Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-15
HEAT WORRIES
THE MIDDLE:
WEST
FOR TWELVE DAYS, CONSECUTIvELY,
The STATES OF KANSAS, MIS-
souri, AND OKLAHOMA SUFFER
FROM HIGH TEMPERATURES AND
LACK OF WATER.
WATER IMPORTED IN CAR
LOADS BY MANY TOWNS

Kansas City, Mo, Aug. 15.-How to
set water for man and beast and how
to save a little out of wrecked crops
CT corn presented Missouri. Kansas
and Oklahoma and increasingly SER
l)us problem today. 1t was the twelfth
day of intense heat, There were scat
tered showers yesterday afternoon
and last night Most of them were in.
effectual entirely, and while so much
as half an inch Of water fell yesterday
at Topeka, it was in narrowly restrict
ed 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 ship.
ped from Pittsburgh, Kan, early to-
day to the mines Of coal company
in the Pittsburgh district. The ex-
pense Of shipping water is SO great
that several smaller mines have shut
down.
In a section of Seward county. Kan.
sas, where no rain has fallen in two
months, the few wells that stu give
water are surrounded by campers,
families that have closed mousse and
gone to tent near d water source.
From Alma, Kansas, came u report
couched for by one of the city fathers,
alton, wishing to verify or kill forever
the old story or frying an egg in the
sun. had prepared a fresh laid one
nicely in skillet with butter and
her door with only the sun for heat.
Fire, which did nearly thousand
dollars damage in a home at Enter
prise, Kan, yesterday was attributed
10 the suns rays shining through q
lamp chimney in a window on paper
on a desk.
Before noon In most section of Mis-
souri, Kansas and Oklahoma, the mer-
curry was well on the way to the hun
dred mark. In Topeka last night was
the eleventh during which the ther-
mometer had not gone below Is. Last
nights minimum there was H.
st. Joseph, No. reports that unless
there is rain within As hours several
small surrounding towns will be COM
PEELED to ship IN water by rail from st.
Joseph.
Hutchinson, Kan, reported slight
shower, too little to measure during
last night and temperatures only a de-
gree or two lower than yesterdays
high ones.
Wichita and surrounding country
have had an abatement of heat during
the last two days, the thermometer
not passing 9S degrees, but the coun-
try 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
corn and rushing it through
a grinder into the silos before the sun
Las drunk all the Juice.
In the last four days Governor
Hodges, of Kansas, has received hun.
dreds of letters asking him to issue
setting an hour of a Ger.
tain day during which all praying per-
sons in Kansas shall offer supplica-
ton for rain. 1t was widely suggested
that next Sunday afternoon be tho
appointed time The governor is con-
the proposal,
The water supply Of Kansas City,
although drawn on III the last week as
never before, has shown no worse
signs than slight lowering of pres
sure in distant quarters of the city.
citation for better water conditions
or horses has resulted in the opening
J. a number of fountains. Along the
streets of exclusive residence dis
licts the sign, water horses here"
,ften hangs beside lawn faucet and
'ig pail
Omaha, Neb., Aug. l. With tenn
erature of 81 degrees at noon today
nd much higher maximum promised
" the weather bureau, Nebraska again
vas the victim of record breaking
eat Every point in the state report
d intense heat and the already suffer-
ng corn crop continued to wilt be-
cath the blasting rays.
In Omaha the humidity was some
that tempered by breeze. but many
utside points reported the presence
f hot winds.
For tonight the weather bureau re-
orted that it would not be quite so
arm