Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-20

bF6heuIy; iOi imOiiy uctuOcC Oi congress- Tor Missouri, died this morning.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, April 16-An inquest upon the remains of Marian Williams was held today. Durast, the supposed double murderer and ravisher, passed ,estless night, but came to the inquest calm and displayed remarkable coolness sll through. He declined to be inter- viewed and it is evident that nothing is further from his intentions thar to make a confession. He has retained Eugene Duprey and John H. Dickinson. Morgan, the man whose house Miss Williams lived in, testified that Durant had made insulting proposals t1 her several times. Mss Williams bad once told him that she was in mortal fear of Durant. The inquest adjourned. Mrs. Msckay was the woman that has told the detectives she saw Durant and Miss Williams at the church door the night of the murder.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16.-Mrs. John w. Foster, wife of the ex-secretsry of state, today received dispatch from her husband, who is the confidential ad- wiser of the China peace envoy, confirm ing the report that the articles of peace between China and Japan were signed yesterday.
 COPYRIGHTED, 1895, 5y W. T. FOSTER.
 ST. JOSEPH Mo-, April 13-My last bulletin gave forecasts of the storm wave to cross the continent from 16th to 10th and the next will reach the Pacific coast about the 21st, cross the western mountain country by close of 22d, the great central valleys from 23d to 2oth and the eastern states about 26 tn.
 This disturbance will be of very con- siderable force and whiie only a small portion of the country will receive ram from It the principal rainfall of the month may be expected as it crosses the continent.
 The warm wave will cross the western mountain country about 2lst, great cen- tral valleys 23d and eastern states 25 The cool wave will cross the western mountain country about 24th, great cen tral valleys 26th and the eastern states 28lh.
 TORNADO SEASON.
 The time of year is at hand when, in tornado periods, the greatest mum Der of these destroyers usually occur. In April May and June the greatest number occur ia the country bounded by the Rocky Mountains on the west, Missouri river on the north, Mississippi river on the east and the Gulf of Mexico on the south. In this district near the Rocky mountains IS the place of greatest se- curity.
 From June to August the favorite locality of these storms is the large country north of the Ono and Missouri rivers including Ohio and westward to the Rockies. Only few tornadoes occur in this district near the Rockies. The Allegh8ny mountains, also, are almost free from tornadoes.
 From December to March south and east of Kentucky are the favorite locaIi ties of these storms, more particularly in northern Mississippi, Alabama. Geor gia and the Carolinas.
 Prof. Davis of Harvard college says "All storms yet studied turn from righi to left in the northern hemisphere and from left to right in the southern. ? Lieutenant Finley of the national weath, CT bureau has made tornadoes a special study and says: "The Tornado has the outward visible figure of funnel-shap- ed cloud revolving from right to left as you would turn a nut onto a bolt, point downward"
 Prof. H. A. Hagen of the weather bureau has also made a special study of iorn6does and as he IS quite prominent as for3caster his views will be of great weight. He declares that: "We msy be certain that there is no uniform whIrl ID lornadoes in either direction. The best evidence We have, scattering of debris. is strongly in favor Of the view that there is TO whirl. The fact of the ex- istence of whirl is one of the most i'm portaut that eau be established"
 With these conflicting views among the leading scientists of this country the:e can be but little progress made toward discovering the cause uf torna- does and If We cannot discover the cause we can never correctly forecast the times when these destroyers will prob ably occur.
 There is DO conflict as to hurricanes, sand storms, typhoons and the ordipary low barometers or storm centers. All agree that they universally whirl from right to left in the northern hemisphere and from left to right in the southern. Even Prof. Hagen comedies these to be established facts.
 Why, then, should there be an excep tion made as regards tornadoes? Does nature adopt one kind of force and movement in a hurricane and another in the tornado? Not probable.
 The principal argument advanced by Hazen against a uniform whirl from right to left in our tornadoes is that the distribution of debris and the fellng of trees do not bear out this idea. He says the trees are mostly blown forward and inward from both sides toward the cen- ter of the tornado path and that whirl would throw them all one way in & circle.
 Such arguments es these shor wonderful lack of analytical req faculties. It is known that onius werd movement of the tor .Sn ne ,or a least sixty miles an hour ond ns with thls velocity would o "t ,ha Q .u,l snn, forward. 'ee'
 Hszen's claim ths' the t,oes sbo,,d fall in circle if th' re is . wb;rl ;n th. . tofnauo is hos we'll founded for two o,aer very iotc' .bls reasons. The iron, or me tofneo whirl fells the trees to Saro 5ne r,ft but the front does not oioW uoV.n all the trees, probably no, more 'ngn half If them and the rear Ieils them in opposite direction. Hazen so' '4uits this and says: "It is impossible . see how whirl of a hundred feet in diameter couli throw down one tree toward the northeast and its neigh bor toward the southeast on top of the other"
 This is just what any one ought to be abls t0 see as explained above. The tor