, 1884-03-22
THE SNOW STORM.
LiveIIest Storm of the Season, Yet No
Great Inconvenience Resulting.

Throughout Thursday morning the face
of the armament seemed to frown in
deep darkness giving unmistakable torbod-
ings of a coming storm of more than
usual severity. That it was the approach
of the vernal equinoctial gust, there could
be no doubt thereof in the minds of the
weatherwise. Soon after the sun had
crossed the meridian, the tiny fakes of
feathery snow, white, bright and cold
came pelting down from the clouds thick
and fast, coating the r~oad-ways, side
walks and house-tops with covers of
ermine wilderness.
A lull occurred in the storm about
supper time only to give greater fury to
the fakes later on during the evening.
1t showed hard almost continuously
through the night, and when our citizens
crept out from beneath their cosey covers
in households warm and bright, they
found through p%eering OF of their frost
bedecked windows hat about two feet of
snow lay snugly upon a level, whilst in
some instances, it had driifed considera-
bly, beyond that point of measurement
As the day wore on, the snow pelted
thick and fast, and people Rugged close to
the interior of their inviting habitations,
avoiding contact with the damp, chilly
atmosphere beyond their comfortable
walls wherein great fires were glowing.
lending brightness and beauty to home
life within doors.
Business, for the time being, was vir-
tually brought to a standstill. Store
keepers, as a rule, felt as though they'd
like to take a rest for a day or so, any
how, and their customers both regular
and transient joined them in this com
mendable feeling, for to face the pelting
storm was anything rather than a mission
of pleasure. =.
The public f~unctionaries found them
selves leisurely ensconced behind their
desks wondering whether anything would
turn up to vary the monotony of the
bleakness without. They, too, for the
nonce, enjoyed their otium cum dignitats,
which virtually means a good, pleasant,
easy rest The most of them deserved a
little repose Of this kind. for they. like
everyone else, recognized the force of the
fact that all work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy"
For newspaper workers, like the wicked,
there is no rest; and through the snow
they plod, putting and blowing, feeling
that the content Of the community rested
extensively upon their strenuous efforts,
rain or shine; blow or snow. So it was
that printers, carriers, editors, reporters
and devils, alike, truged through the
great snow banks and little avalanches
which had speedily entrenched themselves
within the thoroughfares of our thriving
municipality.
The newspaper is as much of a neces-
sity as it is a luxury, and no stone was left
to get the present issue out upon
sharp time, despite wind and weather, so
that it may repose gracefully upon the
breakfast table of all its numerous city
subscribers as they sip their fragant,
steaming coffee and, at the same time,
cast wistful eyes over its interesting
columns.
But the snow brought with it so many
drawbacks for the time being that to
them one and all would be a
work of supererogation. The play at the
opera house, the fascinating Ticket of
Leave Man had to be ~foregone, as ladies
could not conveniently and safely venture
in the pelting and binding snow storm.
However, as the evening wore on, the
surcharged clouds had completely emptied
themselves, and soon, the stars were
shining forth brightly and beautifully in
the armament above, to which joyous
eyes turned in pleasure at the thought
that a clear, bright day was thereby
vouchsafed for the coming morrow. In
this view, they received considerable con-
frmation from the report of the local
clerk of the weather-our accomplished
signal officer.
The storm appears to be very general in
its character, extending tt Green River on
the west and Ogallala on the east. 1t
also extended northward to the Black
Hills, a considerable fall of snow
being noted at Custer city, Dakota. Then
Denver, to the south of us, was visited by
the feathery fakes of winter, and they
even fell far south of her confines.
In our midst, the wind wasn't very
strong, and it is not likely that the snow
will lie long in our streets as the rays of
the sun are now quite strongat this period
of the year. In the suburban districts,
the snowfall will prove of great value in
moistening the ground which gives forth
50 generously of its nutricious native
grasses.
If a thaw be not succeeded by a freeze,
it is likely that both cattle and sheep will
escape all deleterious effects resultant
upon the storm. Thus far no ~unfavorable
reports have been received from the
ranges.
The snow upon the line of the Union
Pacific road, at points where it is the
heaviest is being speedily and successfully
removed by the company's ponderous
ploughs. Two number one trains got into
the city last night from the east, one being
nearly thirty hours late, and the
other only a few hours behind
time. The delay of the first was princi-
pally caused by a washout in Nebraska. as
stated in our yesterdays edition. The
train MOI 3 WIS abandoned thn nthora