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Show mi HOVERS ISO ZEHO IK Coldest Day bf Season, According Ac-cording to Weather Forecaster. W hilu ta.t Lake shivered yesterday as the thermometer dropped to nine degrees above zero at noon and began its still lower descent toward evening, predictions of the local weather forecaster brought the chilly news that the city would bo wrapped in an icy blanket with temperature reaching close to zero before morning. The prediction began to materialize before midnight, as tho mercury continued dropping drop-ping toward the zero mark. The Uio-k hi front of the postofflce registered four degrees de-grees above at 9 o'clock last night. Yesterday Yester-day was the coldest day of tho seison, the mercury dropping two polnl3 below the mark set on Thanksgiving day, when the temperature was ten points above zero. Ed Williams, years of age, of Mont- ' pelier, Idaho, was the first person to apply at the emergency hospital this winter f;ir treatment of iro'slhito. One of his ears j and his left hand were frozen Williams told tho hospital nurse that he had received the injuries while noar Montpeher tho day before Thanksgiving. The weather was & coid, lie taid, that two sheep herders u ere found frozen dead In their biaaket.-. where ibi-y had falhn asleep at nightfall. Williams said the frozen part of nis ilesh h.rl been exposed to the cold only twenty minutes. Alter receiving fir -st aid treatment at tho emergency hospital, he was taken to thu county hospital. Warnings were sent out yesterday from tho weather bureau to stockraising and agricultural districts that tho tempera-! tempera-! ture in northern Utah and Salt Lake would reach from zero to twenty degrees below beforo this morning. The prediction predic-tion was that twenty degrees below zero would be reached in the Wasatch mountains, moun-tains, with zero temperatures and heavy snowfalls iu southern Utah. Tine snowstorm which developed over the intermountain region Saturday and i continued through Sundav night brought a fnJi in Salt Lako of seven inches. Yesterday Yes-terday morning tho fall was general over southwestern Utah, where it was reported snowing heavily. If iSalt Lakers felt that they were badly hit .yesterday with the chill of nine degrees de-grees above zero, they may get consolation consola-tion from reports of the northern country. Mieridan, Mont., reported ten degrees below; be-low; "Yellowstone, eighteen degrees below; Cheyenne, Wyo., eight degrees, and Po-caLello, Po-caLello, Idaho, four degrees below zero. Announcement was made yesterday by J. Cecil Alter of the local weather bureau bu-reau that no reports received indicate that much damage would be done by the cold wave. "All the crops are in, I believe," be-lieve," Mr. Alter said, "and conditions are not particularly bad for stock, except ex-cept in some isolated instances where sheep and cattle may have been caught on tho range by the heavy snow. In most instances the stock is close to feeding feed-ing centers, where it can be readilv cared for." The cold snap yesterday provided many youngsters with the best winter fun of the season, but the same cold that makes good coasting makes it very unpleasant to repair broken box carB. Hence, the car repairmen in the Oregon Short Line yards found themseives having hav-ing too much of a tussle with old Jack Frost and they gave way before him yesterday morning. K. F, H iggs, general gen-eral car foreman, said last night that tho men were driven to cover temporarily by the cold and will be back today. Some uf the men went to inside jobs and some "called it a day."' They are members of Car Kepairers' union No. 54L |