Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-02-18
TIE BROTHERS, Eeup.
II Lasted for Lifetime without Truce or
Pariey.

NJ Lasted for a Lifetime without Truce or
! Parioy.
'You will take the road to the
right over the hill at Brothers
Feud said the liveryman. The
bridge on the lower road was washed
away in the storm.
brothers Feud?n said |. Where
IS thata"
'Arn't you acquainted in this coun-
try? Well ysu cant be- Everyone
within huLdred miles suppose
knows abou6 Brothers Feud. The
way it was when old man Ellacot
died he gave his farm undivided 10
his two sons, They had no nsher rel.
atlves living But they couldut get
along together ana one OF them
brought suit for partition. The
place i very hilly and ism worth
much in the FIRST puce Aud the
lawyers fees didn't make it any more
valuable But thcy nnally got tho
matter throu Ii court ana the surveyors
camc out TO survey the place. They
9 ked him who was to pay them ana
he said they woItd each pay half The
partition. They agreed and no went
ahead.
%1ne OF them paid and the other
didn't. That was nobOug's loss but
the surveyors but it made the pay,
inG brother so mad 10 tA.nl; his
brother had done less than himself
that he took up the dividing line
stakes and set them over two rods in
bis brothers land. That made his
brother mad ana he took up the
stakes and set them two rods beyond
tho line. SO they began quarreling
over that four rods oi hill land thar
wasn't worth $40 an acre. But tho
timber was tine and when the buyers
came along aud offered 5 0 thou.
sand for staye tI:abcr Jim and .loo
began quacFe!ing ia earnest.
ZACH ono hired gang OF chop.
per% and the choppers took up the
light FOR II did seem the likelIesL tim.
Der grew in the disputed strip. Why
those choppers had regular battles
there. and the sheriff had to go out
with posse. Three men !, ere killed
just chopped to death with axes.
We have had more criminal cases
from that four rods UI sand and
gravel than from all the rest OF tho
couHty. We finally had 10 get ont 4
company Of militia when the BUYERS
run up tho price to a23 thousand.
u was worth something then. But
each fellow spent all he made from
his trees defending his sults aud
when the timbor was l1niy gone aud
the price fell there stood about tho
only good walnut in the county. That
IS worth u good deal OF muG2y nov.
AL the rest OF this walnut VIA sold
years ago and il Is worth near it,
weight in silver.
~ Well II you 20 b. ther0 to-day
You VIII most Likely SEQ two gray.
haired old men sitting ona Oh each
side OF that strip o. timber. each one
with u rille beside him aud waiting
to kill tho other i he steps on the
strip They both swear thSy will
stay right there till they dis sup.
pose thoy will. but il either OF them |
gets reckless aud ventures ol tho strip |
his brother will shoot him sure. You
see the ground ID worth u good deal |
now. fne mea were 80 bIsy fighting |
in the timber iiae that they didn't |
have time TO cat Good BY. Take
the right hand rCild when you come
TO the hill The bridge is gone on
the other one.
found the Brothers Feu1 without |
any trouble says the writer In tho
Chicago Herald and looked with
great interest for the two insane
brothers. They had been so deyo,
ted 70 their quarrel that they had
ne1eV married aud they lived ali alone
,acn In little cabin thciy father had
gi7en them. As drove along | saw
a group OF neigh bOFs about one or tho
houses At the dooy OF tho other sat
! trembling plsied old man. with
ride across his unsteady knees. /
went up TO the crowd ana found that
Jim was dead.
Been dead two or three days when
We found him said tha noighbor.
What more does his brother
yantg' | asxcd. .,ile still seems 10
Dc on guard.
Well no Is so deaf he can't hear
when we holler over and tell him.
Ind he is 50 blind no couldn't SEQ
when his brother fell down by the log
ind died. Besides he has lost his
eason. He will never know that tho
,rothers' feud is ended
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