Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-02-17
TIE AIR MOVED A BIT
OLD Boreas Alter Visiting All Other
Parts OF the United states and
Canada. Finally Reaches the
Land OF the Fliekertails.
zephyrs from Medicine that Blow
Snow into Cuts, stopping Rail.
way Traffic, Filling Trails and
lniuring Business.

All winter long the people of the
Missouri Slope Of North Dakota have
been reading Of the storms. cold
Weather. floods, etc. in the older
states. and have had much sympathy
with those whose lo, is cast in such
unpleasant places Nay after day,
Week after week and month after
month North Dakota had been bask-
ING in sunshine and halmy weather,
while the metropc tam newspapers
We're flied with a UNITS of suffer
lng by the pcop from blizzard
ridden York State 10 the flood
afflicted Pacific coast; The chances
are that we Mere getting a little
too chesty over our climate and our
lmpregnable position as winter
health-resort and offended the wealth
el' clerk. Bat whatever the rea
son, the other day we. ourselves. got
a little touch of high life in the way
of dlsagreeahic Weather The storm
did not last long. but. while it last
ed, the wind Travelled quite swiftly
some say even faster than the
speed of the n. L. tlier between Lin
ton and Mckenzie ON a day when
Scrar-lron l'ill's influenza is bad.
But whatever the winds speed. it
found time 10 dip from the snow
banks many a handful of THE
beautiful and scatter ii over the
boundess prairie, on Your sidewalk
or the path to Your barn, or the
back Of Your neck, or any other old
place In fact, for a night and part
of a day particles Of partially CON
gealed aqua pura were, as the scien-
lists would say, held in suspension in
The circumamhient mot sure of
meaning, but looks good i'm PRINT
atmosphere and whlsked along by
/ the zcphyrs like sixty But Tues
day evening the weather cleared and
"Wednesday the l.intonites did like
wise u their sidewalks, ON which
had been deposited drifts of more or
less magnitude 1t was the first
bad spell of the winter, and so far
we are away ahead Of the effete east
in pleasant weather since Jack Frost
began the latest period of his reign
Railroad traffic has been badly de-
moralized The Milwaukee train
| arrived in Linton Monday about on
time ~ the time for its departure,
however, the storm was so bad that
| it would have been a foolhardy at
| tempt TO push out upon the prairie.
| The train and crew are still here
thus Ihursday) morning. A snow
plow left Aberdeen for Linton Mon
day 1t got as far as three miles
| this side of iceland, down i'm Mcln-
tosh county and there gave up the
| ghost
1t is reported that after the storm.
Wednesday. the engine, which had
| stalled in cut and died, was so
nearly covered with snow that only
| the smoke-stack could be seen. A
passenger train on the Milwaukee
coast extension stuck in cut. near
Bpwdle, and the snow drfted around
| ii until only the tops OF the coaches
we're exposed to view
a snow -pleSe ON the Milwaukee is
| expected here to-day from Aberdeen
| to open the line so that the train in
| waiting here IAN be moved
| The Northern Pacific Linton
| branch met with no adventure
worth mentioning Mondays train
leaving here in the morning got into
| Bismarck before the storm amount
ed TO much and at leaving time it
was too storms to make an attempt
to pull out. So, there has been no
arrival of an " r. train here since
| Saturday.
sILOS ARE A BIG SUCCESS.