Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-15
THE HICKEY FEUD.

ne " 1iGettS ana the BeNeQlCtS mad
boon old neighbors for years, .,back
in Iowayp Ia fact. the elder Walk
ers aud the elder Benediets mad been
married about the same time at the
heginaing u the war and had just
settled Oh adjoining homesteads when
the first gun was fred on Sumpter
The men enlisted in the same COM
puny. fought side BY side, ate and
slept ard suffered together; and at
home their young wives waited and
wept together When the little
Walkers and the little Benedicts grew
large enough To run about they were
piaym0ta9 and boon companions; the
children Of one family felt as much
liberty in the home of the other as
they aid IN their own-for twenty
eight years the two families had lived
ia peace and atuity, and then that
miserable cali precipitated an irrep-
arabic roy It was too bad. the
aeighb0rs said. but it is noticeable
fact that none Of them attempted to
patch up a peace-1ife in Hickey
township and at Hickey corners would
ave been dull. indeed, but for the
fagd: 50 everybody sat by and
watched eaeh new phase of the affair
with nervous. morbid interest, and
commented thereon, but not in a man
ner likely 10 prove conducive to
: TRUCE On the part OF the dispu-
tiats
1t was this way: The Benedict and
Walker houses had been built on adj
iacens corners OF the homestead
quarters. ana we're quite close to-
gether; in fact one we'll. sunk on the
qMactec-sectiun line between the two
lomesteads. had furnished water for
both families for the first four years
alter coming to Dakota, and it was
oniy short distance from either
house
Bat It came ID pass that on the
Wake domain there was born, and
grew. and waved fat and sassy a
beindie calf. with a light smart
cianoe Of white in its eye and pleth-
ora Of deep-dyed mischief in its
soul and he (for il was Young gen
lemaa cfitter"l, while vet Of ten
Ter age hat tough record, engendered
inc ieud lie had wandered away
me day before. and when he returned,
~ night. the gate of the calf-pen was
hut against him; and in the morn
ing. when Papa Benedict arose from
ost-preakfast family prayers, and,
solloged oE the younger male Bene-
iict7 tied him toward the stable. he
9she.d his neighbours incipient steer
nipping II the bud sundry young and
5oothsame cabbages, and kicking out
II tae earth, in his bovine abandon,
Oh re could not cot.
Then was Papa Benedict wroth,
AMI thereppon did he give way to
naughty. profahe words, while the
young Bencdicts surrounded the of
fending calf and brought him up for
judgment.
Nov. Papa benedict was a man of
ilas5y temper. but easily Gained; so,
Hhea the calf was rendered him at
5he and Of long picket-rope, his
wrath had decreased several degrees,
and he wound the rope around his
hand ana started to lead the calf
home.
Ii vas while he was pondering on
what 20 say TO the calfs owner that
the calf suddenly remembered pre-
Tious engagement, and started, in
some haste. to keep it, heading di :.
rectiy across the croquet-ground.
Paps Benedict wished TO follow with
more dignity than the calf desired;
and. presently his feet were scraped
src.h under him by wicket, and he
was being handled the way the
taquer0s in south America are sup
posed to make butter-at the end of q
iasso iie did not look very neat
wheu. a ieIg minutes later, he reached
the Walker residence and called his
neighbor ont. He was holding the
calf ~ short. but his temper had
slipped it's tether. and caused him to
say bad words. to which Papa Walker
eplied ia kind -whereat Papa Ben
edict seized convenient neck-yoke
and killed the cause of the trouble.
or course there was fight and CON
sidsrsbie iil-cho5en language; then,
as soou ~ possible, Papa Benedict
sued Papa Walker for the damage to
his csbbage4. aud Papa Walker sued
Papa Seuedict for the value of the
cact. other f0r assault and battery:
the Younger members of both houses
sas4sd each other at every avail
abie opportunity; Mrs. Walker and
Mes. Benedict did no more neigh
3Orin'. and Mort Benedict and Nellie
Waiter .'busted up with each other.
That is. Nellie broke with Mort, who,
Tor lis mart had wholesome CON
tempt for feuds and such nonsense,
and would fain have ignored the
state of Affairs. SO far as Nellie was
concerned except for the opposition
any oyertures from him would have
receiYed oa all sides. and especially
from Nellie So he had to grin and
bear it leaving. however all HOSTILE
tier d. the others, and speaking
pleasantly TO any Of the Walkers he
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