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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1901
Page
3
The article notes Gallus Ritter von Hock berger M D at Carlsbad is the world’s oldest qualified physician, aged 97. He has practiced 71 years and still offers medical advice, visiting only poor residents in remote town corners, and frequents the Carlsbad theatre daily.
A Philadelphia man reads five daily papers to study ads for patent medicines. He imagines diseases from symptoms described and immediately buys remedies. In two years he has consumed 772 bottles of various proprietary preparations.
Dr A J Austen Kelly of Brooklyn organizes a society to establish colonies for consumptives in Northern New York. About 5000 acres have been purchased in the Adirondack foothills to form several small farms each with a house. Patients will do light outdoor work when weather allows.
A Minneapolis widow spent months in a house chamber communing with her deceased husband’s spirit. A young physician advised her to turn from the dead and seek happiness with the living. The spirit chamber is dismantled and she is set for a living husband.
The Maori party in the New Zealand house, though with four native members, holds sway on Maori interests. Native agitation for home rule prompts a bill introduced in Wellington to address Maori lands, expected to pass after sympathetic debate and be enacted.
The piece notes how marking hundredth anniversaries keeps past events in memory. It cites Revolutionary celebrations from Concord to Yorktown, the Louisiana Purchase centenary, and states planning their own centennial adits to the Union with Tennessee already done and Ohio future. It envisions Honolulu’s future centennial of annexation.
A sea port representative argues Congress must pass the biennial River and Harbor bill to aid inland associates. He says harbor improvements reduce transportation costs, benefiting the port and the entire nation by lowering prices of exports and imports.
At a recent Ameri can Ornithologists union meeting the committee on bird protection reported progress from the past year. With lighthouse keepers, life saving station captains, and island owners cooperation, plum hunters were kept away from productive fields. Under the Lacey bill the society seized 2600 bird bodies from a Maryland dealer and pursued charges. The action prompted wholesale milliners in Baltimore to inspect and withdraw illegal stock. Notably many ladies at the meeting wore no hats trimmed with birds or feathers, showing adherence to the cause.
Holland the submarine boatman unveils a craft that can live underwater or sail as a normal steamer. He outlines a voyage from Bermuda to the Azores, Lisbon, and Cadiz, Spain, stating the risk is no greater than his first Holland boat dive.
Alpheus B Stickney president of the Chicago Great Western plans to marry May Crosby daughter of Judge Josiah Crosby of Dexter Maine. The couple, tied by a long ago romance, may wed in Boston with a winter residence in New York after the ceremony.
The estate of Dr. Musgrove of Grafton is tied up in a will contest after a death ruling. Mrs. Judge Sauter is named as beneficiary. her husband is executor. An anonymous letter claims Musgrove is alive, but no credence is given.
Montana arid land commission awards a $412000 contract to L D Beary of Telena to build a fifty mile irrigation canal reclaiming 33000 acres in northern Lewis and Clarke county with Helena as county seat. Bonds secure payment and work must finish within three years plus settlers to be placed on lands. Construction begins next May.
Ex Governor Boies reports a second cattle theft within two years from his Grundy county farm fifteen miles east of Eldora. A full drove of fine cattle was taken on January 1 with no clues to thieves or location. In a prior theft a car load was stolen and sale proceeds sent by draft to Chicago.
A fire at the Union Mill Company flouring mill in Waterloo destroyed one of two mills with 3,500 sacks of flour in stock. The loss stands at 60,000 dollars with 33,000 dollars insured. Built in 1868 and recently remodeled, the blaze is blamed on a basement dust explosion.
Jacob Mathiessen a well known Clinton Iowa businessman long afflicted with consumption toured the city several days before Christmas calling on members of the Uniform Rank Six Nights of Pythias to bid them farewell and invite attendance at his funeral which occurred as he predicted.
A telegraph report from Otter Montana says eleven masked men stampede 3000 sheep belonging to R R Selway in Custer county driving them over a precipice. The loss marks the largest owner in eastern Montana and signals ongoing range troubles with potential further violence expected.
French priests and laymen organize to press the Vatican to appoint Archbishop Ireland cardinal. They cite the American prelate's affection for France and argue that liberal, progressive churchmen are best for the church.
West Superior Wisconsin January 1 Chief Engineer George Cross of the Commander Flour Milling company was killed found near the engine with a broken leg and his arm torn away officials believe he was caught in the belt He was seventy four years old.
In Springfield Illinois on January 1 the secretary of state notified twenty five employees that their services would not be needed after January fifteenth.
A new threatening missive arrived after Cudahy offered 25 600 reward for the kidnapping of his son. The letter warns that a death by bullet will end attempts to force withdrawal of the reward. Gen. John S. Cowin confirms similarities to the ransom note.
Police in Peru Hawaii arrest a mysterious stranger believed to be Pat Crowe the Omaha kidnap suspect. He wore a wig as a disguise and had 2300 dollars on him. Omaha police have not yet confirmed the capture.
Indiana farmer George Boyden near Newburg killed himself by entering a cistern near his home. He was Mrs. Emily Boyden’s eighth husband and the third to die by suicide in the family. Two husbands died of natural causes, three by drowning, and three were divorced. All three who drowned used the same cistern.
London officials report the board of trade has awarded a gold watch and chain and a pair of binoculars to the master and second officer of the steamship Commonwealth. The awards honor their saving of the crew of the American schooner Leading Breeze after it sank off near Boston on October 17.
The mosquito fleet sailed from Hampton Roads yesterday bound for Manila. Light rain fell as the small vessels set out to reinforce the coast guard in the Philippines to prevent insurgents from smuggling war munitions.
Gustave Pecaut, one of the French voyageurs who left St. Louis in 1839 for a Missouri river expedition and who in 1848 located the present site of Sioux City, died in Sioux City Iowa at age seventy four. He died a wealthy man.
Rev. Anton L. Moline, 22, pastor of the Scan inavian Free Church of God in West Superior Wisconsin, collapsed and died during Sunday services. Heart failure cited as the cause.
Mrs Newton McCann of Wilkesboro North Carolina welcomed four newborns two girls and two boys on January 1 pairings follow an earlier set of three born eighteen months ago All seven children are reported well and thriving.
In Abbeville South Carolina January 1 Sheriff Kennedy and William Kyle of Massachusetts both die after a card game quarrel. John Dansby a former United States marshal shoots Kyle then engages in a standoff with officers and dies shortly after Sheriff Kennedy.
Chicago on New Year’s Eve the Red Cross holds a watch night gathering at the Coliseum as Nikola Tesla, the electrical inventor, is expected to outline and describe a sixteen month project he calls a breakthrough in science. He offers no specifics but says the invention will be among the century’s most startling.
Markets from St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Chicago Milwaukee Sioux City and South St Paul list grain prices including wheat corn oats and flax with multiple grades and cash prices. Live stock data cover cattle hogs sheep and lambs with ranges for beves cows feeders and calves and include regional price spread and bid ranges.
Mrs Cornelia Barth died from burns after rushing from her mother's home to rescue her one year old child left asleep in a cradle when a fire broke out in their home at St Croix English Indiana. The blaze was discovered after she reached her mother's house about 100 yards away.
Saug Center Minnesota January 1 report says Cracken men forced entry into the A M Madsen store building and rifled the safe taking about $100. No clues yet.
London dispatches report Gen. Dewet failed to break through the South Eastern front and is now near Senekal with a large commando. Gen. Knox blocks east of Ladybrand Winburg while Hertzog’s raiders are harassed toward the Orange River in a bid that likely ends in failure.
Reports from Sydney, N S W note narrow escapes of the Melville Island and Almora after fires aboard each ship. The Melville Island burned from Oct. 28 and crew fought flames for days. The Almora caught fire Aug. 9 and a heavy gale helped douse the blaze, saving the crew.
William H. Post, the alleged Ludlow Street jail escapee, died two months after the 1897 break and rests in Wooster cemetery Danbury Conn under a tombstone reading Charles Mason. A Danbury hospital death from a wagon fall in March 1897 matched Mason’s description.
Fortys-Five thousand dollars in old government bonds with coupons attached were found in a chest in a hut occupied by Hiermit Ypsilan t Smith who died recently. He lived near Fletcher in Miami county for fifty years and was said to be penniless. Pension vouchers valued at about twenty five thousand dollars were also found.
William Smith, quartermaster and pivot gunner on the USS Kearsarge during the duel with the CSS Alabama, was buried at North Attleboro after dying in Taunton insane asylum. Smith was famed for guiding the ship’s Water Line target to help sink the Alabama.
Anthracite coal firms agree to raise prices by 50 cents per ton on all sizes at Western points. The increase takes effect January 10 and covers shipments to western markets from New York.
Reno Nevada December 20 Lieutenant Gordon Freeman who served with the first Nevada cavalry in the Philippines committed suicide during a period of temporary mental aberration.
Marshalltown Iowa December 30. Engineer John Norton was killed in his cab while running a passenger train near Eldora. Skull fracture indicates blunt instrument used. There is little evidence or clue for investigators.
In Olympia Washington on December 30 the three Lavery children aged at most four years perished in a house fire that consumed the residence and its contents while the parents were momentarily away from home.
A condensed round up reports deaths of Peter Mousett in East Tawas Michigan and Judge Canfield in Chadron. Detectives and professionals die by apoplexy and accidents. Robbery in Akron yields 215 dollars and papers. A portrait of Chief Justice Marshall is discovered in Waukegan. A man killed after a shooting in Denver and a battle near Tatum Indiana leaves Gunn and Love dead. Trains run over a man near Otisco Indiana.
Abraham Becker man, a cigarmaker, killed himself at his boarding house after his uncle Julius M. Cohen, who had written a note that Becker man’s services were no longer needed. Becker man had wounded Cohen in the head before taking his own life.
Snowstorm set in late yesterday afternoon with plummeting temperatures. Telegraphic reports from Kansas Nebraska Iowa and northern Missouri show heavy snowfall. Winter wheat across these regions and the West needs this moisture and protection from freezing.
Richmond Indiana January first the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln mother of Abraham Lincoln becomes state property Gov Mount receives the deed for the ground near the grave in Spencer County on behalf of the Nancy Hanks Memorial association The parcel will be made a park with a custodian and improvements planned deed comes from Spencer county commissioners
In Scranton Pennsylvania on January 1 the week old street car strike ends as President Clark General Manager Silliman and Directors John and Timothy Burke meet with strikers. A compromise grants an advance of 2 cents an hour instead of the demanded 3 cents, sparking cheers.
Four men are dead and ten wounded in Clay county fights over two weeks. Two more Clay county men were killed and two wounded just outside the county line, totaling six killed and twelve wounded in the period. Hostilities rise and soldiers may be needed to quell the feudists.
Former Governor Drake is again quieting an old army wound in Centerville. Inflammation threatens ulceration and would prove serious. He turned seventy yesterday.
A devastating blaze swept West Lake Ontario on January 1 wiping out a major business block. Officials estimate losses around 125600 dollars with extensive damage to shops and buildings. Firefighters battled the flames through the night and no details on casualties were immediately available.
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