The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-30
CRAZY WITH HEAT
Unusual Happenings in Kansas
Since Heated Terms Start.
Perhaps It's Only Silly Season
Approaching Early.
ALL OVER THE STATE
Secretary COburn Admits Sum
day Was Hot Day.
Blue Laws Are Repealed by One
Kansas Town.
ALL OVER THE STATE

Is the sillv season on in Kansas or
are we inst crazy with the heat? Sure
| " there is something abnormal apo"e
| local conditions
It began in Topeka when F. D. co.
burn. secretary of the state boaru Oh
agriculture, admitted that iaSl . suil n-,Iy
was a hot day. Usually II is only
warm or the temperature is "ris-
! ing"
This was followed by the receipt OF a
| letter asking Governor Stupps 10 pray
for rain Another letter has Deen re-
ceived by the governor ASKING Ina orS az
prayers be postponed week IN oroer
that the writer, a contractor, be en-
abled to finish a building before the
wet season began.
A natural gas expert declares in OF
tawa that balloons sent up carrying
dynamite to be exploded in the air Will
bring rain and cause an eno 70 the
drought.
In Salina the death of an old man
who kept a perpetual motion macnlne
| locked up for years is chronicled.
Some western Kansas counties nave
admitted there is a wheat crop failure
l. parts of the state.
Some fnsurgent Republicans are
clamoring for harmony in the ranks of
the party.
In southwest Kansas a farmer has
been convicted of killing a man over
some land lying in that section where
years ago no one would have been
killed for all of it.
one Kansas town Garden City, has
repealed the blue laws.
A business man at Horton ran pa
per a week and did a better job of 1t
| than the regular editor.
Emporia, the Athens of Kansas,
wherein learning and oratory has had
its headquarters for years, has de-
nounced the chautauqua, and will not
have one this year
Cherryvale brings this story out:
Sunday, a very beautiful young We
man wearing green veil came to town
with a middle aged man. They put up
at a local hotel and spent money right
and left During the day a small
shower came up and Immediately they
hired an auto and went joy riding. The
shower lasted but a few minutes, but
that was long enough to ruin the
young woman's clothes. Upon their re-
turn. she ordered new dress, silk
hose, new hat and a $40 corset making
bill Of over 500. The man signed the
check and all was well. After they left
town it was learned that she was 4
cigar girl in a Kansas City hotel and
he-why he was prominent Kansas
business man and his wife is Sunday
school teacher.
Parsons comes in with this:
Deputy County Attorney W. A. Disch
of Labette county was coming home
from Tulsa, Okla. Saturday night
when some one stole his clothes. He
was in a Pullman, however.
In Wichita folks are meeting out in
one big open place nights and sleeping
like one big family.
From Leavenworth comes the story
of farmer who put several hundred
spikes in the machine that was thresil-
ing his wheat. There was no reason
given only that he wanted a rest He
got the rest and the machine isn't
working now.
man from Ottawa said yesterday
that people We're taking their dogs
down to the river, tying them to trees
and feeding them mornings and even
ings for fear they would go mad
Reports from central and western
Kansas state that farm hands start out
to do the chores and wander out into
the field singing.
The hottest hot weather story out.
though. is the one from Chanute
wherein a Methodist preacher in that
city is threatened with expulsion if he
does not pray for rain.