Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-11
IOWA WEATHER AND CROPS
Vagaries Of the Climate Bother Official
Estimator Very Much.
SUDDEN TURN DISCOUNTS THE BULLETIN
Longed-FOr Hot weather Comes with
Unexpected Rush and Puts New
Phase on Crop Sit
uation.
CFrom a star Correspondent

From a Stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES, June 10.-(Special.) THE
vagaries OF Iowa weather at this time keeps
the crop estimators guessing. This morn
ing the thermometer took a sharp upturn
and by noon was at 80 degrees. Two days
ago there was actual danger Of frost in
this part Of Iowa. The crop bureau has
been compelled to admit that conditions are
becoming very bad for the farmers in Iowa.
The report for last week. issued this morn
Ing, makes the following statement Of the
situation:
The past week was slightly warmer than
northwest there was an excess of rainfall,
amounting to heavy downpours and dam
Following are among the heaviest
AMOUNTS reported; Clarinda, $50 inches
6 esafTFai s as; c ytlIisfaI BUNS siaS; ~. 5l3ie car ssH;
ass; Mount Vernon, 4.95; Jefferson, 4.l0;
Grinnell, 4,O1: Newton, S,61; Elkader, 4sS.
about IN hour n a half. Such storms
were necessarily damaging to crops on
slopes and bottoms, and in the cornfields OF
the. submerged districts the area of we'll
nigh total destruction must be very large.
We have no means of estimating the full
In the northwest there is still pressing
need Of rain, while. the larger part of the
state needs dry, clear weather. The oat
crop Is becoming bulky in many localities.
Grass Is doing notably we'll, both in
meadows and pastures.
The turn OF the weather toward summer
conditions this morning, however, augurs
better for the crops, for the weather has
been entirely too cold for some time. A
growing period at this time will improve
the prospect for lows crops.
Water and Light Company BaIks.
Valley Junction. the railroad town Just
outside Of Dao MaInaa an Nho Daab- T.Ia,A
is in darkness and has no water to drink.
The water and light company has gone on
a strike and refuses to do business. The
city and the company have had trouble
before and the company asked for an
amended ordinance permitting It to increase
the charges and place the consumption of
water on a meter basis in residences. Nc
compromise with the council has been pos
sible and now the company has shut down,
declaring the impossibility of doing bus
mess.
Northern Iowa Reunion.
A reunion Of the soldiers living in north
ern Iowa is in progress at Riceville and
a number of we'll known soldiers have gone
from here to attend. Colonel D. r. Palmer
of Washington, state railroad commissioner
and Colonel ]. R. Prime, inspector Of the
AOWo ANoSiOhal BudIus u6llNGTCO duQT6SSeSs
The association has held annual reunions
for several years and they are we'll at
tended.
The German Savings bank Of Berlin. Ia.
filed its articles of Incorporation today.
Capital. $4,000; William Nee, president;
T. P. Reader, cashier.
t Fremont Butter company Of Daven-
port has. fled articles Of incorporation
Capital, $4,000. by T.. A. Corcoran and
others.
Had Threatened to Do Murder.
1t was discovered today that Samuel
Rowan, who last night stabbed and killed
George Glenn in a quarrel in the white
chapel" district OF Des Moines, had made
threats against Glenn and intimated that he
would get him out OF the way. The muir
der was done as the sequel of a long, hard
fight, which had been preceded by a series
OF q~uarrels concerning one Of the women
Of the district. Both Of the men had rooms
near where the murder was committed and
both were of disreputable character. The
woman over which the quarrel took place,
one Lizzie Kilburn, may be implicated in
the crime, inasmuch as she is reported to
have said that she would soon be rid OF
Glenn. who was murdered.
Will BE Six Executions.
Six persons are in the state p~eniten-
tiaries Of Iowa at the present time awaiting
execution, and there seems to be no prob
ability that any one Of the half dozen will
escape the gallows. All will be hanged
within a year from this time, the first
next December. The hangings will all Jake
place at the penitentiaries. Governor Cum
minis has not been asked to interfere in q
single one of the cases and he will not
act on his own motion, hence there Is
nothing for the wardens to do but prepare
for the executions. The condemned per-
sons are Albert G. Phillips, colored,' and
Lewis Brooks, from Buena Vista county
murder after bank robbery; Chester Tyler
colored, from Jasper county, murder of q
doctor; Dick Williams, from Mahaska
county, murder in a saloon quarrel al
Bussey; Harry Hortman, from Cherokee
county. who killed a girl, and Louis Busss
OF Bremen county, who murdered his wife
and tried to burn the body.
State Meeting of Opticians.
The annual convention Of the State Asso-
citation of Opticians commenced here today.
TIL association is a new one and has been
gaining rapidly in Importance, about l0O
persons now being members. Last winter
an effort was made to secure legislation
for a state board OF examiners for opti-
clans, but this failed because the bill was
badly drawn and contemplated too much.
Members of the Board Of Control went to
Mitchellville this afternoon to inspect the
Industrial School for Girls, completing the
semi-annual inspection of the state insti-
buttons. The board will expend 332, 800 at