The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-07-24
JUNE WEATHER COOL AND WET
State Had Three Times as Much Rain
fall as Year Ago, the Bureau
Report Says.

CAI0o Times Ln0 rainfall OF a year ago.
While the state meteoroIogist does
not call attention to the fact the un-
usual rainfall is held responsible for
the disappointment now being regis
tered by many wheat men of the state
relative to the yield as compared to
the first forecasts. The rapid growth
and cool, wet weather made wheat
grow unusually rank and in many sec
lions the heads did not fill out prop
erly. Many reports of tangled fields
that have had to be burned are COM
ing in from various parts Of the state.
While the unusually large acreage
means an enormous wheat crop for
Kansas, it is generally admitted that
the total yield will be materially re-
duced from the June estimates. The
report says:
Showers were frequent and gener-
ally heavy, furnishing ample moisture
to all except a few of the southwest
ern counties, which, with the normal
amount of sunshine that prevailed,
made exceptionally fine growing
weather.
The first week was abnormaIIy cool,
but was followed by temperatures near
or above normal in all parts until the
month closed. The highest reported
was lob degrees, on the 25th, at Abb
lene, and the lowest 33 degrees, on the
I'd, at Richfield and Tribune. Temper
atures higher than the maximum of
this month have been frequent in Kan
sas in previous Junes, but the mini
mum Of SO degrees is, with two excep-
lions, the lowest on record for this
time of the year.
The average rainfall over the east
ern third of the state was 5.29 inches;
the middle third, 5.13 inches; the west
ern third, PSF inches; and for the en-
tire state, 2.51 inches, which is 27 inch
above normal, and greater than the
amount that has fallen over the state
in any other month, except one, in the
past three years.
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The discovery of fifty pints of whis-
ky in a wheat field near Emporia led
to the arrest of Frank Hanson anc
George mellow and the seizure of their
motor car by the sheriff The men
were selling whisky in Emporia, the
county officials say.
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A Ford car, stolen from Thomas
Schriner, near Severance and a Mitch
ell car, stolen from Thomas Dave,
near Troy, were found in a road ditch
near Severance recently. Joseph
10 years old, of Keokuk, Ia,
and Charles Johnson, 20 years old, of
North Platte, Neb., hiding in barn in
Troy were arrested in connection with
the thefts and held for the district
court.
Miss Grace Roller, deputy United
States marshal, is dead in a hospital
at Topeka from appendicitis. She was
said to have been the only Kansas
ever appointed to the position
Of deputy United States marshal,
which she had held for several years
On the staff Of United States Marshal
D. T. Wood She formerly lived in
Lawrence.
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The Kansas highway commission
still has concession Of sixty govern
ment trucks which have not been
taken up by the counties of the state.
The allotment of trucks for Kansas
now totals 573. OF the trucks still
open to claim there are thirty-one
light, twelve 2-ton and seventeen 3-ton
UNLESS the counties get
busy and use these trucks" declares
NJ. W. Watson, state highway engineer,
they will lose a valuable supply of
equipment"
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Nine stacks. of wheat belonging to
Jacob Morgheim, ten miles north Of
were destroyed by fire
early the other night. The fire spread
quickly through high, dTV. stubb1e.
More than one hundred men were fight
ing the flames before they were sub
dued. It is believed the fire was Of
origin, as the blaze appear
ed to start in different stacks almost
simultaneously
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The first encampment Of the Kansas
National Guard in four years will be-
gin at Fort Riley, August II. Charles
[. Martin, adjutant general, announced
recently. The entire regiment will
DdTUClUdL0
cry member will be given the complete
rifle course, and will also be given ex-
perience in individual cooking and
other military activities. There will
be the usual practice marches and
drills. The 40th Regiment has just
been organized in Kansas. 1t has COM
panies in Wichita, Lawrence, Atchi-
son, Council Grove, Parsons, EmDoria,
Newton, Liberal, Topeka, Peabody and
Kingman. Other units of the guard will
not participate in the encampment
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Joe Clayton and Asa Pendleton, pa
rolled from the state prison at Lansing
a year ago from serving sentences for
robbery, have been arrested in BartIes-
vile, Ok, and will be returned to the
penitentiary. The men had explosives
in their possession, it was said
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Miners employed at Mine No. 81,
Central Coal and Coke Company, have
returned to work after 3-day strike
to force new trial for Tom Mooney,
the California labor leader. The men