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Indcppndencc, Iowa. — October 8. — Heavy frost. 11th and 12tli, frost. 13th, 

 heavy frost. 20th, commenced snowing at 4 p. m. ; changed to rain at 8 p. m. 



Guttcnhurg, luzca. — Frost from the 8th to the 13th, except on the 11th. Ice 

 on -the 18th a tliird of an inch thick. 



Muscatine, Iowa. — October 8 — Light frost. 9th, frost List night enough to 

 kill tomato vines, for the first time this axitiimn. Ice formed a quarter of an 

 incli thick. 21st, a little snow, the first this season. 



Duhuque, loica. — October 8. — Frost this morning. 9th, ice quarter of an 

 inch thick. 



Towa City, Iowa. — October 9. — Hard frost, and first ice, a fourth of an inch 

 thick. 21st, first snow, an inch deep. 



Fort Riley, Kansas. — October 8. — First frost of the season. — 20th, first 

 snow, not measurable. 



Manhattan, Kansas. — October 6. — Frost on the low lands. 8th, frost. 20th, 

 light snow, eight hundredths of an inch. 



Bellevue, Nebraska. — October 20. — Snow from 1 a. m. to 9 p. m. It melted 

 fast, but covered the ground to the depth of about three inches. If it had not 

 melted it would have measured six or eight inches, perhaps ten. 



Richland, Nebraska — October 8. — Heavy white frost and ice, ground slightly 

 frozen. 9th, a little white frost. 15th, ice. 16th, a little white frost and ice. 

 20th, snow from before day till in the night; one inch of snow on the ground 

 at 7 a. m , melting through the day. 22d, heavy white frost, ground stiffened. 

 24th, 28Lh, 29th, 30th, white frost. 



Great Salt Lake City, Utah. — October 31. — The autumn has been dry, 

 with very little frost or enow, and the temperature more even than usual. 



