Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-26
D. s. |. COAL TRAIN
HELD UP IN IDAHO
Citizens Of Nyssa. Near Caldwell
Took the Law in Their
Hands.
UNCoUPLED TWO CARLOADS.
They Told The Conductor They Needed
Tuci aud Then Helped Them
selves Al Right.

II remained for the citizens OF Nyssa,
a small station just west OF Caldwell
Idaho. on the oregon Short Line main
line, to solve the coal problem on sat
urday night. and today every stove N
Nyssa ~ cheorily roaring. The ore
gon short Line officials are also roar-
ina. 10 be more precise. the citizens
simply held up q coal train houhd loi
Huntington, Or, and uucoupied TWO
cars and helped themselves
News of the hOldup are meagfc, az
th,, frtghfencd conductor dispatched Inc
L,iefest report % the holdnp 10 'ne
chief dispatcher at Poeatello' VINO ny
tn,n flashed the astounding news on 70
the general superintendent III saw
Lake.
JUsT HELPED THEMsELNES.
From what can be learned, however
the people OF Nyssa mad not pou,,u
of coal within The corpotate N h.'s
They saw coal 80 By daily IN Dig pat-
riashin cars but not sack came Their
wav Tho second cold snap was zoo
much for them, and after council Oh
war thew decided to hold up the ntst
train that came along IN due sea-
son Inc train arrived about DUSK on
saturday evening, aud stopped Nhal'
no conductor climbed ont OF MS warm
coboose ia soc what was the Trouble
he was met by a delegation OF deter
mined ciiiz.ns who asked him 10 ul-
connie Two cars " the precious Iuel'
Ia den,urred at first, but later thought
better OF &c, and did as requested. me
two ears were LEFT on the side TRACK,
ma before morning all Of their contents
had been transferred TO the coal DlhS
OF the residents Of the town
II the people rendered cash ~ pay
mant for the coat taken, II y the uPlh-
ion that there viii not be 4 jury IN the
rountry that vii convict amy of them
on The crime ~ holding NJ the train
MAY BECOME CHRONIC.
The only fear the short Line OH.
cials have Is that this holdup busl-
ness Will become chronic. For m
stance. as detailed by the Idaho FAILS
correspondent to the News on sat
urday the residents Of Idaho Falls are
seriously debating the subject OF hold
ing np coal train along similar lines,
should all the towns take such dras-
tic measures II can easily be seen that
the operating department Of the Ore
gon Short Line would be demoralizcd IN
short order.
IN the meantime the coal situation in
Idaho Is critical TOday's mail from all
over Idaho brought a huge budget of
letters asking for coal at any price
DRAWING on RESERVE.
Gen. Supt. Il. Buckingham Of the
Oregon Short Line has been in ogden
and up north for week past working
night and day solving the problem. In
every ease where possible the reserve
OF the railroad has been drawn upon
TO supply the people. AZ pocatello. for
instance. limited number Of tons OF
coal from the company store Is being
sold 10 private individuals at IS a ton.
II rs generally conceded that never
before IN the history Of coal mining
IN Wyoming have so few tons OF coal
been delivered to Salt Lake from the
Wyoming mines.
1T Is peculiar said one prominent
coal dealer this morning, but since the
Investigation OF the Interstate COM
merce commission here month ago
the Hartman lines have delivered
practically no coal into Salt Lake from
the Union Pacific Coal company
mines"
When asked how he accounted for
this he asserted that In his private
opinion It was part of a scheme to
arouse public ciamor for coal So that
the pending Investigations and prosecu-
ton of the coal company officials for
alleged frauds would be quashed under
public pressurc-;hat was just his prl-
yate opinion. however.