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Show by a sharper. Ha tolls the following story: "1 read an advertisement in the Denver Republican offering employ-iiieut employ-iiieut to a responsible man who could furnish references or make a good faith deposit. J answered the advertisement. The advertiser occupied room 1, No. (il 1 .Sixteenth street. He said ho wanted me to ship cattle for him, and would give me $101) a month if I could furnish references or make a deposit of $HM. As I was a stranger in the city it was easier to make a deposit than to furnish references. 1 told him I was a deacon in the liaptist church, and ho assured nm that he was of a religious turn of mind also, being a member of the M. K. church. Well, w hen I went around this morning to take my job the ollice was closed. Several other people wele looking for the same man, but none of them would acknowledge that they had been swindled. " -- COLORADO NOTES- The Millington murder case now on trial in Denver promises to bo the most famous aud expensive trial ever heard in the courts of Colorado. A conservative conserva-tive estimate of the costs entailed on Larimer county whom the crime is alleged al-leged to have been committed foots up to over 840,000. At Pueblo tho residence of Frank Hill, a well-known railro.n cr living on ,1) street, was burgiariziM by two j tramps, and $ir in money aud consid erable wearing apparel taken. Helore departing they cut off Mrs. Hill's hair close to her head, kicking and beatiug her shamefully. She was found uncon- i scious by her husband. Hill ott ers a big I reward for the arrest of tho miscreants. In the hope of catching the burglars Chief O'Connor ordereu the arrest of all men found on the streets aud in the saloons last night after 13 o'clock. Forty arrests were made, but the woman could not recognize her assailants. assail-ants. All but three of the prisoners were sent up for thirty days. W. H. Mill, and obi farmer from Stratford,, Ontario, wno is in Denver for his health, was swindled out of $100 1 |