The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
EIGHTEENTH DAY
Thermometer Jumped From SO
to 1O2 Between 2 and 3 p. m.
Tuesday Night Was TOrrid i'm
the Extreme.
NO SIGN OF RELIEF.
Farmers Still Hauling Water
for Stock.
The Showers Have Not Helped
to Amy Extent.

The thermometer stood at 80 at 2
o'clock today. At o'clock it was 1O3.
The sky is like brass. 1t is one of the
hardest days of the summer to bear.
Weather of the generally fair" brand
is still the order of things for Kansas.
1t is hot today. and the forecast calls
for continuance of the heat.
Crops have been helped slightly in
many sections of the state according
to the reports, but it is still necessary
for hundreds of farmers to haul water
for their stock. Apples are dropping
from the trees. according to reports
from Kansas and western Missouri, al
though in the Arkansas river valley
gasoline pump irrigation has been the
means of saving thousands of dollars
worth of the fruit
The only rain in the district covering
Kansas and western Missouri in the
last twenty-four hours was a downpour
at Kidder, Mo-, which netted LA inches
of rain.
Tuesday night at Topeka was hot.
There was scarcely any breeze stirring
and there was a sultrinesS that made
sleeping difficult. At nine o'clock this
morning it was slightly cooler than
tuesday at the same hour on account
OF an overcast sky The clouds soon
cleared, however, and the mercury be-
Tuesday was hot day in Kansas
The highest temperature recorded by
the weather bureau was 104 degrees at
Manhattan
1t is hot again today at Hutchinson
although 1t was so cool Tuesday night
that those who slept on sleeping
porches found it necessary to curl up
in blankets. An Associated Press re-
port from Hutchinson reads:
Last night was cool and pleasant
inc ,S%
there are thousands were forced to
put on an extra blanket before morn
ing. The latter portion of the night
was decidedly cool. But at O'Clock
at 80 degrees, the same temperature
as at that hour yesterday, with
chance for a hot day, though the
weather this week is several degrees
lower every day than last week. There
was no rain last night in this vicinity
nor are there evidences this morn
ing that point to rain before night
THE fruit men in the Arkansas
river and Cow Creek valleys here,
believe thousands of dollars worth Of
apples have been saved by the ap-
plication of water, by gasoline pump
irrigation from the valley under flow.
Many of the largest orchards will yield
bountifuI crops and the watered al
falfa fields will pay back many times
the cost of being protected by irriga-
ton"
The apple crop of northwest Mis-
souri, and northeast Kansas apple
belt, so promising earlier in the sum
mer, will be almost a total failure as
q result of the drought and con-
tinued hot weather, according to an
Associated Press dispatch. The fruit
is falling from the trees and grow
ers say it is beyond saving There
were light showers in this vicinity last
night but they only served to cool the
atmosphere for the time and the
temperature is soaring again today
with no sign of relief
According to reports from Wa
baunsee county the rains Sunday and
Monday are proving of great benefit
in reviving the corn At Jetmore a
rain that fell Monday night will do
much toward fresheninng the pas
lures Showers in Chase county
Monday night and Tuesday morning
will be of some benefit to crops. Ac-
cording to John Hay, al old citizen IF
Junction City, the only summer that
can be compared with the present sea-
son was that of 1850. There were
rains in the early spring of that yea-,
he says, but dry weather set in the
latter part of spring and continued
throughout the summer.
Following is a list of maximum
temperatures at government stations
covering the "a hours ending at II
o'clock this morning: