Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-05-09
Burro's
Briefs.

that Idaho Springs, Colo, is regarded as
one of the cities of the country where "race
suicide" is not prevalent He arrives at this
conclusion by taking the census figures of
1900 and the school census figures of last
year where the school population is shown
to be something over 1000. The census
| figures of 1900 give Idaho Springs 2 ,5o2
inhabitants 1t is hardly fair to give us
credit for being as prolific as this would in
dicate, however. School district No. s,
which includes all of the territory embraced
within the city limits and considerable out
side of the city limits contains the number
suggested by the figures but there are not
that many inside the city limits where the
census figures were taken. Idaho Springs
has no desire to flch laurels from other
.cities in this goodly idea of multiplying and
replenishing the face of the earth, nor does
it care to be regarded as city where better
than one-third of the population is repre-
scented by school children
.s12d&
The season of the summer tourist is at
hand Whether this will inspire the editor
of our esteemed contemporary to poetry
again or not remains to be seen. Last year
he was the author of little poem that did
harm to the business. Laying all poetry
aside it is deplorable to think that another
season must pass without hotel accommo-
dations. Seasons without hotels come as
regular as the season of the knocker and
woodtick. Nearly three years ago the
Big Five Federation purchased the mineral
springs and the people looked for relief
they are still looking. According to the
best authority obtainable-the railroad
bureaus-the present season will bring a
larger number of people to Colorado than
any other in the history of the tourist bus
mess. What a valuable asset hotel
would be? How much nicer would it be
were we in a position to invite people to
come to Idaho Springs. These people rep
resent capital and capital represents devel-
opment and development means permanent
success. 1t is easy to figure out, but it
seems to be mighty hard proposition to
figure out anything that looks like mod
ern tourist hotel. The only thing we can
do is to do all we can to entertain those
who come here. Make it as pleasant as
possible. This the people have always done
and the hospitality of the city has never
been proposition that could questioned
.sS.s
The Georgetown Courier uses the greater
portion of its space again to prove that it's
county is not entitled to the Jackson park
and monument. The Courier editor init
mates that some of the editors of the county,
outside of himself, are poor. If he intend
ed to direct that at us we admit the truth
of the charge. Whenever we hear any
thing of this character we are reminded of
the story told by Frank Goudy. An aris-
tocratic idiot was taking brother human
10 task for being intoxicated.
Look at me-" he remarked, 81 am not
a drunken sot-I am gentleman
The intoxicated man looked at the fellow
for moment and then replied.
'I know jush (hic) how she ish-Pm a
d-n fool now (hic) know zash, but in re
mornin' I'll be sober again an all (hic)
right but you will always be d-n fool"
1t is probably true that we have not been
blessed with fortune as Editor Randall has
We know where Chinese laundries have
continued to amass wealth while the better
institutions met adversely and were con-
quered. We know of brothels and gamb-
ling houses that have fourished while
churches ard schools were cramped and
crowded for cash. We have seen idiots,
misers and mal-contents wealthy and we
have seen intelligent people, generous peo-