The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-07-31
CITY AND STATE.
Prem Saturdays Daily.

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Born on Friday. July 26, to the wife
Of Gus Simmons, of Kelly's Flat. a
son.
J. L. Peacock, the Canadian horse
buyer, Is in this city today on bust
ness. 1t is understood that Mr.. Pea
cock has decided to make New York
HE future home, and will shortly leave
for that place.
Geo. Hunsberger, the 10-year old
son Of John Hunsberger, of Browning,
and Joseph Zsnda, q sheep shearer,
who has been working in this vicinity
for some time past, have been ad-
mitted to the Sanitarium for medical
treatment.
G. w. Morrow, townsite agent OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound railway, has announced the
purchase from b. o. Lying of 160 acres
OF land on HiRhwood creek, TO be used
for townsite purposes. The purchase
price has not been made public.
Word has been received here Of the
escape Of a Blaine county prisoner
from the train while being taken to
the p%enitentiary q couple OF days ago.
It appears that Sheriff l Neibauer,
who was taking Joe Duffy. q con-
victed burglar, to Deer Lodge, fell
asleep for q few moments just as the
train pulled into Wolf Greek. The
the train stopped for q minute and
the sheriff, who had been up all the
night before, was awakened. He die
covered that his prisoner had walked
from the train. He Immediate ely tele-
grsphed descriptions of the man to
the police of various cities of the state
but as yet the fugitive has not been
captured.
A Milwaukee dispatch of recent d ate
gives the following account of the
travels of q party who, about q year
ago, built q h%ouseboat in this city,
and left via the Missouri river route
for the east:Capt. Geo. Smith, 80, and
L. w. Smith, his brother, are visiting
Aid. Henry Smith, q third brother,
and renewing old acquaintances, after
jo%urneying 1900 miles by h%ouseboat
form Fort Benton, Mont, to get back
to the city they left 30 years ago.
With q little fat bottom motor.pro.
PEELED house scrow, the aged men
travelled from Fort Benton down the
Missouri river; then into the Missis.
sippi and Illinois, and via the Chicago
drainage canal into Lake Michigan.
The trip consumed little less than one
year."
A we'll attended meeting of those in.
terested in the holding of q county
fair was held at the council rooms las,
evening, and was organized by the
election of w. K. Harder, chairman,
and H. F. Miller, secretary. 1t was
the sense of the meeting that a fair
should be held this fall. and it was
decided that an exhibition should be
held at the Baker opera house on the
l3 and IA of September. A committee
composed of D. G. Lockwood, Jere
Sullivan and j. Lee Sedgwick was
appointed to look into the natter and
ascertain the probable cost of holding
the fair and to get up a program fol
the occasion. The committee was in
structed to interview the county com
missioners in regard to an appor
t!onment in aid of the project, auc
also to call upon the citizens generally
for financial help. The meeting wal
adjourned to August 7, at which time
the committee will report progress.
From Mondays Daily.
Mrs. Austin Lynch, of Highwood, il
under treatment at St. Glare hospital
Miss Isabelle Morrow left yesterds.
on q visit with relatives at Neihart
Mont.
Henry G. Rofeldt, of Lloyd, i:
among the the business visitors IL
town.
F. W. Simero, of West Butte, ar
rived yesterday on q business visi
of q few days.
Born, at the St. Glare hospital, Il
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Schwandts, o
Lonetree, q daughter.
A. S. Lohman, the we'll know
Chinook stockman, il with visiting
Fort Benton friends.
Miss Lillian Sherman, of this cit,
and Mrs. Matt Ness, of Chester, wer
received at the Sanitarium today TO
medical tire atment.
The little son of L. j. George, o
this city, died this morning unde
pathetic circumstances. The little fel
low was in good health yesterda,
when be went out with q fishing party
but during the trip he is supposed Il
have eaten some poison berries. Tn