Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1909 — RATES MAY BE RAISED [ARTICLE]

RATES MAY BE RAISED

Traffic Executives to Hold Meeting In Chicago Monday. St Louis, March 12. —Traffic executives of the eighteen railroads in BWfp souri, after conferring as to the advls-*' ability of restoring the old 3 cents a mile rate made legal by the decision against the Missouri 2 cent rate law rendered by Judge McPherson, adjourned to meet in Chicago next Monday.

In Chicago the question of a general raise in the passenger rates in Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, will be discussed.