Show THE PHONE WAR President Wallace Tries to Knock Out Manager Man-ager Annett When C F Annett manager of the Rocky Mountain Telephone company learned that G Y Wallace had stole a I march on him at the annual meeting of directors di-rectors ana voted him out of office he was I wrathy G Y sent a brilliant little note nicely perfumed to Mr Annett requstifig him I to step down and out before March binL L without fail But Manager Annett was I not inclined to peaceably vacate the posi tion to which he was greatly attached and > does not propose to resign He claiias that when he accepted the position posi-tion the re was an agreomen by which he should hold the place as long as the coaipauy hold together Ho chargtJd that three of his friends J thi Dickey L H 161 Kcrz and H C Hill were absent from the meeting and had they been present Wul ace would have been unable to jump h m He also claims that Wal lace was occupying his spare moments in picking up stray shares of stock at S2i I when the treasury stock was being ped jed out to the innocent public at 100 A HcitAuD reporter called at G Y Wal aces oflice and asked that gentleman Is it truo that you have gone back on your manager and turned him out into the cold coldMr Mr Wallace rubbed his hands smiled knnivinrlv and stated that it had so been L r I o 1erou IV the board or directors Whatwas their object I To save expenses replied llr Wallace looking as poor as a Walker house boarder con look at a fat mans pic nic I Vlio will succeed Mr Aunettl Mr Wallace did not answer this question right smart but inundated that ha could I fill all the Bell phone offices without tear ing his shirt > You Hre charged with buying stock at i 33 and selling at 100 1 buy it as low as I can get it took in fifty shares this morning aud am on track of some more The reporter next called on Mr Annett who did not have the appearance of having been shaken out very badly Mr Annett went on to tell how he was instrumental in-strumental in organizing the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Telephone company and how faith fully he had sarved it through all its bitter bit-ter days aud now that he has his money tied up in it he did not think it the square thing to be thrown overboard to be swal lowed l up by the whales A member of the Salt Lake Street Railway Rail-way company was deeply affected by the report and did not hesitate in saying that Wallaces refusing to combine with his company in the erection of poles had caused an expensive law suit in which both parties were out several cool thousands thou-sands of dollars Mr Annett had favored the arrangement but Wallace wanted war L and he got all he wanted of it |