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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1925
Page
2
The midsummer series of stock will be open June 1 with a total issue limited to 100 shares. All subscriptions must be in by June 20. K. L. Lewis, Secretary.
Charles Mayer recounts a perilous capture by fifty men using eight tame elephants. After surrounding a herd of twelve adults and five young including a suckling, the old bull charged. The tame elephants restrained him by tree-bound ropes as drivers secured the rest, yielding three males, nine females, a baby, and two juveniles with a four-foot tusked prize bull.
Prince Talleyrand Perigord hosted Emperor Alexander I at a dinner and, with chef Anacreon, devised a new snail dish based on a Vienna delicacy. The creation instantly delighted guests and remains a French favorite.
An ex consul describes Orient dwellings elevated on posts to deter tigers. Homes rise five to seven feet, sometimes twenty feet for safety in tiger districts. Structures are frail bamboo and palm leaf huts, easy prey for leaping tigers. A case recalls a family slaughtered while one man escaped atop the roof.
Norwegian-born Mr. Rapstad rose from farm labor to sheepherder to ranch owner in Sweet Grass and eastern Montana. He faced bankruptcy and the 1892 panic, yet repaid debts, built a 13,000-sheep operation, and established a prosperous ranch home with wife Mrs. Rapstad and three children. A staunch Republican, he openly supported McKinley before the latest election.
Eighteen years ago Nellie Lamb assists in Richard's drug store while Melville residents visit. A Fourth of July band is engaged. ranch sales, cattle shipments, new church lots, school staff changes, Pythian Sisters officers, and a town council bid for a gravity water system dominate local notes.
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