Show SHOT insulators some scoundrel does damage to electric wires and places human lives in danger some man who la is either a fool or a scoundrel and more likely both shot ten insulators off the electric light wires near william gibsons gibbons Gib sons place one day last week and it Is most miraculous that some one was not electrocuted one man an employee of william gibson was knocked out of a one of the wires charged with volts of electricity haj ha fallen across a limb of the tree and no sooner had the man touched the limb than he be was hurled to the ground the wires which fell onto the telephone wires sent a current into the telephone exchange which burnt out the mast head of the tha switch board the telephone at the power plant was completely destroyed electricity is as dangerous as it is useful and carelessness and neglect when working around the I 1 live wires has caused many deaths by electrocution only a little while ago john birchell a lineman narrowly death while working on one ofine poles some one at the mi mill 11 tur turned d on the current and birchell re ved a shock which put him out of c commission for several ee conda recently a large tree was cut down in ays field a just north of the creamery and in falling it struck the electric light wires severing five of them for three hours the whole plant was shut down ila hac some one touched those wires bedfor before r the current was turned off he be woul woula have been sent into kingdom come b fore he knew what struck him it requires about 1700 volts to elec elea a prisoner at sing sing an ana i life is 13 extinct in something like three minutes it sounds ridiculous redi culous but it is true that many visitors from rural districts to cities blow out the gas at night when they retire some of us are slow at learning und and some or of us never learn at all even when we have the opportunity it is not our fault if we have had no experience with clec electricity tri and it is not our fault if we have not seen a railroad tram train but it is our fault if we have not read books which tell us about these and other wonderful things we do not expect anything better of the ute or ouray but we do of the white man with all his opportunities recently dick wash was in woodard mccols mccoys store and lew turned on the electric light dick did not know from whence it came or where it went he felt the same way the chinaman felt the first time he be saw the electric car no no but run like bellee dick wash never would learn but that is no excuse for the white man even if he does not have a chance to see all these thinks things read head read the public bublic library has volumes of books on all subjects |