Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1912 — WHITE COUNTY MEN GO AFTER RAILROADS. [ARTICLE]

WHITE COUNTY MEN GO AFTER RAILROADS.

Brookston Stock Shippers, Appeal to Interstate Commerce Commission For Refund of Overcharge. Ten prominent farmers and stockfeeders of near Brookston have appealed to the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington to have an alleged overcharge by the Chicago & Northwestern and the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville railroads returned to them. Last fall these ten men bought 22 car loads of stock in’ Omaha and shipped them to Brookston. to be fed. They assert that they were told at Omaha that the shipping rate would be 24.63 cents per hundred. When the stock arrived at Brookston they were required to pay an additional s.62yper hundred. The men are William Robinson, D. M. Kelly, French Bros., L. T. Kent, August Hildebrand, Reed Alkire, J H. Kneale, C. W. Brackney, J. P. Erickson and Sherry O’Connor. They ask that the overcharge be rebdted and that they be allowed interest ton the overpayment and also cost of collecting, in all SSOO. Many Jasper ‘county people have had somewhat the same experience in shipping over two railroads. Last year a farmer returned here from South Dakota, where he had ■ - ■ i - 5 paid in advance the freight on a shipment of household goods. After their arrival here he was compelled to dig up about S2O more. The appeal by the Brookston men to the commission should correct this abuse.