Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-04-04

~ Che Burro's Briefs


the people of Idaho Springs would, if
asked to attend a sparing match, or
what is more properly termed a prize
fight, turn up their noses and say it was
too brutal. At the same time this SYM
pathetic public will witness basket
ball game or foot ball game where men
are knocked down and crippled and
think they are Patronizing sport "that
is so nice" AS between the two give
us prize fight. In contest between
two men who are splendid athletes, men
of courage, ready to give and take and
who enter the ring with the understand
ing that there is to be something
doing" There is no poking with the
elbows and fouling in a prize fight that
is conducted between two scientific men.
A half dozen good blows is probably the
limit received by either of the contest
ents-the rest being parried as a result
of the science of the men. 1t is a manly
sport and lesser number of people lose
their lives in this than there are in foot
ball. If Idaho Springs sports are going
to get their fighting blood up every time
contest of any kind is pulled off we be-
lieve it would be proper to admit all kinds
of sport of this class so that the admirers
of the manly art can have a show as well
as those who enjoy basket ball, foot ball
and bull fighting.
The dispatches from the San Juan
country indicate that the Big Five
Federation has made a wonderful rich
strike in it's union tunnel. Good for the
Big Fivel A gentleman from Boulder
county also states that the mines of that
company at Frances are opening up in
good shape and shipping the good rich
stuff-and this is occasion for more con-
graduation. Really the Big Five is en-
titled to success. 1t has fought a long
time and fought like a gladiator. 1t has
been governed and operated by men
who know that mines are not made in a
day. Had some person, other than N. C.
Merrill been at the head of the great
enterprises it is not improbable that
many of these that are producing now
would have been abandoned or disposed
of and the present good fortune would
have been some one elses. This is the
way mining usually goes. 1t is the
case, nine times out of ten, that the man
who furnishes the cash for development
is not the man who reaps the richest re-
ward. He may make little bit on a
sale that is forced when everything is
looking blue, but the man who buys it
and stays right with it is the one who
gets the values and reaps the real reward
in the mine. Merrill is slayer and that
means that he will succeed.
The death of Mrs. Gleason, like the
death of Henry Plummer, occasioned
real grief in the city. Her long residence
here, her extended acquaintance, her
womanly ways and her universal kind
ness made her a most 1ovable women
She was friend to every deserving one
and as mother queen among woman.
The tears of those she had fostered and
cared for as a mother were as bitter and
grief-laden, almost as the tears of her
own. Her death brought out cne of the
strongest illustrations of the love be-
tween mother and son. Heart rending
as it is it is lesson for the world to
know that the love exists not only in
poetic fancy but in real life-that twain
of one flesh cannot be separated without
pain and that good deeds can grow vine
of love that entwines not only those of
her own flesh but the recipients of these