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Show COLORADO NOTES. Te'Iuride wants a new hotel worth f 25,00fl or $30,000. Ida Jones, a colored woman, was sent up by a Denver judge for fifteen years for tho murder of Stephen Ziiii-nier. Ziiii-nier. The Tueblo Star is kickirfg because 1f fthn country papers were not recognized ' by the democratic stale central com mittee during the recent campaign. I Tho locomotive whistle now wakes the mountain echoes at Telluride and makes the festive burro sick to know that a rival has appeared on the scene. There are about 48,000 sheep grazing tn Montrose county nt this season of tho year, 20,000 in Delta county and romethiug like 12,000 in Mesa county. The town of Elbert on the Colorado divide has a population of 200 cows that ought to contribute to a cheese factory, and an effort is being made to start one in that locality. As Winford Bnrdett, of Denver, was hitching up his horse the animal tossed his head so as to drive the tongue of a buckle through Burdett's temple and into his brain. Recovery Is doubtful. The output from the Sheridan, Men-dota Men-dota and Smuggler mines, from the beginning be-ginning of development under tho management man-agement of Mr. J. 11. Ernest Waters, in the fall of . to September 1, 1HW, amounts to the enormous total of $2,523,-75. It is reported that a big tie camp will be established this fall on the head waters of the Foudie river by parties who have contracted to furnish the Denver & Rio Grande railway company com-pany with 250,000 ties. From postal cards sent out by the Monte Vista board of trade to farmers in tho vicinity of that town, the Graphic states that there were cultivated culti-vated in the country tributary to it 2ti,100 acres of land, of which 12.000 acres were devoted to wheat, producing produc-ing 18.000,000 pounds; 8300 acres of aats, producing 5,930,000 pounds; 1000 acres of potatoes, producing 13,000,000 pounds, and the remainder devoted to barley, peas, hay and rye. The Graphic estimates "that these figures will be increased fifty per cent in 1801. |