The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
KANSAS COMMENT
AND THE WIND BLEW,


Occasionally Kansas has day
when the wind seems, to a stranger of
course, to blow rather hard. Now and
then breeze will spring up from the
south in the morning and continue
throughout the day, and visitors to
the state are led to remark about it.
1t will be acknowledged that once
IN while there is a fairish blow,
from the sunny southland, and that
strangers to the climate may find it
different from some other things they
have to reckon with, in the run of
year. But, at that, it ends. and the
rains come, and the sun shines and
the birds sing silvery melodies.
Kansas with her wind hasn't the
hard days that followed the fearful
storms of last week, in Nebraska,
where the train service is still demon
allied by the winds and the floods.
Kansas doesn't compare for disagree
able weather with Illinois, where a
few days ago more than a million dol
lars damage was done by a storm that
lasted during the night. Kansas finds
something even in her steady winds
to satisfy, when this brand of weather
is compared in Alabama, Tennessee,
Mississippi and Georgia less than
week ago, and when the total death
toll reach two or three score. Kansas
has some days when the air isn't at
rest, by any means, but she doesn't
fare as i'll as portions of the Atlantic
coast, often storm-swept, and whose
deVaStat1OnS often exact many lives
and wreck vast property.
Kansas has some wind and some of
the windy days are not so pleasant as
one could wish, but they are only the
rcughness that precedes the most
balmy weather the world knows, or
ever will know until it comes to KAN
sas and 1ives.-Hutchinson News.
KANSAS AND CYCLONES.
For years and years, especially in
81, 10 f17al
undeserved reputation as the home of
the cyclone. Cast your memory back
for years-where have the big cy-
clones occurred? The biggest lorna
do in Kansas for scores of years oc-
CURED at Marquette in 1905, when
thirty-five lives were lost. Three times
this year disastrous tornadoes, sweep
ing away lives by the hundreds, have
filled the columns of the press and
caused the citizens over the nation to
ShUdder. Not a life was lost in Kan /
sas. And it has been the same for
years. Kansas is not the home of cy-
clones. 1t is the state where they are
so rare that the smallest twister ex-
cites attention.-Salina Union.
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LOYAL TO THE TOWN.
Haven't read of any earthquakes in the |
of San Francisco lately, |
have you? Well, that is a tribute to the
loyalty of the newspaper men of that
city who refuse to send out an earthquake |
story. We talked the other day with a |
men recently a resident in Oakland, and /
he told US there had been half a dozen |
earthquakes within the past six months |
In San Francisco so violent that plaster |
ing had been shaken from the ceiling of |
rooms in the great sky ScraperS and the |
people had fled in terror TO the streets |
The gentleman says that Oakland has |
profited greatly by the unsettled condi- |
ton of the ground under San Francisco |
as tens of thousands of people who do |
business in the former city have trans |
ferred their residence to Oakland. The |
records of the ferry landings show that |
IN an average more than 200 900 people |
come in and go out of San Francisco by |
BOAT every day.-Iola Register