Show MORE GERMAN viciousness er ii tucky represented by patriotic a of covington will pay tri tribute lute p briend the horse Kentuck ys first battlefield ol of pat war the imperial germai gennai uncut ment in its silent ruthlessness ien en victorious and memorial Is s will be held for the horses ped high on oil a vacant lot nem neal ith and russell streets are citing of this encounter with i nys ys agents and within sight li ie paying tribute are several ed d more dying animals jhoss I 1 k g sides and blinded eyes speak otest against their agony I 1 altheir suffering must be silent it i ded on the flantz flach of each id d specimen of 0 hors horseflesh ellesh which 6 have been helpmates help mates of the can n boys in france Is U S 1 to 0 khaki is necessary to class d dead ead and dying as soldiers in es 9 of kentuckians Kentuck ians X kentuckians Kentuck ians the murder by J leg r g of these stalwart intelli rt illery horses on the stal soil that ven en its nime name to sportsman sillo it valry and whose love of Is s proverbial Is the lowest of f despicable business toll joll of 70 dead horses friday Ler eased to approximately I 1 iland handsome some powerful dign animals began dropping over yesterday like flies in cold sr br veterinarians have no it saving the remainder of the carcasses are piled in an ene ena before which the funeral awill a will be held 9 thoroughly beloved bel eved by the I 1 aties the deith death of the horses fought bought about by a carefully I 1 1 ged id rolson plot the pro ger jency agency has left no trail behind I 1 sory cry that the horses had been with the deadly germs 0 of ix x was discarded by dr R B in favor ot of the belief that virulent poison compounded expert chemist under scientific ration aaion was used aa nea pigs inoculated with blood abne me of the carcasses still were pA another nother day or two may be i ed tor for positive d diagnosis i to be but ut it is s eil evident dent from Ith tests that the guinea rould uld have died it if some disease wad d been used while ther their coni I 1 lease on life Is said to show idras was the medium plume ime Is making tests at the stories of samples of water rage given to the animals their belr arrival in covington amt i noticed by ns was that horses apparently i I 1 and in the pink of condition companions were dying sud ere stricken with blindness fere ti fever and their deaths soon cd gs ot of the horses NN were ere not con p those in any certain cars but the ravages seemed to spread indiscriminately I 1 diser minutely mina tely among the occupants I 1 of all the hie 31 stock cirs cars according to lieutenant frank lillio lillie the horses in the shipment were nere picked from animals purchased by the government and located at camp grant already the loss to the government through the death of horses is estimated at approximately the prices of 0 the horses averaged about each As the horses die teams remove the carcasses to a vacant lot steps will be taken to dispose ot of I 1 the h e carcasses thousands ot of sightseers approached the dead lines liles formed by soldier guards but none was permitted to enter the pens or in closures several who persisted N were ere confronted i with bayonets at the busin business ess end of a government rifle photographing of the pens of dead horses was prohibited many kentucky horsemen who viewed the animals say they were the finest specimens ot of horseflesh they have observed all were un shod and recently had been taken from pasture their robust appearance pe they had been well cared tor for the horses had not been fed or watered since they left camp grant officers at camp grant said the horses were in the best ot of condition when they left there they stood the trip well and were vere in good shape apparently when they arrived at the covington stock yards and were removed to rens reas to be watered and fed investigations by federal au all chortles les showed that the stock cars also were in excellent condition every everi soldier in the detail accompanying the shipment together with railroad and stock yards employees was interrogated thoroughly one puzzling feature of the poisoning is that water leavings from the troughs in which the horses slaked their thirst flowed into pig pens below and no ill effects have been exhibited by the pigs horses that occupied the pens previous 0 to o the arrival of the government horses remain in good health the artl artillery lery horses kere not fed from forage on hand at the stock yards but oats and hay were obtained from a nearby near by teed feed mill after their arrival samples of this teed feed are being analyzed covington officials made a careful analis s ot of the water in the city reservoirs at ft thomas and found it ft pure except for its muddy condition this was done to allay re ports that the city water might have been contaminated because of the muddy condition of the water commissioner of public property howk of covington Covin glon however er advised cit citizens zens to boll boil all water be tore fore using |