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Show COLORADO NOTES. Tho Denver News has been sold, by proxy, again. The Rico News thinks Mrs. Frank Leslie is only "funnin" with the "Mar-kee." The fellow who struck Tom Patterson will now get the roasting he has so long deserved. It is claimed that Senator Toller's face now wears the expression of a man who has a cinch. Some fellow who doesn't know a good thing to keep away from is going to start another paper at Montrose. "Bloeding Kansas" is being handled more roughly by the Colorado press than by the drouths and hot winds. Glenwood Springs is becoming popular pop-ular as a summer resort. The whisky sold there is said to bo the best in the state. The prospect for a large potato crop in tho Divide country is even better than Senator Teller's chances for reelection. re-election. Morris Rooney has started a candy store at Pueblo. His daughter Annie will wait upon customers every evening even-ing until 9 o'clock. The fruit growers of tho Grand river valley are confident of being able to completely shut out the California products pro-ducts from their section within a year or two. Tho Denver Republican gives life to an editorial on "Our Relations With China." Tho Republican is off tho text. The great trouble of today is the relation of the Chinese with us.' The Solid Muldoon, after viewing the force bill from a democratio standpoint, has come to the conclusion that it is "infamous." Of course it is. The civil war was infamous but it was necessary. neces-sary. Denver Times: An enterprising aud philosophical farmer of this slate remarks: re-marks: "The trouble in Colorado isn't to 'make hay while the sun shines,' but to water it while the ditch boss isn't around." Thomas Welch and Alexander La-velle La-velle disputed Thursday over a piece of ground near Glenwood Springs. The ground wasn't worth much, but when the smoke of the dispute cleared away the mortality list showed that Welch's sou and Alex. Lavello were killed out right, and Charles l'urham shot three times and will die. Stray bullets Hew all over tho community and the list of killed and wounded iu the outer precincts pre-cincts has not yet been handed iu. When a Coloradoau wants a thing he usually wants it badly. A semi original knave or fool at Aspen, As-pen, wants to know if it is not discriminating discrimi-nating against the poor in favor of the rich for the postal authorities to charge for boxes iu the postollice in smaller towns and deliver mail free of charge in cities. Ho does not take into consid-eratiou consid-eratiou tho fact that free boxes would entitle every blessed son of mankind to a postoflice box, and the peculiar spectacle spec-tacle of every jay town possessing a customs hou-io big enough to shade the auditorium building in Chicago would border largely upon the humorous, to say nothing of the ridiculous. |