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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-05-16

d Gea at of the iaaho April
4th, 1912.
NOTICE is hereby given that Thomas
f. Jones, Of , Yuma, Idaho, who, on "a
1908, made Homestead Entry No. 1885
Serial Nos. 016S6 and 015S6, for E1a n
Wa and Lots l and 2, Section 49, Tp'
has filed notice of intention to make
Firal Five Year Proof, to esta blish
claim to the land above described, be-
fore Register & Receiver, U. $. Land
Office, at Backfoot, Idaho, on the 4th.
day of June, 1912.
Claimant names as Witnesses:
James Christensen Leslie COrbridge
Robert j. Jones, and Anon Y. Satter-
field all of Springfield, Idaho.
HENRY W. K1EFER,
1S-6t-p. Register.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-05-16
ORDINANCE NO. 1855.

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING Or
D'NANCE NO. 1874 OF THE CITY
OF BLAckFOOT, PASSED AND
APPROVED APRIL Is, 1912, EN-
TITLED"AN ORDINANCE PRovID
ING FOR THE ISSUE AND PRE-
SCRlBlNG THE EOND FORM OF
rWENTY-ONE THOUSAND DOL
LARS ($21,0oo) OF FUNDING
BONDS OF THE CITY OF BLACK
FOOT AND PROVIDING A TAX TO
PAY THE SAME BY RE-ENACT-
ING SECTION FOUR OF SAID OR.
D,NANCE so AMENDED
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-05-16
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF BtNt
HAM COUNTY, STATE OF
IDAHO
In the Matter of the Estate

In the Matter of the Estate
Emily Warren Holder, deceased
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY OR
DER OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
SHOULD NOT BE MADE.
1t appearing to this Court by the
petition this Gay presented and filed
by Frederick Holder, the administrator
of the estate of Emily Warren Holder,
decease! that it is necessary to sell
the whole or some portion Of the real
estate of said deceased to pay the debt
Ct deceCent and the expenses and
charges of administration.
1T is THEREFORE ORDERED BY
THIS COURT, That al persons inter
eS.cd in the estate of said deceased ap-
pear before the slid probate Court on
Monday the 9Th dcy of May, 1912, at
the hour of 10 o'clock am. of said day
at the Court room Of said Court, at
the Court house in Blackfc Of, Bingham
county, Idaho, 10 show cause why an
order should not be granted to said ad.
| minstrator to sell SO much of the
said real estate as shall be necessary,
and that copy cf this order be pub
lished four successive weeks in the
Blackfoot Opimist, newspaper print
ed and published in said county
Dated April 10, 1912.
jill ANDERSON,
Judge Of said Probate COur'
| A22- 29M6.13-20
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-05-16
ADVERTISED LETTERS

List of letters remaining uncallet
for in the Post Office at Blackfoot
Idaho, for the week ending May IA
1912 Persons calling fer these let
tiers will please say Advertised May
IA, 1912.
Binnard, Mrs. B.
Bremen, Mitchell ].
Good, Mr.. ]. NJ
Hall, Mr. Red, r. No. 4.
Johnson, Mr.. ID. B.
Johnson, Mr. N. M.
Newman, Mr.. Lars G.
Larsen, Mrs. Lawrence.
Nader, Mr.. Fred.
Potter, Mr.. and Mrs. j. r.
Snyder, Mr. E. G.
atson, Mr. Alex.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

JUuoC VI ottfU ODO1VN wv
A22- 29M6-13-2O
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-05-16
REPRESENTING STATE
NORMAL SCHOOL.

Frank e. Howard, supervisor CT the
training school and professor of edu-
cation and sociology of the ALBION state
Normal school, was in Blackfoot this
eek in the interest of the school. The
following girls from Bingham county
are students at the normal this year
Thelma Johnson, Aberdeen; Mary
Kearney, Shelley; Kate Meyers, Aber-
deem; Hazel Paterson, Shelly; Myrtle
Ramey and Mable Blackhart, Black
foot.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-05-16
BE 1T ORDAINED RY THE MAYOR
AND CITY COUNCIL OF TIL
CITY OF BLACkFOOT


Ordnance No 154 entitled can Or
dinance providing for the issue and
prescribing the form of twenty-one
thousand dollars 1921 ,000) of funding
bonds of the City of Blackfoot and
providing a tax to pay the same
be and the same is hereby amended
to read as follows
Section 4. That in order to meet
the interest ACQUIRING on said bonds
on January 1 and July 1, 1913, there
shall be levied in the year 1912 on all
taxable property in said city, in ad-
dtion to all other taxes, direct an
nual tax sufficient to produce the
sum of thirteen hundred and forty even
dollars and fifty cents ($1347.50), that
in order to raise the necessary funds
with which to pay the interest due
January /, 1914. and thereafter, to
and including July /, 1922, promptly
and as the same accrues, there shall
be levied on all taxable property in
said city, in addition to all other
taxes. a direct annual tax in each of
the years 1918, 1914, 1915, 1915,
1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921 sufficient
to produce the sum of eleven hundred
and fifty-five dollars, for the purpose
of paying two installments of said in
terest, that in order to raise the
necessary funds with which to pay the
interest due January /, 1928, and there
promptly and as the same accrues and
to create a sinking fund for the pay
ment of the principal of said bonds,
there shall be levied on all the taxable
property in said city, in addition to all
other taxes, a direct annual tax in
each of the years 1922, 1928, 1924, 1925
1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, and 1880, suf
fcient to produce the sum of thiry-two
hundred and fifty-five dollars ($3255)
for the purpose of paying two install
ments of said interest amounting to tn
sum of eleven hundred and fiSty-five
dollars ($1155.OO), and to produce the
sum Of twanty-one undl ed dollars tS2l
OOO) to pay one-tenth of the principal o
said bonds; and in the year 1881 sui
ficient to produce the sum OF thirty
hundred and sixty-two dollars and fift,
cents ($3O62.5O), for the purpose o.
paying the interest ACQUIRING on Janu
airy 1, 1882 and May 1, 1882, amount
ing to the sum of nine hundred and
sixty-two dollars and fifty cents ($962.
5O), and to produce the sum of TWEEN
ty-one hundred dollars ($2100) to pa!
one-tenth of the principal of said bond
and said taxes when so collected, shall
be applied solely to the purpose of pa!
ing the interest and principal of sait
bonds respectively, and for no othel
purpose whatever until the ind btedn( S
so contracted under this ordinance
principal and interest-shall have beel
fully satisfied and discharged.
Session 2. That said Section fou
of said ordinance No. 154, as origin
ally passed and approved on April II
1912, be and the same is hereby re
pealed
Passed and approved by the mayo
this 14th day of May, A. d. 1912.
L. NJ. CAPPS,
Mayor.
Attest
G. H. HOLBROOK,
City Clerk.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-05-16
MEN AND RELIGION

''Nct a dent was made in the civic
conscience Of New York by the Men
and Religion Forward Movement, &C
cording to one speech delivered this
week to the United Presbyterian Min
isterial association.
Yet ringing story of honest work
for better living was presented at tha,
convention. A struggle with the boy
problem at Kansas City, better hous.
ing at Dallas, homeless man at DIS
Moines, the loan sharks IN Maine, reg
ulating moving pictures at Grand Ran
ids-these are few sample Incidents
ness basis
Why are the men Of New York and
other cities so indifferent to such a
human appeal? The Speaker tefcre
the Ministerial Association called Il
money madness"
Anyone who is carrying the respon
sibility for any kind of religious Oh
civic work must be impressed with the
enormous difficulty of getting men tt
serve on committees, OF sacrifice an.
Of the sacred moments that are The
property of ST. Mammon.
Formerly men used to teach in Sun
day schools. The older churchmei
all have big gilt edged leather cover
ed pulpit bibles given them in recog
milton of patient honest work in Bibl
study and friendly tutorship in goo
living. Today Sunday school classes al
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-05-16
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF
BINGHAM COUNTY, STATE
OF IDAHO
In the matter of the estate of Nels
A Just, Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
letters of administration on the estate
of Nels A. Just, deceased, were grant
ed to the undersigned on the 18th day
of May, 1912, by the Probate Court
of Bingham county.
All persons having claims against sa q
estate are required to exhibit them
to me for allowance, at my residence
at Presto, Idaho, or at the office of
HanSbrough & Gagon, Blackfoot, Idaho
within ten months after the date of
this notice, or they shall be forever
barred
This 10th day of May, 1912.
JAMES JUST,
| Ml6-ot Administrator
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WARRANT CALL

County Treasurer's office. Blackfoot.
Bingham Co., Idaho, March 10th, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing Bingham County Warrants will be
paid on presentation. if presented with
in sixty 600 days from date of this
Notice:
Current Expense Fund
Registered. April 14th, 1911
Numbered, / to 257 inclusive.
Road Fund
Registered. October 10th. 1911: Janu-
airy Sth. 1912.
Numbered. 412 to 500 inclusive. $40
to 636 inclusive.
Bridge Fund
Registered. April 14th. 1911
Numbered. Is to Al inclusive.
School District Warrants
School District No. 2: 1857. 1863. 39l
1876, 47S, ATT. 480. 4S2 400. 607. 6O3. 5S7.
6sS. 626. 5s2. S37. S42. SSd.
So. 81. $40. s2S. $50. lois.
School district, No. Z: $50. ISL. 100
9O2 956. 1908 HAS, 1856. 1893.
School district No. 70: 410. Ala. Alb
41S, 445. $40 SOD 556. 612. $50, gu. 672
sHs 73ss;, 1858. s1s. si2. oil. 1913. 1860
School district No. IS: 1888. 1871
1885. 81. q. 139, 296. 299. AGA. 622. SAB
544 1922. 759
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-05-16
COME ON, BRING 1T BACK

The person that found John G.
Browns gauntlet glove between Black
foot and the Porterville bridge can
come in and get the mate to it, or
orlng the other back
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
Home Raised Work Stock a Necessity

Woodville Republican.
We would caution our farmers to
look to the future with reference to
their work stock. You know that
the horses and mules that are now
doing duty. will not last forever, SO
prepare for the future by breeding
your mares to some good jack or stall
lion. AS someone remarked, ut is
just as cheap to raise horse on a
farm as it is to raise a quill yearling, "
and the truth of this remark must
appeal to anyone who stops to think.
1t is absolute folly for our farmers to
be forced to buy work stock when
they should be selling home-raised
horses and mules.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

juries in dealing out even handed JUS
tice to al, offenders or alleged offend
ers against the law, there would be
less lawlessness by 80 per cent. in
this State and Nation than there is
now. The Law is an honorable pro-
fession, and lawyers, as a class, are
above the average in their personal
habits and private living. but their
ethics are strained, and the way they
practice their profession makes them
responsible for 80 per cent. of the
crime committed in this country.
Criminals, big and little, individuals
and corporations, would fear the law
more and obey it better. were it not
for the fact that they know that
money will buy the very best legal
talent to hep them cheat and defy
the law.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
m>s-@s<@S ~
2I)ea|IHSl
BILLY TURNER.
town tor years.

DIED, on Monday night, April p,
1912, at II o'clock, Uncle Billy Tur-
ner, who resided some two miles
West of Leakesyille, Miss. He was
getting well up in years being one Of
the oldest living citizens of the coun-
ty, having turned SO winters. Oh
late he had gradually been declining,
being affected with catarrhal con-
ditlon of the stomach. He is surviv-
ed by his wife, the faithful partner
for 10 these many years; five sons,
namely Os, Duncan, and John of this
city and William of Deer Park, Ala,
and one married daughter, Mrs.
Dean Turner who dwelt next door
to him; another a widow, Mrs. Gllly
Neel Of Jonathan; one widowed
daughter in-law, Mrs. Edna Turner,
wife of the late Barley; and one spin
ster daughter, Miss Nancy, besides a
host of grandchildren and other rela-
tives and connections.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
Good Roads Secret of R0me'S Military
Power.

The Roman Empire, which govern
ed the entire ancient world, at the
beginning of and before the Christian
era, held it's provinces in subsection
because it kept close to them and
made them easy of access to Rome.
Foreign powers were allowed com
plete personal, municipal and religi-
Gus liberty. Allegiance to Caesar
and the payment of taxes was all
that was demanded of them. Wher-
ever the Roman dominiOns extended
d broad, wide, enduring road was
constructed from Rome to the con-
quered province, and if revolt took
place, troops and military supplies
were hurried quickly over this road
to the scene of action. In time of
peace commerce was carried on by
means of these roads. 1t was a broad
far-seeing policy, and enabled the
Romans to maintain their authority
for centuries.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

'Travelism enlightens the World
is quotation which we clip from a
tourists magazine. Yes, but right
at the present that type of it associ-
ated with the Titanic, rolls a cloud
OF gloom over the mind of the read
ing population of earth. Properly
safeguarded travel is a delight, but
lacking in that prime essential it of
ten becomes a cause OF bitterest woe.
Some Of the greatest men the world
has seen in present. past and gone
ages are those who have rounded out
their education by wide travelling.
Study deepens bat 1t takes travel to
broaden.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

Promised Not to Respank His Wife
William Novalous of Ashley, near
Wilkesbarre. Pa, pleaded guilty to
spanking his wife because she was ex-
travagant, and Alderman Ricketts, of
this city, who heard his story, dis
charged him.
He had been arrested by his wife
and was not backward about admit
ting that he had beaten her. Il give
her sum of money each month to
run the house." he explained, and
when found that she had spent con-
siderable of this money for other
things l was angry and took my razor
strop and spanked her"
AS he promised not to take such ex-
IRENE measures mex time, and as Mrs.
Novalous appeared none the worse for
the spanking, Alderman Ricketts, dis
charged him.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
Tendency to Small Farms is Good.

N. O. Picayune.
The Southern States, which have
always been chiefly devoted to agri-
culture, were, from the beginning,
chiefly occupied by large plantations.
This was the result of negro slav-
cry. The holders of large bodies of
land owned sufficient Numbers of
slaves to cultivate them, and after
freeing of the slaves the landlords
were able to hire their colored fellow
citizens to such an extent that the
plantation system was carried on for
a number of years, but as the drift
from the farms to the towns and cit
les began to be participated in by
the negroes as well as the whites,
the policy of subdividing the land in
to small farms to purchasers and
renters, slowly but steadily grew
into use, until it has become an in
creasingly important feature in
Southern agriculture.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
The Living Within Income Policy Hurt
Some.

Unlon-AdvOca4e, Jackson.
The members of the Legislature are
coming IN for criticism from some
sources because they have not seen
their way clear to appropriate all the
money asked for at this session.
They have found it necessary to re-
fuse some appropriations and to cut
others. OF course. every man thinks
that the appropriation in which he
is interested was the important one
and should be allowed in full, while
all others should be cut.
Some people seem to think that the
power of a legislature is illimitable
They do not seem to have very clear
idea of where the money is to come
from to meet these appropriations,
and don't care as long as their pet
appropriation is taken care of.
We have an idea that as far as the
individual members of the Legisla-
ture are concerned, they would glad
ly have met every demand that was
made. But they were sent here for
certain specifi., purposes. and one of
these purposes was TO see that no
more money was spent than the rev.
enues of the State could take care of.
This was demanded by the people,
who are tired OF having bond issues
to take care of the. running expenses
of the government.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

A low groveling curiosity weak
ems the character of its practitioner
Every person has what's called a
bump of curiosity and rightly So
but that alludes to the natural dispo-
sition inherent in each lnhabitant OF
this planet to find out all we can that
concerns man and his welfare while
sojourners upon 1t, but the brand we
refer to as undermining to the moral
fabric is the kind which sways its
victim as a relentless habit. and is
prone to indulge IN scandal and Cos
sip. In olden times peeplng eyes
were often burnt out, prying hands
cut off, and inquisitive heads struck
off. In this modern humanitarian
age, lifting the curtains of discreet
secrecy has its penalties to meet out
upon those guilty thereof-not in
such a bloody manner, but in hurt
and harm to the higher senses of the
man. This is moralizing but along d
much needed line, and did not Addi-
son do some moralizing in the Spec
tator papers?
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
Should Live in Their Own Day.

Grenada Sentinel.
If those people who are constantly
taking about the good old times
could only be transported back to have
a little experience of those days they
would at once be cured of their delu-
sion. AS matter of fact the world
was never SO good as it is now, in
spite ofall the corruptionists, big
and little, that curse political and
business life. And, what is better
still, the world is getting better ev
cry day.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

EDITORIAL
r member the Presidential prima-
ry election, Tuesday, May Z, 1912

The Collins Commercial is another
newspaper in South Mississippi that
has recently charged editors, Wat
klns succeeding Caruth. The exact
ting duties of the modern rapid fire
country journal drives many man
from the field and lures others to its
hardships. This editor is so ravish-
ed of the charms of journalism that
we seriously doubt whether we will
ever come to give It up. for while il
has its bltters it also has its sweets
and somehow we have got it in our
bones anyway to be writer.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
FROM o.
OUR
EXCHANGES
That Meeting Has Attracted Attention
Abroad.

New Orleans Christian Advocate.
The Greene County (Miss.) Herald
contains the following reference to
the meeting that is being conducted
by Brother William B. Alsworth, the
pastor at Leakesville, assisted by
Rev. d. E. Kelly, of Hattiesburg:
THE meeting in progress at the
Southern Methodist Church, under
the preaching of Evangelist D. E..
Kelly, of Hattiesburg, has proved to
be the most stirring one held in this
town tor wears.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
Newspapers Expected to Give the Truth

Dallas Press Club.
Surely truth IS knowledge, and
new phases of the truth are informa-
ton. Notwithstanding the valuable
moral light of the wondrous coun-
tries, the demand of our more
complex civilization is for more
light, new light The public expects
the newspaper to give the truth.
The only laws needed to restrict the
freedom OF the press are such as will
prevent it from printing lies. There
IS no excuse for anewspaper printing
what it knows to be a lie, even as a
paid advertisement.
The public is entitled to the facts.
If the newspaper does not give them
it deceives the public.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

The Heraldhas been an advocate Of
the Presidential primary every since
the idea began to be bruited in the
State. We had given up any hopes
of it's being held this year, after the
Legislature adjourned without pass
ing any enabling law, followed up as it
was with the statement from the
chairman of the state executive COM
mittee that such a course could not
be pursued, in view OF. the existing
law. Now the committee has come
along and ordered such primary,
and set it for May Z, which is quick
lime exceedingly QUICK. Well,
we are always disposed to accept
what we can get, if we can get all
that is desired or needed. It's to be
hoped that sufficient interest will be
taken in this. the first Presidential
primary to be held in the Magnolia
State, to popularize such method of
expressing the sentiment Of the rank
and file Of Mississippi democracy, as
to a choice for the party's nominee.
and to emphasize the necessity for
perpetuating such a plan by the en-
acting of a proper and definite law to
govern such. We sincerely trust that
the short time given before same is
to be holden this year, will not oper-
ate too much to make it appear as a
mere going through the motion, to
the future hurt of the Presidential
primary idea.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
Treatment of Criminals Has Progressed

Atlanta Georgian.
1t is dreadful to think how we
treat our criminals, how we add to
the curse of poverty in infancy, the
curse of the temptation of drink, the
lack of opportunity, the malformed
brain; how we add to all these mis-
fortunes the browning misfortune of
criminal education among Grimm
ais in Jail, aud then think that we are
dealing out justice.
But our treatment of the criminal,
stupid and ignorant as it is, still
stands for progress. For, at least,
now we put man in jail for few
months, for petty crime-and only
a few generations back we would take
an ignorant boy of twelve or fourteen
FOR the same crime AND HANG HIM.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
Other Editors Chatter |
lI5Ssg1sS 1sSeGlS1|
Good Roads Make a Happier People

Bulletin, Jackson.
Good roads will make country
more prosperous and happier and
Mississippi is doing her part in that
direction. Our people are awaken
ing to the necessity of better roads,
and they are building them, too.
That is by far the most satisfactory
phase of the problem.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

the dining room about 10 clock, and
soon after | went to bed to be awak
ened by the shock when we struck
the iceberg"
That toast. Great IS the Titanic, ;"
was an unfortunate boast of man to
his gods of wood, iron and stone, rep
resented in the structure of the ship
of her prowess and lnvulnerableness
against the elements. 1t sounds like
the boast of the Greek, Great is Di-
ana, on their goddess, whose tenn
pie has for ages long now been a
Wondering heap and an impotent
memory.
In this we are reminded of another
Gay Last Supper, or feast that in
volved the ruin of mighty and gay
company, the full sequence of which
we all know IN the fall of Great Bah
ylon, at the very hour her king ano
lords were feasting and drinking ano
boasting of her power:
Belshazzar. the king made a great feast
They drank wine and praised the gods
of iron, wood, and of stone. In the same
hour came forth fingers of a mans hand
and wrote upon the wall, and this is
the writing that was written; MEME. MEME,
TEKEL UPHARsIN. This is the in
terpretation TEKEL; thou art weigh
ed in the balances and found wanting
From 9Th chapter of Daniel.