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Show AHOIIND THK COAI, MINP-N! l'i:ilM.Ali AND OTIIItltU'lME Htundnrd Coul company contract for furnishing the school nt Hull Utke City with eonl for the winter month will run around twenty-five hundred dollars. I'rank H DeWolf of UrlHinu. III., lias heen mimed nltunl director nf the bureau of mine nt Wanhlngton, 1). C. He ha heen until recently geoloKlnt of the state of Illinois. The Interstate oommerm commi-Ion commi-Ion ha in accordance with it finding find-ing in the It per cent rate cuso grunted grunt-ed the railroad' application for nn liicrtMw of leu cent u ton In freight role on Idtumlnou coul from iiilnes In IllltioU, Keutueky-TenneWe und AtalHtm. to point In Mississippi Valley Val-ley territory IllVHMllgutlou l) Chief of Polite While at '.Ion lout Monday resulted In the rvh'Hse of Henry" Cook, arrested there for alleged cotll swindles, but not until he had refunded to numerous numer-ous hoiisvttiv uinouut they lind ad-vniieed ad-vniieed in w)ment for ishi! ut helovr murk, i price Cook had Intended to open an Hlwndoned mine ut Coalville. Huy last HHturilay' Desomt Now-"A Now-"A tre liramh liurleil some oenttirle ga omong the coulld of Willow Creek (Castle (lutirt linn found It vva to the leeretmyeum through the lourttM) of Un rilird. The ft.-ll ft.-ll Is twenl.lx Inaho long and six Inches in diameter nt It thickest iwrt. the grulu of the wood und knot showing show-ing plalnl) In the solid coul. HIk miner vvero pretty badly bum-ed bum-ed from a gu explosion ut Htorr u few il) ngo. Th-) hud gone to nn abandoned i-ave to do some work When the explosion occurred. They were nt once given mudlcul ntUntlou and Utter tuken to it huapltal. No damage wu done to thn mine by the expliMdui nnd none of the men nre thought to 1m seriously Injured Hpiecntutlve of coal operator In nineteen state met ut Washington, D. C, last I'rlday with the coal production pro-duction committee to arrange for distribution dis-tribution of coal for government use. The question of prlie wu not taken up. .Member of th. committee pointed point-ed out that six of the eight million ton of coal required ,Y )u, Koern-nient Koern-nient nre being drawn now from Virginia. Vir-ginia. West Vlrgunla' and Mar) land. They urged that some plun be deter-mined deter-mined upon whereby other coal state will contribute nn equitable sharo. Urge quantities of rail nnd copper wire from the abandoned Kmlgratlon 1 4iiyoii rullroud ut Hult Ijtko City ere puruhused thl week by Utah r-uel winipuny. Cost of the removal and transfer of the equipment to tho mine in Carlmn county will be Incon-sequential, Incon-sequential, and with the price of rail and copper ut It highest mark, offl- lals of the Utah I'uel company an-lU'liwte an-lU'liwte tt material saving. Actordlng to First Thing In Can-51 Can-51 1 lu,"''lw W the late (!? r..T", 1,,,Vnl"1"" "Heln. the ... la was In ICti rol wu gth-red gth-red Nova Hetiikt ut r very early madeMM.! Xln:n: nen""' ' o Kru f i'e" l1S LOUl Wa 'IPPd u sut.d lii u Utter from M. Duclmml i'i to tho ivoneh minuter." ,'ue,mm-beveral ,'ue,mm-beveral new Utah coal properties r,;,i; ';;l 'luring Augus't vvlth ?,, ,' l''r1ng tho tonnage be-f. be-f. , .old weather set In. The'ovv . uar ci vVe,H" """M Ju" "''" f Ce aerJi L iiretint install an "Uiwtuar.?8 Ui ortlfteen u per tun for toal lmulaire Tim nr.rm.Hon u being prepared 'r to eonl itinaiimer. It u dnirtd hi Investigation to protr t the mtall nnd kco that the) gtt a fair deal . - oircfi |