| Show BELL TELEPHONE for a short time last evening ali bell telephones were butof commas eion people who tried to aaa their phones between 10 and 12 last night were unable to do so and the farat thought that took possession of their nianda was that the occurrence was consequence of the strike the trouble however was occasioned by insufficient power belner r calved from the utah light and power company owing to tha machinery running slowly at about 12 frank H labo assistant manager of suburban exchanges brought the storage batteries into use and the trouble waa ended the report of president of the united mine workers union at the pa convention show ed a falling oft in membership tor that district or upward of for thi past year this however th report says tho union has done more effective work for its members and maintained its strength for a much longer time official figures fot 1906 show an increase in the number of passengers gera of british origin who left the united kingdom tor places out of europe as compared with the total being as against |