Show The Freight War Opens ST Louis July 14A local paper says the Texas freight war is now fairly on and none of the rivals of the Atchison system are the least disposed to meet that corporation half way The Missouri Pacific opened the ball at this end of the line yesterday by instituting institut-ing a cut of about 50 per cent on several important im-portant commodities These rates are to apply ap-ply from St Louis and New Orleans to ap points in Texas asking common point rates The cotton belt has followed suit The trouble it is said arises from the Atchison insisting on commodity rates out of Galveston Galves-ton to tho detriment of the St Louis and New Orleans point rates i iI I |