Show diamond queen co has two sets of Offie erS on monday of this week in ac corrance cor dance with a published call richard campbell colin mcmurphy D D hanks and W B mitchell holding stock in the diamond queen co appeared at J E oconnor s store and went through the formality of holding a special stockholders meet ing the object of the meeting being bein for the purpose of deposing the ou oll officers and electing new officers tor for the betterment and welfare of the company it is understood that the above named shareholders first made a request that the secretary call such a meeting and when no satisfactory answer was recel received they proceeded in the manner required by law the minutes of their meeting on monday show that they asked mr 0 connor to preside and on his ra r fasal they selected D D hanks as chairman and colin mcmurphy as secretary A credential committee was a s then named to determine who wa was s entitled to vote at the meeting the report of this committee showed that the opposition to the old man argement of the property had in pel pei son or by proxy shares ol 01 stock out of shares issue I 1 mr 0 connor protested some of the proxies however and finally wound up by ordering the insurgent force out of his store whereupon campbell hanks mcmurphy and mitchell adjourned to another main street building where the completed their meeting electing new directors of the diamond queen company after a motion had been carried removing from office all of the old official the now dir detractors rs who have since organized are p IY I 1 hanks richard campbell col colin mcmurphy W B mitchell and 3 F shriver another motion was vas a eland carried chana ing the place bv f business from the 0 connor store stor to 0 the rooms of mr campbell an anda resolution was adopted in which tha old officers were censured for dallura to keep sufficient records for conducting the affairs of the company unwisely and wi without thou t sanction of law for falli falling and refusing to issue financial state stati ments for tailing failing to permit the in spec lon tion by shareholders of the at fairs of the company and tor for secret ing the books and papers also for mismanagement of the company s business J E 0 connor who has been president of the company for a num her ber of years denies the statement that campbell mcmurphy hanks and mitchell had a majority of the issued and outstanding stock when they appeared at his store on monday on the contrary he claims that his stock and that of his friends from whom he had proxies gave him more than enough to control the meeting he refused however to participate in the meeting alleging that it was not properly call ed and also refused to turn over his proxies or the books of the company mr 0 connor claims that while the insurgents had the power to call i meeting of the shareholders they had no power to remove old officers and replace them with new offic officers ets un less specific charges were pre terrel ferrel and evidence submitted to sub such charges no such charges were preferred neither were the officers of the corn com pany given personal notice of the proposed meeting according to mr 0 connor who also claims to hold in his own name 41 shares of stock which was included in the bunch of proxies in the hands of the opposing force mr 0 connor oconnor says the old officers are going to con dinue looking after the diamond queen affairs until they are properly and legally relieved of their duties from the above statement it ap pears that the end of the trouble Is not yet in sight and that the fight will likely find its way into the courts |