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Show FREIGHT RATES ON WHITE PASS ROAD Vancouver. II. C. Sept. 1.1. A sweeping reduction of freight rates on the White Pass & Yukon railway was ordered yesteiday by the railway commission of Canada. In a hearing at Seattle a year ago, when the rail way was charged with discrimination in favor of certnin steamship lines, the United States Interstate Commerce Com-merce commission uphsld the contention conten-tion that the jurisdiction of the commission com-mission belug limited by law to the United States and its "territories" did not extend to Alaska, which is a ."district." The railroad extends from Skagway, Alaska, to Whitehorse, on the Yukon, and Is the gateway to the Klondike and Yukon. |