The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-26


The first now has knuckles all stiff and sore,
The other an optic quite too utterly utter.
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PURELY PERSONAL.
Mr.. ". G. Conrad is on the sick list.
Mr.. w. w. Parrott, of Old Agency, Is
in the city.
Fl. s. Caldwell, of Big Spring Greek, is
at the Choteau House.
Harry Brown has accepted the position
of cashier at Kleinschmidt & Bro.
Mr.. George B. Fisk, secretary of the
Mining and Smelling Company at Barker, is
in the city.
W. s. Wetzel and family arrived at Bis
marck on the 18th and are now en- route
home up the river.
Mr.. j. P. McCabe can now be found be-
hind the bar at Miller & Douglass new
saloon in Bakers block.
Geo. Rowe arrived from Fort Macleod
this week and leaves to-day for that point
with a load of supplies.
Mr.. Geo. Baker, of st. Louis, formerly
a well known business man Of this place, is
on his way to Benton up the river.
VIM. Rowe and j. NJ. Powers, the latter
the new superintendent Of the Helena and
Benton line, are expected in Benton this
evening by private conveyance.
Capt. Jack Killaly, Of Hughes City,
came in from that camp Saturday. lie has
purchased a large invoice Of goods from our
merchants, and thinks Barker will be a lively
camp in a few weeks.
w. B. Edgar, wool grower of the Judith,
starts this week to Fort Benton to meet his
family. who have spent the winter in St
Louis, and are passengers on the steamer
Decentralization.
Ike Kingsbury was in town this week.
Mr.. K. is closing out his business interests in
Montana with the view of taking the person
al management of his extensive stock enter
Prise in Texas. We will be sorry to lose
you, Isaac.
-Messrs. A. and IL. W. Spencer, mer-
chants at White Sulphur Springs, have beer
ia Benton a few days the past week, and to-
dav started out a train load OF supplies.
They report business fourishing at the
Springs.
Mr.. FL. D. Rosencrans, Benton pioneer
saddler, was married at Waverly, Iowa, or
17th inst to Miss jenkins and is now en- route
..t - -. - <L:c osfx Tho Rvuro pDEcs
extends its warmest congratulations and bes
wishes for their future happiness.
Major NJ. T. Hurd and Capt. Hudson, il
command Of a Canadian Pacific survey party
are in the city and upon the arrival OF tn
Josephine. having on board IS members o
? the party, they will start for Fort Calgarr,
] to complete the work in the Bow river pass.
We acknowledge the receipt of a neatl.
: printed invitation to the marriage OF Mr.. L
: q. Rosencrans of this city and Miss MARCEL
L. jenkins, at Waverly, Iowa, on the lit
]: inst. But the ssbid'' came to hand a little to-
y late, and besides the walking across the plain
\ is not first rate-otherwise we might hav
e graced the occasion with our presence.
0 MIR. A. J. Davidson, Of Helena, returne
s from the East on Friday and will pay a Wis
J, to Benton as soon as he gets crested up
a from the effects Of his trip. The sleeplD
car on the u. & n, in which he was riding o
the night of the 18th was thrown from th
! track by a broken rail, near Franklin, an
turned over, but fortunately no one WE
seriously hurt, although the twenty-one pa
sengers were pretty well shaken up.
d Instructions have just been receive
from the Post Office Department to the e
feet that Congress has just established a ma
t. line between White Sulphur Springs an
Centreville via Unity, Cooks pass anel Dee
creek. The route is to be advertised as SOC
. as the necessary information respecting
4 reaches the Department. This promises
be one of the most important lines in tt
county in the near future, as it will be II
4 nearest point to the Northern Pacific troI
n the STANDARDIZATION.
Over the Grade.