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Show WEATHER IS WHAT MANY CALL IDEAL Dooly Block Oracle Keeps the Thermometer Down to SI Degrees. When a youth gotn gnshy, and a man Rots anxloiiH to pay good things, they always declare "it's Idcnl": and eo it won't ho out of order lo ?oy that the wcitthei Monday was "simply ideal " A clear, sunny sky. crisp, cool air and a playful breeze which seemed to linger In I tho trees and around tho corners, mado ' the weather offering of the Dooly block oraelo acceptable. After thine davs of sultry weather, with threatening clouds, that showed no inclination to rain nor any inclination to move on, and after the hot weather which made tho Fourth of July pass In a glory of boat, the weather Monday came as a relief to everybody Tho thermometer seemed possessed of the same restful spirit and the mercury only registered i ( at J o clock, nnd SI was tho low figure recorded as a maximum. The pleasing part about tho action of the Dooly block oracle Is his prediction thai tho weather will continue fair Tuesday, Tues-day, with possibly a little warmer. Phoenix and Yuma Truce. The rest of the country seems to enjoy en-joy a little of the saiuo pleasant, woalhor which visited Salt I.ako on Monday. Phoenix nnd Yuma called a truce, in thulr contest for honors and jointly ngrced that the mercury should not get any higher than the 100 murk, and hero it hung during the afternoon. New Orleans, always hot, dropped a couple of polnls In honor of the day nnd registered an even 90 degrees. The northern portion of the Mississippi valley was not so fortunate as tho rest of the country, because It required from 3 to I Inches of rain to keep the mercury within civilized limits. Calgary, in British Brit-ish Columbia, reported a temperature of i!2. This was the. lowest on the map. General Conditions. Low barometric pressure extended over tho plateau, Kocky mountains and uppor Mississippi valley, causing showers over the north plateau. Rocky Mountain slope, Central vulloys. Lake region nnd South Atlantic, with excessive and heavy rainfall rain-fall ns follows: Kansas City, 4..1G Inches; St. rati I, 3.02 Inches; Omaha, l.o! inches; Duluth, 1.30 inches; and St Louis. 1.20 Inches. High pressure was central over the North Pacific and Norlh Atlantic. Monday's Record. Record at the local ofllce. United States weather bureau for tho twonty-four hours ending at fi p. m. yesterday: Maximum temperature, St degrees; minimum temperature, iio degrees; mean temperature. OR degrees, which Is 1 degrees de-grees below normal. Accumulated deficiency of tetnporaturo since tho first of the month, A degrees. Accumulated excess of -tenipcraturo since January 1. 251 degrees. Relatlvo humidity at C p. m.. 2D per cent. Total precipitation from C p. m. to t p.' m., none. Accumulated deficiency of precipitation since the first of the month, .i!S Inch. Accumulated excess of precipitation since Jamiari I. S.23 inches. Temperatures Elsowlicre. Roiso 71 Boston 71 Chicago SO Cincinnati St Denver ?tl Detroit .-. Su Galveston ' ; Stf Kl Paso ". SS Grand Junction SG Kansas City ....... 81 Los Angeles : 71 Miles City .' 7S Modena 82 New Orleans : i-. . . ; .: 00 New york city so Omaha SI Phoenix 100 Pittsburg , S Pocatcllo , 70 Portland U8 St Louis Si San Francisco , CO Spokane 7U Tonopab SB "Washington SI AVinncmucca , S2 Winnipeg SO Yuma 100 |