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Show miners of Nanalmo may be called out. This would paralyze the coal trade of San Francisco. The aituation is viewed with the greatest apprehension, and coal retailers re-tailers are hurrying scows to Nanalmo to insure a good reserve supply In case of trouble. A special dispatch from Fernle says the strike situation is not changed and there is likely to be a long struggle. The miners are determined that the union shall be recognised, and the manager of the coal , company. ia absolutely opposed to meeting them. A deputation, consisting of three miners, from Morrtssey. Michel and Coal Creek, tried to present their grievances : before Manager Tonkin, but he refuaed to listen. He will meet them individually, 1 but not collectively. , Manager Tonkin says the miners are ! making better wages than in anv other place in Canada. The coal company Uj not selling a pound of coal to citizens or miners and people were not supplied here. 1 The weather this morning was 18 degrees below zero.' Electric lights will likelv be shut off in two days, as there is little 1 coal on hand at the power plant. SITUATION SERIOUS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Coal Strike Is Spreading, and Smelters Smelt-ers In Kootenay Country Hay Be Forced 9 Close. . VICTORIA, .B. C, Feb. H.-The strike which has been -declared in the coal mines of the Crow's Nest Coal company at Fernle, Fer-nle, Michel, Morrissey and Coal Creek will. It is feared, be almost aa grave in its indirect effects as upon Its Immediate ones, which . threaten to cloe every smelter In. the Kootenay and the "boundary "bound-ary counties. Recently the miners of Nanalmo affiliated affili-ated with the Western Federation of Miners, Mi-ners, in direct antagonism to Ralph Smith. M. P., who warned them that in so doing they would be in periling the good relations which have existed between them and the new Vancouver Coal company. com-pany. It is now considered likely that If the strike Is not settled in Fernie not only will there be great sugering there, but the |