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Show PRAVINO FOR RAIN. Need ef Mt.lslare In Hssssl s s Greet That Special 1'reysrs srv lit-ered lit-ered In C harehej. The need for rain In Ksntiuhaa become be-come ao great that llishop I'lok. whose diocese consists of the easlrra third of Kansaa, haa ordered prayers slid daily by every Catholic under hia Jurisdiction. Jurisdic-tion. Munday last, prsyers aero offered of-fered In all lha IavenaorU (Kan.) Cathollo churches, t ntl.tr the orders from the bishop Ihe prsyert will ba continued until rain fulls. The hot south wlmle Hut swipt over the better part of Kansss Mnadny prevailed pre-vailed again Tuesday and no reporta of rain hud bean received at Ihe local wealbee tnireatl. Incrrasrd dmagQ lo veeiiu y , al.arssCTlll A ibtle ree4lt. Tha e.s.p.Wue. l iulial Kf usaa and In the uotelieaitern cornsr of tha aula ranged from DO to Vg degrees de-grees above In lha shads Moaday. The ground generally is reported dry and hard aud badly In need of rain. The midsummer weather experienced In Kansaa City Sunday, when tha thermometer rose 3 drgrera lo seven hours, from Ml to VI, prcnlled Monday Mon-day with perhaps a ellcilly cooler wind, Dispatches from Topekaluy dry, hot wind,- blowing thirty tulaa an hour from tha eoiuliweel and hanging to the south, prevailed over that section of Kansaa Monday, wlla a high tern-Derature. tern-Derature. Many lelrfriph aud telephone tele-phone wires are doan. Sunday tha wind blew stradlly from lha aoulh-wesl aoulh-wesl at tha rate of forty allies an hour. Tha maslmuin was M, Ihe highest In April for aliteeu yesrs. tscept lu 1BUJ, when It reached U7. |