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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12

and decided to 60 on. We got to
his place along In the evening and
he was ont in the field cutting grain.
went over to where he was and
after the first greetings said, Well.
I've got the cattle all ready for you.
Just go on up to the house and make
yourself at home; want to finish
this little piece and then I'll come
on up / asked him that evening II
he had been offered any more By
somebody else and he admitted he
had, and told about Davis offer Of
$3.50 better. l told him we would
split that $3.50 and each take half.
He said no he wouldn't do that; the
sale he made with me was satisfac-
tory and if there was profit In them
he wanted me to have all there was
above the price the day bought, and
he wouldn't take anything but the
$4,000, so gave him my check for
it. l shipped the cattle to Chicago
and came back to Blackfoot in about
month, and asked at the Stsu1rod
bank how much money had to my
credit and when they told me said
there must be some mistake about
it, / didn't have anything like tn&t.
We compared accounts d.d found
that Williams had not sent in his
check yet. He hadn't needed the
money and was probably keeping 1t
in his vest pocket.
Not all so True
"By the way Trego, you have sew
eral citizens around Blackfoot that
wouldn't carry a check that long till
they would spend it. Some of them
wouldn't even turn down that $3.50
advance or the offer of the $125 out
Of it. OF course, there are some
that would stand by their word abb
solutely-Whitten of instance-and
there are a lot of good men who
could be relied on, but generally
speaking, men cannot be depend
ed on where there is a chance to
make some ready money by backing
out of verbal arrangement.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
Men Who Are True

Talking about buying things no
sight and unseen, I'd just as lief buy
Cherry's cattle by telephone as any
way, because he tells you exactly
What they are. There is Orson Will
Jams too, | bought of him several
times by phone, and it was always
satisfactory. Once when l bargained
for $4,000 worth told him over the
phone that | would mail him check
for $500, and he said, "No, never
mind, don't need the money yet
and your word is good enough for
me- When the time came for me
to go over to receive the cattle my
son Ralph and | drove around the
mountain range and when we got up
to Myrup's ranch we were informed
that Williams had sold his cattle the
day before to Davis Brothers of Pah-
semari for an advance of $3.50 above
what l was to have them for. Ralph
said we might as we'll turn around
and go back; it was half days
drive on up to Williams place.
studied it over while We ate dinner
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
Buying Herds by Telephone

Quoting from Mr.. Lafever In
speaking of some of his experiences
buying and shipping cattle he said:
lone time ! bought about seven
thousand dollars worth of cattle of
Cherry CIV. H. Cherry of Grouse) by
telephone, and told him ! would mail
him a check to bind the bargain.
The mail only ment in there twice a
week, and in the meantime my friend
.................., took his automobile and
went to Cherry and offered him more
money than l had bought for. He
had received no money on the deal
and yet he refused all offers. He
said that so long as my chick was
in transit it was just as binding as
if he had the money in his hand,
and he kept his word. When he
got his mail the check was there and
the other buyer went back, know
ing there was at least one man on
Antelope creek whose word was
good"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
Blood Will Tell

At the horse sale last week the
best built animals that entered the
ring bore the Williams brand. Big
blocky creatures weighing 1900 or
400 sold at prices around 5000, and
one span sold at $50. The first ami
mails that were offered, came into the
ring with halters on and some with
men on their backs, and the bidders
showed courage and confidence, but
when they were followed by others
that dashed in with symptoms Of
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
MOST REMARKABLE STOCK SALE EVER
HELD IN THE SNAKE RIVER VALLEY
Early Settlers Who Left Their Personality Stamped Upon the Living
Points that Crown Events Of Local History Sequel Appears Stock
Sale on Snake River Plains where Good Stock was Sold

young stock old enough to market,
horses were so cheap they could do
nothing with them. With the dis
covery of gold in the Klondyke, the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
NOTICE

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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12

revival Of industries fol-
lowing the panic of '93,
the Spanish-American war
and the revival of railroad
building and canal work
for irrigation, prices began
to rise, and in the early
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12

boiling through the crowd, there was
timidity among the biders and the
prices dropped nearly half. Some
times men saw horses knocked off
to them and as the crowd parted to
allow an exit to the next corral and
the field, they beheld somthing dis
and wondered il they
should ever see 1t again. These men
on receiving the same animals halter
ed the next day were generally sur
prised and delighted The animals
looked larger and showed up so much
above their expectations they regard
ed them as prizes which they could
sell again at good advance over the
purchase price.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
Two Other Brothers

In the little Lost river valley were
two other brothers WHOSE work and
personality has been stamped Lpon
the products of the country.
Henry and Orson Williams settled
above Clyde back in the sos and
brought with them from Cache valley
some well bred horses which they
kept in control about their farms.
They engaged IN the operation of a
saw mill, and as they became pros
porous they went into the sheep bust
ness. AS in the case of the Hawley
brothers, they saw things from diff
ferent angles and dissolved partner
ship; one farmed and raised cattle,
the other tried different things but
conferred most of his wealth in horses
developed from the original stock
brought from the old home in Utah,
and kept them so well under control
that the wild native element did not
get among them.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12

or hanging on the fences watching
them go.
Prices Rose and Fell
Under these conditions the price
of horses varies, and when somebody
suggested an Indian and a white man
to mount horses and take position
where they wanted to stop the wild
horses for sale, the suggestion was
acted upon, and as they rushed into
the ring and beheld these familiar
figures in the midst of the crowd,
they Gained down and seemed to feel
at home. Prices went up and the
day was saved. The bidding was
brisk and sales continued in rapid
succession until about sunset when
the last ones were knocked off to
satisfied customers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
The Struggle for Existence

Mr.. Lafever's career has been rich
in experience. He was one of those
who hauled freight across the desert
to pay his store bills so he could
build up his herd, and in the winter
# lSS990 he was "set afoot" by
The hard winter. He began the
winter with big band of cattle and
few tons of hay. Like many others
he tried to save his mich cows and
the winter hung on until he lost
them too. One of his neighbors. Mrs.
James Kinney, now a resident of
Blackfoot, tried to save her favorite
COW with oatmeal and things from
the kitchen. One day when she and
the little son Charlie went to the
stable to feed her she had gone daffy
with hunger and knocked both of
them down and ran out into the
storm. Some of the settlers took
their stock to the bare ridges where
there was old grass as the snow went
off and shifted them from place to
place until the green grass came,
and in the change from the old dry
grass to the green, they wore them
selves out nipping the tender sappy
green and at night would chill and
die.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
A Dash for Freedom

Once a pair Of beautiful animals
rushed into the ring with heads
erect, and after circling around, de-
cided upon the proper outlet and
moved lane through the crowd,
went side by side through the corral,
leaped upon the high plank gate, rip
ped through the wire fence on a high
ditch bank and sped away like pair
of deer-5OO scared people perched
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12

stages of the rise Charlie Lafever,
one of the pioneer stockmen of Lost
river, bought Indian ponies to shlf
east He paid $3.50 apiece for year.
lings and two-year-olds and 81 apiece
for mares with colts at their side;
and he paid SIS round for the we'll
bred horses from the Bergman herd;
practically a cent a pound, although
their sires had cost a dollar a pound.
1t was hard shedding for stockmen.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12

pared with that of the pioneers, and
there are fortunes in store for them
that try.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the Miners Ditch company will be
held at the City hail. Blacoo Idaho on Tuesday the twentieth
day OF March at P m for the purpose of ecng officers for
the ensuing year and to transact such other business as NAV come
before the meeting.
HE MINERS DITCH COMPANY
aoV' 3lS 7. J. Burns, Secretary
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
Horses for the Asking

One day Mr.. Lafever found himself
at Grand Island, Nebraska, with "a
car loads of these horses resting and
feeding. A shipment of II car loads
came in from Nevada, and they were
in bad condition with colds or some
disorder they had acquired on the
road. The owners were disguised
with the outlook, and Lafever bought
the trainload at three dollars a head.
With 81 car loads of horses and cay
uses on hand he set out to find buy
ers, and disposed of most of them
in Dakota.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12

Last Thursday witnessed an his
toric event In eastern Idaho in the
sale of stock that has played its part
in the lives of men and development
of industry written plainly ON the
scroll Of the century.
It is a rare thing for the student
In history to attend an auction sale
of stock and see in the passing show
the crystaliZed efforts of men who
have gone before. 1t Is rare thing
to look upon a band of fine stock
and trace the picture back along the
line of the development of state
and see that to produce the fine ar
ray of animals a dozen generations
of horses have died. But those were
things presented in the free show
conducted by Kennedy and Hopkins
at a big stock sale held six miles
above Blackfoot last week--a sale
that marks time to so many tunes
within the lives of people who were
there that 1t deserves page in his
tory.
The sale In question brought to-
gether an array Of characters whose
lives portray conditions in this and
adjacent valleys that constitute an
object lesson worthy Of the careful
study of any man who wants to see
the true trend of events and adapt
himself to business as 1t is and to
conditions as they are.
The horses assembled for the sale
were from the bands developed by
Henry Williams and Edwin r. Haw-
ley of Little Lost river near the
post office called Clyde, so named
from the Clydesdale horses introduce
ed there in the long ago. Both of
these pioneers having been called to
their reward it fell to others to
handle their estates and it was
thought best to sell their horses at
auction which was done by e. M.
Kennedy and T. H. Hopkins of Black
foot, with c. W. Shook crying the
sale. The horses were handled In a
line Of corrals, and were allowed to
pass one or two at time into the
sales ring and from there passed on
into the open field until called for
by the purchasers.
The horses were developed partly
from crossing the Clydesdale stock
with the native horses 80 or 40 years
ago, and partly from we'll bred stock
brought from Cache Valley, Utah,
about rs or 80 years ago. One
hundred and ninety horses and colts
were sold at an average price of
$3.50, or taking out the II colts
1t left the average sale price about
800. The animals ranged in weight
from about 1900 pounds down to a
thousand, and were probably the best
herd of range stock ever sold in this
part of the country. Auctioneer
Shook, who has had wide expert
ence in selling range horses said 1t
was the best lot of range horses he
had ever seen offered. a
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
Facing Losses Bravely

A. N Anderson and family who
owned the present Kennedy-Tavy
ranch near Moore, lost their herd
after going in debt for large amounts
of hay at fancy prices. The daughters
had SO much sympathy for half a
dozen small calves, that they took
them out each morning on the side
hill above the house and put little
yellow corn meal (from the kitchen)
on the snow for each of them, and
then directed their attention to the
bare spots to Craze. Each day brought
warmer weather and more bare
ground, but the corn meal supply
was exhausted and the little sufferers
gave up their lives. There was
saying among the men that green
goggles and Christian science for
COW would make her live on willows
and brush thinking it was alfalfa.
The Anderson girls wished for yell
low goggles to make meal of the
snow banks, but everything went to
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
Taking Account of Stock

When Mr.. Hawley attempted to
sort out the most salable ones for
market he was reminded that he was
keeping the culls to build his herd.
If he took out the culls they made
a queer menagerie lacking the quail
ties of being governable. He finally
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
The History of the Herd

About 40 years ago two brothers,
Z. r. and d. B. Hawley settled on
Little Lost river with a view of
engaging In the cattle business As
men of genius and ability often be-
come interested in different things,
80 these brothers came to take diff
ferent views Of what would be most
profitable, and while d. B. took to
agriculture with an interest that
amounted almost to fascination. e. r.
became imbued with the idea of
stocking the range with horses and
cattle and reaping the increase at
his pleasure. His cattle brought
quick returns and were very profit
able, and he purchased some Clydes-
dale stations to cross with band of
native horses. While one brother
went on farming his large frontier
estate and demonstrating what could
be done with the soil. the other
brother witnessed a new generation
of horses growing up on the range.
Some resembled the sires and some
the dams, and some were an unhappy
mixture of bad proportions. Some
had finely formed bodies but poor
legs; some were fine of limb like
the Clydesdales but carried on them
the cayuse bodies. Some were big
about the middle and so rounded or
peaked that to look them over pro-
voked and exclamation of cork
screw"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12

the common boneyard. Start
ing in the spring practically
afoot, their stock dead and
a ten-thousand dollar debt
confronting them the House
of Anderson rebuilt its for
tunes, educated its sons and
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
Setting Indians Afoot
Prices Rose and Fell

In the development of the west
some great sacrifices have been made
that are interesting to review, and
profitable to reflect upon. In the
settlement of states east of the Rocky
mountains there were times when
soldiers were sent to destroy the buf-
faloes outright as a means of quell-
ing hostile tribes of Indians by de-
priving them of their food supply.
In the territorial days of Idaho and
Oregon great herds of In !ian horses
were killed by the soldiers as a means
of setting the Indians afLot" when
they were cent on goin5 t.. '.ar.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
Leaving the Settl rs a'.'.oi

In the early settlement OF Lost
river everybody was deprived of their
resources at times by the elements.
They were deprived of their food
supply by having their cattle starved
and they were set afoot by losing
their horses in hard winters. The
struggle they made for existence was
tragic, and the risks they took were
great compared to those confronting
the settlers of today. Thirty years
ago the scattered settlers built log
school houses and opened little
schools, and so scarce was money it
used to be said that everybody with
in few miles of the school house
wanted to board the teacher because
it afforded means of getting few
dollars in cash.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12

daughters and retired some years ago
with money to speculate on.
Greater Advantages Today
Out of all this wreck of fortunes
Lost river people rose according to
that something" that impels men.
The stock man of today pays the
government fee for the privilege
of grazing in the forest reserve, and
as winter comes on he descends to
the valley to feed them on hay and
straw which can be purchased in
everywhere and at reason
able prices. He takes little risk COM
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
Foundation for a Furtune

So keen was the struggle to build
up their herds to paying proportions
that men would make all kinds of
sacrifices to save selling any of their
stock cattle. During the 80 s and
80 the settlers would rig up freight
outfits and haul goods from Black
foot to Houston (Mackay) for so
cents per 100 pounds to pay their
store bills, over the same stretch of
desert for which they now pay 70
cents by rail, and nobody thinks of
hauling. About the only money
which the freighter of those days got
out of his "trip" was enough to buy
water at the big butte and to pay
his feed bill at Blackfoot, and~bridge
tolls when it was toll way. Since
that time the roads have been greatly
improved, the width of the desert
has been reduced by the extention of
settlements, and nobody ever hauls
anything by wagon. A prominent
pioneer of Lost river in discussing
the matter recently with a merchant
OF ,Mackay who has handled large
volume of the shipments from the be-
ginning of trade in those settlements,
said, you used to pay us SO cents
hundred for the hauling, and we
took our pay in merchandise out of
the store so that it cost you .only
25 or IS cents Now the railroad
gets 70 cents in cash for the same
service. Why don't we haul it by
wagon now"
The merchant answered, "A slab
of bacon used to sell for so cents,
and now it goes at $3.50. The settler
has his eye on the $3.50.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12

decided to eliminate all but the best
whatever the sacrifice, and In round
ing them up he was unable to pre-
vent some of them from escaping into
the great plains or into the high rug
ged mountains where no man could
ride fast enough to keep within gun
shot of them. For this reason he was
unable during his life time to weed
out all Of the worst, and at their
pleasure they mingled with the finely
bred creatures of great worth. Nearly
80 years ago a buyer went to him
with an offer of 500 a head for
100 horses of about a certain type,
delivered ON the cars at Market Lake,
(now Roberts) and Mr.. Hawley
gathered up the kind he wanted and
was willing to accept at that price.
Upon delivery to Market Lake 1t was
found that the strangers draft would
not be honored If presented, and in
the embarrassment that followed,
the horses were turned loose to go
back to their range nearly 100
miles to the westward. Such were
the difficulties Of marketing horses
from that remote region that many
of them grew up to the age of ten or
IL years without ever having any
thing on them but a brand. When
the panic Of '93 destroyed the mar
ket, there followed few years when
horses on the range were SO utterly
worthless that men turned their at
tention to other things and let them
develop into rowing wild bands. each
with it's leader and rivals.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12
FORTUNES Swept Away

In the days when everything con-
sumed by the settler was hauled in
by wagon there was use for many
horses in staging and freighting and
for railroad construction on many
lines, and each new settler had to
buy teams to do his work. Some
pretty good men reasoned that there
would always be a good demand for
horses and they planned accordingly.
A firm at Blackfoot known as Berry,
man G Rogers, stocked the range in
the northern part of the present
county with good horses, and shipped
In Shire mares and stations that
cost them a dollar a pound, to breed
up their herds. When they had some
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-12

or hanging on the fences watching
them go,
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-30
SYMPTOMS
Slight Symp t Om s Sometimes Pres age Serious
 Results

Do you feel tired, have you sallow complexion, constipation, headache, bad breath, sleeplessness or cidcles around your eyes? If so, you are un- doubtedly suffering from some liver complaint.
 Perhaps you don't feel very badly now, but delay is dangerous. To al- low your liver to continue out of order is to invite a serious chronic illness.
 Whenever you have the slightest symptoms of liver trouble, stop it inn mediately. You can do it harmlessly and mildly by taking Liv-Ver-Lax, the natural vegetable compound that is replacng calomel everywhere. It has all the effectiveness, not the ef- feet of calomel. Insist on getting the original Liv-Ver-Lax, bearing the like ness and signature of l.. K. Grigsby, which is guaranteed to give satisfac- tion or money refunded. For sale by Hesterly Drug Store.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-30
HALLS OF SENATE CHAMBER
 CROWDED WITH FEMININITY

Little Rock, Jan. 30.-Ever since the Moore Equal suffrage constitutional amendment resolution was made a special order for discussion on Mon day morning, the halls about the Sen ate Chamber have been crowded with attractive femininity, all lobbying for the adoption of the resolution.
 Evidently taking courage by the numbers displayed, Mrs. Maitz Sparks Briant, expressing clerk of the Senate who is recognized as the best politician about the Capitol, sees voictory for the suffragists, and she has visions of some day trying her skill and winning ways against mere man in contest for state or county office.
 eff they adopt that constitutional amendment" Mrs. Briant has stated "I am going to see if am good politician, and to prove it I will run for office if 1 get chance"