Gilpin observer., 1899-08-17
WESTERN NOTES.

eign corporations doing business in the
territory to take out a license. The
Continental Oil company and all other
foreign corporations refused to COM
ply with the new law and have COM
bined to fight its validity. The case
will undoubtedly be taken to the Unit
ed States Supreme Court. Mr.. Wilson
Is nominally in the custody of the
sheriff awaiting his hearing.
Active preparations for the Flower
Festival, to be held August 31st, are
being made by the managers, and
Colorado Springs this year will eclipse
ticular day the leading one Of all the
Colorado days" A dozen or more
committees are at work, each in its
special line, and money is being liber-
ally subscribed toward the necessary
expenses. This is the one day that
does not appeal to the appetite of the
animal man; it is particularly appro-
pirate that the city, whose environ
ments enclose so much of beauty,
should have chosen sentiment rather
than utility as its leading motive.
The Soldiers Home commissioners
are in recipe of most encouraging
news from the counties of the state
regarding their payment of $S.33 per
month for the support of each of the
old soldiers maintained in the home
from the respective counties. Mon
trose county has sent draft to cover
its proportion for two. months. Pu-
'eblo has notified the commission that
it will pay 500 per month. Other
counties are ready to act as soon as
their boards meet and the legal for
malities can be complied with. Com
missioner Smith, secretary of the
board, says he believes the necessary
funds will be furnished by the coun-
ties in the way indicated and thta the
ties in the way indicated and that the
ner until the state funds are available.
The Colorado State Holiness Asso-
citation will hold their sixth annual
meeting in Denver, from September
to 10, 1899, either in a large auditorium
or canvas tabernacle located as near
the center of the city as may be con-
venient and suitable for all concerned.
The tabernacle will most probably be
used with ground for campers. Rev.
Seth G. Rees and his son Byron.
Quaker evangelists of Providence,
Rhode Island. are engaged for the
meeting. Full information will be
given through the press, preachers and
y
upon application, week or more be-
forehand-giving special railroad rates
and provisions made for all wishing
to attend. Write Kent White. Secre-
tary, 234S Champa, Denver, Colorado.
George W. Blazer, superintendent of
the Elizabeth public schools, was shot
and instantly killed on the street at 8
O'Clock Wednesday night by W.. L. Hol-
land, editor of the Eye, local paper.
Holland disappeared after the shoot
ing and has not yet been arrested. He
formerly lived in Denver. The cause
of the sensational tragedy Is supposed
to have grown out of articles recently
published in the Eye, which has been
conducted by Holland for two months
past. The subject Of these articles
was condemnation of the town board
for having issued certain saloon IL
cense. The articles appeared under
the heading of Cameron and were
signed Hand Andy" The belief ex-
lists in many quarters that Holland
wrote the articles himself. 1t is also
stated that Holland had been threat
ened by Blazer and others.
The Union Pacific is getting ready to
make some extensive improvements on
its line between Evanston and Ogden.
The first work will be the replacing of
twelve steel and wooden bridges with
new steel. These bridges will be larger
and stronger, and will be constructed
upon the most modern plans and of the
best material obtainable. The building
of these new and stronger steel bridges
is necessitated by the recent purchase
of eight twelve-wheel locomotives for
service between Evanston and Ogden.
The company thought 1t best to
strengthen the bridges on this district
before bringing the monster freight en-
gincs from Cheyenne, where they
are now in service between that city
and Sidney. Nebraska. In addition to
the new bridges the road will be relaid
in many places with heavier steel rails.
Sidetracks and station property will be
improved, etc.
DIR. w. ]. Holland of the Carnegie
museum, Pittsburg. Pennsylvania,
who has large force of people work.
ing the great fossil quarry near Lar
annie. says that DIR. J. l.. Workman and
Mr.. Arthur Cogshall. formerly of the
American Museum of Natural History,
who have charge of the work in the
quarry, have discovered and eXhumed
Il monster fossil dinosaur I'm n perfect
state of preservation and have obtain
ed nearly the whole of this perfect spe-
cimen of one of the mammoth dino
saurs which existed in Jurassic times.
He has already Il more complete res
toration of the species than all the
other institutions of the country com
blned. The animal is called double
raftercd." and had n long neck. tail
and hind legs and short forelegs, the
whole length of the animal being six
ty feet. 1t stood twenty feet high at
the hips. the thigh bone or femur be-
Ing six feet long and fifteen inches in
diameter. and 1t had head like n
frog.
Manitou was thrown into the great
est excitement last Thursday by the
killing of Mr.. Gus Mckenzie, n Texan,