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Show COLORADO NOTES. Miners are in demand at lionana, Saguache coimty. Trinidad is soon to have live miles of Icclrlc street railway. Mrs. K. 1'. House has lieen elected president of the (ireeley school hoard. . T.he new Baptist church at Colorado " Springs, costing $10,000, has just been ' - ; V completed. Hon. II. Vanorsdale of Lamar, has been duly inducted as mayor for the third term. The people of St. Flmo are urging the establishment of a water works system in the town. At Itoulder William Howar was sentenced sen-tenced to the penitentiary for nine months for involuntary manslaughter. Colorado City was the first town located lo-cated in Kll'aso county, and considered by some to be the lirst permanent settlement set-tlement by the whites in Colorado. The town hoard of Canon City will at once call a special election for tho purpose of voting J3J,00O of 0 percent bonds for the purpose of buying a park or hotel site. Work upon the railroad grade of the Rio Grande Southern is progressing finely between Durango and Kico and the forces of workmen are being added to as rapidly as the advancement of spring will permit. Two hundred acres of orchard were out this spring in Otero county, east of Temp creek, 100 acres at Fowler, sixty acres ot Catlin, and SMO acres in the vicinity vi-cinity of Kocky Ford, tiOO acres in all for this season, Sunday a courtean known by the sobriquet of "Goldie" attempted self-destruction self-destruction by jumping from a window into the street at Colorado City. Her skull and two ribs were fractured and her life is despaired of. |