| Show the drouth in nebraska omaha aug 6 an appeal for the drouth stricken portions of nebraska by a claiming to represent large inte reeta was today sent to the governor it recites that the committee comit tee has just returned from an extensive visit through the section through which the hot wind destroyed crops the committee ex plans that it has reason to believe from what has been told that thousands of families will either starve emigrate or be fed by charity unless the people as a whole provide for them the committee suggests as a solution of the problem that a special session of the legislature be called immediately to devise a state system of and that those in the drouth districts be given employment in the ditches the committee locates most of the distress west of grand island to hold rone governor crounse ie at present out of the state the impression is that the crop failures are not complete and with economy little actual suffering will result without state aid the locality in which the drouth was most severe bes been troubled periodically since nebraska has been made state it includes several counties in which the soil is so sandy that it requires at least one third more rain or water than any other fargins land in the adjacent counties |
