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Show ! BOYS HfifflH SLEDS ' ADD HAVE HERRT TWE i Snowfall Saturday Sufficient for a Typical Winters Day of Sleighing. Snow drifted downward from the hazv heavens nil day long Saturday, and tho ground grew white and tho streets grow eluahy and tho Bldcwalka grew sllppory. No wind attonded tho Know ctorm, but tho small, light flakes camo floating down from every direction, and thoro was not a nook nor a cranny uncovered that snow didn't pile into. It got on tho atroot car tracks and tho big snow cars . with noisy rovolvlng brushes and raaping snow plows got busy; it covered tho crossings and snow shov-elers shov-elers worked over the city the llvo-Iong j day; It landed on the sidewalks and tho crowds trampled it into packs of Ico and ' porters and panltors hackod away with 1 prods and nhovels until lato In tho night. Small boys dragged out thoir Blcds and hitched onto wagons, and even dared to rldo up and down Main street through tho heavy traffic of the afternoon. Thcro wns not a hill In the city down which a stream of boys and sleds was not gliding during tho day or else trudging upward to the top, trailing tho steel-shod coast-era coast-era bohlnd. A number of sleighs with tinkling bells glided through tho city usually with two occupants, and ono a lady snugly tucked In with furs and lap robe. ' The storm delayed street car traffic I but very little during tho day and evon-Jng, evon-Jng, and tho snow fell steadily and even-i even-i ly, and with six powerful swoopera at I work over tho system tho officials managed man-aged to keep tho tracks fairly freo from snow. "It Li tho extremely hoavy enow that comes suddenly and accompanied by wind that gives us trouble," said General Superintendent Su-perintendent Hunt, Saturday afternoon. Trains on the IUo Grande and Oregon Short LI n.0 woro on tlmo, oa wore tho Salt Lako Routo trains. Saturday's record at tho local office of tho weathor bureau for tho twenty-four hours ending at G p. m., was ae follows: Maximum temperature, 32 degroes. Minimum temperature, 2S degreos. Moan temporaturc, 30 degrees, which is normal. Accumulated excess of temperature since tho tlrst of the month 99 degroes. Accumulated excess of tcmpenvturo since January 1, 250 degrees. Relative humidity, 100." Total precipitation from 6 p. m. to 5 p. m., .2 of an inch. Accumulated excess of precipitation sJnco tho tlrst of tho month, .91 of an Inch. Accumulated excoss of precipitation since January 1, 3.4a Inches. . - Temperatures Elscwliere. ... , Min. Min. "&nta ....-16 Los Angeles ....52 nismarck 0 Now Orleans ....56 ?l8. 32 Now York 40 Charleston u, North Platto ....32 "case- - Oklahoma 50 Cincinnati 50 Omaha 36 i'enve,r 30 Phoenix ....44 2?lL0,t 38 Pittsburg U EL Paso CPocatello 24 Galveston 02 Su Louls 5(J "clc St. Paul 34 Wuron 2Gsan Francisco ...50 Kamloops 20 Santa Po 24 ICansoH City ....62Spokano 30 Landor ...24Tonopah ...34 I Littlo Rock GO "Washington .. .32 |