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Show SALMON HARD HIT BY THE COLD WAVE St.'(M;il to TIip Tritnim SALMON, Idaho, Per. 20. Salmon was .deprived of mail service for four days this week o.i account of a blizzard on t lie eontinen t 'il divldo betwoen hero and .Arm stead. llnnf, the junction of the branch line with the Ore son Short Line, while Christmas mail piled vp in the local poytO-Tice. At the sa mo t i - no the ' tow n war; experiencing ex-periencing tin- eolde.-t weather in j'fars, and facing a coal famine. The temperature tempera-ture dropped to C2 below, the coldest record re-cord e J since the weather bureau established estab-lished a station here, with one exception, u'ipii i t was St; below. "Wood is he ins ha uled from the hills to relieve thn in el famine. For scveifil days: there has h en no electric power in the daytime, and very inadequate litrht at nip'ht. on account of slush ice in the I emlii river. |