The Springfield herald., 1899-08-18

| their DOaruS meet ana 1ne leShi lor-
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 large auditorium
or canvas tabernacle located as near
| the center of the city rs may be con
| venicnt and suitable for all concerned.
The tabernacle will most probably be
used with ground for campers. Rev.
Seth c. 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
circulars sent out by the secretary
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
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
g. t.li IN Snl Ii
ccnse The articles appeared under
the heading of Cameron and were
signed Hand Andy" Tue belief en-
lists in many quarters That Holland
wrote the articles himself. 1t is also
stated that Holland had been threat
cned by Blazer and others.
The Union Pacific is getting ready to
make some extensive improvements OH
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 twelvc-wheel locomotives Tor
sefvice between Evanston and Ogden.
The company thought it best to
strengthen the bridges on this district
before bringing the monster freight ell
gines 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.
~ tho
museum, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
who has large force of people work
ing the great fossil quarry near Lar
annie. says that DR.. 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
| n monster fossil dinosaur in a 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 a more complete res
toration Of the species than all the
other institutions of the country COM
bined. The animal is called double
raftered," and had II 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 it had a head like n
frog.
Manitou was thrown into the great
est excitement last Thursday by the
| killing of Mr.. Gus Mckenzie. a Texan.
stopping at the Barker hotel. He was
killed IN the dining room during the
dinner hour by George Mccormick.
Exactly how the murder occurred is
not known, for while everybody in the
room testifies to having seen it yet
none will take oath that they saw the
man struck down or saw anything
thrown at him. 1t is presumed how
ever, that the colored waiter threw II
water bottle at Mr.. Mckenzie or hit
him n blow with the bottle. 1t ap-
pears that Mrs Mckenzie thought that
she had been insulted by the head
| waiter, George Grove. and Mr.. Nc
Kemie when she told him of it, at
tackled Grove. Mccormick came to his
aid with the results above stated. Mr..
| Mckenzie WAS Il wealthy cotton com
pressor at Gainesville. Texas. and his
death at the hands of a negro aroused
the other Texans in the hotel and in
Mantou to Il high pitch of excitement
| and there was much talk of violent ac-
| ton, even of lynching.
The Rocky Mountain News says:
Counterfeiting has become so general
| throughout the wild reccsses of the
| Colorado mountains that the govern
ment has become alarmed. a set of in
! structions regarding the detection of
counterfeit coins reached the local Sc
cret service agent yesterday from head
| quarters of the Treasury Department,
with the suggestion that it be circulat-
ed as generally as possible among the