nine o'clock
It is the opinion of railroad men that a great storm is raging in California . Weather here pleasant , with a steady , dry wind from the east blowing . Immediately following this was another news item which I can quote from memory : DENVER , June 26 , 9 P. M. -- Intelligence from Cheyenne is to the effect that railway travel and telegraphic communication west of Pocatello on the Union Pacific and Ogden and on the Central Pacific have been interrupted by a storm . The telegraph wires are believed to be in good condition , but up to nine o'clock there has been no return current . I read these paragraphs over three or four times . Ordinarily I should have passed them by and given my attention to other and more congenial news . But now a dull fear that events were conspiring to widen the breach between myself and the Brisbanes focussed my interest on them .