Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-12
BELL COMPANY
BUYSU UP OTHERS
Several Deals Are Completed Look.
ing Toward Telephone Merger
in Nebraska.
WILL ASK AN INJUNCTION
Independents Ask Attorney General
to mtercede for Them,
WANT MERGER HEADED OFF
Nebraska Bell Says it Has $4,000 In.
dependent Connections.
THREE MORE COUNTIES ADDED
systems of Cuss, otoc and snrpy
Counties Have Been Secured by
Friends OF the Beu
COmpaS.
Independents Ask Attorney General
to Intereede for Them.
VT MERGER HEADED OFF
Nebraska Bell Says it Has $4,000 In.
dependent Connections.
THREE MORE COUNTIES ADDED

Telephone mergers are golng on all ove-
the state and battle Is now In progress
between the Bell and Independent telephone
interests
Closely following the announcement made
by The Bee that the Nebraska Telephone
company had secured control OF the In
dependent telephone companies OF Cass
o'oe and sarpy counties comes the an
nouneement from Lincoln thnt The indepen-
dent telephone people have asked the at
torney general of Nebraska to stop fur
ther mergers between the Bell and inde-
pendent interests.
In addition 10 the other mergers comes
the announcement that the Alliance tele-
phone system. which was recently sold TO
H. G. Dow, and who took possession july
l. mas been again transferred this time
TO the Nebraska Telephone company which
means that II II now a part OF the Bell
teiephone system. a. d. Lane conducted
the transfer. 1t Is announced that copoer
wires will be installed between Omaha Al.
lance and Denver and also to Crawford
The Alliance system now numbers 775 cltv
phones. 30 country phones and service Is
also supplied to 1870 telephones on con-
Meeting lines owned by farmers and ranch
men,
Fifty Thousand Won over,
In statement to The Bee Monday. Mr..
fost said that already $1,000 independent
telephones OF Nebraska were connected win
the Nebraska Telephone system and that
the addition Of the phones Of Cass. sarpv
and otoe counties would add about 5OOo
more.
The Duff and Farmele people have sold
OUT thelr independent telephone interests to
lhe Nebraska Telephone company and the
,,f fha
OF Sarpy county have followed suit The
otoe county independents were owned bv
r. A. and Ralph Duff brothers. and the
Cass county lines by Tom and G. c. Par
mele, and everything goes In the deal.
lhls lets The puffs afsi -IAassasles -ea.t OF
tne business ex ept for their holdings ~
tne plant In Omaha, which is in the stage
or regeneration. If 1t, too should unt-
lately land in the hands OF the He'll peonle
1t would surprise no one The wonds
brothers OF Lincoln-these things 90 nv
families-are the big ducks in the omana
puddle though Lysle l. Abbott is padding
the canoe as receiver
Mr.. YoSt Talks.
Concerning the deal. Casper e. Yost.
president of the Nebraska. Telephone COM
pany, said
Parties friendly to the Nebraska Teie-
phone company have purchased substantial
interests In the Plattsmouth Telephone
company, the Nebraska City Telephone
company and the Home Telephone com
pany of Papillion, operating in Cass. Otos
and Sarpy counties. This Will mean con-
nection OF the telephones operated by these
companies with the Nebraska company's
system in the near future, an Increase of
over 5000 telephones which may now be
connected to the Nebraska company's
Omaha subscribers and to its system
throughout the state.
Perhaps II is not generally understood
that over $1,000 Independent telephones In
the state have been connected with the
Nebraska company's lines, and while thls
new arrangement means substantial In
crease In the number of connections. 1t IL
by no means as important In point OF num-
bers as the connecting arrangements which
nave been made previously.
The telephone is peculiar In this. that
1t is of advantage to the subscriber In pro-
portion to the number of other subscribers
which may be reached over It and II is
the duty and intention OF the Nebraska
company to add to its ayaiIable connec-
tions as rapidly as possible"