Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-05
FOSTER PREDICTS
SEVERE BLIZZARD
SAYS WEEK cENTERlNG ON FEB.
1s WILL BE ONE OF VERY
LOW TEMPERATURE
Chief Moore In Hot Water Again
Through Advising Homeseekers to
Stay Away From Western Kansas
Conditions Improving, Says Prophet.

THE cold waves and billiards. will
be extremely severe from February 10l
to 17-better prepare for severely cold
and stormy weather. as we approach
the fifteenth says Professor w. T.
Foster in his latest weather bulletin.
According to the sheet, the month will
be one of varied temperatures and dis
full:
Washington, D. c., Feb. 4.-Last bull
letin gave forecasts of disturbances to
cross the continent on the 9Th to 10th.
warm wave 5 to 8, cool wave 8 to IL.
next disturbance will reach Pacific
coast about the 10th. cross west Of the
Rockies country by close Of the 18th.
great central valleys IL to IA, eastern
states To- Warm wave will cross west
Of Rockies about the 10th, great central
valleys IL. eastern states IA. Cool wave
will Grass west Of Rockies about 13,
great central valleys is, eastern states
IT.
Temperature Average Low.
The principal feature OF this fierce
and widespread disturbance will be the
very low average temperatures of the
week, centering, on 13. One of the
greatest general falls in temperature
Of the winter will come from February
2 to Is and the cold waves and biz
yards will be extremely severe from
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10 to II.
A large amount of snow will fall in
northern sections end as much cold
rain in the south first half of February.
These SHOWS and rains will follow the
rows or storm centers. During the last
half of the month the principal SHOWS
and rains will follow the highs or cool
| waves.
About and following February 2 a
great high temperature wave is expect
ed to cross the continent and this will
be followed by cold wave reaching
meridian 80 about February c and be-
coming most severe about that time.
This cold wave however. is not expect
ed to bring as low temperatures as the
one predicted to come five days later.
Better prepare for severely cold and
ctormv weather as we approach Febru-
airy Is.
Science Notes.
Who could ask for better crop wealth
I err forecasts than / gave to the public
| for January?
Captain Hedges, in the Washington
papers, favors universal astronom-
| ical society for the study of the rela-
/ lions that may exist between the heay-
emily bodies and our EARTH particularly
, with reference to the weather and
earthquakes. Captain Hedges seems to
"A
standpoint of the common people, who
are really most interested in the good
results Of such studies. and therefore
we may hope and wish for his success
in organizing the proposed society.
i Chief Moore in Trouble.
i Chief Moore has gotten himself into
hot water again. He has been advising
: homeseekers to stay away from west
! ern Kansas and Of course that state is
! up in arms against him. He is advising
| that no permanent improvement has
come to the crop weather Of western
Kansas in the past forty years. But
} Chief Moore forgets. Kansas will have
], it's crop failures as other states do, but
conditions there are changing and max.
} ing conditions more favorable to crol
weather. Millions of trees are now
growing on those prairies where forty
years ago. only buffalo grass was to bt
r found and the prairie dogs and buffalo
were the principal inhabitants. Exten.
sive systems of irrigation are spreading
their streams of water over the stat
and Chief Moore must admit that thes,
3 changed conditions are favorable to al
/ increase Of rainfall. Evidences bearir:
on this point are that rainfall Of tn,
past twenty years indicates an increas
I of rainfall over the previous twenty ant
3 blue stem grass has largely taken tn
; place of the buffalo grass in western
Kansas