The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-18

l5VV, pc ana the same are hereby with
drawn and cancelled
This evening the above was followed by
another circular giving the commissions
decision in the Texarkana matter in these
words;
The railroad commission OF Texas hav-
ing on August IA, 1860, in pursuance of
notice contained in circular No. llIO o.
August 2, 1900, considered tho matter Of
revised adjustment OF freight rates TO APP
ply from and to points in that portion OF
Texas in which the people and merchants
as well as the railroad company are sub
ject to serious disadvantages on account
OF the low rates which apply
| from St, Louis, New orleans,
New York and other points to
Shreveport, TeXarkana and intermediate
points, hereby directs that the charges lor
transporting shipments Of articles named
in the following list between points on the
lines of railroad described below he made
at so per cent of the rates now apply ng
on sucl articles. Railroads upon wAicn
the adjustment OF rates epples;
1. Between points on the Texas and
Pacific railway and the Denison and Pa
clic Suburban railway east of and nclud
| ing Denison. Sherman and Dallas, but not
| from TeXarkana, Wdskom and interme-
date points on the Texas and Pacific rail-
way.
| 2. Between points on the sherman,
Shreveport and Southern railway east o.
and including Mckinney, but not from
| Jefferson, Waskom and intermeda
points on the Sherman, Shreveport and
Southern railway
8. Between points on the st. Louis
Southwestern Railway OF Texas east OF
and including sherman, Plano aud Dallas
and north and including Tyler but no.
from Texarkana.
| List OF articles subject to the adjust
mont of rates:
Carload and less than carload shipments
of all articles which are in carloads sub
| ject to fifth-class and classes A, B, c, q
and p rates; carload and less than car
! load shipments of agricultural imple-
ments, including hand implements ow
points and other parts of agricultural i'm
plements, rough or finished, or wagons
! farm or parts OF same rough or finished;
aXles in boxes.
Ragging for bsling cotton Qess than
carload only.
candy, invoice value 10 cents or less per
pound.
| Canned goods, consisting OF canned
| fruits and vegetables, canned fish, lob
sters, crabs. shrimps and clans, canned
soup, broth, clam juice, cove oysters,
canned syrup, jelles and preserves, in
boxes, barrels or crates.
Cotton bale ties and buckles carloads
and less than carloads).
! Cotton factory products.
1 Crackers.
Furniture, new, all kinds.
| Gblss windows, loaded in box cara,
Glassware, all kinds, except cut-slaes-
| ware
| Glucose.
| Glucose syrup and grape sugar.
| Iron and steel articles
/ Architectural iron, including columns
J pedestals, capitals, plates. saddles, door
and window lambs, stills and lintels, rolled
beams, angle bars and girders
Axles, carriage or wagon; bolts in boxes,
barrels, casks or drums; bridge and plato
iron, or steel: carriage and wagon skelns
and boxes in barrels, casks or kegs, cast
iugs not machinery; chains in bundles or
casks; crowbars fenceposts harrow
I teeth, hay bale ties, Jail plates, kllns
| lime, or parts thereof manufactured oil
| sheet or boiler iron with cast iron doors
| and door frames, crates and iioors' y
! D., Grated, boxed or in bundles; lap rings,
hattocks in bundles, nails, cut or WIRE
nails. horse and mule. in boxes or kegs
/ nuts, in boxes, barrels. casks or drums;
| plCkSt IN DdIiGiS VI Noshsi b'f~'
wrought, couplings and connections; plow
steel unfinished; poles, electric light or
railway: rtvets, In boxes or kegs; roof
! ing, black, plain, corrugated or painted
sad irons. in bundles, boxes or casks; sash
weights, sheet iron; shoes, horse or mule,
in kegs; shutters; spikes, cut or wlre'
staples, In barrels. boxes or Kegs; shln-
I gle bands in bundles; skelp iron, sledges
in bundles without handles; strap hinges
! l.
cents or less per pound, washers in boxes,
barrels, casks or drums; wire, barbed or
telegraph (not copper; wagon tires, wire
rope
Note--When any of the foregoing arti-
Giles are shipped together in mixed car
loads they shall be charged eighty $500
per cent Of the rates prescribed in COM
modify tariff No. 17-A. for the transporta-
ton OF carload shipments of angle, hoop
rod and band iron.
Machinery, engines and boilers, except
carload shipments of machinery, engines
and boilers for cotton gins, cotton com
presses and cotton seed oil mills.
Matches.
Packing house products.
Paints. dry or In oil
Peanuts.
Rice
Rope
SnOt.
Soap, common.
soda bicarbonate OF. and soda ash.
Starch.
Stoves and hollowware. CRATES, Tenders
and baskets.
Sugar Except lemon and maple sugar.
molasses, syrup, jelly, preserves, frui
butter and mincemeat.
Tin plate
Tobacco, plug, In packages weighing SIX
ty pounds or more; tobacco, plug In pack
ages weighing less than sixty pounds each
Trunks. empty n. o. S.
Whisky and alcohol. In wood or glass
Invoice value so cents or less per gallon
Woodenware; Wooden bale boxes. bar
rel covers, barrels tplper). bowls, brush
blocks. buckets, bungs, butter ladies', but
ter moulds, butter trays. butter tubs
churns, clothes horses. clothes pins
clothes racks. frkins. FISH kits. handle
faxe broom and mop) kegs measures
pals (wooden or paper, N. o. s.. potato
lmashers, pastry boards, rolling pins. steI
and extension ladders " O. S., tea cad.
dies fwoodl. boxes, lapboards, trays y
o s.. tubs washhoards. sleeves. brooms
cheese and butter boards. skirt boards
lemon soueezers toothpickr, match splinti
OF wood. rope reels shot cases sieve rims