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Show STORM BULLETINS Fruit Growers Order Smudge Ol Los Angeles. Jan. in Anticipating the freeze which the weather bureau predicted for the citrus fruit region tonight, orange and lemon growers received today a shipment of thirty .carloads of smudge oil. Preparations were made for extensive smudging J tonight. Growers will meet here tomorrow j to discuss the situation created by the recent three-day freeze which af-i af-i feeted much of the crop. Arroyo Grand. Cal. Jan. 10. The lowest temperature of the vanishing cold snap In California was recorded record-ed early today at Hasuana San Luis Obispo county, in the Santa Lucia range, where the thermometer registered reg-istered & degrees above zero. The mountains are deep In snow Seattle. Wash., Jau. 10. With cold weather today and a ce-sation of rain and snow all the railronds crossing the Cascades an- operating trains with only a little delay The storm is not yet ended, however, how-ever, and more snow Is threatened. I . T . End Not in Sight San Francisco, Cal.. Jan. 9. The; end of the storm which carried a 1 ; Hurry of snow far beyond the climatic dead line" and gave many residents of this city their first glimpse of I sight. Prof. A. G. McAdie of the gov- I ernment weather station here I 1 said last night that rain and variable vari-able winds, with the probability of snow. would continue tomorrow through northern California, and warned ships at sea to move cautiously cau-tiously in view of the certainty of. rough going along the northern water wa-ter ways. Disabled Steamer Makes Port. Norfgolk; Va , Jan. 10. The British steamer. Alcazar, with a crew of twenty-three, which had severe times off the North Carolina coast for two weeks and was reported last night leaking and calling for quick assistance, assist-ance, off Diamond shoal lightship, passed in the Virginia capes under her own steam today, with a bad list to the port, but otherwise in fairly good condition. Schooners Are Safe. Astoria, Ore., Jan. 9. Two steam schooners for which anxiety was felt today the Westerner, which lost part of her deck load of lumber when a wave hit her off the Columbia rivei bar today, and the Rochelle. forty-eight forty-eight hours over due put inio poll tonighi The Westerner had suffer' suf-fer' d considerable damage, but the Rochelle weathered the gale without with-out mishap. |