The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-31
knew THEY WERE COMING
Niggins, the Weather Shark, Fore
told the Recent Storms and
Waterspouts.
Ie SAYS They Were Largely In
duced by Networks Of
Electric Wires.

ANSO$A ~ ~sSS -
Electric Wires
rhese Wires. Like Mercury, Steal tho
Thunderbolts Of Jupiter, With
Very Disastrous Results.
81. LOUIS. July 30.-A special dispatch to
he Globe Democrat from Ottawa, Canada,
ays: Prof. Virgins has solved the prob
em as to the cause Of the recent .torapdoes
nd waterspouts which have wrought such
destruction in the United States. "A sieve
f telegraph and telephone wires stretched
rotect it from any thunderbolt," !" says the
professor, 'sbut the network of wires in cit
es suddenly exhausts the electricity from
hunderbolts, and as result causes torna-
oes and waterspouts over and in the, vi
Unity of the cities. This stated in April,
1889, and in justice to myself must quote
hat letter, which is as follows:
"sA disastrous drouth has prevailed in
ontario since the spring of 1887, and while
yoably continuing during the summer Of
1889. the question I propose to ask and an
wer is: What is the cause? Two condi-
ions are necessary to produce rain-irst,
Moisture in the atmosphere. and second,
Condenser to precipitate it. Evaporation,
Fhich supplies humidity to the atmosphere,
being constant, there can be no defect as to
he first condition. What are the con-
ensers? There are two planetary conjuc-
ions which cause sudden fall of tempera-
~ AA~SH E-~
cts in periods of weeks or months, the
after two or three times a week. Electric
ty, therefore. is our chief agent in pro-
ucing rain. It is we'll known that the On
ario farmer is dependent largely upon cleo
ric storms for a bountiful harvest. What
auses thunder storm? answer that it
electricity isolated in cloud which
moves over the earth surface. Electricity
cold substance, and SO long as it is un-
BILE to disperse by conduction, SO long will
10 coldness continue to act as a condenser
nd precipitate the moisture as rain. The
Try ground beneath being a non-conductor,
single electric cloud, ii not dispersed by
ath may travel from Toronto to Belle
lille, or from Kingston to Ottawa, and
water vast track of country beneath it's
grateful path. Place a network of wire
efore it and the cloud will break with the
irst clap of thunder. Such clouo-unless
!
hot pass Toronto, for its electric force
would be dispersed by sea of telephone
hnd telegraph wires, not only over Canada,
but to New Orleans and San Francisco and
wherever connection happened to be at
hat moment. -,
.These telegraph and telephone wires.
ike modern Mercurys, are stealing the thun-
lerbolts of Jupiter, and in few years, if
he strong arm of the law does not inter-
ere, the Canadian farmer will look upon his
premises rs worthless fields that once bud
led and blossomed as the rose. BUTT will
When an electric cloud is suddenly burst by
unning upon conductors, its collapse pro-
uces a cyclone and these almost invariably
ccur over or in the vicinity of cities, and
pread desolation and death in their track.
phio, Pennsylvania and the Mississippi
tates were strangers to these messengers of
cath until the iron web was woven over
heir territory, and now they are the home
t drouth and cyclones, and the same wire
which brought the destroyer out of the
rain of Jupiter tells US of his carnival of
eath in demolishing buildings and scatter
hR debris and human beings through the
Let the people of Canada now take warn
ng, for these networks of metal are spread
ver our northwest in the shape of telegraph
Rires, telephone wires and wire fencing
Dur future granary of the world will be-
ONE another battle-ground of the ele-
psnts. As to Ontario, its main depend
rio storms from the northern points of the
ompas, where they can still form above
he great northern forests. Certainly no
hunder storm can originate within the
Rire belt, and it was for this reason that
Rst year ll8S8) the countries of the north
Fere fairly watered, while those bordering
n lake Ontario were burned up with
routh.
sThe prevailing winds in Ontario are
rom southwest to west. This is the great
asst bound current, running at first up the
hississippi valley to the great lakes, there
piDlng the current which is making its way
own the St. Lawrence valley and over the
lied almost continual rain to this prov
bee, being loaded with moisture and
harged with electricity, which it carried
long as it's condenser. The great metal
pa now exhausts it of it's electric energy,
that it refuses to part with the aqueous
hch move down the eastern shores
North America. Hence the foods
md the continued rains in Quebec and the
haritime provinces. Ottawa and Toronto
hd their vicinities are particularly liable
cyclones, and this danger is yearly in
feaslng by the increase in the wire net
ork. The fatal wire fencing is also being
hpidly extended over our northwest, espe-
ALLY Manitoba, and in q few years cyclones
ill be as common near oury great Rocky
fountain range as they are now in the val
Us of the Ohio and Mississippi, while from
heir snowy fingers to the waters of Wlnni-
eg brown drouth will scorch the pipius
here once swarmed the law Indian and
he bounding buffalo,
stricken Dakota
CAssELroN, N. D., July 3O.-The most dis
Btrous hailstofm of the season swept over
he southern part of this county to-day.
strip of country four miles wide and ten
twelve miles long was almost entirely de-
hstated of crops. A dispatch from Wheat
nd reports terrible damage in that vicin-
y, crops on five thousand acres of land
bing almost entirely ruined.
One Way to Sell Town Lots
TOLEDO, July 30.-A most extraordinary
Pndition of affairs prevails at Bairdstown.
oil village twenty miles south of this
ty. There have been five incendiary fires
ithln week and every business house has
zen destroyed. The cause is thought
be the passage of an ordinance
the authorities some time ago
PIbidding the sinking of gas or oil
ellis within the town limits. Il is alleged
at men who are holding town lots at big
noes. hoping to sell them to the oil men
hd finding their aspirations checked
ngued themselves together to burn the
wn with view to turning ths oil site into
OIL DHodu0i0U feFPitnrv Citixeua and