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Show CONFERENCE TIME STORM BEGINS IN EARNEST That the April conference is 'near at hand was quite clearly evidenced yesterday yes-terday and last night. It Is said by the old residents of. the state that -but few conferences of the Mormon church since the time of the settlement of Utah, which occur in tho early part of April' and October of each year, have not -been accompanied by storm. It has grown to be an adage in this state that: "Conference time brings a etorm." ' The April conference will be held in Salt Lake during the present week and the storm began yesterday. There was considerable rainfall yesterday, and during last night it came down In torrents. The streets before midnight were covered with water and the gutters gut-ters were running brim full. The precipitation pre-cipitation was not all rain, either, for at times the heavens wero bedecked with large flakes of enow that melted when they struck the ground. It was not cold, the thermometer registering register-ing 40 degrees above zero. . |