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Show COLORADO NOTES. Chaffee county will show a population of about 7500. The population of Colorado Springs is put at 11,000 to 11,500. The bent county Democrat savs that grasshoppers are doing some damage near Las Animas. Refreshing rains are reported from many points in eastern Colorado, greatly great-ly to the benelit of growing corn. , Littlo May Baumgarden at Grand Junction drank corrosive sublimato with almost fatal eil'ect last Mouday. The total assessed valuation of per-soual per-soual property in Kit Carson county is, according to the assessor's report, $103,- Lowry Horn is rounding up and shipping ship-ping 10.000 head of cattle from Grand Junction to Reef &Nuckolhof Lead-ville. Lead-ville. The Pueblo Star savs that either tramps are multiplying in that place or professional thieves are becoming more abundant. The Denver Republican advises its readers to look out for a big boom iu silver properties as soon as the new silver sil-ver bill becomes a law. Tho Holt Live Stock company is shearing 18,000 shoep near Kamoh in E! Paso county, and will ship about 144,000 pounds of wool to Boston. The Aspen Chronicle savs the. Peach-blow Peach-blow quarries ou the Frying Pan, on the lino of tho Midland, better known ia the Wilson quarries, have a contract for furnishing 3000 carloads of stone for Chicago. On Monday . Vivian Kdwavds. a cripple, started out from Denver on a novel globe circling tour. He is driving a team of goats. J;s wife nnd an ui-tendant ui-tendant accompany him on fool and his two children on burros. . ' "i ' |