River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-07-18
WILSON IS OPTIMISTIC.
Secretary of Agriculture Does Not
Believe Corn Crop Will Prove
Great Failure.
THINKS REPORTS ARE EXAGGERATED.
showers Occur at Different Points
in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska
Not Sufficient, However, to DO
Much Good-Brenk i'm Hot Spell I'm
IOwa-Indiana Corn Safe.

! iOwa-lndfana Corn safe.
New York, July 16.-Seeretary of
Agriculture Wilson hopes that the
corn crop of the western states has not
been ruined by the drought. says a
| Washington dispatch to the Herald. He
is disposed to be lieve that the reports
as to the damage have been eXagger-
ated. He is quoted as follows:
| II do not regard the corn crop as seri-
/ ously damaged Notwithstanding the press
! reports from the western states. On July
| ] the condition of the corn crop was more
promising than on the same date last year,
! and even if the press reports are not ex-
! aggerated, although l am inclined to think
I that they overstate the real conditions,
there is not, as yet, cause for genuine
| alarm.
Throughout the area of the great corn
4 crop the drought has rot been severe
| enough TO seriously affect that crop. Hot
weather is not damaging to corn at this
/ season. In fact, high temperature at this
| season is one of the requisites of corn de-
velopment. and so l think that we had
better wait awhile before we say that the
corn crop is ruined
For myself, l think that we shall have
plenty of corn in this country. The press
reports from Kansas and Nebraska are of
course Giscouraging, but the crop in those
states is not great. except in the eastern
! portions, The great corn belt of this coun-
try Is east of the Missouri river and west
of the Ohio
Il have not yet seen anything to ndi-
cate that there has been a large amount of
damage in this area Of country. l am go
ing TO wait. therefore, until hear whether
the drought has been disastrous in Iowa,
Illinois. Missouri Indiana Michigan and
Wisconsin, I h a., -,
Light showers Fall.
Kansas City, Mo-. July 16.-Condi-
| tions in the southwest as reported
Monday morning by the weather bu-
reau favor isolated sprinkles Monday
and Tuesday, but there was not much
change in temperature in sight. Light
showers fell Sunday night al SPRING
field and Lamar, Mo, and at Manhattan.
Kan. They served to cool the atmos-
phere for a few minutes, but resulted in
no material good. The prospects for
the day, however, are for reduced tenn
peratures. clouds shutting off the fun
force of the sun. In Kansas City al II
o'clock it was 90, several degrees cooler
than it had been on any day for week
or so at that hour.
A shower of IS minutes duration fell
at Atchison, Kan. a noon Monday and
the indications are for further down
fall. In parts of Dickinson county. in
central Kansas, and in Cowley county,
along the Oklahoma line. local showers
are reported. In Cowley county it was
the first rain in five weeks and came too
late to do much good to early corn.
Rain Near Topeka.
Topeka, Kan, July 16.-The govern
ment weather observer reports a light
rain east of Topeka Monday morning
with threatened local showers. Sun
day was intensely hot, the mercury
registering 1876 al five O'Clock and So at
midnight. Sunrise Of Monday showed
a registration Of ~ degrees, which
gradually crept up to 95 al noon with
slight breeze and clouds. The Santa
Fe offices in this city report an hours
rain Monday morning along their
Ottawa branch at Neosho Rapids, Clare
and GARDENERS, but the reports show no
| indications as to how heavy the pre-
ciptation was.
Rain I'm Nebraska.
Omaha. Neb July 16-Although the
| temperature Monday has been moder-
ated by a cloudy sky, Sunday night
! was probably the hottest night of the
| present spell of excessive heat At
| seven a. IN. the thermometer stood at
| 81, but the rise from that point has
| been very slow. Rain is reported at
| Lincoln. Ashland and Fremont. Neb.,
in small quantities. and thunder
storms are also reported in eastern
South Dakota. The indications are
that the relief is only temporary.
| Governor Names Day for Prayer.
jefferson City, Mo-, July 16.-No
rain has fallen here and in different
parts of the state since April II, ard
crops Of all kinds. except wheat, are
almost complete failures. Gov. Dock
cry. who had received many requests
| 10 issue a proclamation calling upon
| the people to observe certain day in
fasting and prayer that the drought
! might be broken Monday set apart
Sunday. July 81. on which the people
are requested to assemble at their
usual places of worship TO invoke the
blessings of Almighty God"
Violent Thunderstorm.
Joplin. Mo. July 16.--There was a
violent thunderstorm here Monday
morning. followed by a heavy rain Of
five minutes duration. Although the
temperature at II o'clock was 95, the
most comfortable day in weeks is ex-
| pected.
Indiana Corn safe.
Indianapolis, Ind. July 16.-Reports
to the News from he leading Indiana
corn counties show that while rain is
needed. comparatively little serious
| damage has yet been done. Damage
IS principally confined TO late planted
corn.
Break in Hot Spell i'm Iowa.
De> Moines la, July l6.-There was
an apparent break IN the hot spell
here Monday far at ten o'clock the
ftic'alrecordwa So. Light cloudSwere
followed by Iigh, breeze which in a
| r,,eo S,re tprnperpd the RAYS 0f the sun