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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
M'LlIoNA,REs MUST UNITE
aHumorist Calls on Them to Stand To.
gether Against the Arrogance Of
the Laboring Glasses.

Never has the arrogance of the Ia.
boring classes stood out so painfully
as at present. The garmentmakers
nave struck. our brass polishers have
Stfuck. machinists and taxicabbies
nave struck, and now the poison has
injected even the messenger boys.
Fellow-millionaires United! we
stand. divided we fall. Let us now
make solemn covenant together. Let
u.s.. the masters, the employers of la
Dor. strike Let us discharge from our
employ every laboring man on the pay
roll. from the second hairdresser to
the Youngest helper In the shops. Man
and boy. woman and child, let them be
cast out. Let US pay no more taxes to
government which has refused to
protect US. and thereby throw out OF
work the horde of policemen, soldiers,
constabulary. and the like who now
live on our bounty.
Then. -millionaires, scorning
the assistance of all these turbulent
elements. let us deprive them OF their
3oos by sowing our own wheat. knead-
ing our own bread. making our own
clothes. and building QUE own houses
Moke no mistake: | call for a gen.
erai strike. Let the mob manage as
pest they may. II they starve because
we VIII not give them work. their
ROOD will be upon their own heads.
Miilionaires of the world. unite! You
nave nothing but your property to lose.
ana you have fresher. fairer. finer
world to gain.-Puck.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

as premium the Spencer feeder, a
simple rubber tube to use in any pail,
believe. In 1902, Dr. Rea and o. H.
Manufacturing company returned to
the nipple and rubber tube but had
the arrangement Independent Of the
pail, which idea was elaborated in
1906 by R. Kappa and Pirochi Of Italy,
but encountered with valves, and now
Miss M. Spilled of Denmark returns
to the Small idea as follows:
On the pail hung on the wall is nip
ne with nat rim (see in illustra-
tion). attached to this by closing
device and hinged similar to one OF
the kinds used on milk bottles (2)
Is metal nipple with a fiat rim 90
to correspond to the fixed nipple rim
% and with a catch for the closing
device "a. on this the rubber nipple
90 is placed.
Between the two rims and 3 is
placed rubber diaphragm 60 with
some small Sits in 1t, so that when
closed it holds back the milk, but
when the calf sucks the Sits In the
rubber open and let the milk through.
II this plan is permanent success
The objection 70 the Small system
70 done away With and We have at last
a calf-feeder that Is possible to keep
clean; but the question remains wheth.
or in spite Of all this. it will be done
properly in everyday practice. And It
cannot be denied that there IL a dan
ger in unclean feeders which may per-
haps after all be as great as that Of
the calves drinking too fast
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

After the completion of my new
residence, my property at the corner
of Francis and Fisher streets, will
be for sale, 1t consists Of nine room
house, all modern conveniences, good
basement, barn, coal and wood house
hen house, buggy shed, 10 fruit
trees all good varieties. Terms to
suit purchaser. R. E. Hansen, Red
Barn, Blackfoot, Idaho. If
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
LATEST FEEDER FOR CALVES
>anish Woman Makes improvement
on Small Idea That 10 Possible
to Keep Clean.

Anyone familiar with the raising ct
calves knows the difficulties in teach
ing the calves to drink, writes J. II.
Monrad Of Denmark in Hoard's Dairy.
man.
But. having taught the calf to drink,
the worry over its tendency to drink
too fast remains IT'S true, floating
little hay or straw in the milk may put
brake on this tendency. but in our.
too bacteriology. wide-awake CO
days, this plan seems less attractive.
In the latter part of the sixties. last
century, the idea of applying the prin.
ciple Of the infants feed bottle vas
first suggested. believe in England
(?) by Tucker, where an apparatus
was sold for the purpose. 1t is illus
trated In Sheldons DAIRY Farming"
and consists Of a solid, lo cylindrical
pail with cover inserted inside sew
eral inches down: in the center Of this
Is metal tube to which rubber tube
Is attached on the under side and a
rubber nipple on the upper side. Since
then we have had many others, of
which l mention the Small feeder
1885, til. can with fiat back, to
hang on wall with tin nipple on
which Is the rubber nipple. This had
the great advantage Of only
short nipple to clean and was very
convenient to the calf, but had the
drawback of leaking milk; in 1903 in
Switzerland wooden teat was crg-
gested as being easier to keep Gle !:
In 1891. Hoard's Dairyman gave
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
Force Of Habit,

Il suppose says the visitor in the
wilds OF New Jersey. that you people
grow accustomed to this interminable
shaping Of mosquitoes"
20. yes" smiles the native, aWhy,
wfeS the mothers in this state spank
or slap their children, after every
blow they unconsciousiy look at the
palm Of their hand for the insect"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
Relieving Tired Feet.

Few women seem to know the re-
hef that results from changing the
shoes as soon as one goes indoors.
There afS two reasons for resting
power produced ~ chaAgfhs the
SHOES. One II that III the street are
worn heavier shoes thai are required
In the house: the other Isl that q
slight difference ~ shaping permits
the pedalcords and muscles to relaS'
Shoes for the street should never be
worn indoors any longer than is NEG.
essary 10 change thefsf! Women
should give at least half an Hour each
day to complete relaxation Eate IN
the afternoons II the best time, any,
where from 4:30 to Z.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
II Puzzled her.

1T certainly was delightful
dance" unused the young lady the
next morning after the eotillon had
been given in the big barn on the sum.
mer estate of her hostess.
But ] can't help wondering who 1t
was that proposed to me in the dark
corner by the wagons He spoke with
a foreign accent, and it was either the
Count de Spaghetti or the new but.
ler."
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
Certain Americans Abroad.

There are Americans who live
abroad and speak of their native land
in shameful whispers. Another kind
is an explainer. He becomes fretful
and involved In the attempt to make
1t clear to some Englishman with a
cold and nshliks eye that, as a mat.
ter Of fact. this lynehings are scat.
tered over large territory, and Tam.
many has. nothing whatever to DO with
the United States senate. and the
rifhhefiaire does not crawl into the
presekee Of his wife and daughters.
and MORGAN never can be king. and
citizens Of 81. Louis are not in dan.
ger Of being hooked by moose. After
he gets through Tie Englishman says
"Reallyr'' and the painful incident is
AIDE in Century.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

The Csnnibal King-See feae, What
was that dish you served up to me at
lunchg \
The Cook-Stewed cyclist, your ada'
jesty.
The Cannibal Kiag-h tasted very
burnt
The Cook-Wen, he was scorching
when We caught him.. your majesty
Sketch.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
THAT main is a fanatic

A'HHtDC HAAHNn Ilu1I1ClC
Il don't see how you can say that
OF him. He is always discarding some
old belief and taking up a new one"
YES, burt he never takes up any
of the beliefs that hold. Chicago
Record Herald.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
Mi6.st
Simple cIsaniiSStS

simple c'sanii3SSs.
It Is a Vest end doctor. saya tn.
LONDON Wesk End. who has hiRSS :
new discovery regarding children VIHe
speak impeffeetly. One boy. saws HE
physician. had lSsS his voice for vans
Mr.. Stewart. the G0cto. in ouesttoa
examined him fof growth of the 10.
ynt' but finding none, tssis*ed that the
boy should use toothbrush ever
day. In about six months tke boar.a
ness disappeared and the voice can'.
back. Simple cleanliness IL d remaas
for many such cases. white oths.:
such as iisNng. are often due Il. 49,
tation of parent or teacher VIII. nj
this affliction: SS
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
Better Unsald.

"Mr. PleezefHF murmured the moth.
or. who was more than inclined "a
embonpoint. always says that dear
Mabel and l remind him ct we'll.
known picture"
YES" asked Mr.. Blundre. "Is II
called Before and After ?'"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
FOR SALE.

For Sale-Thoroughbred Brown
Leghorn and S. C. Hamburg eggs, at
$3.50 per setting E E. Malm, bx 100,
Blackfoot, Idaho. F9-A9.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
FOR SALE OR RENT

24O acr improved, 8 and miles
N. E. of Pingree, Is acres in culti
walton. Address H. A. Sonner,
12-tf WestborO, Mo.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
WANTED.

A few pieces of gc-id furniture,
cheap Apply at Episcopal Rectory,
No. Y SchiIlings Avenue.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

WANTEDl-Will pay "a good price
for setting hens. Call at Bridge SIT.
Barber shop. IL.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16
An Art Argument,

Grandpa-How dare you say such
a picture as that looks like me,
Little WILLIE didn't. And if IL
doesn't look like you. how do Won
know meant 1t for you?
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

Bad luck is sometimes good tuck -
Ridiculous"
Not at all Did you ever get
club to fill a heart flush and after
ward discover some one else had al
full house?'-Detnoit Free Press.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

Small house and barn on 2 acres
BIETHAN. M16-3t
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

$50 lambs, good large ones. Have
been we'll wdntered and are fat.
Large per cent ews. E. NJ Kennedy.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

Advertise in she op;tmist. 1t; NAYS.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

White Wyandotts, the most popu-
lar breed of the day. This is the
most ideal farm fowl. Try a setting
from the highest scoring birds in
southeastern Idaho. $3.50 per setting.
Mrs. e. M. Kennedy.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

DR.. Emdee-You should eat meat
very sparingly.
Mr.. Joax-I avoid IT altogether.
eat nothing but funchroom ham sand
witches.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

have FIR sale at my nursery
number of Macintosh Red and John
athan apple trees at the right price.
If. o. r. SMITH. Blackfoot Nursery
FOR SALE-Well Improved 20
acre ranch, 2 miles from Blackfoot.
Fine new 5-room house, 100 young
fruit trees, acres in alfalfa, best of
water right. Price $4,000 If sold soon.
F16f Care OPTTMIST.
Refrigerator, oil tank, show cases
and counter fixtures. Enquire AT Der.
ryman's grocery.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

H,<<@ Hee~M>
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-01
STATE NEWS
ARIZON MA
IN BRIEF

The local option election for Phoe-
nix and county will be held April 18th.
The regular spring examinations
for civil service positions were re-
Gently held in Phoenix.
An unknown Mexican was shot in
the head and possibly fatally wounded
of Miami. He was taken to the Miami
hospital.
The new exchange building erected
by the Consolidated Telephone Com
pany at Buckeye, at cost of over
$4,000, is now in use.
w. E. Hale, the prosperous orchard
ist of Bard has just set out five
acres of Bartlett Pear trees and
promises to make his unit fruit gar
den in due course of time.
James Swearingen, who has been
acting as deputy sheriff at Miami
since the death of Deputy Woods, has
been appointed constable by the
Board of County Commissioners
AS a result of coming together to
take part in the celebration recently,
the Spanish-American War Veterans
of Phoenix and vicinity have re-or-
ganized, and will hereafter be known
as Roosevelt Camp"
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-01
FOREIGN.

A furious gale has been blowing for
the last forty-eight hours in the Eng
lish channel with snow blizzards.
Russia is on the point of addressing
to China an ultimation, fixing a date
for entire satisfaction of her de-
mands.
Admiral Togo, who won the great
naval battle of Tsushima, writes that
he will tour the United States after
acting as one of Japans representa-
tives of the coronation of King George.
Aviator Louis Breguet made rec
ord performance at Douai, France,
when he carried eleven passengers
two miles in his monoplane. The
flight was made at a height varying
from so to rs feet.
The negotiations for the loan of
$5O,0OO,O00 to China by an American
group of financiers have reached a
final stage, all points at issue having
been agreed upon II is expected that
an imperial edict sanctioning the loan
will be issued Immediately
Wall Street is convinced that
George Gould has lost control of the
Missouri Pacific and Denver & Rio
Grande roads, with the Iron Mountain
in doubt. Mr.. Gould has resigned as
president of the Missouri Pacific and
directors promptly elected him chair
man of the board.
The British Columbia Shipping
Company's little wooden steamer
Sechelt, built for passenger service
on an inland lake, turned turtle in
furious gale off Beechey Head, Van
couver Island, and went down with all
on board-twenty-tw passengers and
the crew of four men.
The Diaz cabinet has resigned.
Following meeting of that body,
every minister rendered his res
ignation to Gen. Diaz. None of the
designations has been accepted but
on excellent authority it is said that
but two of them-possibly not more
than one other-will be asked to re-
tain his portfolio.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-01
GEN ERAL.

Miss Marie Schmaltz of Detroit is
possessor of the first harem skirt to
make it's appearance in southern
Michigan.
The strike against the Adams Ex-
press Company in New York, which
directly affected the Wells-Fargo Com
pany has ended.
From Paris comes news that Flying
Fox, the great race horse Edmond
Blanc purchased some years ago for
100000, is. dead
The club house and outbuildings of
the Hyde Park Country Club, a promi-
nent golf organization of Cincinnati
burned. Loss $4,000.
Safe-blowers set off five charges
OF dynamite in the Bank of Curryville,
Mo-, wrecked the building and safe,
and escaped with $4,000.
State Senator John Broderick was
found not guilty by jury in the San
canon county, Illinois, Circuit Court,
on charge of bribery. The jury was
out twenty minutes.
lie Suuu6u COlldpSG Ol the f1On-
duras National railroad with it's
promise of dividends of 100 per cent
year has left scores of small invest
ors, chiefly Methodist ministers and
churchmen in America, minus an even
$1,000,O00.
Judge Carpenter in the United
States District Court in Chicago, in
refusing to quash indictments against
ten Chicago packers placed a limit on
the freedom from liability granted the
packers in the Immunity bath" given
by Judge Humphrey in 1906
Judge Noyes of the United States
Circuit Court in New York, handed
down decision refusing to quash the
second cotton pool Indictment
against James A. Patten, Eugene G..
Scales, Frank B. Hayne, William P.
Brown and Col. Robert M. Thompson.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-01
SPORT.

Gym Henry, the Texas sprinter, will
be member of the Olympic team that
goes to Sweden in 1912.
Roy Toliver of Fort Collins defeated
Frank Brown, champion of Wyoming,
in two straight falls of three minutes
each in Cheyenne.
Frank Gotch, worlds champion
wrestler, threw Fred Beell of Wis
consin twice in good finish match
at Wichita, Kan
George Hackenschmidt, the Rus.
sian lion,' will sail for England March
20, after farewell handicap match at
Hoboken, the night of the 28th.
After a gruelling fight for twelve
rounds, Hugo Kelly of Chicago, claim
ant for the middle-weight title, won
over Bill McKinnon of Boston, in the
latter city.
Frank Gotch easily won a handicap
Charles Peters of Council Bluffs and
James Asbell of Kansas City, Mo. He
threw Peters in twelve minutes and
Asbell in sixteen minutes, both were
half nelson's.
While endeavoring to score in a
practice game at Hot Springs, Sever
old, of the Cincinnati Nationals, ran
into Catcher t. Clark of the second
team, with the result that Clark is in
hospital, suffering with concussion
of the brain.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-01
ON TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEKS
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST | MP RTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
WESTERN

A bill making the sale of cigarettes
In Utah misdemeanor was disap-
proved by Governor Spry.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
Bank of Prue in the southern part of
Usage county, Oklahoma, securing
$1,000.
The Iowa Senate at the close of an
exciting debate, defeated the resolu-
ton for women suffrage by a vote of
27 to 21.
After swallowing poison and cutting
his throat, Wesley Churchill, aged
forty, leaped from the top OF the
eleven-story Story building in Los
Angeles.
Guilty of murder in the first de-
gree, with the punishment fixed at
death by the jury, was the verdict re-
turned in the West Side Court at Den
yer in the case of Lewis Wechter who
shot and killed w. Clifford Burrowes
on February 18th, last.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has forwarded check for $170 to the
general Chinese relief fund. The
check brings the total Denver contri-
buttons toward helping the starving
Chinese forwarded through the Cham
Der of Commerce up to 1886.
The American public held more
than 7,OOO,OOO,O 100000 telephone con-
versations over the Bell systems
wires last year, says the annual re-
port of the directors of the system.
The average cost of each converse
tion was little more than two cents.
Upon receipt of the news from AL
pine that Mexican marauders had
crossed the border near Chisos and
driven away cattle, General Duncan of
the Department of Texas ordered a
trop of the Fourth cavalry in Ell Paso
and troop of the Third in Marathan,
to Alpine.
Ammunition is being loaded aboard
the scout cruiser Salem, the gunboat
Tacoma and the three transports in
port, at Galveston. Every prepara-
tion is being made for war even
though the mobilization of troops and
val NSSoClO ICOulIO Ill hOIulllS uOl =
than war play.
A high wind, rain, snow, sleet and
dust swept over Kansas and western
Missouri. In many Kansas towns the
wind tore down wooden supports and
canvas awnings Telephone and tele-
graph poles were blown down, inter
rupting service and delaying trains.
In northwest Kansas snow fell.
The reports from new oil field
twenty miles north of Denver where
the Coal Creek Oil & Gas Company
is operating show that the first well,
which is down about 1000 feet, is max
ing considerable gas. The odor of oil
can also be distinguished and as the
baler is brought to the surface and
dumped, the gas bubbles breaking
shoot out stringers of oil.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-01

The Victor and Belle Crown mining
property, seven miles north of Wen
den is now entering the producing
stage. The ore values are flattering.
1t is probable Tempe will soon
have a cold storage plant.
H. Jackson, who until quite recent
ly was operating a cigar factory in
Silver City, N. NJ, and who moved
to Douglas, had the misfortune of
having all his household effects de-
stroyed by fire recently.
City Marshal Anderson, who is
charged with the murder Of George
Stanley, whom he shot and killed
while at super in a private dining
room in the rear of the Wellington
Cafe in Globe, is still in Jail.
In the head-on collision between
southbound passenger train No. Il
and mixed train No. Al on the South
ern Pacific at Calabasas Junction,
about ten miles north of Nogales, a
mail clerk and a trainman were in
jured and traffic was delayed. No
passengers were hurt.
The board of governors of the Salt
River Valley Water Users Associa-
tion awarded the contracts for the
machinery to be used in equipping
the proposed power plant on the
South canal between the Granite Reef
diversion dam and Mesa City, where
there is drop of twenty-six feet in
the canal.
Recent reports of activity from the
many mines in the Miami district are
the most encouraging since the dis
trict became known. After three
years of development, and with the
completion of the 1000 ton concen-
traitor and mammoth power house,
the Miami mine is sending ore
through the big concentrator.
A Santa Fe westbound passenger
ran into an open switch at Kingman,
Ariz., and crashed into the rear end
of local train standing on the sid
ing. The engineer of the overland
train was slightly injured. Fireman
Woods was seriously scalded and in
JulSu lHCSludlly, anu Inlay ul6. AO
passengers were badly shaken up, but
escaped injury
On the application of w. P. Geary,
district attorney of Navajo county,
presented by Joseph F. Woods, sher-
iff of the same county, Governor
Sloan issued a requisition on the
government of New Mexico for the
return to Winslow, of Newt. Marley,
fugitive from justice, now in Ros-
WELL N. M. Marley is charged with
stealing and butchering cattle.
Funds are in hand for the purchase
by the Prescott Chamber of Com
merce of tract of land consisting
of eighty acres within half a mile of
the churches, theaters and postoffice
of that city, to be subdiyided and
given free to desirable families or in
dividuals who will agree to build
thereon some kind of a house to be
used as summer home