Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-03-11
Interesting Sketch of Old Times on
the Missouri River When Steam
boating Was Good.
List Of the Old Captains Showing How
the Years Have Drifted Them
Apart.
Some "reminiscences of Old Times as
Compiled from Records of
the River.

udyS Wueu Cue nuQQy MISSOURI river
was highway of commerce were de-
clared emphatically of the past by the
fifty sixth congress in the scaling down
OF tne appropriations for its improve
ments and the protection of it's banks.
But there is much to be said, notwith-
standing, of the days when the hoarse
below of the whistle set river towns like
Sioux City, which was one of the main
shipping and reshipping points. all buzz
ing with interest and lined the wharves
with throngs that included almost every
one in the place.
For the first time the records of the
masters who commanded the river boats
and the names of the boats themselves,
the present whereabouts or fate of the
masters and the names of the boats
which were wrecked in the river, have
been compiled by Captain Chittenden,
IN charge of government work on
the rivera valuable and interest
ing fragment of the history of the great,
rude northwest. The former captains of
boats are scattered, as this list shows:
Grant Marsh, in st. Louis.
W. r. Massic, in St. Louis.
John Massie, in St. Louis.
John La Barge, died at the wheel of
the Helena at St, Louis.
Joseph La Barge, died at st. Louis.
Joseph Feete, at Carondelet, below St.
Louis.
Joseph Todd, on the Ohio river, build
ing boats for Alaska.
S. B. Coulson, died at Yankton.
Mart Coulson, died in Sioux City.
Henry King, now at Chamberlain.
B. +. Horn, died at Pierre.
Nelson Todd, died at Sioux City.
Frank Maratta, on the Ohio river.
D. N. Maratta, on the Ohio river. He
was consul at an Austrian port under
Cleveland.
John G. Barr, at Tacoma, with Alex
Mckenzie in Alaska last year.
John Williams, died at st. Louis.
Ed Anderson, lives at Sioux City.
Andrew johnson, died at Bismarck.
William Simms, in the Klondike.
William Perkins, ON the Ohio river.
David Campbell of South Sioux City,
Neb.
B. F. Temple lives in Sioux City and
is master of the steamer John r. Nc
Pherson.
Joe Leach at Running Water; state
senator in South Dakota.
John NJ. Belk, at Bismarck.
G. w. Blunt, at Bismarck.
T. D. Mariner, at Bismarck.
Richard Voolfolk, died at Bismarck.
Charles Voolfolk, went to Yellowstone
river several years ago; whereabouts un-
known.
Tom Townsend, in St. Louis.
John Justice, in Leavenworth. Kan.
A. F. Hawley, died in Chicago.
William Braithwaite, in Maryland.
Dick Talbot, on the Yukon river.
James McGary, died at Bismarck.
Bob Mason, died in St. Louis.
James Clark, went to Seattle
Charles Bagley, Sioux City.
John Gillian, on Yukon river.
Albert Kuntz, Pittsburg man.
Andrew Healy, New Haven, Conn.
Sioux City was an important river
town and the river was very important
to the town. Among the steamboats,
which piled from st. Louis to Sioux City
or from Sioux City to Fort Benton, on
the headwaters of the river, or from st.
Louis to Fort Benton, we're the follow
ing: = q, @ z$ r.. 80 :, "t
Lady, Grace, Dakota, Last Chance,
Rosebud, Josephine, Emily, General
Terry, Benton No. 2, General Sherman
Black Hills, Zephyr, Eclipse, Scully, Lit,
tie Missouri, G. &c. Peck, Fontaneille, E.
III. Dutfee, Mollie Moore, General Ruck-
er, North Carolina, Sioux City, Fanny
Barker, Key West, Bertha, Deer Lodge,
Western, Admiral Farragut, Hiram
Wood, Miner, Peter Baken. Big Horn
No ], Nile, Flirt, General Thompkins
Yellowstone, Castella, Don Cameron
Jennie Brown. Nellie Peck, Northern
Pacific, Niobrara, Silver Lake, Far West
Montana, N yoming, Big Horn No. 3
Bachelor, Guyton, Helena. Lacon, Taco
ma, Aurelia Poe, Ida Reese, General
Meade, Benton No. 1, General Custer,
Ida, Antelope, Silver Bow. Urida, ST
Luke, Andrew Ackley, Only Chance.
One of tho first steam boat companies