Show BOTTOM DROPPING OUT WATERS OP THE LAKE ABE STILL RECEDING i Fall in Fifteen Days is Eight Inches and Since September 1st is Twenty one Inches The bottom seems to be dropping out of the lake said Weather Director Murdoch yeslerday as he announced loa lo-a Tribune representative that the lake level had dropped to eight Inches below the zero mark on the Garfield scale This makes eight Inches fall in fifteen days which will be regarded as remarkable re-markable and makes a fall since Sep tember 1st of one foot nine inches or twenty inches below the lowest previous pre-vious record In September of 1S99 the lake shrunk only four inches As thIs last fall leaves the newly placed monument at Garfleld out of water it will be restationed further out and the record continued At this rate of shrinkage the lake will drop Into the past tene much quicker than Prof Jones or Murdoch imagined |