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Show 01 COMPANY ONLY HID A SUPPLY OF COAL Judson 11 Shafer, proprietor of the Ogden Feed company, 2226 Washington Washing-ton avenue, telephone ".09, was 1 "caught with the goods on" this morn. I ing, when The Standard was begging for coal, of each dealer in turn, in behalf of the public. I Beginning with John Farr, Asael j Farr, the Shaw, the Badger, the Gil-lotto Gil-lotto and other coal dealers, the in- quirer went down the line and re- t ceived Invariably a doleful negative, "no coal, no coal." until he came to ! Mr. Shafer, who laughed and said: 'Taught me with some goods on this time, but the swag Is extremely hm- ited While my coal holds out to ( burn, the freezing citizen may re- , turn, but I must parcel it out in home. ' opathic quantities" He was given a list of naras of families in dire need of fuel. As he checked them off. to 1 fill the orders, Mr. Shafer said: "Half i a ton, half a ton, half a ton-downward!' When the scribe protested and begged for a ton in several cases, the coal magnate retorted: "Divide your , blessings, half a ton maximum, ' your's not to reason why, your's to rejoice and buy, or else to breeze and die, all supply sundered." Even a small car of coal thus inspires the muse. "Coal is scarce as hen's teeth," said Mr Shafer, "or snowballs in the place beneath " He Is one of Ogden's poul- , try kings, making a specialty of high bred capons. Mr. Shafer declined to reveal where and how he obtained tho coal. "Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies," he said, tell of my coal and i I'll advertise," thus the news item hath a double value. All the other dealers were doleful and pessimistic, coalless and hopeless hope-less of obtaining coal. "Already suf- 1 ferlng of appendlcit ical railroad con i gestion, sans cars, sans engines, sans I men, sans everything, we are now I 1 facing tho apparent certainty of a disastrous railroad strike, in which J the common people will be taken by II the threat and the life choked out or A them," wailed one of the prominent I dealers. W John Farr said he intended, Provl- A dence permitting, to store coal in th& I coming summer on a large scale. "We had three thousand tons stored I 4 when the winter famine hpcr.ti " hair said, "thinking this amount would be I t adequate, but pshaw! It was soon ex- 4 hausted. If this great strike comes, j the coal men might as well quit." And in the meanwhile, all citizens 4 are saying today, something must be J done, that a desperate need requires I y an heroic remedy. i 4 Delbert H. Pape, general manager X of the Lion and the Wyoming coal I companies, owned by Ogden capital- 4 ists. is at Denver today striving toll plan a way to get coal to some of his ? suffering patrons including Ogden. I 4 One of the coal men said; "If the Z strike comes, the people will either 7 freeze, or cut wood " He rapped his 1 knuckles on his desk jn eloquent sug-1 4 gestion. y |