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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1902
Page
8
An old Nuremberg tower houses a room with medieval torture devices. Exhibits include bar helmets and ape wheel with spikes. The rolling plank punished offenders by dragging a spike wheel across the back, sometimes causing death before removal.
The piece traces the old custom of votive yema pictures at Japanese temples. Originally offerings of sake and rice honored departed warriors and white horses, later expanded when spirits were believed to roam graves. Wealthy shrines kept a horse image, while poorer ones used pictures. The term yema then broadened beyond its religious meaning.
M. Guignet of Versailles recounts a Nature letter describing a hedgehog and a viper clash. The viper attempts to flee but is cornered when the hedgehog bites its tail and curls. The snake attacks, sustains many wounds, and dies as the hedge hog begins feeding on the tail while avoiding the head.
A square yellow box contained a two ounce lump of black wax described as a Chinese medicine made from monkeys' toe nails boiled and buried. It was reportedly stolen from a native apothecary on Nanking Road. Monkeys' toe nails are said to be a common remedy for stomach troubles.
An odd Turkish superstition states that discovering bread on the ground requires picking it up kissing it and carrying it to a hole to insert it. Stepping on or leaving bread is a grave sin punished by the third bell with eternal goring by a single horned ox.
A humorous exchange vents about a baby teething keeping Benedict awake. The Bachelor jokes about taking the knife away from the child while Benedict explains nightly fussiness with the baby teeth.
In a Philadelphia Press item Miss Koy thanks Mr. Crabbe for an offered seat. He replies men grow tired of being accused of not giving up seats except to pretty girls, reflecting social humor about courtesy on streetcars.
Four head stolen from a pasture described as a sorrel mare, black colt, mare with foal, two buckskin horses and mares with varying weights and markings. Rewards totaling 350 offered for recovery, arrest, and conviction, with branding details for horses cattle and sheep. Names Batrry Bros and G R Witson listed, location Big Timber Montana. Public notice warnings against buying branded stock and intent to reward informants.
The St. Louis Special through train of the Northern Pacific and Burlington changes schedule on May 4. Connections to the East and South improve with morning departures from St. Louis and Chicago. The Portland departure is 8 25 a m with other city times listed and the train now offers multiple sleepers dining chair and baggage cars Portland to Kansas City without change and Portland to St Louis, continuing as the Northwest to Southeast through service.
Travel offer to Providence with round trip via Nickel Platte Road dated July 7 8 9 with return by August 15. Three daily trains with first class modern equipment dining car meals reasonable. Purchases through John Y Calahah Chicago.
41 000 Panhandle high grade Durham and Hereford bred cattle delivered at Big Timber for sale cheap. Cows with calves 835 dry cows and heifers 825 yearling steers 821 two year old steers 26.50 three year old steers 830 W. W. Beastey.
500 head of 2-year-old steers, good breed, 300 head of 2-year-old she stock. Call or write T. A. Gillespie for details.
United States Land Office Bozeman Mont June 24 Notice given that settler Lee Smoot will offer final proof for Homestead Entry 42 Lot 8 Sec 3 and Sec 32 Tp18 NHE at Big Timber Mont August 1 102. Witnesses James Andrews W F McLeod Jirvey Clouse Peter Michels all of Big Timber or McLeod Montana to prove residence and cultivation of the claimed land.
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