The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-08-03
PURELY PERSONAL.

Mr.. A. P. Reed, with Cans s. Klein
leaves for Helena tomorrow.
-Messrs. McCord and Young of High.
wood left for home this morning.
-~sTappy's" right name is Charles Inger:
soil. T. Z. Cole is his show name.
Sanford Moore, one of the wealthy stock
men of The Musselshell, is in Benton.
Mr.. a. Nathan, Of Hirsberg s. Nathan,
is en- route home and is expected on the
Rosebud.
JEFF Gildart, Of Dearborn, is in the city.
He brought in his wool clip and has disposed
Of the same.
Mr.. James Rowe, of Missouri Valley, is
about through cutting his oats and will have
a splendid crop.
We had the pleasure, yesterday, Of shak-
ing hands with our old friend, Wesley Cur
mutt, Of the White Sulphur Springs.
Hon. FL. A. Kennealy arrived from the
Teton this morning, and reports the grain
along the Teton valley almost ready for the
reaper.
Il. T. Marshall left for the Judith coun-
try yesterday with the view Of establishing a
trading post at Big Spring creek, near the
Judith mines.
MIR. John Glass left quite a number of
handsome specimens of ore from the Sage
Creek mines at the RIvERPREss office to-day.
They are hard to beat.
MIR. M. A. Flanagan, our worthy z. M.,
returned yesterday from a long visit to the
States, looking as smiling as ever. Mr.. F.
was accompanied by his niece, Miss MCCALL
LAM .-.--,
IN. M. Erickson, of Fort Benton. has
taken up q permanent residence here. He
will represent t. G.. Power in the firm of
Spencer 6 Co., taking the position of book
keeper and dry goods clerk in the new store.
-Husbandman.
IN. NJ. Singleton, with Auerbach, Finch
& Van Slyck, wholesale dry goods mer-
chants, St. Paul, is in the city calling on his
customers. MIR. Singleton is one of the most
popular and genial drummers that visit Ben
ton and always makes heavy sales.
Al. Stephens, of Stephens Bros, pro-
prietors of the hotel and trading post at Ju-
dith Gap, has been in town the past few days
purchasing goods for the fall trade. Al. is
one of the solid men Of the Judith country,
and deseryedly popular in that section,
Miss Hussey, of Helena, writes that she
will be in Benton on the Oath inst, and on
the evening of that day will give an enter
tainment at the school house. It will nc
doubt be q rare literary treat and every body
should prepare to be present and enjoy it.
Mr.. M. A. Meyendorff, of the Helena
Assay office, has returned from hot, swelter-
ing St. Louis and is happy to get back to his
mountain home again. Mr.. NJ. will now re-
main permanently at the Helena office and
his many Montana friends will be glad to
hear it.
We acknowledge a pleasant call from
our good friend, John Potter, Of the White
Sulphur Springs. John has been East during
the winter, visiting old friends in Illinois and
other parts Of america, and from his looks
we would judge that he has been well taken
care of.
R. $. Price is the happiest man in Ben
ton which is accounted for by the fact that
Mrs. Price, after q pleasant visit to the states.
on Saturday, having been a passen-
ger on the Dacotah and Josephine up the
r. s. had his handsome residence re-
fitted and furnished in fine style to receive
her.
j. H. Severance, one Of the prominent
wool growers of the Musselshell, was in the
city several days during the past week. He
in the seasons clip, and has ar
to ship it east without the aid of a
T. E. Collins, Esq, of this
city, is in partnership with Mr.. s. in the sheep
business.
Major Edwards, just in from the Barker,
says the fire is still raging at the mines and
hat it has done great damage to the timber
that section. The men have been fighting
brayely to protect their property and were
compelled to dig q wide trench about the
to save it. One or two houses were de-
but, apart from the destruction of
no great damage has been done.
Mr.. J. D. WeatherWax returned on Sun
from a trip down through the Judith
He reports that that region is set
ling up rapidly and is Of the opinion that be-