The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-16
Seattle Head of Concern
Under $4,000 Bonds
for Trial.

Seattle, Aug. s16.-GeOrge h. Far
ker, head of the United Wireless
company west of the Mississippi
river, with headquarters in this city,
was yesterday bound over by United
States Commissioner w. D. Totten
in the sum of $4,000 for trial on
two indictments charging conspiracy
to use the United States mails to de-
fraud. He is to be put on trial Sep
TENDER 20 in the circuit court of
New York City. Jacob Furth, presi-
dent of the Seattle Electric company,
and Frederic Karl Strive, of the firm
of John Davis & Co., went on Mr..
Parker's bonds.
The New York officers of the
United Wireless company were in
dicted a few days before the local
representative, Parker, was arrested
by the United States marshal in his
Offices here. The entire official force
of the company is now in the hands
of the federal courts.
Following the refusal of the east
ern stockholders to supply the Pa
cific Coast offices of the United Wire
less Telegraph company located in
Seattle, with any more funds for ex-
penses, and the sweeping order to
reduce the salaries of the employees
of the western division, the cashier,
assistant cashier, chief operator and
factory superintendent walked out
last week. More than one-third of
the principal land offices on the coast
are being permanently closed.
The ultimatum of the committee
of stockholders, who have assumed
control of the company since the in
dictment of the officers by the fed
eral grand jury on charges of illegal
stock methods, did not come as sur
prise to the employees of the western
division, as such a move has been
expected for the past two months.
The slim source of revenue afford
ed by the United Wireless company's
stations on the Pacific coast brought
about a meeting of the principal
stockholders in the east recently, at
which the decision was reached that
no more money would be expended
by the eastern offices for the main
tenance of the Pacific coast stations.
The order in substance related that
the western offices hereafter would
be compelled to live on their income
This being impossible with the scant
revenue, the sweeping order for re-
duction in wages followed.
AS each employe was approached
with the order he replied with a fiat
footed refusal to work for a smaller
wage, and after the local offices had
lost their cashier, assistant cashier,
chief operator and factory superin-
tendent, through the action of the
board of control, a general walkout
looked so imminent that precaution-
airy methods were at once employed
and no more employees were ap-
preached.
The land stations of the United
Wireless company were never a pay
ing proposition and were only main
tanned in order to promote the SER
vice aboard ships, so that when the
order came from the east cutting off
the financial supply, the land stations
in nearly all the towns on the Pacific
coast were abandoned.
The only source of revenue afford
ed the western Offices now is that
which comes from the ships and this
is so small that, it is rnmored, it will
but be a matter of few weeks when
the entire western division of the
United Wireless Telegraph company
will be abandoned forever. 1t was
rumored few months ago that the
offices of the company in
New York would soon close, and this
latest move on the part of the stock
holders brings the matter nearer