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Show COLORADO NOTES. Lyons has a sidewalk boom. The senatorial bee is now feasting iu clover. Pueblo has erected a scheme to add Bessimer to the city's incorporations. Kiowa county ainco the drouth has the appearance of an overdone pancake. pan-cake. There are 335.300 acres of surveyed government laud in Archuleta eaunty, subject to entry or filing. Pueblo presents the peculiar spectacle of a city too big for its laws. It wants a change in the statutes relating to municipal laws. The reported sale of the Denver News appeared on the streets of Pueblo the other day with a two weeks' growth of beard on its face. The defalcation of the late county treasurer leaving the school funds of Alamosa about $1600 short and the district dis-trict must now go into debt again to pay running expeuses. There is no more peculiar river in America than the Arkansas. The river opposite Rocky Ford went through tho strange freak of rising some eighteen inches and then ebbing and flowing like the ocean for about four hours the other day, and nobody can tell what was the matter with it. Officer Morrison, a fly Denver copper, cop-per, was fined $.1 aud costs for overstepping over-stepping the bouuds of his duties in. makiug an arrest. When the swelling goes down in the average policeman's head aud he learns that his mortgage on the earth has never been properlv recorded, then common humanity may breathe the pure air of heaven without fear of a clubbing from the hands of oftentimes an ignorant coward. |