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Show THIRTEEN BELOW ZERO DDRH j LAST NIGHT IS A RECORD FROST I AND MANY PIPES ARE BROKEN: I Thirteen decrees below' zero! That was what the thermometer In .the United States weather observa- tory here told the observer this morn ! ing. Thirteen below was the minimum recorded sometime during the night I This is a record in so far as official ! reports show Th-' highest point touched bj th mercury in tho last twenty -four hours was 21 degrees. I It was zero at 9 o'clock but it got i a iftle warmer after the sun peered through the smoke haze that enveloped (the city. j "Fair and slightly older tonight. Sunday fair and continued co,ld " That is the weather prediction made today so the warning has gone out to " watch your water pipes and take I c ar.' (eat your house catch fire from ! overheated stoves." Frozen Pipes. There were many cases of frozen Itrater pipes reported today but thei big danger will coine. it Is stated, ir a brisk breeze should develop a wind I during a period of very cold weather is bad for pipes, oven though the, .n deep m the ground, it Is declared I li was sn smoky in Ogden this morning morn-ing that the city seemed trying to give .in imitation of Salt Lake on a clear day. Clerks and business men found store and office buildings chilly, even though the heating npparatus was 1 -Ing its best. Cheeks were rosy without with-out rouge and tears Were flowing even though there was no sorrow when i tlzens stepped out of doors. Arrested on a Charge of Battery Arthur Welker, aged 35, was arrested arrest-ed at the Southern Pacific shops shortly short-ly after midnight, charged with bat-, tery. It Is alleged that Welker undertook' to take the law in his on hands in a; i quarrel with a fellow workman which resulted in his arrest. Bail was fixed lilt at the police station and he will! j appear before Judge Roberts Monday ' j morning. |