Bisbee daily review., 1906-12-07
IDAHO CITIZENS
 CAPTURE TW0 7
 COAL CARS ~
Unable Es Obtain Fuel, They Take the Law Into Their 0wn Hands and Hold Up a Train.

4 dispatcih from Salt Lake under date cf Tuesday tells of the serious ness of the full condition in the north west
 It is the direct result. says the cor. respondent. of the absolute coal mo aopcly established by tht Union Pactfc and the Rio Grande Western railroads and maintained by every device of in timidation and technicality known to railroad lawyers and managers.
 These two roads. which mean. ot course. Hartman and Gould. complete w control all of the available sup plies of Wyoming. Utah. Idaho and Nevada and part of Colorado.
 what with the car shortage and the greatly increased demand. they are ut teriy unable to supply enough fuel to meet the bare necessities of these states Add to this the fact that by litigation Of various kinds they have succeeded in excluding all independent capital from the field. and the com pleteness M their monopoly appears in all its simplicity.
 A little town up in Idaho has dem. sastrated what may be done in such n emergency For weeks the citizens sf Eyssa have been without coal They ns9y train load sfter train load so by hiie they had not a pound. nor could hey with all their appeals induce the regna Short Line. Union Pacific eder. to give them sny. So they so5 the law into their own hands.
 Posse Takes Train.
 On Saturday night they formed . psse.. held: up a>coai train. uncoupled To cars and forced the conductor tc hn them iR o4 . siding. Before morn g every steve in town wzs roaring.
 No steV to punish them has bee1 ken and 1t Is tho universal opinion that no iury coud be obtained that would convict them.
 from here. has beer living from hand to month so far as coal goes. fos weeks. Oae By last week the stree car system os the city had. to shn] Salt Lake tifa big smelters. with af their great p. Y. had the greatest dfm eulty in getti-g coal. M From Wyoming comes. word that right at the very doors of the coal mines of that state people can scarce [ ly get enough coal to keep from freez Ing to death. A number of merchants pm the northern part of the state
 in Cheyenne trying to get fuel.
 have not been able to buy pound.
 cal dealers there say they could bt ship 1t to Wyoming towns on the hicago and Northwestern if they had Fit. as the Union has refused to haul single car load from its mines at Rock Springs. Cumberland or Hanna that Is consigned to towns on the Un ion Pacific Yet train load after train load goes through Cheyenne to points outside of Wyoming.
 Already threats are made that If the railroad refuses to sell to the people of Wyoming coal that is mined ir their state, steps will be taken to brins the Union Pacific to terms by force . In other words. the people will hell themselves. There is coal, coal every dwhere. but not a pound to burn. investigation Begun
 This state of things special poin,
 the inquiry begun here yesterday
 Interstate Commerce Commission Y Clark ints the coal operations and fthe requirement Of public coal lands by the Union Pacific and the Rio Grande Western. The Rio Grandt Western owns more than 30,0o0 acre. of coal land in the state of Utah. Mos of 1t fs held In the name of the Utaf Coal company.