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Show COLORADO NOTES. The peach crop in Grand river valley is "iu it" this year. Tweuty binders are harvesting the crops in Bent county. Akron proposes to establish a hook and ladder company. The Slar denies that Grand Junction had-a boom on this year. The Rocky Ford Watermelon is now in harmony with the season. "God save the queen," remarks Dave Day; "the rest of us can rustle." The Farmers' alliance in Sedgwick county is iryiug to purify the ballot. McMahon's circus is ieaving a trail of fist-fights across the Centennial state. Rocky Ford has a population of one thousand people and three newspapers. A long felt want was filled last week at Pitkiu. C. Edgar Adams is the editor. Ouray uses loO kegsVf beer per week. That is the reason tho jail was enlarged. en-larged. Cheyenne Wells, a town ol one hundred hun-dred and fifty souls, has voted bonds for water works. To the gentleman up a tree it looks as though Captain Rice had a mortgage on the office of secretary of state. As an inducement to increase business busi-ness houses, the saloon license at Sterling Ster-ling has been reduced from $S00 to $500. Competition iu Denver newspaper circles has reached its highest form of excitement. Tho Times oilers a bicycle with sticking plaster and arnica coupons cou-pons on drug stores that advertise, for every 100 subscribers. The Republican iuduces subscribers with tho hope of pulling an encyclopedia out of tho "grab-bag." while the rest of the "gang" oiler chances on threshing machines, ma-chines, saw mills, gold mines, etc. line enterprising publisher goes so far as to offer the governorship of the Mate to the person getting up tho largest dub of subscribers. |