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Show wells of collapse m of telephone plan 19 Mohn A. Howard of "Wheeling, W. Va., Witness for Prosecution In 0 Government Suit. RpJEOLAjDELPJ2IA, Dec. 5. Testifj-Hig Testifj-Hig today in the euit oi tho govern-T govern-T Bunt for tbo dissolution of the Ameri-f Ameri-f Ban Telephone & Tolograph company, M6hn A. Jiowiird of Whooiing, W. Va., 1 old of tho collapse of a plan to take Bver all independent lines cast of tho Btocky mountains. He was called by tiMW0 gverniuont to tell oC tho sale of (UEbe Interstate Telephono company of 'fow Jcrsoy to tho Boll system, vrhero- Mv, bo said, competition in northern S?oir Jersey was wiped out. 1 IBOn cross-examination Mr. Howard I Wgid tbo Continental Tolograph & Tele-PjlSihone Tele-PjlSihone compuny was organized to take Wver nil independent companies oast of Kite Rockies, but wont into tho hands &t receivers. At the thno of tho col- Vjee, ho said, independent telephone QBfrapanies in West Virginia, western ftfHtennsylvanin and eastern Ohio had Beou merged into the National Telo-n Telo-n Bhono Corporation and wcro about to I Affiliate with tho Continental. Mr. tfcoward then told of negotiations now lindor way in which It is planned for he Bell system to take ovor the com-anies com-anies in tho National Telephono Cor-oration. Cor-oration. The taking of testimony will bo rc-tlmod rc-tlmod in Now York next Wednesday, The bearings began at San Francisco n October 3 ana were continued at 'aconia- Seattle, Spokane, Butte, T)en-Chicago T)en-Chicago and Baltimore. The suit s filed, at Portland, Ore., laBt sum- r- |