Show i IN SPORTY S1 BUTTE Tells of Bygone Days of Lively Pun Fun F I Butte Inter Butte is a great reat city for sports of all classes bull fights excepted said a sporting man in one of the pool rooms today It has had prize prise fights football games foot races on the square and otherwise horse races and a dozen or more other things along Jlong that line It may possibly have some some of these things again The nearest approach to a bull bullfight bullfight I fight occurred several years ears ago when a lessee essee of the Columbia Gardens con conceived conceived conceived the Idea of drawing dra a J crowd by turning a maddened bull hull loose on a bear that had been starved all summer in an Iron barred cage case at the gardens A large number of persons went from the city to see the fight and the garden bars of which there were three or four did a rushing business The bear b r however was no match for the bull In its weak weakened weakened weakened ened condition it submitted to the gor goring gorIns goring ing Ins It received from fr m the horns of or the Infuriated bull and was soon tossed over the range The crowd was disappointed disappointed disappointed pointed It had gone to the gardens to see a hard battle between a hungry bear and a mad bull bulJ The disappoint disappointment ment was so keen that it was as bathed In liquid not of the brand that trinkles through the verdant grove and goes dancing and glimmering di on P its long march to the Pacific ocean but the kind I that exhilarates for f r an an hour or two and makes the consumer consume feel teel like satan for three there e days afterwards At that time the gardens were In other hands than those controlling them at present and there was was no humane society to step in and arrest the pro promoters promoters promoters of the bull and bear battle A wonderful has been recorded In their style of management From a place where any lady could not go without running the risk of being in insulted insulted insulted they have hate been transformed into a resort of beauty and splendor with a total absence of that which once characterized them In season beds of richly perfumed flowers are to be seen on hit every side and in the the middle There There are no bars for the sale of intoxicating liquors but there are fountains from which flow ow cool sparkling water A magnificent pa pavit v vit tas taken Oaken the place of the old shaKedown down the main floor of ot which was Us used d as a J beer garden TUre are lakes fo for shooting the chute boats and ands lakes In which several species S of water w ter fowl enjoy themselves There is isa Isa Isa a collection of beasts and birds that might be wild if separated s from the civilizing influences of ot humanity and they are all well cared for by the theman man management In the collection Is Js a large brown bron bear He appears to be as fero ferocious ferocious ferocious cious as any other big bear but he has learned earned lea ned to take the world and aId its in inhabitants inhabitants habitants philosophically and is as do docile docile cile as a kitchen ten cat He lie will wUl eat pea peanuts nuts or candy from the hand that of offers offers fers ers them without as much as a growl He Is very careful In this respect he seems to realize with almost human reason that a hand thrust into his cage cages is s not to be chewed or clawed There is one nice thing about the gardens and those these who visit them Anybody can go there and spend a afew afew afew few hours wUn profit and their t pat patons patrons patrons rons ons take a personal interest in them Nothing Is Js ever disturbed Tomorrow they wilt will be close closer for tor the season |