Las Vegas optic., 1913-08-15
TRAlNLoADs or WATER SHIPPED
TO TOWNS WHERE THE USUAL
SOURCES HAVE BEEN DRIED
UP BY SUMS RAYS
EGGS FRIED BY SUNS RAYS
TWELFTH DAY OF pARcHINe
WEATHER ADDS TO TERRoRs
OF DRY SEASON WHICH is
WITHOUT PRECEDENT

Kansas City, Aug. 15.-How to get
water for man and beast and how to
save a little out of wrecked crops OF
corn presented to Missouri, Kansas
and Oklahoma an increasingly serious
problem today. It was the twelfth
day Of intense heat. There was scat
tering showers yesterday and last
night. Most of them were Intellectual
and while SO much as half an inch Of
water fell yesterday at Topeka it was
in narrowly restricted limits.
Long trains Of tank cars supply sew
eral Oklahoma and western Kansas
towns with all the water they get A
train of 80 cars of water was shipped
from Pittsburg, Kas., early today to
the mines of coal company in the
Pittsburg district. The expense Of
shipping water is so great that sew
eral smaller mines have shut down.
In section of Seward county, Kan
sas, where no rain has fallen in two
months, the few wells that still give
water are surrounded by campers,
families that have closed house and
gone to tent near a water course.
From Alma, Kas., came a report
vouched for by one of the city fathers
that woman, IN a moment Of des-
peration, wishing to veriry or kill for.
ever the old story of frying an egg
in the sun, had prepared a fresh laid
egg nicely in skillet with butter and
fried it to t" on flagstone before
her door with only the sun for heat.
Fire which did nearly $1,000
worth of damage in home at Enter
prise, Kas., yesterday was attributed
to the suns rays shining through a
lamp chimney in window on papers
on desk. Before noon most sec
tions Of Missouri, Kansas and Okla
homa the mercury was well on the
way to the hundred mark In Topeka
last night was the eleventh during
which the thermometer had not gone
below r. Last nights minimum was
N there.
st. Joseph, Mo, reports that unless
there is rain within 4S hours several
small surrounding towns will be com
PEELED to ship in water by rail from
st. Joseph. Wichita and the sur
rounding country have had an abate
ment during the last two days, the
temperature not passing 50 degrees,
but the country is parched.
Farmers in the great Arkansas val
ley corn country where it usually is
said to be 'wet when everything else
is dry" are cutting much Of their
semi-matured corn and rushing It
through grinder into the silos be-
fore the sun has drunk all the juice.
In the last four days Governor
Hodges OF Kansas mas received nun
dreds of letters asking him to issue
a proclamation setting an hour Of a
certain day during which all praying
people in Kansas shall OFFER supplica-
tion for rain. 1t was widely suggest
ed that next Sunday afternoon be the
appointed time. The governor is con
sidering the proposal.
The water supply Of Kansas City,
although drawn on in the last week
as never before, has shown no worse
sign than slight lowering Of pres
sure in distant quarters Of the city.
Agitation for better water condi-
tions for horses has resulted in the
opening of a number Of fountains.
Along the streets Of exclusive resi-
dence districts the sign Water horses
here" often hangs beside a lawn
faucet and a big pail.