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Show COLORADO NOTES. Collina, the Denver streetcar bold up, Will go to jail for eight years. The first croM of alfalfa was cut last week from the fields iu the valley "f the Arkansas. Down abont Trinidad several farmers have planted kallir corn and niilo uiaie for fodder crops. John Kennedy wan shot and killed from ambush at Bradford Junction. His murderer is at large. The Ottero Fruit nnd Land company have planted H0O acres in corn iu their property on the Arkansas. Tellurida pnpers are kicking on the mail service. Kicking, like nalvation, is free and requires no particular ai t. There are upwards of itd'H) hives in the vicinity of LoiiKiiiout. and the honey product from them will bo about !3(Mi,b00 pounds this year. The farming now being done in the vicinity of Moaca and (iarrisoii would astonish a last year's visitor should he po thure. ' Hundred of acres ot tfiain have been sown since the lot of the mouth aud more will yet jrr in. A dead man was fouud Friday morning morn-ing three miles this side of ilueua Vista near the railroad track by the engineer on a light engine coming in from the north, The proper authorities were at once notified. There were no bruises to be found on tiie man, and from the froth about the mouth it was thought 1 that he died iu tujuio sort of a fit. b lidaMail. A man whose nam we were unable to learu walked off the broad gaune pnstiengor train near Wellsville Wednesday Wednes-day !iie;hl while the train ) running at its usual rale of speed. His destination destina-tion whs S.'ilidn, but being asleep when the train came in from Leadrille he did not get till'. Wheu near Wellsville he nwoke, anil tipou learning that he had passed the city, aud before utiy of the trainmen cou'd interfere, he went out oil the platform and disappeared in the darkness. The otlicials here w ere notified noti-fied and a switch engine was sent down from Saliiln to look for him, but was unable 10 find him. It is presumable that he met with 110 accident. The first herds of the great Texas drive of entile to the north passed liiarantiue inspection and crossed the Colorado liue last week. Tho cattle are handled iu herds of L'oiK) by a foreman fore-man and ten cowboys, with mesa and full complement of ponies. The outtits are kept twenty-four hours apart and the drive made slowly. Already 'J.r,UO0 of these southern cattle are within the borders of Colorado passing to the north. The drive this year will be greater than for many years, amounting amount-ing in round numbers to MJ.OoO or possibly pos-sibly 10U.OUU head. Grass has made a splendid growth and is unusually good for the season The unprecedented rainfall of last winter and this spring has given the range grass a start which will insure a good bile during the i driving season. |