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MENTION Firebugs in Denver are numerous. The Ute agent is a bad huckle-Berry, Rawlins has a sanguinary reputation. Katie Potnam is playing to good houses in Denver. Kisses sweeten a farewell. They are the cream of tate, ao to speak. The country is safe. The peanut crops have been very successful. Manager Rhodes contemplates erecting a fine opera house next spring. Two cars of California fruit passed through yesterday on the way east. A man is a perfect "brick" when be shows himself all the better for being hard-pressed. Harry Travilla was found guilty of mansiaughter. The maximum punishment for this crime in Colorado is ten years. "May I have some more sugar in my tea, aunty?" "Why, you have already had it three times!" "Yes, but they melt so." Freighters just arrived at Rawiins from White river, report everything quiet at that point, and building of quarters going on rapidly. The local passenger agent, Mr. T. N. Shanks, has not received orders from headquarters about reducing the rates of tickets on the U. P. road. Judging from the manner in which the Denver press go for their city fathers men of respectability will refrain from running for the city council. The Central Pacific cars on yesterday's east bound train were covered with alkali dust, showing that there has been windy weather in Nevada and Utah. Denver News: Seventy five thousand dollars was yesterday drawn out of the First National bank as the first instalment to pay the assassins of young Jackson. Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, 8 Cheyenne, 31 Colorado, 61 through; No. 4, 12 Cheyenne, 11 Colorado, 49 through. C. C., 6 Cheyenne, 3 east, 3'through. D. P. 4 Cheyenne; 21 east, 2 through. Science enumerates 588 species of or. ganic matter in the we breathe. Just think of it. Every time you draw in your breath an entire zoological garden skips down your windpipe and the free list is suspended. Mr. A. Adamsky requests the LEADER to state that he has respectfully declined the nomination for the territorial house of representatives, extended him by the workingmen's convention, because his time is required exclusively in his business. Rumors from the Uncompaghre agency say that if Berry is arrested and taken to Gunnison City for confinement and trial. the Utes will demand some equally kind hearted and pure philanthropist as their agent. A grand council is being held to ballot for the agent; great rivalry for the various favorites was shown. Reports from all the Rocky mountain region, both Colorado and New Mexico, are confirmatory of the great extent of the recent storms and the heavy snow fall, that would have done credit to the Christmas holidays. Travelers on the Mosquito Pass, en route for Leadville on foot, were almost frozen to death; the travel of all kinds to Silverton from the lower Rio Grande valley has been stopped, there being four feet of snow in the range. A signal sergeant on the way up from Colorado Springs to the Pike's Peak station, was compelled to return after encountering a succession of snow drifts and gales that "laid over" the best time of Maud S and St. Julien. But little speculation for the cause of this unsettled weather is necessary-the government and the president are to blame-it is due to the fact that no successor has been appointed in the place of the late Gen. Myer, "Old Probabilities." The Last Exering