Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-14
SOUTHERN
TELECRAP H.
Name of New Company In
Telephone Mat
terS.
FIGHT WAGERS WARM.
Interesting Telephone Matter
From a Pulaski,
Tenn, Pa
per.
FIGHT wAGERs WARM.

We have never expected the
enemy ours and yours to keep
still.
we have met them on many fields.
And we know their methods,
In war an honorable. enemy always
in it's own uniform.
If soldier is caught in uniform
other than his own, he is shot as a
spy.
A company known as the Southern
Telegraph Association has appeared
in the field between Hopkinsville and
Henderson since we came here.
They never appeared before.
Why?
We know the agents of the Cum
berland Company have induced men,
for wages, to go into this field to Sc
cure options for franchises for the
Southern Telegraph Association.
If the Cumberland denies this we
will publish affidavits in proof of it.
We think these agents themselves
are the subjects of imposition by
their employers.
We quote the following from the
Nashville Daily American:
THE Tennessee Telephone e. Tele-
graph Company of inglorious mem
DRY, it is believed, has a counterpart
in the Southern Telegraph Company.
Sanford Duncan, President of the
former company, is one of the three
charter members of the latter, which
was Incorporated under the laws of
New Jersey, and which filed an alb
stract of its charter with the Secre-
tary of State of Tennessee in March
1901. The other incorporators of
the company are John T. Lands,
who was President of the News
Publishing Company, which was sup
posed to be controlled by the Cum
berland Telephone Company, and G.
H. B, Martin, of New Jersey.
1t will be recalled that the Tonnes
see Company was regarded as dunn
my fostered by the Cumberland
Company and organized for the pur-
pose of frustrating the efforts of the
Home Company to secure a franchise
in this city. A bill granting it
franchise was introduced in the City
Council on the same night as the
Home bill. The history of the former
bill was published and it was finally
rejected, only three Councilmen vot-
ing for it. 1t is hardly probable that
after its inglorious defeat that it will
be again revived. Another company,
however, also supposed to be dunn
my company, may perform the Off
ces which the Tennessee Company
was expected to perform.
The Hopkinsville Home Telephone
Company and The Independent Long
Distant Co.are endeavoring to secure
rights of way along various turn
pixies and roads from Hopkinsville to
Henderson Kentucky, Many rights
of way in the State have already
been secured, and a valid considera-
tion has been given by the company
for them.
1t is reported that the Southern
Telegraph Association, the company
referred to as having been granted
a charter by the State of New Jersey,
has been endeavoring to induce prop
erty owners who have granted rights
of way to the Long Distant Company
to rescind their grants and to give it
options on the rights of way. The
Telegraph Association, it is
said, offered the property owners $40
a pole for each pole it might put up
in event it built the telegraph or
telephone line it ostensibly proposed
TO build. 1t is said it has succeeded
in securing a number Of options on
rights of way previously acquired by
the Long Distance Company, but