Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-01-28 | Page 4 | That Coal Bill

THAT COAL BILL. A. freight train with many laden coal cars stood on tho siding; tho fireman fire-man of the engine had nhovclod in the Inst ounce of fuel from tho tender; the steam was going down. The engineer and conductor had their orders to rush that, coal to Salt Lnko and Ogdcn nnd other points, whoro dealers wore clamoring clam-oring nnd half-frozen people were mourning and sonic of them cussing. In tho bins at that siding the railroad compau' had no coal; and so tho engineer en-gineer and conductor wired a roqucst to the Attorno3'-Gcncral of the State (under the now law) asking for permission per-mission to use enough coal to bring the ! rest, of the coal to market. But the Attorney-General was compelled com-pelled to answer: "You do so at. your peril. To divert any coal to railroad' use which is consigned to other parties is n misdemeanor under tho law. The best thing you can do is' to stay on tho siding until summer comes nnd then 3'ou can make steam by the natural caloric in the ntmosphore. So long!"