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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23

Pocatello will have two million
dollars in the year 1911 from the
railway company alone for regular
pay roll, and splendid improve
ments of viaduct, subway, depot
and general Encouragement of the
yards. The new sewer system, gas
plant and private improvements
several hundred thousand dollars.
The city has had a good safe growth,
but now starts on a new period in
it's history. The best informed men
predict that Pocatello will become
the largest city in the state of
Idaho. Real estate is bound to in
crease in value. Fairview, the new
addition to Pocatello, is only seven
blocks from the immense railway
shops. The planting of 1900 shade
trees on this addition will alone
double the value of these lots in
three years. Buying these lots on
the monthly plan is splendid way
to save money. The lots at only
10000 are very reasonable, because
lots seven or eight blocks away are
now selling for $25O,OO and $4,000.
Call in at the Citizens Realty Co.
and investigate this proposition.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
Canal Regulations.

At a special meeting of the board
of directors of the Aberdeen-Spring-
field Ca,-al Co. held January is, 1911,
the following motion prevailed:
"That hereafter all headgates
placed i'm main canal and company LAT
erals be put in under supervision of
the water master, and that gateS be
standardized as outlined below; that
but one gate be placed for each land
owner on either side of canal or lat
eral, except by consent of al majority
of the board of directors, and that thu
expense of headgates be borne by the
owner of the land for whose use the
gate is installed.
Specifications of headgates to be
put in main canal.
Gates to be of cast iron similar to
those installed by the American Falls
Canal and Power Co. and outlet to
be of corrugated iron pipe; aprons to
be of either wood or stone at the
dissertation of the water master; 49,
inch gates to cost not to exceed $50
and 12-inch gates not to exceed $40
each"
Parties desiring gates installed for
notice to the company on or before
March Is, 1911.
ABERDEEN SPRINGFIELD CANAL
COMPANY0
By Nora M. Jones, Secretary.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Serial No O9619.

0CAldA 4NO VOV4Os
Department of the Interior, U. S.
land Office at Blackfoot, idaho,
January 10, 1911.
Notice is hereby given, That Lar
EMO R. Thomas of Blackfoot, Idaho,
the legal assignee of B. A. Mason,
the assignee of P. H. Seymour, ad-
ministrator of the estate of John
B. VIM, deceased, has on this date
filed in this office his application to
enter under the provisions of section
1906 and 1907, Revised Statutes Of
the United States, the South half of
the Northeast quarter (Ss NEA) of
Section 10, Township South, Range
80 East, Boise Meridian, Idaho.
Any and all persons claiming ad-
versly the above described land or
desiring to object because of the
mineral character Of the land, or
for any other reason, to the dispos-
al to applicant, should file their af-
fidavits of protest in this office on
or before the 4th day of March, 1911.
HENRY w. KIEFER, :.
Register.
First publication, Jan. 10, 1911.
Last publication. March 2. 1911.
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NOTICE OF HEARING.
In the Probate Court of Bingham
County, State Of Idaho:


In the matter of the estate of Will
lam B. Eldredge, deceased.
Notice of Hearing of Petition for
Specific Performance
Pursuant to an order of the above
entitled Court, made the End. day of
February, 1911, Notice is hereby CIV
en- that Monday the 6 day of March,
1911, at ten O'Clock, a. m, of said
day, and the Court room of said
Court, at Blackfoot, Bingham county,
Idaho, have been appointed as the
time and place for the hearing upon
the petition of Adrien Grimaud for
the specific performance of a con-
tract for the conveyance Of real es-
tate, situated dn Bingham County, Id
Tho, to wit:
For the conveyance to Adrien Girl
maud of the interest of said deceased
in the Lots Eleven QD, Twelve (12)
Thirteen Q3, Fourteen 90, and
Fifteen (15), in Block Forty-eight
(48), i'm Danilson's Addition to the
City of Blackfoot, in Bingham county,
Idaho, together with the tenements,
Entertainments, appearances and wat
er rights thereto belonging, according
to the provisions of the contract
therefore.
Reference is hereby made to said
petition for further particulars and
notice is hereby given that any per-
son interested i'm said estate may
appear at said time and place abe
mentioned and file written objections
to the granting of an order authoriz-
ing and directing Nathaniel M. Ed
re,dge, as the executor of said estate,
to execute to said petitioner deed
as aforesaid to said real estate, and
the specific performance of said con
tract, and may be heard and may pr
duce witnesses in support of his OBJ
lection.
Dated February 2, 1911.
(SeaD ]. H. ANDERSON,
Probate Judge and
Clerk of the Pro-
bate Court of Bling
F2-5t ham county. Idaho.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
At Cutler Photo Studio.

Is where you can get your pictures
enlarged correctly and you need mot
pay one cent until you get a picture
that suits you.
Don't give your order to agents
who pest you for hours but give them
to Cutler who will take care of your
picture and who is always here in
your home town. He guarantees to
suit you or will ask no pay.
You can also get picture frames of
any kind or size made to order.
Cutters is the place for everything
in the picture line.
Next door to post office.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
SCHOOL NOTICE.

On Monday, Mhrch 9Th, there will
be classes open to beginners
be classes open to beginning pupils
In both Central and Irving buildings.
Any pupil who is six Vars of age
may be entered at that time. No
other opportunities during the school
year will be afforded.
1t was thought best to postpone the
startling of these classes until tn
bad weather was over so that these
pupils could come regularly after
once ent. ring school.
w. D. VINCENT, Superintendent
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
PROBLEM OF RICH IDLER

1.-The average employee i'm this coun-
try produces every year $3.50 Of
wealth. OF this amount he gets $437.
The remainder, $S43, goes into the
hands of other men, the capitalist
or the exploiter of labor"
Frederick Townsend Martin, New
York millionaire and society leader,
makes this statement i'm the March
Everybody's, 81 do not mean to say
that Hll the dividends and interest are
gathered by the idle rich," continues
the article. "Such condition as
that cam exist only once i'm the his
tory of the nation. 1t became known
in Rome-and 1T lead to the fall. 1t
came about in France and led to the
terror. Here in America it has gone
far, to be sure, and the tendency is
onward; but it has mot yet reached
point where we can say tomarrow
the harvest is ripe
For thirty years We have been pill
ing up wealth in the hands of men
who do not work. It has gone SO
far that today, in every city in the
uniC,l che class of idle rich has reach
ed proportions that, to the thought
full stndent, are alarming. Machinery
instead of emancdpating people has
welded chains of industrial slavery
about their necks. The fruit of in
vention is plucked by the hands of
the few.
"The once powerful middle class,
which is the safety of every nation.
is weak and is every day declining.
When the nineteenth century closed
America worshipped wealth. It same
titled its possessors. 1t defied the
multi Millionaire. In five years time
America has learned to hate great
wealth. Plutocracy is disgorging, but
public opinion is relentless. With
trumpet and drum and black banners
flying came the army of muck rakers
And their revelations made the ma
ton heartsick.
1--WE can no longer blind ourselves
with the outworn boast that the
American workingman is the highest
paid artisan in the world. We know
these lying figures too well. We ARE
learning that we give our workers in
wages we take back from them in
- s,,f 60
in clothing, in medicine, n insurance,
in hundred devious ways, all with
the tendency to keep the living mar
gin down."
To-day We of the class that rules,
that draws unearned profits from the
toll of other men know full we'll that
the time is almost here when there
must be a true accounting"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
ADVERTISED LETTERS

List of letters remaining in the
Blackfoot postoffice for the week end
ing February Fl, 1911. Parties call
ing for htese letters please say lad
vertised February 81"
Byrd, M. E.
Chamberlain, E. G.
Taylor, Mr.. G. N.
Thompson, Mrs. J. w.
Thomas, w. H.
Stouer. Mr.. Geo.
Letters remaining at the end of
fourteen days will be sent to the
dead letter office. Postage due on
above letters one cent each.
H. B. CURTIS
Postmaster.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
NOTICE OF ANNUAL STOCK
HOLDERS MEETING.

Notice is hereby given, that the
regular annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Peoples Canal and IT.
rigation Company, a corpoation, will
be held at the office of the company
at Moreland, Idaho, on Saturday, the
18th day of March, 1911, at one o.
clock p. m, at which meeting the
question: of bonding the irrigation
system of the corporation, for fifteen
thousand dollars ($15, OOO.OO for the
improvement of the canal system
will be submitted to the stockholders,
together with such other and ordi-
nary business as may properly come
before said meeting.
Dated, February 7, 1911.
C. F. MOLDEN,
Attest: President
w. P. LINDSAY, Secretary. 10-4t
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
A CHANCE TO
PURCHASE A HOME
Modern House, Well Located Near
Public Schools Will Be Sold at
Public Auction.

On Saturday, February 25th, 1911,
Peter Anderson will sell at his resi-
dence, the first house north of H. G.
Dipple's in Dipple's addition to the
city of Blackfoot, his home andall of
his household goods. The sale will
start at 1880 p. m. He has some
good goods and they will have only
been used "a, short time.
The property consists of a 4-room
house, with one half an acre of land,
nice shade trees, filled also with plen
ty of fruit of all descriptions, and
sufficient for family use, nice lawn,
rose bushes, etc. All fenced chicken
tight. Good we'll of water, good wat
err rights for irrigation, electric light,
only blocks from the Irving school
and postoffice.
Will be sold on $3.50 cash; $3.50 in
60 days and the balance on 8 months
time, at per cent interest.
The following is a list Of the house
UOlU SOOUS W We SOIu 1OI CdSu. GV-
erything will be sold without reserve,
as these people people are dividing
their property:
9 dining chairs; rockers; 1 win
son heater; 1 Majetsic range; 2 ex-
tension tables; stands; 1 sideboard,
1 writing desk, wall pictures, 2 lamb
requins, carpets, sanitary cooler,
couch, Edison monographs and
20 records, lamps, dishes, mirrors,
scales, 1 kitchen cabinet, 1 cupboard,
l iron bed, springs, mattrass, canned
fruit, kitchen furniture, dishes, etc.
copper boiler, tubs, shovels, axe,
forks, 1 bath tub, lawn mowers, 2
step ladders, 1 IRON wheel barrow,
2 tons COAL several cords of wood
some cut for stove. 1 single buggy,
S sacks chicken feed, grind stone,
20 cement blocks, 1 it. square, 1
hammock, 1 cross cut saw, l scythe,
many other articles used in the house
E. M. Kennedy will conduct the
sale.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
For Councilman In the Third Ward

Now that the frost shows some
indication of coming out of the
ground spring politics are warming
up quite rapidly and the many
friends of r. G. Fleming are pre-
senting his name for councilman in
the third ward. Mr.. Fleming has
been a resident of this city for some
time, has invested in home, is a
hustler, and believer in public i'm
provements of legitimate nature.
The people of that ward could make
a good choice by selecting him to
them in the city affairs.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
QUEEN LILA

CLAIRVOYANT, SPIRITUALIST.
MEDIUM And PSYCHIC PIANIST.
Tells of your troubles, object of
your call, exactly what you want.
TO know. She asks no questions Do
not miss this opportunity.
THE LAST WEEK,
Anderson Block, Room 90. Hours 10
a. m. to 9 p. m.
Spiriualist Test Circle Sunday eve
ming at 8 CLOCK. Palmistry taught.
Mediums developed. Readings by
mail for patrons who cannot call.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23

on which the bill was filed with him,
is not counted, but discarding it Sat
urdny was the fifth day allowed by
the constitution. Had the governor
not acted at that time, the bill would
have become a law anyway.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
CHIROPRACTOR
DRUGLESS METHOD

Local examinations are unnecessary
as they are distaseful. l am pleas
ed to explain my method to all inter-
ested. I use no drugs, mo knife. If
you are sick and have tried every
thing else, and did not receive HELM.
try Chiropractic and get we'll.
DR.. n. w. Gaumer,
Exchange Building
Off1ce 223. Res. 218 Blk.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
$1,000 REWARD.

Will be given to any person who
will give information that will lead
to the arrest of the person who stole
The city lantern that has been
displayed between the Baptist church
Z nd the Central school. This reward
holds good on any tool that belongs
to the city.
F23-4t. CHIEF OF POLICE.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
WARRANT CALL

County Treasures office, Blackfoot,
Bingham County, Idaho. December 20
1910.
Notice is hereby given that the
following Bingham County Warrants
will be paid on presentation, if pre-
scented within sixty (6O) days from
the date of this notice:
CURRENT EXPENSE FUND
Registered Numbered
April 18th, 1910 46 to 1853 Incl.
July 18th, 1910 1854 to 1926 Incl
ROAD FUND.
July 10th, 1910 1913 to 257 Incl.
Oct. 14th, 1910 258 to 339 Incl.
BRIDGE FUND.
July 10Th, 1910 Is to GO Incl.
SCHOOL DISTRICT WARRANTS.
District No, Warrants Numbered
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-02-23
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS

Gates that swing over and across
sidewalks must be changed and made,
to swing in upon the property.
BY Order of
f23-2t CITY COUNCIL.
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PELKEY BROTHERS

IELTAE1 bNOI f7ENO
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
Figure with US on anything you in
end to build.
P. 0. Box $40. BLAckFOOT, IDA.
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Butter Wrappers at this office.
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Attest:
The Washington times., 1911-01-05
ARREST AFTER GIFT
OF COFFIN TO GIRL
Miss Elizabeth Spalding Tells
How Christmas Party
Was Marred.

How miniature coffin almost broke
up Christmas tree party at the Con-
gress Heights Methodist Episcopal
Church was recited in the Assistant
District Attorneys office at Police
Court today. when Miss Elizabeth
Spalding obtained a warrant for Byron
Sutherland.
She said she assisted in making the
arrangements for the annual distribu-
tion of presents to members of the
congregation and Sunday school. About
half of the presents had been given
out, when the pastor. the Rev. Harry
Spencer, picked up a package ad-
dressed to her. She walked down the
aisle, received 1t, and returned to her
seat. She opened the package to find
the ominous coffin. 1...
There was no card or writing on the
package to indicate the identity of the
donor. Inquiry developed that the
package had been brought in by boy.
Miss Spalding reported the matter to
the police and they located the boy,
who said 1t was handed to him by
who gave him 80 cents.
Sutherland Is employed at the Firth
Sterling steel mills at Giesboro Point.
He denied to the police that he had
sent the coffin or knew anything
about II.
The Washington times., 1911-01-05
WANDERER NOW
WITHOUT COUNTRY
Justice Gould Declares His
Citizenship Papers
Null and Void.

George Nelken y Wolberg today is a
man without a country The hand
of the law plucked him from the melt
ing pot of naturalization this morning
and cast him back into the never-never
land of all the world of which he has
been sometime citizen for many years
When Justice Ashley NJ Gould signed
a decree stripping WoIberg of his man.
tie OF American citizenship, he wrote
the latest chapter in the life of a man
whom the consul general at CONSTANT
nople, in a letter to the State Depart
.ment, termed "a thorn in the side OF
our representatives in the near East
for many years"
More than ten years ago, Wolberg
came out of his citizenship of the world
which one time and another had seen
him loyal to Germany, Argentina,
France, and Turkey. Before John. r.
Young, clerk of the court, this man,
forty-two years old, learned in the ways.
of the world, stood beside the new.
emigrant flushed with his first desire
to become an American citizen, and re-
nounced his late allegiance to the Ar
gentine Republic.
The authorities say that Wolberg
falsifled his first affidayits here, but the
papers of citizenship were issued to him
April %, 1900
The man claimed to be a German by
birth and an engineer by profession.
Within four years after his admission
to citizenship, Wolberg was heard from
in the near East. COnstantinople knew
him. Then France expelled him. Back
again in the Turkish capital, the story
goes, that he was refused the protection
of the American consulate, registered
at the Spanish consulate as a protege
of Spain, and in a fit of resentment pub
licly and by letter renounced his Amer
lean citizenship.
The State Department called the at
tention of Clarence r. Wilson, United
States District Attorney, to the mans
case early last year, and on June q
last, Mr.. Wilson filed a suit in the
equity courts of the District asking that
Wolbergs citizenship be declared null
on the ground that he made false state
ments when he took out his first papers.
and that he left the United States with
in five years after they were granted
to lhim.
The matter was called before Judge
Gould this morning with the resulting
order which sent WoIberg back to his
of the world and made him
a man without a country.
The Washington times., 1911-01-05
Fewer Typhoid Cases
In Capital Last Week

Typhoid fever cases continue to de-
crease, according to the report of the
Health Department for the week ended
December 81. There was one death from
the disease, eleven new cases reported,
and twenty discharged as recovered,
leaving on hand log, as compared with
11C the previous week. During the same
week of last year the number on record
was seVenty-eight.
Diphtheria declined from nineteen to
sixteen cases, and whooping cough
from thirty-four to twenty-seven The
record of other contagious diseases fol-
lows: Scarlet fever, thirty-nine; chick
enpox, eighty-seven, and measles, ten.
There were 140 deaths during the week
etghty-seven being white. The births
numbered 143, of which SO were white.
The Washington times., 1911-01-05
Violates His Parole;
Gets First Sentence

For the third time since the institu-
ton of the parole system in the Police
Court, prisoner was today brought
back for the violation of his parole and
received his original sentence, with an
additional one as punishment for break
ing his word.
John H. Rollins, sentenced about a
month ago in the United States branch
Of the Police Court to serve thirty days
for threats, but dismissed on his parole,
was the offender today, being brought
before Judge Pugh on charge of drunk
and disorderIy. After reprimanding him
sharply for breaking his parole, the
court imposed a sentence of three
months on the last charge and ordered
that Rollins serve the original thirty
days in addition.
Probation Officer Massie requested
that no mercy be shown Rollins, as he
said II was essential for the good of the
system that all prisoners who broke
their paroles be punished strictly in ac-
cordance with the law, as an example
to the others, II for nothing else.
The Washington times., 1911-01-05
TENNESSEE BOASTS
OF NO LEGISLATURE
HoStilities Between Regulars
and Fusionists Renewed
and Deadlock Exists.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jan. 5.-The
possibility that the State will be with.
out a legislative body forN two years,
with executive acts arrested by hold
over governor without funds, until the
first Monday in January, 1913, was the
situation that confronted the common
wealth Of Tennessee today as a result
OF the renewal of hostilities between the
regular Democrats and the fusionists.
When the Legislature convened yes
terday afternoon not a regular appeared
to be sworn in, and following this dras-
tic move in the campaign the fusionists
have sent an ultimatum that they will
treat with the regulars now only upon
the floor of the Legislature.
The general opinion which prevailed
today was that the regulars would
leave for their homes without being
sworn in and that the Senate would
continue to meet at intervals of three
days until the period of legislative
term expires, although no business can
be transacted bring to the dissolution of
the house. Governor Patterson viii
either continue in office, 1t is thought,
Or he will resign in favor of Speaker
Baxter, of the State senate.