Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1881-10-21
ATribuns Correspondent Sends in = Re-
port in Advance Of the
Arrival.
Incidents Of tho Trip and the Unusually
Large Passenger List Personal
Mention.
An Attack by Indians at the Mouth af
the Musselsheu- "A Seasons
Record.
News From Up River:

News From Up River.
Editor Tribune:
STEAMER BENTON, one hundred milss
absvs Bismarck, October II, 18S1:-We
waived you kind adieu en.the 10th inst.
on an UP stream voyage and with hand
some cargo, as usual, madsa q successful
and speedy run to within fifteen miles Of
Little Muddy, where we met and ex-
changed trips with the steamer Butte,
Captain johnson on the ROOT. and are now
coming back to you-tha.daisy Benton
walking the waters like thing Of life,
with one of the most handsoms passenger
lists that have passed down the old Mud
dy ia many day agone.. A glance in
her tasty saloon reminds one Of some
beautiful flower garden filled with rare
exotics-all breathing forth fragrance and
loveliness rivaling even. the sweet scented
"sates of Araby' In word her cabin is
just ono boquet Of beauty Among eth
ers we note Miss Fannie Hopkins, An ac-
complished brunette of ST.. Lonis; a]se
Mrs. Edgar and daughter, Miss Anna Nc
Kinney, W. R. Prye, Paschat Carr, al of
of the same place, and all of whom, As one
party, came up ON the Red Cloud, and
have been doing the far west. Again
there are Daniel Samples and wife, T. j..
Meade, S. P. Cowan, B. W. Goodrich,
Gsorge Hopkins, D. F. Barry, Lieut..
QBrien, of the second cavalry, with = de-
tachment OF six men and five prisoners,
all en- route to Fort Smelling, where it
hath been ordered and decreed" that the
said prisoners, for the henious crime of
desertion, be confined for tho term OF
two years at hard laber. Again, We have
Martin Revels and Krlse, Rufus Payne
of Benton, who visits the states and the
land of his birth for the first time in
twenty seven years. A stranger, indeed,
he will be amid. ten thousand strangers.
He leads Rip Van Winkle by seven years.
Then there are E. Bougher, w. H. Muir
ply, E. E. Whitcomb; F. Nc.
Donough, F. H. Young, j.
P. Walker, J. G.. Martin,
P.J. Dewitt, Jno. Mondell, Col. D. G..
Gully, the cultivated trader from off the
Butte, bound fer Lcavenworth. Nor
must we fail to note Mr.. Florence Ma
honey, one Of the oldest landmarks along
the sturbld tide" who gsss to Kansas
soon to return to the land o. his adoption.
Robt @. Matthews is at Little Muddy
with 5000 bushels of the finest oats We
have seen. Pity tits that Dakota and
Montana have not tens of thousands of
lust such men as "Bob" Matthews. Have
met with two binding snow storms and
contended with winds of no ordinary
character In some respects found the
channel more clearly defined than on our
last trip, yet in many instances found the
water beth treaeherous and miserably de-
oeptive. What the future may have
rolled up in it's scroll for the dandy Ben
ion we are tonight, in ignorance Of Her
race for the season of 1891, is we'll gh
complete. The curtain must soon bs
rung down, leaving splendid record for
work we'll done, Of ser vices faithfully
performed. A record Of the fastest down
stream time between Benton and your
loveliest "village Of the plain" that has
ever been accomplished, as we'll az for the
largest and handsemsst passenger list and
carsoes of freight. She wears the horns
and floats tho "penant blue as the flag
ship of the line. Capt. John NJ Gilham
is her accomplished commander, with the
ever urbane Joe Kennedy in the Office,
the old veteran Milt Pickering and his
modest associate, Harry Dawson, who
handles the throttle, Charlie Dietz, the
generalisimo of the forecastle and Hugh
Lee, the attentive stewart, while the csle-
brated French Cook, Harry Skinner
skins the culinary department. At the
mouth of the Mussel.hell, a few days
since body Of "Cree" braves assaulted,
with intent to xiii, several "shacks"
Lieut.. Floyd is on the war path. and in
formation hath it, that the "Cress" are
Aeeing to the Canadian border, such are
the Nations Wards!