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Show COLORADO IN PRINT- The railroads now pull ore from Leadville to Denver for $3 a ton. Hosea Townsend is trying to attract the attention of the senatorial bee. The democratic i .'ogramrae is to nominate Jim Onnan, the railway contractor con-tractor for governor. Editor B. Clark Wheeler is throwing the journalistic harpoon into the Pitkin county commissioners. The school superintendent of Las Animas county has absconded with $1600 in his insulo pocket. The Colorado Midland oflicials are all, nearly all, engaged in mining ventures ven-tures from which they are realizing a steady income. Eggs in the northern towns sell for fifteen cents a dozen and yet the rcstau-rauteur rcstau-rauteur wants a life's savings for a half spring chicken. Mining litigation continues to keep the good people of Aspen frothing at the mouth. However it furnishes employment em-ployment on juries for idle labor. The Telleride Republican comes forth in flat-footed candor and swears it will not espouse the candidacy of any legislative legis-lative candidate who will vote for Tellers' Tel-lers' re-election. Pueblo county, which is reaching forward for-ward to the prestige of a manufacturing center, has a population of 31,329, just double the number that was counted by special census two years ago. David Waite, a miner employed in the Last Dollar at Aspen, has died from injuries inflicted by a falling rock. "Kit" Carson, who is now developing Eroperties at Tintic, is an owner in the ast Dollar. Tbe new Pike's Peak cog wheel railroad rail-road was formally opened to trafflc on Sunday. The tourist can now gorge himself on scenery, which is a highly digestible diet, to their heart's content ond without fear of dyspepsia. |