The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-22
SETBACK. FOR
! BEEF Il: F !. TRUST RI
JAL nIAI
A solomonesque Ruling by
the Treasury De-
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partment.
Government Also Furnishes
Proof That Seasons Are
. .,. Not Changing.

From, The Journal Bureosss Room 45, PosA
Rui1dt,sg, Washington. .-..-
Washington, Aug. 22.-The beef trust
has suffered another setback. This time
1t is at Nogales, on the border line be-
tween Arizona and New Mexico. The
trust sells beef there; SO do the Mexican
butchers across the border. But there
is duty on beef, in consequece of which
the Mexicans can underselI the trust;
The inhabitants of Nogales have been
taking advantage of the fact to go across
the street from the trust shops and bring
the cheaper and better meat across the
the border line. The trust butchers com-z
planned to. the treasury department that
| the people of that city were smuggling
instead of buying their inferior article
The treasury, department has made a
Solomonesque ruling that the trust shops
must keep just as good and just as cheap
meats or suffer the trade to 90 across the
street. s. xf.e. =
|. The Universal Subject.
Apropos OF the unsea sonab1y cool sum-
| mer, the chief of the weather bureau.
Willis l.. Moore, says it is not true that
the sun is getting cooler. Nor. he says,
! is 1t true that summers are not what
| they were when father was a boy. The
weather, he contends. is just the same.
The trouble is with fathers memory.
rather remembers the coldest winter he
ever experienced better than he remem-
bers the normal winters. So he reme1n-
bers the hottest summers. It is a psycho-
| logical phenomenon similar to that one
| winch accounts for that peculiar brand
OF pie that mother used to make" Tho
pies and the weather are the same. as
VIII be proved by the truthful records OF
scientific appliances. There are periods
during which it varies; times when cold
or rain or heat prevails to larger ex-
| tent than the normal. But when the
whole is summed up, covering a reason
ably long period of time, it is found
that the frost line Is just, where it used
to be-. and the cold or hot or rainy spells
are no more or less frequent than when
grandpa was little. Thomas jefferson
was a victim to- the popular delusion. and
writing in It'll. said: s,-z
| A change OF climate is taking place yery
sensibly. Both heats and colds are becoming
more moderate within the memory of even
the middle-aged. -. Shows are, less frequent
and less deep. They do not often lie below
the mountains. more than one, two or tnree
Il days, and very rarely week. The SHOWS
are remembered to have been formerly fre-
quent, deep and 4sf long continuance: The
elderly inform me that the earth used to be
covered with snow about three months in
every year. -
But in those days there was no weather
bureau, and the 'elderly' were free to
ger of an official observation being sprung
on them. The day of the oldest residents
| weather stories is past.
| In Europe accurate records have been
kept Of the dates of the opening OF nav-
igation. and Of the vintage, and it is
shown that, covering a period of 500
years, there has been no appreciabIe
change. The first ten years compared with
the last ten years gives the same result.
Records for 500 Years.
Observations made by geologists con-
vince Professor Moore that in the lake
regions no changes of climate have taken
place for several thousand years. No
change, either, has been noted in the level
of the lakes. Ossian Guthrie. noted
civil engineer, says that "the same va
riety of trees now growing in the lake
regions were growing soon after the
glacial epoch
12S Degrees in the Shade.
The records of the weather bureau show
that the maximum of heat recorded in
the United States was in Colorado, al
Mammoth Tank, a station in the desert
where, in 1887, the thermometer re.
corded, in the shade, 12S degrees Fahren-
heit. Again, in 1884, 124 degrees was
reached in the same place. Taking II
all together, the hottest place in the
United States is California's Death Val
ley" The name is supposed to come from
tragedy which occurred there In th,
sos, when a party of immigrants en-
! tered the valley and every one died O
> thirst. The valley is the bed of formel
! salt lake. and it is below the level of TIL
: sea. Streams flow into it; but the burn;
' ing sands and alkalai lick them up ant
r the water vanishes. Large borax deposit,
, are found. The valley is rs miles long, ant
in places only six miles wide at the bot
tom. In 1891 the weather bureau sen
, an observer to remain there and tax,
! observations all summer. When he re
! turned he said he would take "hell
= straight" next time. He was there 15
. days. For several days the temperature
= | was 122 degrees. On the hottest da,
the maximum was 12O and the minimum
SO degrees, making an average tempera
; ture for the day of 1856, which is rathe.
= trying weather..
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