The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-06-13
Hottest in Years.

l. e,e is not much in the way of weather
4 me United States cannot dish up in
,ourse of twenty-four hours. Indeed,
4 5cidently there may be every conceiv-
e. variety fashioned into a sort of me-
l illogical mosaic, making up what may
4 s+vled one unified aggregation Of uni
k-sol climates. AS a matter of fact the
f. o-can weather nowadays Is not,
+ lily speaking, weather at all; it Is an
d s-rtment of samples, no sample war
+ad 20 "hold." According to former
i &c e computation and average 1t should
y o,ensely hot down South; whereas the
Econ Of the magnolia has been delicious
} col. refreshed by abundant and fire.
nert rains. with now and then a delicate.
s-ely perceptiblc pinch Of frost in the air.
F., New York. where a reasonable degree
. .eat would have been admitted, but
n, ,reezes were normal, all records have
lroken for hot Nay weather.
Will, New York was sweltering in this
r., golorado had lost herself in eight or
o. qches of now While Texas was be-
.e .e,uged with T-sn Indiana was burn,
~ with drought. Other sections pined
e 2atter of rain upon corn leaf and
-,sat ear, and a cloudburst came along
, -'wn out a part OF Nebraska. Now,
e -.iS is Indicative of bad management
or ewhere. The distribution is perform
& T I bunglingly incompetent manner
lbs business of turning on a burning
where the earth is already parched
II the people baking, emptying clouds
70 axes, and sending a surplus of rain
a a State that has m instructive aver
.ou % water, has been carried to a stupid
xeose. 1t is time a stop were ordered.
accord for the Week Appalling.
~acsday's torridity was the climax of a
week that broke the record Of twenty
ye years. In Chicago every day the
le,cury climbed up to the 90 mark, and
times took q peep over the top of
b glass. Not since the bureau began
the weather had the CORE
week let loose so much ~caloric.
te excessive heat was due to the south
I'D, the scorching breath from some
inferno that so often sweeps
cross Kansas and Nebraska, leaving
elth, destruction and mourning in its
sex. The record shows a remarkably
.3I temperature from an early hour and
striking drop during a shift in the wind.
Chicago did not get the worst of the
5at, Tor at Indianapolis. Louisville and
5t:,oston, S. c., the thermometer reg
'e-el 100, making the first century rec
r.. of the season. 1t was 90 at Washing
3 md Norfolk. Va. The maximum of
? 7as reached at Detroit, st. Louis,
cheld, H.. Cairo, Nashville, Mem
Us and Cincinnati. New York, as
,-ai, played a second to Chicago, with
= -. Boston had a lucky day, having
-ca wind which kept the record down to
At I o'clock at night Ohio and east
indiana We're still sweltering under a
-3Dorature of 90 to 90.
Ito Rocky Mountain region was enjoy
Is improvisation for the suffering of last
elk. Beyond Iowa and Minnesota the
perature was down to 60 or below. In
orndo and Wyoming it even went as
" as 90. There were general rains, with
&c or less thunder. in Iowa, Nebraska
ID Colorado, and those sections will
ABLY get more showers later. This
kelly to prove the longest spell of wet
the arid section of the West has
. for years. Cairo and Nashville also
lorted showers.
Foyernment correspondents sent in the
lowing as the highest marks for Mon