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Show COLORADO NOTES. Pueiilo girls are o'rgaui.ing an engagement en-gagement and marriage club. Every taut) one of tbum has a gentleman escort to whom she is not engaged she is to pay 23 corns into the treasury. When a member becomes engaged she pays in $.i. When a member gots married mar-ried the club presents her with tlOO. Adam Ilrrzingor, a well-known San Juan mining operator, died of liright's diseaso in l'ueblo on Februarv 11th. He was largely interested in Dolorog and Ouray county mines, and a few dnys before his death a large body of oro was discovered in the Return tunnel tun-nel on Dolores mountain, his most promising mine in this district. The Republican this morning prints a list of sixty-five homicides, committed within the limits of Arapahoe county during the past four years, and but one of which was punished by the death penalty. This ratio is remarkable, and leads to one of but two possible conclusions: con-clusions: That sixty-four unfortunate innocent persons have been dragged into court on unfounded charges, or else that justice is unmistakable lax and, under local administration, incompetent. in-competent. The first conclusion is hardly tenable, and the second is a very unpleasant one to accept. It but emphasizes em-phasizes the fact that law and justice are anything but synonymous terms. Denver Times. |