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Show oo uMlOAIJ HAIlij MFA.SIhARIr Interstate Commerce Commission Commis-sion Decides on Transcontinental Transconti-nental Charges Over S. P. NEBRASKA COMPLAINS Southern Pacific Announces Reduction on Freight Rates on Dried Fruits. Washington, July 1 Through transcontinental carload and less than carload rates over the Southern Pacific Pa-cific railroad to the Willamette valley val-ley and points south of Portland, Ore., made by adding to the rates to Portland Port-land and local class rates from Portland Port-land to destination, was found unreasonable unrea-sonable today by the interstate commerce com-merce commission and other rates were prescribed Washington, July 1. Complaints of the Nebraska railway commission against rates of the Union Pacific railway on wheat and corn and articles arti-cles tnking the same rates from certain cer-tain stations on the line of the Union Pacific in Nebraska to St. Joseph and Kansas City, Mo., and Leavenworth. Kans., was dismissed today by the interstate commerce commission with the announcement that they were not shown to be unreasonable. San Francisco. July 1. Reduction in carload freight rates on dried fruit from California to all points east of Colorado, which It was said would save snippers several hundred dollars annuallv. was announced bv tho Southern South-ern Pacific company, representing ail California terminal railroads |