, 1899-08-17

meeting in Denver, from September 1
to 10, 1899, either in n large auditorium
or ..anvas tabernacle located rs near
the enter of the city as may be n
venient and suitable for all concerned.
The tabernacle will most probably be
used with ground for campers. Rev.
Seth @. 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, n 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 0
o'clock Wednesday night by WI. Hol-
land. editor of the Eye, a local paper.
Holland disappeared after the shoot
ing and has not yet been arrested. He
formerly lived in Denver. The
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 n VI Nv ''''
for having issued a certain saloon IL
cense. The articles appeared under
the heading of Cameron and were
signed Hand Andy" rho 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
lew steel. These bridges will he 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, P~ittsburg, Pennsylvania,
who has a large force of people work
ing the great fossil quarry near Lar
annie, says that DIR. ]. l.. Workman and
Mr.. Arthur Cogshall. formerly of the
American Museum of Natural History,
who have charge of the work in the
OF lrfy, have discovered and exhumed
n monster fossil dinosaur in 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 n 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 n long neck, tail
and hind legs and short forelegs, the
whole length of the animal being six
ty feet. II stood twenty feet high at
the hips. the thigh bone or femur be-
ing six feet long II fifteen inches in
diameter, and it had a head like a
frog.
Manitou was thrown into the great.
est excitement last Thursday by the
killing of Mr.. Gus Mckenzie, a Texan,
stopping Mt 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 testifes to having seen it yet
none will take oath hat they saw the
man struck down or saw anything
thrown at him; 1t is presumed, how.
ever, that the colored waiter threw a
water bottle at Mr.. Mckenzie or hi,
him n blow with the bottle. 1t ap
pears that Mrs. Mckenzie thought thai
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 a wealthy cotton com
pressor at Gainesville, Texas, and his
death at the hands of a negro aroused
the other Texans in the hotel and IL
Manltou to n high pitch of excitemen'
and there was much talk of violent ac
ton, even of lynching.
The Rocky Mountain News saws
Counterfeiting has become so genera
throughout the wild recesses of tn,
Colorado mountains hat the govern
ment has become alarmed. A set of in
structions regarding the detection o
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 tn,
residents of this section. No particu
lars are given regarding suspected
counterfeiters, but ii is desired that til,
public be educated in the detection o
spurious coins so as to aid the govern
ment officials. This much Of the com
munication was made public last even
ing: The following is n test for deter
mining whether a coin is good or bad
Use the liquid as near the edge of TIL
suspected coin as possible, as that i
the part most worn. A drop of tn
preparation will have no effect on gen
uine coin. while ii can he plainly seei
on the counterfeit. Heavily plate,
coins should be scraped slightly befor
using. Test for gold-Strong nitri
acid, 6k drachms; muriatic acid. J