The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-07-26
KANSAS AND MISSOURI HEAT.
Boiled and Roasted for Over Thirty
Days

slve days the temperature in Kansas
City has risen above 80 degrees. On
most of the days the temperature has
reached or exceeded 100 degrees and
during the past II days the 100 degree
mark has been reached regularly. At
noon today the temperature was 100
| degrees for the first time this summer at
so early an hour. The high point, 1O2
degrees, was attained at 4 o. m. Since
April there has been one heavy rain
on June %. Most of the street Their
mometers register 112 in the shade each
day, and if exposed to the sun would
record 100.
There have been few heat prostrations
and not many deaths directly ascribed
to the heat, but the mortality among
feeble old persons and young children,
has been unusually large The same
conditions of heat and rainfall have pre-
vailed all over the drOuth stricken region
OF the Outhwest-Kansas, western Mis-
souri,, Indian territory and Oklahoma.
Practically no rain has fallen in this
area in the past "a hours, the few local
| showers being trivial. For the next "a
hours continued warm weather is ex-
pected
| ~ all the churches in Missouri and Kan
sas tomorrow, in the former state in
| obedience to the governors proclama-
ton. In some of the churches in this
city special. services will be held.
Hot Wave in Southwest.
Kansas City, Mo-, July 2O.-Another
| hot wave prevails in the southwest.
Practically no rain has fallen over this
section in the past "a hours and the in
dlcatlons for today and tonight are for
fair and continued warm weather. The
only rain reported this morning was at
Manhattan, central Kansas, where a
local shower fell.
Suffering in Kansas.
Topeka, Kan, July 2O.-Kansas has
had another day of the protracted hear,
with little prospects of Immediate relief.
One or two small showers fell in central
Kansas, but the skies over the remainder
OF the state were cloudless. Numerous
cities have now completed 80 DAYS with
only trace OF rain. The state is again
encOuntering the severe heat that was
present before the recent period of low
barometer, when a number of cities were
relieved by rain. At Ottawa, in the
|
OF lOS Is reported. There the river ia
drying up and the city will soon be with
out water.
In the district around Concordia the
heat was whitening, causing a number
OF prostratlOns. In Leavenworth the
temperature was LOT. This was about
the average for the entire state. Corn,
which bad fairly good prospects a week
q TO
will prove its destruction. The slight
rains OF few days since freshened the
cereal and helped it to grow little, and
then the mischief was done, for soon the
tassel began to appear, and now what
there is OF the corn will be so far pro-
crossed toward maturity that even if
ram does come now it will not help the
corn greatly.
Des Moines, July 20. The average
maximum temperature for % days past
Is 30 4, which liz without precedent at
the local station. At 2 O'Clock today
the mercury stood at 102 and was
mounting at the rate of one and a half
degrees an hour.
Indications pointed to a maximum to-
day that will break all records OF the
local weather station for five years. The
official forecast is Continued fair and
warm.
Warm Days in Omaha.
Omaha, Neb., July 2O-This city and
state are having another spell of extreme
hot weather. The temperature at z a. In.
was 80. Light rains fell over a consider
able portion of the state prior to Fri
day, but the indications are for contin-
ued hot weather.
Minnesota Warmed Up
Minneapolis, July 2O.-This was the
hottest day ever recorded here. At 3 D.
N. the temperature was 102. No deaths
and but two prostrations were reported
At Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, July 2O.-The thermome
ter at the weather bureau registered SO
today, and those on the street from 1OE
to ITO. This is the highest temperature
for Milwaukee in July since 1887. when
it was 100, and with this one exception
the highest on record.
Laid the Cadets Out.
| New York, July 20.-During the funer
al of General Butterfield here TODAY
twenty-five or thirty cadets we're over
come by the heat and fatigue. They
we're taken to the hospital. The victims
are mostly OF the new class and all will
recover.