Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-06-07
ouAHReLEp 10 THE LAST.

A srotherss Fend That was Continued /
for Years with Never Truce.
.sYou will takpfhr road to the right. over
the hill ut Rrnthers Felld. !" said the Iiv-
eryrnall ThF bridge on the lower road
was washed away III the storm =
Brothers Fends' said Where y
that r.
Aren't ron acquainted in this zountryf
Nor Well, yon can't be- Every one within
Ii hundred miles, ! suppose, kncws about
BrotherS Fend The way Of 1t was. when
old man EIiacot died he gave his farm IN
divided to his two SONS. They had no other
relatives living. HUT they couldn't get
along together, and one OF them brought
suit Tor partition The place Is very hilly
and isn't worth much ii, the Arst place,
And the lawyer fees didn't make it any
more valuable But they finally got the
matter through court and the surveyor
came out to survey the place They asked
him who was to pay him, and he said they
would each pay halt the expense Of pHrti
ton They agreed and he went ahead
.One OF them pilid and the other didn't.
/ That was nohody's loss but the surveyors
/ but IL made the paying brother so mad to
think his brother had done less than him
! self that he took up the dividing line stakes
| and set them over two rodsin his brothers
land. That made his brother mad and he
took up the stakes and set them two rods
beyond the line So they began qaarreling
over that four rods OF hill land that wasn't
worth ten dollars IA acre. But the timber
WIS fine, and when the buyers came along
and offered twenty dollars 4 thousand foI
stave timber J i'm aud Zoe began qnarreiinl
} in earnest.
Each one hired II gang OF choppers, and
the choppers took up the fight, for it die
seem the likeiiest timber grew in the dis
. puted strip Why. those choppers ha<
; regular battles there, and the sheriff had t,
. 90 on with posse Three men were killer
Just chopped to death with axes We
have had more criminal cases from lda
I four rods Of sand and gravel than from al
! the rest Of the county. We! finally had to ge
= out company Of militia, when the buyer
run up the price to twenty-five dollars
thousand. II was worth something ther
u But each fellow spent all he made from hl
n trees defending his suits, and when th
1 timber WAS finally gone and the price fe
there stood about the only good walnut !
) the county. That is worth good deal /
l. money now All the rest OF the walnr
il was sold years ago. and it is worth near i
7, weight in silver.
II well, II you go by there today you wi
y most likely see two gray haired old me
d sitting one on each side OF that strip
& timber, each one with rifle beside hir
and waiting to kill the other If he steps {
l. the strip They both swear they will st;
se night there till they die | suppose thu
t, will, but If either Of them gets reckle
N and ventures on the strip his brother w
shoot him sure. You see the ground
G, worth a good deal now The men were
rs busy fighting in the timber time that tn
in didn't have time to cut. Goodby. Ia
is the right hand road WIN you come to t
to hill. The brid.t Is gone on the other one
nd I found the BROTHERS Feud witho
is any trouble, and looked with great int
ng est for the two insane brothers. They b
ID been SO devoted to their quarrel that I'll
had never married and they lived
ICE alone, each in little cabin their fail
mt had given them As drove along | say
Use group of neighhors about one OF the hous
Us At the door OF the other sat a trembli
en- palsied old man, with rifle across his
ng steady knees. went up to the crowd
he found that Jim was dead
air been de,d two or three days when
found him." said the neighbor.
las What more does his brother wantf
md asked. HE still seems to be on guard.
vas well, he is 50 deaf he can't hear WI
of we boiler over and tell him, ana he is
lily blind be couldn't see when his brother
My down by the log and died Besides, be
hey lost his season. He will never know
the brothers feud is ended. "-Chic
Herald