office here saying other indictments in-dictments were likely to follow because be-cause of the Lutcntlou of the government govern-ment to force carriers to maintain published rates in order to prevent discrimination |