Show SOMETHING IS ROTTEN HERE telegraph telephone corn com panics at loggerheads Logger heads and the public Is given a jolt quicker service Is obtained by mail mid chos to blame our reference to the telephone and telegraph in connection with our announcement last week of the death of mrs li rank wiseman Wi bernan sister af e R C miller of Cast ledale which death occurred at salt bake lake city on sunday dee 8 causes president R G miller to feel that the utah eastern telephone co was as done an injustice the progress stated the facts as it re them and a further investigation on our part makes it appear that there is a wide discrepancy in the statement made by the pres dent of the telephone company and the written statement of the telez telegraph raph operator at price briefly mr wiseman on satur day night notified or attempted to do so 0 it R C miller of Castl that mrs wiseman was at the point of death and requesting him to come to salt lake at nee the telegram was rece ved at the price telegraph office at 1158 11 58 saturday night mr maule the pr e telegraph operator states in reply to a query from R C miller that the eastern utah telephone compan refused to re ceide and transmit the me sage sare from price to Cast ledale over its wires and that he then mailed the telegram at price at 8 30 sunday morning this was about an hour and a half after th tha mail coach had departed for Cast ledale the telegram I 1 cached leached Cast ledale at 2 30 p in monday mrs wiseman died on sunday immediately on rece pt of the in mr miller called up mr air wise man by phone but the service ervice was n not at good and neither man could coyl dg aia 6 9 11 ili understand afes ar mr M 11 r huweler understood the f funeral w was S to be tuesday and at an hour to I 1 late at for r him to reach salt lake city to attend it pres lent miller of the el ephone company that on dec dee 1 his corn com pany notified the telegraph company at price and other points that his company would not re receive ceide and be responsible foi fol transi assion of telegrams that a telephone is in the price office for the operators or others in charge there to transmit telegraph messages by phone to the part es that can be called up through he telephone service of t the he eastern utah I 1 ne and his company did not refuse th particular message refe refereed ried to the statements of all parties are given that the public may know what sort of a deal it may expect for its money it certainly looks to the common run of humanity that the sender of a message by telegraph is placed between the devil and the deep sea both R C miller mille rand and mr air wise in man an have instituted an investigation to place the blame for the unsatisfactory service on the parties at fault the former feels particularly grieved over the matter while he was on his mission in denmark hi his mother and two sisters died in utah and he felt par ticul arly anxious to be with the sister who has just died in her last moments as her death leath has long been anticipated yesterday afternoon county A attorn ey dickson recen receded ed an important tele gram from green river MAILED from price the telegram was dated dec dee 19 at 2 20 p in it reached Cast ledale at 2 30 p in on the following day it was once a possibility to get a telegram flom green river through to Cast ledale in a few hours now it takes 24 hours if the stage boac don t break down part es desiring to corn com muni cate with Cast ledale bv telegraph or telephone should mail their es direct thus sa sav ing mg expense and gain ing time |