Show A COAL FAMINE ACCORDING to a late special dispatch to the boston herald an extraordinary state of affairs exists lh in the easte eastern n part of colorado and western part of kansas and it beems eem sas as though the transportation facilities of the railroads penetrating that region ought to be adt adequate quate to relieve the pressing f net fuel f famine amine prevailing there by b ringing bringing coal irom from the east it if the colorado mines are not able to supply the demand tte The dispatch reproduces the statements of a gentleman who passed th through rought the he region referred toa to a few days ago as follows anderson K hayward ot denver chri arrived here this morning said to a reporter 1 11 I have lust passed over ever both bold toe the atchison lopeka santa fe and the kansas pacific and wiLnes witnessed sed some very peculiar the roads batern ea aern and western kansas kansa i a coal famine prevails anu anti the towns lowns aud farmers are almost antii entirely ely out ol of fuel toe coun try to id entirely treeless and unless coal can be tae people are obliged to igo go without tire the principal iu fact almost the only sources of supply for the region referred to are tue comrado cual coal fields especially those near canon city tae lueda dealers failed to lay jay in I 1 n a suf sat abent during the summer and when the cold weather commenced ane demand far exceeded the cupply the th canon city mines are working double time but still are unable to iu nil fill the or ders dere that pour in the farmers in the eastern part of colorado Colora ao have taken matters into their own hands bunds and are making orad nihed raids upon ane coal trains that pass bound for points feitner east at every siding biding they are in ia wati air and a coal train is coolly take possession and unload the coal into their wag ms ins toe tae train hands bands do clo not interfere as they know it would be of no use at aikin kit jaroon carson I 1 saw a t train rain of eight cars unloaded in this manner the farmers say they will pay any price that is asked but must have coal at any hazard in the meantime the consignees consig nees are IB pressing need aeed of fuel and send indignant telegrams to the coal company who reply that they have shipped the chai and hold the receipt for it from the railroad tile the situation is very peculiar and will probably lead not only to civil but also to criminal proceedings 1 ce evidently there is mismanagement in the matter as there are vast coal fields lying east of the district in ehigh this extraordinary coal famine is prevailing and at a distance not too loo great to have a supply of fuel quickly trans trana ported to the point where it ic is wanted but we need not go as far from home as tho the region named to flud find a similar condition in respect to fuel and railroad management northern utah and southern idaho have repeatedly edl experienced a coal famine and any that too at times when the salt bait lake market was glutted with coal and the people of cache valley were clamoring for it at nearly doltl the price at which it was selling in this city during the present winter cache valley has repeat repeatedly odly and loudly complained of a scarcity of eoal coal at a time when there kas has been vigorous rivalry between the different companies selling coal in ia this city why col coal is not sent bent to points on the utah northern where it will bring a higher price here and is needed much worse in 16 a which shiv eting ts livius at points on the tha latter road have of often len tried to solve none of them nave however adoli adopted Q the summary policy to obtain relief that the tannery farmers of eastern colorado are rep reported to have pursued pui aued |