| Show BERTHAS LOFTY PERCH A little 13 year old pawnee county kan miss bertha leonard bat aa 14 A fp 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 i aar 4 III 11 1 I 1 BERTHA ON THE PERCH lately given the western union and postal telegraph companies an unlimited amount of trouble in a most unique and peculiar way berthas beathas Ber thas daily duty was to herd and wata a large drove of cattle whose range ws WAS near the western union and postal lines for some time past at irregular intervals during almost every day these lines absolutely failed to work and the trouble seemed to be somewhere in the vicinity of where this girl ranged her fathers cattle hut but try as the line repairers would it could not be definitely located finally it was discovered that bertha in order to get a better view of the herd had driven railroad spikes into a telegraph pole so that she could climb it and that she would whenever she got weary watching the cattle from the ground climb the pole pull up a board by means of a cord place it across the wires seat herself on the board and spend an hour or two watching the herd from her uniquely improvised elevated station whenever the board happened to be damp or wet and tha th frequent rains this year have kept the board wet most of the time it destroyed the electric current and practically cut off all telegraphic communications between denver and kans kansas city when discovered and informed of the damage she was waa doing to the business of the telegraph lines bertha was greatly surprised and was apparently utterly ignorant of the fact that her seat on the wires in the slightest degree with the working of the lines |
