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Show m . R. H. RATES TO CO yPTONIGHT i I Increase in Freight and Pas- I senger Schedules Effective I at Midnight I Increases In freight and passenger raten on all lines In the Unhed Slates I will take effect at midnight tonight t according to Thompson Corn, general I passenger agent at the union depot. I The passenger increases will total 20 I per cent over the rates which will go I out of existence this evening, while J the freight rates are Increased from 23 C j to 40 per cent in various parts of the I United States Tickets purchased to- k . 1 day and used today on any line will j ! be honored by passengers under the r t old rate providing the passenger makes I Hp through trip without Btopovere. If I stopovers are made the additional j Charge from the point of stopover to the end of the passenger s Journe will t ! be added, jj Hundreds of tourists have made in- ' IH onirics regarding the new rates at i be H union depot while practically every gLgH business man in the city has asked for w! information on the rate increases for ' freight j Freight rates will be advanced 25 per , . if) cent from points west of Cheyenne, Wyo , to the Pacific coast it is said, i jrg7 while the rater from Chicago to Che j 'L enne will carry an increase of 35 peri fl iW cent nnd freight from ihe Atlantic! fil; coast to Chicago will administer an! Bp increase of 40 per cent. Freight ship- j rfB ped from one zone to another will be, I t increased 33 18 per cent, f t While these rates become effective! f . j tomorrow the Interstate rates will not t T fK become effective until September 1. I .. according to railroad officials. The WT public utilities commission at its hear- y ing yesterday granted intrastate in-1 L creases on all freight with the ex-J ceptlon of coal and ore", to take effect imjtm , - with one day's notice 1 he r::t I t rjHr ' the slate howev er, will not take effec t 9 tintil September 1 If the present plans I of the railroads mature |