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Show WARM COMMUNICATION ON RAILROAD RATE Salt La-ke City, June 14 Colo; F. M. Sterrett, executive director the forty-third G. A. R. encainpruv to be held in this city next August, 1 received a communication in reg. to railroad rates to the cncainpmf from California. The communlrat is dated at Lo.s Angeles, June W. 1 is as follows: "Dear Colonel: It would have Ri me great satisfaction to have ai you in adding to the success of (I probably the last national enca: ment west of the Mississippi rlvor bringing a large contingent U southern California to swell t'.ie tendance, but the extortion piactl bv the Salt Lake railway (San IVJ Los Augeles and Salt Lake railw demanding $30,000. has deadened Interest among the several thons veterans here that you can no! pend on any representation w mentioning. ' Your last letter to stating that tho effort would liav come from the department of Call nia and Nevada, I have turned ovf W. S. Daubensneck and urged li'n communicate with J. C. Stubbs, president and traffic manager of Southern Pacific lines, whose offk at Chicago, and stated to Dau speck that I had reliable informs that if he gave the word the Lake neople would make an ci'1 low rate with the Denver aii'l Grande, which Is but $17.75, and forty miles less than from l-,,s geles, and lhat the Salt' Lake hid power to do this under the inbr; coniriKTCi- law bv filing the rate n within thlilv days of the alo of cts; but I am informed today tha' department instead of g"lng to Sj' went again to the Salt Lake road w-as again turned down. They refused to make a less rate tliaJ to the Yeteran Fife and Drum c and this very attractive (eM" this department, consisting of toen veterans of the Civil war, be left behind when the coinnu and his adjutant general take ' departure for the "encaiiipnieut. I been dpartnient commander ! would have at least made tlio i at the fountain head, and if nei there woub' have publicly placed Salt Lake and Southern Pacific binatlon on record before the P of the c.iuntrv tbat we made j' to exist. The, great Harrln'fi-' road octopus intends 1 rhrott.e very life out .f freedom, biif Giand Armv of tho Republic bo the verv last to .sini'i"; rights and "llbi-rtles Kiev N'-j perpetuate, and personalK ' ' rather be called an anartln " -meekly wear the collar of commercialism. Nearly tw0. , vet remain, and yet I do not nv an.- results being attaiued at 10 of tiie line, but you nils Stubbs with effect. . "Wibhlng von the success . richly desene. 1 remain truly' in F., C. and L.. ...r "JOHN Q. A. WULaW |