The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09
PROMISE OF RELIEF
Warmer Weather Predicted for
Today and Wednesday.
More Snow May Result From
Warmer Wave.
COAL NEARLY GONE
Al NEARLY GONE
But Gas Supply Is More Nearly
Normal Today.
More Men Are Being Employed
Clothing Is Received.

The government weather department
missed its guessl The weather man
failed to hand out the below zero at
mospheric conditions that he promised
for today What is more the promise
is for higher temperatures Wednesday.
The minimum for the night occurred
at 6:3O a. M, when the reading was 2
degrees above zero. Beginning at that
time the mercury began to take an up
ward course and by 9 o'clock this morn
ing registered II degrees. The maximum
for Monday was 20 degrees.
THE drop in temperature failed to
materialize," remarked sunny Flora
the local government weather expert
today 1T failed miserably from our
standpoint, but on account of unlocked
for changes in conditions we expect to
have our forecast turn out a farce
once in a while
THE forecast for tomorroy is: In
creasing cloudiness tonight and We'd
nesday; rising temperatures
I'VE should not be too optimistic for
we may have zero weather within a
few days. However. it will be warmer
tomorrow. 1t probaDIy will not get
will look like snow, but it is not likely
that there will be snow for a day or
two
Respectable Gas Supply.
Reports from Potwin today were that
for the first time in several days there
is anywhere near a respectable supply
of gas.
However there is at present a coal
famine in Topeka. There is almost no
soft coal on hand in the city. Some of
the dealers have been selling coal by
the handful, so to speak, in cases
where there was an immediate demand
for fuel. and not enough coal on hand
to send it out by the ton.
One dealer who has not received a
consignment he expected last Saturday
sidetracked at Kansas City where high
er prices maintain, due to the fuel
shortage
Railroads Are Crippled
'"The railroads are just like every
body else just now" said L. A Gillette
of the firm of Gillette & Nicholson.
.They are incapacitated. It takes three
engines to pull a freight train with
conditions as they are at the present
time. This will account at least in part
for the fact that the supplies of coal
ordered are slow about arriving. Our
stock of soft coal is practically ex-
hauSted- We hope to get two or three
cars in within two or three days.
The Provident Association woodpf1e
at the corner of Fourth and jackson
streets is a busy place today, and 10
men are hard at work saving logs. At
8 o'clock this morning another 10 men
we're waiting in the Office for work.
Several men had already been sent out
where there was a demand for help.
but there were not enough Jobs to
supply the demand.
Gifts of ChiIdren's Clothing.
The Mills Dry Goods company pre-
sented the association with 100 new
sweaters, and these are be-
ing given out to make the youngsters
comfy in the homes of the deserving
poor.
It is stated that the publicity given
the needs of the Provident Association
in attending to the wants of the poor
is having results. Within the last "a
hours some provisions and money bave
been received. but the people of To-
peka are asked to respond even more
in meeting the present situa-
ton in Topeka