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Show HIGH TENSION LINES ARE MALICIOUSLY SHOUT-CUHCI IT ED Owing to someone maliciously throwing a large bent wire over the high tension lines of the Mount Plens-ant Plens-ant City Power Plant Just above town early yesterday there was no electric elec-tric service for the larger part of the forenoon and that havoc was not wrought at the Plant In the mountains moun-tains was more the result of good luck than anything else. Short-circuit troubles are very hard to locate as Is amply shown by the efforts of the City's employees In the Power Plant department to find this short-circuit yesterday. When one considers how easily a short-circuit can be made and then of the miles of wire strung In even a small town like this, most of which, as a rule, must be gone over In order to locate any trouble, a fair Idea may be gained as to what the Plant employees employ-ees were up against. They discovered discover-ed the difficulty, however, within a few hours after It was done and by about 11 o'clock all wag again normal nor-mal and the plant was radiating Its wonderful product and singing along as merrily as If nothing had ever been wrong. Hut a wo:d Ir. regard to the person or nersons who were responsible for such an act of malice. Such people might Just as well be considered In the same clans as thieves for, like then; pitiable creatures, they never dare to do their dirty work except l nder the cover of darkness or In some lonely place where there Is no danger of being caught. They are a malignant and pernicious lot, Jealous it t. heart and evil In Intent. Occurences of this kind have happened hap-pened before and It Is high time an end to It was brought about. The Pyramid would like lo suggest that a careful lookout he kept and an example ex-ample made of the first offender (aught, and plonty of publicity given him and we warrant the City's troubles trou-bles of this kind will be at an end. |