Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-31
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Late Spring is Due to Excessive
Shows in Russia, Says
Forecaster
DISPUTES "oLD INHABITANT'
Late Snow Record 10 Fixed--lmmense
Cold Area Disseminatss Chilling
Wind. ~ Secretary Wilson Not
Alarmed About Late Frosts and
Greer 6uss-General News.


Washington, May 31.--As to the
cause of the unreasonable weather
conditions now prevailing, the experts
Of the weather bureau have two facts
and one theory. One fact is that prac-
ticaily every bit Of the cold air that
has been rushing down from the
northwest has come from the direction
OF Siberia.
Another fact is that 1t has come in
such great volumes that it has leaped
over the natural barriers, found in the
mountains OF British Columbia, and
spread over the northwest, the middle
west around the great lakes to New
York and northeast and as Tar south
as Kansas.
I'VE have an idea,y said Professor
n. o. Frankenfsld Of the forecast di-
vision Of the weather bureau, that an
extraordinary amount OF snow has fall
en- in Siberia during the last five or
six months. All the heat has appar-
emily r'adiated from 1t, leaving an in
tensely cold mass covering the earth.
] Arctic winds blowing over that
mass OF snow and ice DO not have their
temperature raised to any appreciate
extent before they hit the American
continent. The winds that blow across
from Siberia, apparently are without
moisture. The result is a high pressure
over the northern part Of the Ameri-
can continent, while in the south there
is low pressure. Atmosphere, ike
water, flows to the lowest point. There
is no doubt about the course OF the
cold winds that have served to make
the oldest inhabitants speak OF this
spring as the coolest in human ex-
perience, which it is not"
1t is with good deal OF comfort
that the weather bureau people are
able to bring forth printed documents r1
to confound the Oldest Inhabitants, VINO
insist chat there never was anything
like the backward spring OF this year.
Professor E'rankenfeld, with mucn
show .c,f bulky volumes. said that the
sprtnr and summer of 1882 wefe worse
than this one. Eight years before
that. he said, the records were just as
bad as this year.
There has been snow later this year
than any authentic records snow. N
1894 there was snow in Chicago on
Nav "a, but this year there was snow
three DAYS later than that, and Mon
day night produced freezing weather
In southwestern Kansas and last night
there was frost around the national
capital. !,
Secretary Wilson Is not at all
alarmed about frosts and green bugs.
He knows that wheat. barley and
grains, of that kind are not hurt by
frost. It requires the hardest kind OF OF
freezing to DO much damage to them.
He knows that frosts are bad Tor corn
but hi, has no data showing what
amount OF corn has been put out nor
has he any figures to show what per err
centage Of that which has been planted
has been frostbitten. In two or three
days he will begin receiving the re-
ports e,n which the next crop condition
report will be issued, the first week In
June. @ ss3ls
During the month Of May the tenn
perature around washington has been
5k degrees below the normal. Upper
Michigan has been theNworst section
OF the country, because there the def
cheney has been II degrees. The next
coolest section Of the country has been
eastern New York, where the tempera--
ture ran from to 9 degrees below
what it should have been.
& The lower lake region, northern In
diana, Illinois and the two Dakotas
have been from s to 9 degrees colder
than they should have been, while
Florida has been but 3 degrees less
than normal. j. g itlg
The Pacific slope is the only place
where the conditions have been prac-
tically normal. Conditions in Europe
have been similar to those here.
n Washington. May d. 31.-.Under the
twenty-fourth annual readjustment Of
postmasters' salaries by postoffice de-
partment, changes in salaries Of post
masters OF the following named Iowa
places will be. made July /, 1907 Des
Moines is notfincluded, no change be-
ing made there. 1,
The changes are: