The river press., 1888-02-08
LOCAL NOTES.


ed by sickness from attending to the
duties of his class is this morning feeling
much better.
The many friends of Major Ed. Dunno
will be pleased to learn that he is gradu
ally but surely improving and gaining
strength, and that the erysipelas has beer
entirely subdued
The following specimen of a school
boys composition was picked up on the
street some time ago. We know it was
written by boy; the closing sentence
proves it: School opened Monday al
9 o'clock a. m. Longfellow was the great
est of American poets. The first month
of summer is June. 0, how I wish ]
could go!"
Quite a number of the citizens from
the Shonkin and other points on the
south side of the river, we're in town TO-
day purchasing supplies and attending tc
other business matters. They left their
teams on the other side of the river, on
account Of the water running over the
ice, although they all agree that the ice
is still strong enough to bear loaded teams
AS stated in another column the string
ers, rails and cross ties in the Marias rail
road bridge were finally taken out by the
ice after the piles supporting them had
given way. Information comes this after
noon that the middle pier of the bridge,
which up to this time had stood the flood,
is nearly gone. When this goes-and it
seems about certain that it will give way
the Marias bridge will have entirely dis
appeared, and will have to be rebuilt en-
tire
From Mr.. John Ogle, of the lower Te-
ton, we ascertain the fact that among the
recent losses caused by the breaking up
of that stream are twelve telegraph poles
belonging to the Rocky Mountain line in
the immediate neighborhood of his house.
In some instances the insulators we're
broken from the wire and in others the
pegs upon which they we're fastened were
broken and the poles carried away. Luck
still above the ice and in working order.
He also lost five cords Of wood and new
set Of house logs with which he intended
to build an addition to his house.
The neighborhood of the Blackfoot
agency, and Birch creek, is we'll represent
ed to-day in our city, in the person of Mr..
Chas. Thomas, who is in after goods and
supplies; however, after reaching here, he
is under the impression, that he cannot
take very much back. From the effects
of the late chinook, he says, the streams
and sloughs are all full of water, and Pen
d'Orilla coulee, and Dry Fork, he had to
swim, and haul the wagon over with ropes.
Birch creek and Dupuyer are not yet
broken up, but quantity of water is run
ming over the ice. At Mr.. O'Herron's place
on the Teton he had to cut his way
through the gorged ice for quite dis
tance. Mr.. Ben Short, an old timer and
at one time wagon master for I. G. Baker
& Co., in the days Of the bull whacker, and
the mule skinner, is in a very critical con-
dition, confined at his home with infam-
itory reumatism, Of which his many
friends will be sorry to hear.
Mr.. Nose Solomon is in to-day from the
Marias and informs us that the bridge
across that stream is total wreck moth
ing remaining in the center of the stream.
Over the Teton, however, the iron and
orOcc +;oc oro ~, 4lo NJ Dnr
ing the breaking up of the Marias river
man employed by Mr.. Dawson, the boss
carpenter, attempted to cross on foot be-
fore the bridge went entirely OUT but the
timbers shook him off into the river be-
meath, and had it not been for great pres
ence of mind and a bold determination he
would have drowned He saved himself
by jumping from one large block of ice
to another, occasionally going under, IN
til he reached the Shore Mr.. Burke, the
roadmaster, coming from Fort Assinni-
boine on his bicycle, and not knowing the
condition of the bridge, also undertook to
cross, and was thrown from the bicycle
into the river, having very narrow es-
cape Mr. Solomon also tells us that he
was all ready to put in ice and that the
break in the river has assisted him very
much, having deposited sufficient guam
tity within easy reach Of his ice house
door. Nose says he thinks the river
would have aoated the ice IN and packed
it away for him if he had just thought to
have left the door open.
From Mondays Daily.
Dan Samples, prominent cattleman of
northern Montana, arrived at the st.
with his family yesterday
Butte Miner, January 81
The outfit of Mr.. Il. f. Morgan, of Du-
ouque, consisting of an s horse team and
three wagons loaded with merchandise