Great Falls tribune., 1889-09-25
SPRAY OF THE FALLS,


Mr.. T. N. Olsen of Sand CouIee was in
town today.
VIM. g. Allin and j. j. Allln are in
from st. Clair.
r. D. Beckon received large lot of
new goods this morning. T..
Mr.. Hopkins Of Neihart, returned
home on the coach this morning.
Joe Conrad is preparing to heat his
large dry goods house with a new fur
mace
A. Nathan has the most complete line
OF clothing and gents furnishings in
Great Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. r. Hooker of Mans
field, Ohio, are in the city visiting their
son, Ed. Hooker.
A. Hodson and G. Fl. Austin are in
from St. Clair. They ship two trains of
cattle to Chicago today. ,#
The hardy knights of the branding
iron and lasso are in town in full force
today from the Deep creek roundup.
Mr.. Kirkendall, the Helena railroad
contractor arrived by the afternoon train.
Several other contractors arrived also.
Us. Hopkins and wife represent truly
in town today. He is making big prep
arations for the grand ball Tuesday
night.
j. w. Clark and g. A. Martin returned
yesterday from n successful campaign
trip on Deep creek. Clark will carry
this precinct.
Miss Berg leaves tomorrow for Helena
to resume her studies at the Helena
Business College. She is taking short
hand and business course at that institu-
tion.
Several sub-contractors are in town to-
day to make arrangements with Foley
Bros. & Guthrie to go to work on the
Neihart branch.
G. III. Austin went east yesterday in
charge of the 75O fat cattle shipped by
the Chestnut roundup. This roundup
will ship about 1000 additional cattle on
October 2.
A large number of Joe Taylor's friends
gave him pleasant surprise last night.
Early IN the evening they assembled at
away the flying hours.
The democratic county candidates are
| working like beavers for the whole ticket.
During the coming week the townspeople
will see more of them. They are all
worthy of our support and will receive it.
| It affords the TRIBUNE much pleasure
to announce that work has been begun
on the new Baptist church, which will do
credit to that denomination and the entire
city The site is at Second avenue north
and 9th street. Mr.. Muzzey will super
intend the building and Mr.. Lawler will
do the work.
Among the guests Of the Milwaukee
house are Gibson, Deep creek; J J Da-
Wis, Billings; H p Wheat, Putney, Vt; G
II Gorham, Alstead, N H; B ? Perkins,
Cascade; r R McLauri, Sand Coulee;
VIM Henry, Belt creek; A G Harmon,
Seiferd, VIM Seiferd, Belt; r H Dodds.
Fargo, N ID; Ed Warning, Halbert; J r.
Mcdonald, @ H sieben, F N Boston, Mrs
Crawford, st Clair.
Nathan Gibson il in town. He has
come in from his ranch on Smith river,
near Truly. Mr.. Gibson has had an in
teresting and eventfnl career. He crossed
the plains from Indiana to California in
1840 and after sharing in the excitement
and money making spirit OF the time he
returned east He subsequently engaged
in rreighting at Denver, which was then
small place. In 1868 Mr.. Gibson came
ut the head of a cattle train to Montana
with supplies for Virginia City. He en-
countered for many years all the perils
Of reighting to Benton and other long
trails. Finally he settled on Smith river,
where he has a fine ranch. Mr. Gibson
was soldier in the Mexican war. He
took part in the memorable advance on
Monterey and was present at the battle
of Buena Vista. He remembers well old
Zach Taylor and can relate entertaining
" many incidents of the campaign IN
Which GRAFT, Davis, Bragg and others
who afterward became noted took an
active part. 1t was Mr. Gibson who gave
the .salarm" at Matamoras which caused
such commoton, He did so in accord
ance with orders from headquarters,
where the commander wished to test the
ability of the men to defend the city on
short notice. Gen. Lew Wallace, Colonel
Drake and Lieut.. Col. II. $. Lane were IN
Matamoras at the time. He speaks ad-
miringly of Gen. Lawrence rs II praVe'
gallant officer.