The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1891-12-26
AT TIE BROTHERS, FEUp.
s'o1y OF Iso Msa VINO na.rr.i.a Right
Up thu Door Of Death

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You'll take tho road To the right
over the hill al brothers Fsud. o"
said tho liyerymah The bridge on
the lower road Was washed away in
the storm"
''Iirolhers' Feud'' said |. Mia,
Is Ihati''
Aren't you acquainted an this
country S0s Well you can't be-
Everyone within a hundred miles.
suppose knows about BrOihers' Fsui.
The Nay of j, Gas ghen old Ellac0.
died hu gave bis farm undivided tn
his two sOH~ They had 10 relatives
living, hl, they couldn't get
along together and ono OF ,hein
brOush, suli TOR Partition The place
MAS very hillF, ami WasB', worth much
In tho hrs, place And the laUy.-
iess didn't make il any mors valuable.
hui ,hay finally got tho matter
through tho court aud tho surveyor
came oli Ia survey tho P.A-a They
asked him Who Has Ia pay lin aud
lac said lhuy Wuuid zach pay half tho
expense Of Partition They nsrred
and 10 NeAl ah"SI Oao o. tham pali
aud ,ho other d!dnL lhis MAS 40.
boly's loss bat tho surveyors bat lI
made The pay!as brother 90 mad 10
,hlnS that hts brother had done !,.s,
than himself that kr took up tho Ill,
Elalns llHu stakes and st them over
,vo n,ds ia his brothers land INA,
made his brother MAJ and he took up
the stakes and 80 them tWo rods b.,
You'd tho line 81 ihoy began quar-
yelling over ihAi iuIF rl,i, Of hill land
that WASH worth slU an Errs. Ilui
tho ,imbVr Nns the. and when tho
blyrTs came along sad offered ego a
thousand for siayu timber Jlm and
joe began quarrol,ng h. oarnci'.
''l.Aeh one hired a gong Of choppers
ana tho chopprns took up tho q n
Tor u did seem tho lik,Ilsst tlmu~-
grow IN tho disputed siglp Nh.
ihoro choppers HHI regular bait %
,hurA ani tao sh-FT had 10 go OFT
with a poa-s, Ihry, mon ucro killed
Just ch"pIHri ~ death with Asrk
We have had sHonr criminal ezs-s FROM
That Tour ruis 81 tAnL and gravel than
from al! ihu r'-si II tho cluaiy. Wr
hnntly had - got uut company %.
militia uhcH tho hIyurr run az the
price - -. thousand II wa worth
something then, Hot zach fri,Bs
sisrHi all ho made ir1m hl, iry-s ar4
!ondlng his suits, and whoa tho timber
Nns finally gone a4l ito prlu.' foil
Their" si"o4 sboui III" olly good wal
nu, In the county. ThR, j. worth a
good deal OF money nos. AL the F-si
OF tho walnut sold ycars ago .u.. Il
vas worth near 10, weight IN silver.
''WclL II you go there today you
viii most ukoly SEQ tuo gray halroi
old men sitting ono on each s!In Of
That strip Of timber. each one with q
F!iu bc,lJc him and waiting TO XIII tho
other II hu stop, an the strip They
both swear ih-y will stay right there
'l!l they die, | suppose ,hry will. bu,
II other OF thom got, RECKLESS aud
vuniurc, on tho strip his brother will
shoot him SURF. You 500. tho ground
j. worth good deal nov. The mon
wcru 50 busy lighting In tho timber
time that ihoy didn't have ilma to cut
'ood'by. Take tho RICH, hand road
whom you come To the hill. The bridge
IL como on the other one"
found the ''iiro,hur. f.ud" with.
out amy trouble and looked with grua,
Interest for tho two in-an, brothers.
They had boon 30 devoted to their
quarrel they had never married. and
ihoy lived nil alone each In a lii,lu
cabin their father had giycn them a.
| drove along ! saw group OF neigh.
bors about ono OF tho houses A. the
door OF tho other sat "a trembling.
palslod old man. with rinu across
his unsteady KNOBS went up to- tho
crowd and found that Jim wa dead.
been dead two or three days when
VIC found him. said tho ucighbOr.
What moro docs his brother
wnnt'' ! asked lilo SIN seems to DO
on gunrd."
We'll ho f. 30 deaf he can't hear
when wo boiler over and toll him md
he is 80 blind no couldn't see when
hi, brother fell down by the log here
and died. besides no has lost hi.
reason. lie will never know tina, the
brothers fcud Is ended. "-Chicagc
Herald.