Show BEFORE JUDGE ZANE The Electric Fight Is ContinuedOther Business Busi-ness Transacted Yesterday Johnston Harvester company vs W J Powell allowed ten days additional time to plead THE ELECTRIC FIGHT The case of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company vs the Salt Lake City Street Railway company in which the plaintiff seeks to enjoin the defendant from operating its lines on or along certain streets in this city parallel with the telephone tele-phone wires consumed most of Judge Zanes time again yesterday As on the day previous the greater portion of the evidence for the plaintiff was confined to an endeavor to prove that the usefulness of the telephone as a means of communication had been greatly injured since the introduction intro-duction of the electric cars because of the buzzing sound caused by induction LeGrand Young testified that at times this annoyance was so great as to almost if not entirely prevent the using of the telephone tele-phone at his residence which was on the cast bench aboutthree miles from the city J H Young said the Salt Lake 8 Eastern East-ern and the Salt Lake d Fort Douglas railways were all operated by means of telephone Instead of as Is usual with telEgraph that the buzzing sound complained com-plained of by others was so great as to at times prevent the proper dispatching of trains and that he had threatened to takeout take-out the telephones and put in a telegraphic system unless something was done to remedy the evil complained of A M Grant said the usefulness of the telephone between Salt Lake city and Ogden Park City Bingham Stockton and other points had been greatly injured since the introduction of the electric line of street cars Several other witnesses testified similarly 4 simi-larly and a good deal of documentary evidence was also introduced by the plaintiffs plain-tiffs The case will be on again today and it bids fair to consume a weeks time |