The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-18
IT IS ALL OVER NOW
4" Bobby" Burns, the Well Known,
Quietly Carried to Els Grave.
HIS WASN'T A BAD RECORD
He Could Not Do Too Much for or
Say Too Many Nice things
about His Children roud
of mis- Nickname.

Missoula, April 17.-There was not a
large attendance at the funeral OF
Bobby" Burns this afternoon. One
thing Is certain, however, all that were
there were there because they had some
regard for the old man and not out
of morbid curiosity. A funeral from an
undertaking room Is at best not an
affair that attracts a large crowd un-
less the burial has some sensational
features and this was devoid of that
soIG of attraction. The death of the
queer old man resulted from causes
that were natural and the morbid curl
ostty seekers did not turn out to-day.
1t was simply a hurrying away of the
mortal part of man. There was none
of the Formally and pomp that go to
make an ordinary funeral impressive.
All was lacking that would arouse any
thing but sympathy for the poor man
vino was receiving the last attention
from his fellow men. But perhaps 1t
was as Bobby would have wanted 1t
had he had an opportunity to express
his choice. He was man who Shrank
from any notoriety and who would not
make any fuss about anything. His
life I'm recent years is familiar to the
people of this city. He was made
prominent because of the strife that
existed between himself and some of
his neighbors. Even then he was never
anxious to make any disturbances. He
was for peace all the time and it was
no. until the prosecutions of his enc
mics became so persistent and so an
noying that 1t was impossible to endure
them longer that his temper was
aroused and he became a dangerous
foe. He hated his enemies as intensely
as he liked his friends and when he
was fighting he fought as hard as he
could.
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in local scenes and although he was
known to nearly every one in the city
there were very few who knew any,
thing about him. He was not a COM
municative man, and he said no more
than was necessary on ordinary occa-
sions. He had a few friends to whom
he would talk freely and these few
knew that the old fellow was a good
man. He was far from being the bad
man that he was generally supposed
to be. Many a poor fellow can recall
Incidents of old Bobby's charity. Many
men would have gone hungry had IT
not been for his generosity. He did
not put a notice in the paper whenever
he did a kind act, but he did many of
them just the same. He had one great
passion-his love for his children and he
would talk about them in a beautiful
manner when he was sure of an audi
ence. All that he had and all that he
did was for them. If he could do
something for these absent daughters
he was happy. .4.e
That is not such a bad record after
all Many a man who stood higher
than old Bobby has left a worse one.
Sometimes he would talk a little about
himself, and on these occasions he
would almost invariably refer TO the
nickname that he bore and would talk
enthusiastically about the original
BODY Burns. of whom he was a firm
admirer. His nickname never worried
him. on the contrary. he was proud
of it. Bobby Burns" he would say,
was a man who was kind in sizing up
his neighbors. That Is the kind of a
man that l like" And so ii is well to
be kind in speaking of this Bobby
Burns.