Show DICKEY HAS ARRIVED HEBE TO TAKE OVER DESEBET TELEGRAPH LINE Western Union Official Talks of the Changes to be Undo and Combination Combina-tion of Wires General Superintendent J J Dickey of the Western Union Telegraph company com-pany and District Superintendent Bell Brooks of Denver are guests at the Knutsford Mr Brooks la In Salt Lake on regular business an the ofllce In this city Is within hts territory and with Mr Dickey will be In town for several days Mr Dickey saId last evening In response to questions I am out hero to i complete the transfer of the old Deseret Telegraph companys plant to the Western Union company and this will require several days The plant Is not all In the best of condition and many i of the pole will have lo bo replaced re-placed at any early day The property has not been maintained in the bent of shape and some of It has been allowed to run down Portions of lh line are practically duplicated by our own lines and where this occurs they will be either removed to our right of way or discontinued altogether and a few minor stations may have to be lft out But just how much there Is to be done or what changes arc to be made physically physi-cally or otherwise can not be stated until the properly Is carefully looked over As to the litigation with the Postal people why that Is out of my Held The railroad companies are taking care of that We have had a remarkably mild winter In Nebraska and the weather has given us no trouble anywhere to speak of until very recently and then only on our Kastern lines Our Western wires have been noticeably free from dllliculty Mr Dickey Is suffering from a severe cold contracted in a Pullman car near Chicago The Intelligent porter In charge of the dormitory arrangements of the car turned on the heat until th occupants wore fairly blistered and then when they t registered a large and healthy kick with equally Intelligent discrimination he shut otT the steam cn tlrely and opened all the ventilators The change from a tropical to an arctic j atmosphere gave everybody their deathacold and Mr Dickey suffered with the rest |