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Show COLORADO NOTES. The Pueblo Chieftain prints a full column on Pueblo beer. A commission has been issued to William Wil-liam L. Barnes, postmaster at Olucy. The snow between Sunset and Ward is said to be four feet deep on the wagon road; The hlockado at Duraneo continues. No trains are running in or out, but there is plenty to cat and no sullering. A Pueblo man tells of a Bessemer girl who purchased a violin in order to to have a bow. No wonder that Pueblo and Bessemer cannot get together in the matter of annexation. The people of Powers county object to the report that destitution exists in their county. Tho farmers have achieved great success, and their agricultural agri-cultural prosperity is as great as anywhere any-where in the state. J. C. Fulton, station agent for the Midland at Ivauhoe, committed suicide by poisoning. Various rumors were circulated as to the causo that led the young man to commit tho act. Nothing Noth-ing definite could be learned, however, beyond the fact that he, had been severely se-verely reprimanded a day or two ago for some reason at present unknown. Since tho repeal of tho pre-emption und timber culture acts, the operation of thedeseret act has been extended to Colorado. There are largo areas of public land in the state which no doubt will be reclaimed by the operation of the act, and lands that have been hitherto regarded as worthless will no doubt now be sought and utilized through the capitalists of the state as there is no condition precedent reip.iiring settlement settle-ment and occupancy of lauds taken under un-der the act. |