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Show RATE HEARING ISJN TODAY Salt Lake. April ,r. Examiner W B. Settle, representing the Interstate commerce commission, arrived in the I city last night and will take up today the case of the Charles A Smurth-! Smurth-! v.alte Grain company against the I Oregon Short Line and other roads operating between here and the southern coast The complaint of the Smurthw. ite company is that the rate on wheat shinped from Utah and Idaho Ida-ho common points is f cents a hnn-: hnn-: dred hieher to Galveston, Tex.. th?n t Is to New Orleans, despite the fact I that tbe New Orleans haul is the ' longer The companies involved will plead tvter competition to New Or-I Or-I leans. Atnoni; those who arrived es-ferday es-ferday to defend the action are John T. Howe, arsistant general freight agent of the Trinity Brazos Valley railway, George Williams, assistant general freight agent of the Colorado 5- Southern railwaj and A. S. Brooks, i Mtorney for the Colorado & Southern j and tho Fort Worth & Denver railway. |