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Show ANOTHER RAIN RECORD. Trcscnt April tho Wettest In Utah Since 1880. (Sunday s Dalls ) The heavy laluf.ill of Thursday night at tin broke the lecoiel foi the countrs. 109 Inches picclullatlon legistcilng in the. local weather bureiu ofllce. Chicago Chi-cago hid (he next heaviest rain with .70 Inch, while l'ocalello took third honors with .'0 Inch Tho rnln ceased falling eaily sestculiy fnienoon Theso llguies swell tho preelpltntlon for tho month to .110 Inches, making 1 .'I Inches above the averngo for the month and bringing the pieclpltntlon of the seir to 3; Inch below the aveiage. The heavs ralu had lho effect of reducing re-ducing the temporatuie of Utah and vv ostein Color ido tonslderabls. Ho much so thnt frobt has been predicted for this mumlng W'hllo the fiost will bo light In tho vklnlts of this ills. It will bo heavy throughout the Htnle. Dcsplto this no serious d image to tho trops Is expeetid to 11 suit .is thn or-chardlsts or-chardlsts lire thoroughly pn lured The present month has, according to Dliector Murdoch, been one of lho most icniJikublo In the hlstots of the wenth-et wenth-et bine in, hiving no less than three lecoid-bio.ikliig ralmttnims 'lho one between the 7th and th giving a. tue-clpllatlon tue-clpllatlon of SS Inch, that of tlneo lass ago 111 Inches and "lhuisday nights storm onl 0J Inch less. 'iho present month nlso holds tho record rec-ord for being the wettest since 186, when the record of the vvealher department depart-ment was leached, ill inches being 1 cached thnt month |