Show A BATTLE OF or TOUGHS that the warden of the poise boise city penitentiary should have arranged and witnessed a prize fight to a finish between a couple of convicts in his charge as detailed in the dispatches this morning is not greatly to be wondered at we are inclined to think each such an exhibition much more appropriate inside a arys walla wal lothan than out of them yet no noone one seems to think it particularly inappropriate outside of course the wardens connection with the idaho affair f may make a small sensation and 11 he will hardly escape criticism especially ally it if it should be found that the principals prin cipala bad not been sentenced to bard hard labor something will depend on that we apprehend in the presen present t state of popular feeling then the dispatch Is singularly silent as to whether the bruiser of 0 the more hardened muscle was also the criminal of the more wore hardened character when all these things shall be explained pla ined there may be a chance for the consideration of the question of humanity and prison discipline LOGANS ROAD to the la plata mine is to go via mineral point no wonder they call it down hill all the way it la is a sheer descent so steep that abird a bird scarcely dare attempt it the grade is all in eight miles instead of being gradually distributed over twenty as is the case ease with the oden ogden road logan never ought to discard the present paradise roundabout road that Is passable at any rat 3 |