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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-09-28
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF BING-
HAM COUNTY, STATE OF IDAHO
In the matter of the Estate Of George
M. King, deceased.
Notice Of Administrator Sale Of
Real Estate at Private Sale

Notice is hereby given that in pur-
Court of Bingham county, Idaho, made
on the 14th day Of September, 1916,
in the matter Of the abOve-entitled es-
tate, the undersigned, administrator of
said estate, will sell at private sale to
the highest bidder, in two parcels, up
on the terms and conditions hereinafter
mentioned, and subject to confirmation
by said probate court, on or after Mon
day, the 9th day Of October, 1916, all
of the right, title, and interest of the
said George NJ. King, deceased, at tho
time of his death, in and to the real
property hereinafter described and all
right, title, and interest that said es-
tate has, by operation of law or other
wise, acquired other than or in addition
to that of said deceased at the time of
his death of, in and to those certain
pieces and parcels of land situate, ~
ing, and being in the county of Bing
ham, State of Idaho, and particularly
describe das follows:
All the right, title, and interest Of
deceased, being an undivided one-half
interest, in and to lots one C), two (2),
three (3), and four ca in section six
(6), township three 90. south of range
thirty-five (35) east, Boise Meridian,
Idaho, together with the bitches and
water rights therefor, and particularly
the water right for said premises in
the Trego Ditch Company, and the ten
ements, Entertainments, and appurte
nances.
Also the right, title, and interest of
deceased in the south half Of lot two
, (2), in block five (5), Oskaloosa Or
, chard Tracts, as plated and recorded
| in Bingham county, Idaho, together
? with all water rights therefor and ap.
purtenances thereto.
Terms and conditions of sale: Cash,
in lawful money of the United States
5 of America, on confirmation Of. said
sale by said probate court.
!, All bids or offers must be in hand
< writing, and may be left at the office
of John w. Jones, on East Main street,
l Blackfoot, Idaho, or may be delivered
! to said administrator personally, OF
= may be filed in the office of the clerk
r of this court, at any time after the first
8 publication of this notice and before
the making of the sale.
Dated September 20, 1916.
= HAMILTON WRIGHT,
e Administrator of the Estate of George
= NJ. King, deceased. Stiles
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-09-28
THOMAS & ANDERSEN,

Attorneys for Contestant,
Blackfoot, Idaho.
Date of first publication September
IS, 1916.
Date of second publication October
), 1916.
Date of third publication October
18th, 1916.
Date of fourth publication October
10th, 1916.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-09-28
ORDINANCE NO. 1877

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
BLACKFOOT, IDAHO, PROVIDING
FOR THE ANNUAL APPROPRIA.
TION BILL OF THE CITY OF
BLACKFOOT, IDAHO, FOR THE
APPROPRIATION FOR THE VA !
RIOUS FUNDS NECESSARY FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR OF 1916-1917;
PROVIDING FOR THE RATE OF
TAXATION TO BE LEVIED UPON
THE ASSESSED PROPERTY WITH
IN SAID CITY OF BLACkFOOT;
AND PROVIDING THAT ALL
MONEYS IN THE CITY TREAS
URY AT THE END OF THE FIS-
CAL YEAR, NOT NEEDED FOR
CURRENT EXPENSES AND AP-
PLICABLE THERETO, SHALL BE
TRANSFERRED TO THE WAR
RANT REDEMPTION FUND.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council
Of the City of Blackfoot, Bingham
County, State of Idaho:
Section l. That the revenue of the
City Of Blackfoot, Idaho, for the fis-
cal year of 19161917, derived from the
tax levied for said year, and from 9th
err sources, is hereby appropriated to
the various funds as follows:
Improvement fund ..-.. S45OO, 90
Police fund .....-.......... $4,000
Lighting fund .-...-.-.... 100000
Salaries " 100000
Water fund " 10000
All of the foregoing enumerated
funds to be known as the General
Fund.
Sinking fund .-......$4 95O.O 90
Sewer extension fund ,....,. 100000
Total appropriation , S21, 10000
Section =. That the levy to be made
on the assessed valuation of the prop
erty subject to taxation within the said
City of Blackfoot, shall be ~ mills on
the dollar for general fund; shall be
mill on the dollar for sewer extension
| fund and shall be 212 mills on the dol
lar for sinking fund, making total Of
, II mills on the dollar for all purposes
Section 3. That all moneys in the
hands of the City Treasurer at the enc
of the Fiscal year ending on the Mon
day preceding the First Tuesday OF
| May, 1917, not needed for current ex
;, penses, and applicable thereto, shall b;
transferred to the Warrant Redemp
ton Fund
Section A. That the City Clerk il
hereby directed to have this ordinance
duly published in the Optimist, the of
fetal newspaper.
Passed, approved and adopted th
Goth day of September, 1916.
T.. T. PECK,
Attest Mayor
ROY S. DeKAY.
City Clerk.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-09-28

Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Caldwell We're in Black
foot on business.
Hilbert Weaver and Miss Caldwell
were in Blackfoot Monday on their
way to Salt Lake to visit the Ten
pie.
Mr.. l.. Brown was in Blackfoot on
Tuesday after load of lumber.
Mr.. Frank Brown and Mr. r. Farms
worth were in Blackfoot Tuesday Wis
ting Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell.
DO YOU
Maintain polluted well and then com
plain about the undertaker's bill?
Think screening is too expensive and
blame your malaria on the climate?
Insist on sanitary cigar factories and
then use public cigar cutter?
Carry fine handkerchief and then
| forget to cover your mouth when you
coughe
What are your hands doing, brother
mist office. Correct work and correct
prices.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-09-28

WANTED-FARM LAND OPTIONS.
We are now having good call for farm
land and will be pleased to get options
on any sized tract.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-09-28
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

The employees of the Utah-1daho
C,gar factory will be placed Monday,
Oct. End, for the coming season. Work
will be commenced Tuesday, Oct. 3rd, at
z a. m.
VIM. VARLEY, Supt.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-09-28
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

The employees Of the Utah-Idaho
Sugar factory will be placed Monday,
Oct. End, for the coming season. Work
will be commenced Tuesday, Oct. 3rd, at
z a. m.
VIM. VARLEY, Supt.
Get your job printing at the Opti-
mist.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-09-28

Many people would like to be good
if they did not miss SO much fun III
the being.
What a relief it would be if we could
get through one single week without
hearing a smutty remark about some
good woman.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-09-28

Whenever you hear town spoken
well of you may know that its citizens
are on the same plane as its reputa'
ton.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
SET A NEW SAFETY RECORD
Year 1915 Showed a Gratifying De- crease of Accidents on the Coun-
 try's Railroad Lines.

Nineteen hundred and fifteen set a new record. The greatest improve ment in safety of railroad operation ever recorded for year is shown by the annual accident bulletin of the in- terstate commerce commission The total number of persons killed was in excess of $500. but of these only 222 were passengers, the others being employees of the lines, including freight as well as passenger service, track workers and employees at divi- sional points, and trespassers on the rights of way, including pedestrians and passengers of the genus hobo, rid ing either on the trucks or in side door Pullmans" The striking fact in the figures is that of approximately 1000, 100000 passengers carried only 222 were killed. The number of per sons injured was much greater, but the cause of the decrease in the num- Der of passengers injured in any way is to be found in the reduced number of the train accidents. The number of such accidents in 1915 was 1,542, as against 15,006 the year before, a decrease of 32 per cent The number of collisions fell more than 33 per cent; showing, as we may suppose, a much wider use of the block signal system as well as higher grades of efficiency in many mechanical and dis patching departments.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
DEATHS DUE TO TRESPASS
Fatalities on Railroad Lines, Caused by CareIeasness, Constantly Show
 Substantial Increase.

Fatalities in railroad accidents so far as passengers are concerned have decreased in this country Several of the most important railroad lines in their campaign for safety have been able to announce that no deaths have resulted to travellers upon their roads for periods ranging from one to five years. Fatalities to trespassers, how ever, have increased proportionally seven times as much as have deaths of passengers.
 A recent report gives the number of trespassers killed last year as 5,471, and for the preceding 25 years as 113,4S0. This appalling figure repre- sents 53 per cent of all the railroad fatalities in the United States This percentage is remarkably constant As the Railway Age Gazette ex- presses it:
 "The more railroads there are ard the more trains there are run the greater is the hazard that they will kill persons who persist in walking on the track, and apparently the more pCOpIc IutIc die III lllc Oullcu oldltS the more trespassers there are"
 The railroads have endeavored to have the states act and have also at tempted to deal with 1t themselves. They have policed their tracks and have arrested trespassers, but accord ing to the court records these persons went unpunished because the judges refused to convict them and local au- thorities refused to stand the expense Of their imprisonment
 At a meeting of the Association of Railroad Superintendents in San Francisco E. w. Camp said that his efforts to interest various state legis- latures in a bill to make trespassing misdemeanor were in almost every case futile. Where 1t received any favor at all the bill was made almost imperative by limitation. One in- stance that he mentioned was pro- viso that it should not apply to pick cts during a strike.'
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
Love for the Worker.

Venerable to me is the hard hand:
 crooked, coarse, wherein, notwith- standing, lies a cunning virtue, inde- feasibly royal, as of the scepter of this planet. Venerable. too. is the rugged face, all weather tanned, besoiled, with its rude intelligence; for it is the face of a man living manlike. O., but the more venerable for thy rude ness, and even because we must pity as well as love thee Hardly entreat- ed brother! For us was thy back so bent; for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed. Thou vert our conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles vert so marred. For in thee. too, lay Cod created form, but it was not to be un- folded: incrusted must it stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of labor; and thy body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toll on, toll on; thou art in thy duty, be out of it who may; thou toilest for the altogether indispensable - for daily bread.-Carlyle in "Sartor Resartus."
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
Silk From Sawdust,

Making artificial silk from sawdust and other lumber waste is the latest experiment of the United States forest products laboratory at Madison, Wis. The use of artificial silk made direct ly from wood is increasing by leaps and bounds. Originally it's principal use was in the manufacture of braids and trimmings, but recently the manu- facture of hose from artificial silk has become an industry of vast impor- tance. Other uses for artificial silk are woven goods of all kinds, Things, tapestries, etc., neckties, ribbons, sweater coats, etc. About 5,00O,0OO pounds of artificial silk are used an- nually in the United States. There are several methods of manufacture, but that from wood pulp is usually made by treating the wood pulp with caustic I've to form a viscose, which is allowed to age for some time. It !s then forced through dies to form threads, which are hardened by a treatment with sulphuric acid, ammo nium sulphate, and sodium borate, or formic acid. After washing and dry ing, the silk is ready for use. The laboratory is Investigating the arti- fcial silk problem as a possibility for utilizing wood waste, and has on hand a variety of articles made from the material.-Boston Transcript.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
Arab Foes.

The Arab who is fighting with the Turks in Mesopotamia has some curi- ous ways. He takes of his shoes when he enters a house. but keeps on his hat. He reads and writes from right to left. He eats scarcely any thing for breakfast or dinner, but in the evening he sits down to hot meal swimming in oil. His sons eat with him, but the ladies of the household wait till the males have finished.
 The Arab rides donkey when trav- cling. his wife walking behind, and he laughs at the idea of giving up his seat for a woman. The Arab has one strong virtue. and that is, he is rarely seen drunk. He is not very affection ate, is very ignorant. and has so little initiative that he rarely takes on any, thing worth doing, or attempts to carry out any enterprise.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
He Identified Her,

There is a pompous cashier in a certain San Francisco bank who lost all his pride the other day.
 You must be identified" he said to tall. hooknosed woman in green, red and blue, who brought in a check at time when his window was crowded.
 Well, I-I-why-I-no, it cayn't be! Yet it is. too. Amt you Henry Smyth?"
 That's my name, madam" he re- piled coldly.
 An you don't know me, Hen? I'm changed some, an so air you; but I jst knowed I'd seen ye. You've got that same old cast in your eye, your nose crooks little to the left, an you're a Smyth all over. An you don't know me! Don't you know Salindy Spratt, that you uster coax to become Salindy Smyth? Member how ye uster haul me to school on your sled, an kiss me in the lane, an call me your little true love? Mem Der how ye cut up cause I gave ye the mitten? Land, Hen, I could stand here all day, talkin over them old times. You kin identify me, now. cayn't you, Hen?"
 Hen" did so, but in a mood that produced apoplexy.-San Francisco Wasp.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
When the Age of Dudes Passed.

In dress President Jefferson was governed by comfort rather than by elegance. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold" he used to say, and as he lived in an epoch that witnessed a mighty revolution in mems clothing as we'll as in mems government. monarchy's queues and velvets giving way to short hair and the useful, ungainly pantaloon, only the watchfulness of his body serva, saved him from unbelievable ana chronisms of costume. Indeed, in later life, at Monticello, where this democrat ruled absolute king, he often wore the garments of several different periods together. like super imposed geologic strata, or the his toric remains in the Roman forum.- Century Magazine.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
CARRIED THE HONEY BACK
Bees Proved They Had Something to Say About the Disposition of
 Their Product.

A farmer possessed a few swarms of bees which he kept in what are called box hives. Inside there were small boxes, which would hold about two or three pounds of honey each, an exchange says. About eight of these were placed on the top of the hive. and as at least one side of each box was of glass, the keeper could easily look into the hive and see when the boxes were filled with honey.
 The farmer usually chose to do this early in the morning, before the bees came out to begin the labors of the day, or at night when they had fin ished them. Bees do not like to have their dwelling places molested. and usually try to sting the intruder.
 One day some friends were at the farmers house and as they wanted honey the farmer thought he would venture to take it out in the after room. He knew that some of the boxes were quite full. The hives stood few rods from the house, and on that side or the house were large doors lead ing into the cellar While the boxes were partly of glass, the bottom of each was made of little slats. so that the bees could go in and out as they liked.
 The farmer took out several boxes. carried them into the cellar, shut the cellar doors nearly together, and hur- ried away. He put the boxes into the cellar in order to allow any bees which might be in them to fly out and return to the hive. But, in his haste to avoid being stung, the farmer left the doors open too much, so that the cellar was quite light, whereas it should have been dark.
 The bees were so excited, and en- ragged that they flew in all directions. attacking everyone who came in their way. When suppertime came there were so many bees flying about the cellar doors that no one cared to 20 near them. Early the next morning the farmer looked out of the dining room window and observed that the air was still full of bees.
 At about ten o'clock he looked again and not bee could be seen. He went down and brought up the boxes. But. instead of being heavy with honey, as they were the Gay before when taken from the hive, they were almost as light as air. being filled only with empty combs. The bees had worked with will and had carried all the honey back to the hives.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
Practical
 Joke
By HAROLD CARTER
Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.

(Copyrlght, l9l6, by w. G. Chapman)
 Before Doctor Haynes had been six weeks in Bishopsville everybody was agreed that there had been some mys- tery in his life. Tongues wag in small communities. Doctor Haynes lived the life of recluse; and even the country people could see that his knowledge was that of practiced city operator.
 There was the case of Mary Par sons, the bankers younger child She was taken ill with appendicitis on a Sunday morning, in the small hours, and the nearest hospital was fifteen miles away The case was acute, a journey in the car to the railroad sta ton meant almost certainly death. Doctor Haynes operated in the bed room, by the light of an oil lamp, and week later Mary was sitting up in bed, playing with her dolls.
 q wonder what the mystery is, fa- ther?" asked Gladys, the bankers pretty twenty-year-old daughter.
 Tt might be more charitable not to wonder dear" answered her mother.
 Nevertheless the banker and his family liked Haynes. Mary adored
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
Water Used to Wreck Bridae.

In the wrecking of a Berlin bridge by water pressure. adopted to avoid concussion. a steel cylinder, fitted with cement at the other end, was inserted in holes about 30 inches deep bored into the piers. A one-inch pressure pipe connected the cylinder to a hy- draulic pump weighing only about 60 pounds. AS pressure was raised in the cylinder by the action of the pump the pistons were gradually forced out and the masonry blocks were split away, one by one. The process is de- scribed as rapid and almost noiseless, operating without risk to nearby build ings.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
LIVED HARD LIVES
WOMEN OF EARLY WEST EARNED
 THE BIG cRO2s.
Few of Their Descendants ReaIizS How Much the Wives of Early Ses- tiers Went Through When
 Country Was Building Up.

When a little frail instructor from the Kansas Agricultural college came to our town and was able to tell mo the reason why my bread had been souring all summer and how to pre- vent 1t, and l got it through my head that she knew what she was talking about, l woke up to a lot that I had missed, Elizabeth Sears writes in Har- per's Magazine.
 Our problems of trying to do the work of three with nothing to do it with has filled many a sanitarium The hospitals are crowded with us. And how full the cemeteries were of us in the old days-the price we paid for the big crops and the prosperity of the state! And Kansas is not the only state that is full of the unwritten records of the women who paid for the crops with their lives. They are still paying for the wheat.
 My mother died because she was too tired to try to make an effort to live any longer. Looking back on it now cannot remember ever seeing my mother sit with folded hands. They said little of their hard lives. these brave women who helped build up the plains. They accepted it uncomplain- lngly. When our country club met at our house last week, my aunt was there as guest. We have 30 members in our club. Ten of them drove their n oh modern houses With heat and water. We buy the latest thing in foot gear, which is the one sure sign of progress in a farm woman. One of the mem. bers was humorously relating the trials of having a frozen water pipe mended, and Aunt Kish told of the days when she had to carry water a quarter of a mile from creek. My aunt is a gay old lady, and all the weight of her seventy years has not smothered her resilient disposition. Her husband died after their third big wheat crop-drank himself to death celebrating it in Kansas City-and she had the first real time of her life ever since.
 When she came to Kansas in the early 'fifties, she drove a team herself from St. Louis, with a ten-month-old baby on the seat beside her. She and her husband took up claim 40 miles from the settlement. Wandering In. dlans were their only neighbors, and terrified her daily by their company When they had been here less than a year her husband returned to Illinois and remained three months. She was left alone to look after the crops shuck the corn, and take care of the place. While he was gone her third baby was born. Her only help was an Indian squaw, who had chanced in to beg loaf of bread and remained to help the young mother in her ex. tremity.
 We didn't think anything of It." said my aunt. We were too busy while it was happening to think about it. We went through lot those days; but, land of Goshen. we are making up for it now, with our fur naces, and our gasoline engines for the churns and washing machines, and our automobiles"
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
He Had Qualified.

A stranger in an Indiana village thought he might improve the time by attending service fin the local church. At the conclusion of lengthy talk, the minister announced that he should like to meet the board.
 The stranger, in company with sev- eral other persons, proceeded to walk to the front of the church. The pas tor, thinking there must be some mis- understanding, said to him:
 q believe, sir, you are mistaken. This is just to be a meeting of the board"
 Well" replied the visitor, q have listened to you talk for more than an hour and if anyone has been more bored than I have been I should like to know who 1t is. ."-Christian Herald.