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Show number of tho Colorado Frein Prese at Denver. In si.o and make up it is the same as was bis paper iu I'ueblo. There is a schemo on foot in Canon City to bring the water of the Arkansas Arkan-sas river by means of ditches to Canon City to bo used for irrigating aud to furni'-li power for manufactories. James York and Georgo Clalin recently rec-ently stolo the recently built house of Physician l euton from his ranch near liocky l ord uud moved it on to one of their claims. The men have been arrested. ar-rested. At their regular meeting Friday night the city council of 15iiena Vista granted a franchise to the Hiiena YUta Fleet ric Fight company to build a railroad from the Midland depot to the Cottonwood Hot Springs. The postotlice at Carriscn, Baca county, is discontinued from March 11. mail goes to Spriuglield. Mail messenger mes-senger service to Glenwood Springs from Denver & liio Grande railroad will be terminated from March 11th. lleeently a I'ueblo man sent 25 cents in reply to au advertisement in a Denver Den-ver paper which promised him information infor-mation Junv to make J.iO a week at home on a capital of if 1. lie received a printed slip bearing these words: "Fish for fools as 1 do." Tuesday morning I'M ward MoBride was engaged in picking out a shot of giant powder iu the No. 3 level to the east at the l'airview mine, situated six mill's north of l'ilkiu, when the powder exploded aud fearfully mangled his face and body. This occurred about 7 o'clock and at 8 be died. At the little mountain station of Busk, just oxer the range on the main line of ilie Midland, a record kept of the snowfall snow-fall shows that up to February i'Tth the remarkable depth of HI feet 5 inches had fallen. The milder temperature at times has reduced this considerably, of course, but there is enough left for all practical purposes this season. Charles Hidden, recently arrested by Cattle Inspector Wyattand Bill Thompson Thomp-son upon tho charge of killing range cattle, has had a preliminary examination examina-tion and was held to appear at the next term of the district court at Springfield. Several hides, heads, eto., were found in a well not far from tho defendant's residence, which is in the southeastern part of the county. James Woolev, aged (io, who diod at Rye, Pueblo county, recently, was a remarkable re-markable character. It is alleged that during his life lie never bought a pound of meat or' a barrel of Hour or corn; never woro spectacles; had a sflw 27 years old; never swapped horses; never was out of money; wore one pair, of shoes thirteen years, and kept one pair of plow lines nineteen years. What other eccentricities he may have possessed pos-sessed deponent sayetu not. There seems to be a mystery surrounding sur-rounding the death of the late ex-Senator George M. Chileott, which occurred in St. Louis on tho th instant. What motive the attendant, in his last, hours, could have in suppressing too real cause of his death is inexplicable, leav-one leav-one to infer from the vagueness of the dispatch announcing his demise that his death might have been caused by other than natural causes. At all events, there is a mystery connected with his sudden taking oil that should be explained. COLORADO NOTES. Range stock m.'ar Springfield is reported re-ported as beiug iu the very finest condition. con-dition. The interest iu the citizens' hospita at Aspen is beiug revived ami it is now proposed to complete the building at once. Professor S. F. Winget has resigned his position as principal of the Silver Clilf school. Professor T. J. Bradshaw succeed him. i Editor Haggenjos has issued the first |