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Show A breaof frost. Rain and Hail, Aerompnied by High Winds, 8 weep (her the City. i ; 6N0W FALLS IH THE rOOTHlUA I The Thermometer Suddenly Drops to 33 Degrees, and People Wke Up SaWr tog Rain Fall of 0.2 ef an lack. The thermometer went down with nodi la-t night ami this morning th ril'uens of Suit I.aki wok up hiririnf : and can-fully pulled ihe comforters up closer ntiout their chins. The ch.ingo iu the temrrtur wasted. wa-sted. ten and the suddenness mderery one feel It Ihe more. During lh nigh rain felt in tho city and this morning the fool hills and mountain cr rov crvd with snow. VW IN THK rr MII.I.S. I The air this morning was frosty atwt bracing. It brought w ith It health ami e.one gathered from the mow that fell i in the mountains. The sky was how. cer cloudy uud tho nun only maatgntt lo show its f:eo for a few momrot at m time during thu entire day. j At It o'clock it again began lo rain, this time ncrompaniwt by hail, which continued to rattle daw a for nearly an hour. Tho therniometT took another ulump aud the man mintta tin overcoat shivered. The wind alo got In Iu wurktaat night. About H ,;I0 it began loblow and by W o'clock was iwerplug citer the country ut the rain of thirty right mile nil hour. The wind, bowover, frll before be-fore midnight and during the day wasn't of morn than Usual veluctty during n ralo storm, iowx to Tiiiiirr M;nr r.iRrM. This morning a reporter climlwd t the roof of the Watatch building with Sergeant Fltmanriee of the ImiaUigiiiU service Imre.tu and climbing tmliot elevated aomo Inn feet above the nxf lHk a look al the thermograph which automatically register Ih changn in temperature. Al 4 o'rloek yesterday afternoon Hie tharmotneter marked "2 degree. Hy 10 o'clock it had dropped to M degree and at a. m. to UH tlegrera. At thi point U r- niitincd Ntitioiiarr until about A o'rlork this morning and then begun tn atowly crawl up until It reached 41 degree, l'roni tlnslnt it again dropped wild the hail storm at II it'clock, but about noon be j mi to gradually mount up. THK itAixrai.L. The rainfall up until S o'clock ihle morning amounted to .20 of an Inch. This I ulready more rain than fell during dur-ing the entire month of June it year, when It waa only .01. The rainfall last month, however, ahowad a very " notable deficiency, . Iring the month of May, I MM), ill" rainfall waa 3.07 Indies. l,t month it waa only .14 Inehea, and the hnwr with which the present mouth havtt started out will prove unusually grateful lo the ranchers. The rropa were not, however, Buffering a yt, a the rainfall of the mil winter was abnormally ab-normally high In fact, double that of any winter during the past fourteen ycuirs. ItoH THR KoKTIIWBirr. The storm rnnni from the norlbwt, the home of nearly all cohl ami ami bllzaarda. Haln waa also reported from vnrioui K'ct Ions of Montana, but none In any other part of the wrtt n-eept n-eept this section. In Wyoming ftrnl Idaho them waa a derided slump it temperature, but no rain. Mergl. Flimaurlec'a report of the vagaries va-garies of the w Bather at Una plnce for the month of Junn nhowa a mean tern- , pernluru of dI H degree. Thii H within with-in one tenth degree of being aa high a any May during the past fourteen yeara. The holiest day shoved Uia mercury up to eighty four degrwa, ami the coldest pulled II dow n lo forty degrees, de-grees, two degrrca lew than the regie ter this morning. |