A little girl in Kansas has recently given the telegraph
companies a vast amount of trouble in a peculiar way. Her
daily duty was to herd a large drove of cattle on a range
through which passed the telegraph lines. For weeks, some hours
nearly every day, these lines absolutely failed to work, and
the trouble seemed to be in the vicinity of where this girl
herded her father’s cattle; but it was a long time before
they discovered the cause. Finally, they found out that in
order to get a better view of the herd the girl had driven
railroad-spikes into a telegraph-pole, and whenever she got
weary watching the cattle from the ground she would climb the
pole and seat herself on a board across the wires and watch
her herd from that lofty station. Whenever the board happened
to be damp it destroyed the electric current and cut off all
telegraphic communication between Denver and Kansas City.
(Text.)--LOUIS ALBERT BANKS.
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