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Show COLORADO NOTES. The Trinidad Advertiser is after the gam biers. There is a growing demand for houses in Grand Junction. Montrose has added a new hoso cart to its lire department. Clothes line robbers are making things lively about Aspen. The town of Ouray has reason to be unhappy. Everybody went broke last Thursday evening on a big minstrel show. The total vote cast in 1888, in Colorado, Colo-rado, was 01,000 and at the recent election elec-tion 75.000. Most of the stay-at-homes were republicans. Two men named Barker and Wigley quarreled about a dog at Catskill and Wigley sent a ball through Barker's brainkilling him instantly. Never was Ouray county more prosperous. pros-perous. There is not as much work going on ou the gold belt as there was at this time last year, but the outlook for gold mining is ever so much better. W. C. Steele, of Grand Junction, experimented ex-perimented with peanuts this season in such a way that ho couviuced himself and many of his neighbors that the goopor-pea may be counted upon as a sure crop in the valley of the Grand. |