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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-11

cazar stock companies in San Fran
cisco Belasco & Mayer got their pro-
duction on the stage before Manager
Bishop was quite aware of their in
tentions, After the Alcazar presenta-
ton of the piece had made a success,
tho Majestic company tried their hand
with "Old Heidelberg" and also scored
success, 80 that even IL the Belasco
organization gives the first performance
of 1.-THE Little Princess Manager
Morosco may give his patrons a chance
to see charming Blanche Hall in the
part for which she is so eminently
suited,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-11
The Weeks Bills

g, Mason : Beginning Thursday. 1.-THE
Belasco-"Little Princess"
Burbank-'Man From Mexico"
Observation-Disclosures.
Grand-"Princess of Patches"
Venice-Ellery band.
Novelty-"The Mysterious Mr.. Raffies."
Hotchkiss-"rhe FOUNDERS"
chutes9 band. Outdoor at
fractions.
TF 1.-THE Strength of the Weak" is
liked at the Mason theater here
and at the Columbia theater, San
Francisco, Miss Florence Roberts and
company will HE them to New York.
If we don't like the play-well, the
chances are that the verdict OF the
metropolis will not be sought.
We are assured that the New York
production of this new play depends
thus largely upon its reception here.
AS for the play itself, the press agent
says it is strongly dramatic, with
consistent denouement, and tells an
absorbing story of modern construction
with scenes laid in and around New
York city, and with very vital heart
interest. The principal character in the
play, interpreted by Miss Roberts, is
young orphan whose education has
been provided by an INSCRIPTIONS
guardian In love with his ward. On
the day OF her graduation from a
woman's college she publishes a book,
anonymously, supposed to reflect cer-
tain phases of her life and her rela-
tons with her guardian. This meta
phor in the abstract conveys to the
man of her Anal choice the truth about
herself. and that material comprises
the beginning of the theme embodied
in the play
AS for the star. her reputation as an
emotional actress In 'Zaza," Tess"
"Magda," "Giaconda" and other emo
tonal roles is familiar to theater-
g0ers. She is supported by Max Fig
man, for many years Mrs. Fiske's
stage director and a company of
capable players.
The press agent says: "Now 1t is
up 10 Los Angeles"
Miss Roberts manager, John Cort,
has already perfected the preliminary
arrangements whereby his star can
make her metropolitan debut at the
!, hudson theater, New York, on Easter
MONDAY We are quite willing TO like
A Miss Roberts and her play If they give
as reason for the liklng-and if we do
like them, we shall not hesitate to give
them a cordial letter of Introduction
TO New York.
SO that. really, after all. it is up to
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-11

1.-THE Strength of the Weak" and Miss
Roberts.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03

Here they secured guide and con-
tinued their course to the Missouri,
of which Larpenteur says:
1.-THE weather was fine and we trav-
eled we'll till our cattle began to get
tenderfooted, when we had to go slow.
When we reached the Souris Tor
Moose) river they got SO lame that
we had to shoe them with the iron
hands taken from our boxes.
When we arrived at little river
called the Elk 'Head-the Fete la
Biche, or South Antler of the French
Smith and Boiler left us with their
four wagons for Fort Berthold."
Larpenteur and Lemon continued
on their course, crossed the Missouri
Coteaus west to the present town of
Minot, to the mouth of Poplar river.
where they built their trading post
situated near the present Indian
agency school building on the Great
Northern railroad.
In 1862 the American Fur company
obtained possession of Fort Atkinson,
(where Boiler served), transferring
to it the name OF Berthold, the site of
old Fort Berthold being cut away by
the Missouri. They abandoned the
old stockade which was famed by the
Sioux Indians December "a, 1862
memorable Christmas eve in the an
nails of Fort Berthold, so wildly told
by Joseph Taylor in his Frontier
Life" @
Fort Berthold was first occupied as
military post in 1864, when Gen.
Sully assigned company Of the 18th
Iowa cavalry to duty there under the
command of Captain A. B. Moreland.
This company was relieved in the
spring of 1865 by company of ex-
confederate prisoners under the COM
mand Of Captain B. r. Dimon.
Fort Stevenson was established as
military post in 1S67-about twenty
miles below Berthold-and was aban-
Goned in the summer of 1888. being
turned into an Indian school the fol-
lowing December.
Nothing now remained Of old Forts
Berthold and Stevenson. The Indian
agency at Elbowoods is about as far
above the site of old Fort Berthold as
Stevenson was below it.
Both posts were historic landmarks
in the development of the lands of
the Mandans. although unknown to
many persons of the present genera
ton.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03

English like native and she comes
every year to London as plain Mrs.
John Brown to put up at a nice, ex-
elusive little hotel an dshop. She and
one companion, an English woman,
stroll about the streets looking in
windows and picking up bargains in
a way that would not be tolerated in a
Princess in Italy.
The cold, foggy are of an English
winter braces her up for the more re-
taxing climate of Italy and her sister,
the Queen of Portugal. strays into Lon
don for almost the same purpose.
Itwas an American woman who saw
them together one day on top of an
omnibus that logged along Bayswater
road. One was dressed plainly in
brown, the other in blue, and their
cheeks were like roses. but the Amer
lean woman had seen them both at
great public functions and sat agape
with surprise.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03

pied posts on the Assiniboine and Red
river of the North.
In 1921 the Columbia Fur company
was organized, with Joseph Renville
Kenneth Mckenzie and William Laid
law as active members, all of whom
were fur traders from the British
Northwest Fur company, whose far
Their operations in the territory of
the United States was prohibited by
act OF congress passed in 1916.
The legal title of the new fur COM
pany was known as Triton & Company,
with their principal trading house at
Fort Tecumseh - Laidlay's trading
post-near Pierre, S. ID.
A small trading post was built for
the Columbia Fur company in bend
of the Missouri near the Mandan vii
lagos, by James Kipp, in 1922, which
was named Fort Tilton.
Here, near this old trading post,
party of fur traders were attacked by
{. band of Arickaras in the summer of
1923, all Of whom were murdered ex-
cept John Glasse who reached Fort
Tilton in safety, assisted by friendly
Mandans.
The American ind Columbia fur
companies were in active competition
in the Indian trade until a union was
formed in July, 1927, the property and
trading houses reverting to the Ameri-
can Fur company.
In 1881, James Kipp built Fort
Clarke for the American Fur company,
en- the west bank of the Missouri,
above a wooden bend near the Man
dan villages. 1t was located three
quarters of mile below and on the
opposite bank of the river from old
Fort Mandan, built by Lewis and
s. Clarke in 1905. This post became an
important trading house in the upper
Missouri country, second only to Fort
Union at the mouth of the Yellow
stone. Here Catlin spent month
during the summer of 1882, painting
and writing his Indian stories.
During the year 1888, smallpox was
carried to the Mandan villages by an
American Fur company steamboat
and within a few weeks but thirty
eight of that once powerful tribe
were left alive. From that time and
for many years thereafter. they ceased
to be known as an independent tribe,
the remnant joining with the eros
Ventres, and moving with them to
their new location farther up the Mis-
souri,. to where Fort Berthold, was
subsequently built. This old Ameri-
can Fur company post was located
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03

one performance by the Grand Opera
company, it is really fortunate that
Faust" has been the selection for the
reason that it will give an opportunity
to hear the great robust tenor, Francis
Maclennan, whose finest role is that
of the handsome Faust. Mr.. Maclen-
nan has become celebrated for his
golden top notes, and is one of few
tenors not only in this country who
can properly render the famous "Salve
di Mora" number in the Garden scene.
Other artists to be heard in the
Grand Forks performance include sew
eral thrilling voices, making one CT
the best casts Mr.. Savage has to offer
in any opera. For the role of Mar
guerite there is Florence Easton, the
brilliant coloratura soprano recently
from Covent Garden, Gertrdue Kenny
son the sweet-voiced dramatic soprano,
and Martha Miner, who recently ar
rived from Paris. For the contralto
role of Siebel, one of Schumann-
Heink's favorite parts in grand opera
because of the splendid opportunity n
the "Flower Song" there will be
chance to hear either the handsome
and magnetic mezzo-soprano Claude
Albright, who sang Kundry in last
seasons "Parsifal" COMPANY, or the
stately Margaret Crawford, who re-
Gently returned from Germany, or else
the deep-throated contralto Elsavan
der WORT, another artist from the
"Parsifal" company.
For the superb role of Mephisto Mr..
Savage has two distinguished bassos IN
Mr.. Ottley Cranston, who was brought
from London for the "Parsifal" COM
pany last season, and Mr.. Harrison
Bennett, the Boston basso who return
ed last year after four years singing
in Italy.
For the handsome Valentine, the SOL
der brother of Marguerite, either Ar
thur Deane, another Covent Garden
artist, or Mr.. Winfred Golf, the Ameri-
can baritone, will be heard. The part
of Dame Martha, the comical chape-
rome of Marguerite, will probably be
sung by Miss Helen Petre, another
member of last years "Parsifal" COM
pany.
To further enhance the beauty Of
the Grand Forks performance Mr.. Saw
age will bring his entire orchestra Of
symphony musicians, numbering near
ly fifty soloists and players, and these
will be under the authoritive direction
of the Chevalier Emanuel, probably the
best equipped conductor that has come
to America in the decade.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03

Pope himself could stroll along Regent
street without ever having head turn
ed. The result is that IN winter the
streets of this crowded yet orderly
city hold many personages who wear
crowns and coronets and high titles
when they are at home.
In winter they flock to London be-
cause then the British royal family
and most of the fashionable folk are
away from town, but the streets are
full of life, the shops full of desirable
things for purchase and the theaters
full Of excellent plays.
Sometimes Scotland Yard Is inform
ed and keeps an eye on the royal Wis
itor who is in disguise, but it only
keeps an eye out, it does not tell the
newspapers of It's knowledge. For in
stance, when Emperor William is 60
ing to drop over to London for few
days incognito his whereabouts are re-
yealed to Scotland Yard, which, how
ever, takes precautions that in no
wise interfere with the absolute free
dom of certain Herr Blank who
poses at a small hotel as a German
councillor sojouring in the British cap
ital on account of his legal interests.
OF late years he has come nearly
every winter for a couple of days at
least to London. On one occasion he
went all through the Offices and plant
of the London Times without being
recognized. He brought a card of in
PRODUCTION from newspaper editor
Of great influence in Berlin and in the
capacity of master mechanic he was
shown by courteous member of the
pressroom staff all over the premises
of the Thunderer.
The police of London can boast that
their town entertains unknowingly
more royal folks than any other in Eur
rope and without an accident Detailing
any one of them. Once upon time
German Princess did sprain her ankle
as she came down from the top of a
bus, but that is the most serious cal
amtiy that ever befell a parsonage Wis
iting the town unoficially.
There is really some surprise to be
felt over this because one and all the
holiday making princes ride on the
tops of omnibuses and find those two
horse arks the most delightful chariots
In the world. There is well-known
Grand Duchess of North German origin
who declares that the top Of London
omnibus is the proudest and most COM
Portable position she ever occupied in
all her exalted life.
Several great ladies Of her class
have rented small fats In London
where they can live when they visit
the capital incognito and the Queen Of
Roumania has even tested the London
boarding house. She explains the
fancy Of her class for making these
experiments by saying that many; i
crowned head confesses to the possess
sion OF q very Bohemian heart and that
London is the only spot on earth where
a royal parsonage can feel at once
free and safe. Il v
The Duchess d'Aosta, before her
marriage the Princess Helena OF Or
leans, grew up In England and speaks
=. A.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03

French composers that challenges the
Wagner works for first place in the
hearts of all music lovers. The spark
ling Jewel Song" has made it world
famous, yet this is only one of a score
of fascinating music numbers in the
five acts of the opera. There is the
great solo for Mephistopheles known
as the Song of the Golden Calf" and
tht sardonic serenade, together with
Marguerite's pretty Spinning Song"
the pathetic Flower Song, for the
contralto, the great Soldiers Chorus
played by bands in all countries, the
romantic Garden Scene with its ming
ling of love and comedy. and the STIR
ring Prison Scene in the last act,
where the full ensembles and the prin-
cipals unite in one of the finest vocal
triumphs afforded in any grand opera
composition whether modern or of the
olden days.
Since Grand Forks can have only
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03

within the present boundaries of Nc
Lean county, N. D., in 1S45, and soon
became an important trading point in
the upper Missouri country, and has
an eventful history. In 1860 an OPP
position post was built near Berthold
by Charles Larpenteur, Henry Boiler
and Jefferson Smith, ex-employes of
the. American Fur company, who
named the new post Fort Atkinson.
This post was used by them one year
and then abandoned, owing to the
l'anic caused at the beginning of the
war of the rebellion.
We find in Larpenteur's Forty
Years in the Fur Trade" the follow
ing mention of the organization of the
new firm, in which he says:
"On my may down the Missouri 1
found at Fort Berthold, Jefferson
Smith, an old trader, who, like my
self, was out of employment, and had
about $4,000. There 1 also met a
young man by the name of Henry
Boiler, who said that he could raise
$4,000 from his father in Philadelphia
felt sure that l could obtain my
share from Robert Campbell of st.
Louis, and with that understanding
we agreed to meet in st. Louis and
organize the new company"
Their plan was to ship goods up the
Mississippi river to st. Paul and trans
port it from there to Pembina and the
Missouri with teams.
Continuing, Larpenteur says: GAS
those men had to wait for the return
of Mr.. Choteau, who had gone up to
Fort Benton, l arrived in st. Louis
a few days before them and informed
MIR. Campbell of our project, of which
he approved, and advanced me my
portion of the outfit"
One Of Mr.. Campbell's clerks by
the name of Robert Lemon joined the
new company as a partner, and upon
the arrival of Boiler and jeff Smith,
they went into operation with the
understanding that they were to build
and operate two new trading posts on
the upper Missouri-one by Larpen-
teur and Lemon at the lower end of
Spread Eagle bottom, near the mouth
of Poplar river in Dawson county,
Montana, and the other one by Smith
and Boiler at the Mandan and eros
Ventres villages, near Fort Berthold.
They left st. Paul on the 5th of Sep
TENDER with eight wagons and eleven
men, their train attracting the atten-
ton of many frontiersmen as they
moved out over the old Stevens trail
in the direction of the big bend Of the
Missouri river.
They crossed the Red river at
Georgetown. village of Clay county,
Minnesota, at the mouth of Buffalo
river. fifteen miles north of Moorhead
end Fargo, reaching the Norman Kit
son trading post at old Fort Penn
bina about the middle of October.
From there they travelled up the river
to st. Joseph, at the base OF the
Pembina mountains, where Larpenteur
met many of his old acquaintances
of the upper Missouri who had settled
at this place.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03
How to Keep Fish Alive.

Consul General Richard Guenther Of
Frankfort, Germany, in the oldodays
plain "Dick" Guenther of Wisconsin.
writes of report that the French nat
uralists Billiard and Bryant have made
a discovery with reference to keeping
fish alive which may be Of practical
: importance.
The reported discovery concerns a
tiny alga, by itself not visible to the
naked eye, which possesses the re-
markable property of preserving the.
water in> which it exists in a state of
great purity for an almost unlimited
period. The little plant possesses also
the advantage of multiplying rapidly
and thrives in almost all kinds Of fresh
water. To the naked eye the presence
of these algae is noticeable through the
brilliantly green color Of the water,
provided it contains large number
of them.
The two scientists have succeeded in
keeping brook trout alive in a large
sized vessel for six weeks, SO that
their taste at the end of this period
did not appear to be impaired in the
least. This is all the more remarkable
as it is we'll known that otherwise
brook trout can only be kept alive in
running water. Leeches have been
kept alive by the same process one and
one-half years without change of the
water. Experiments have already
been made to make practical use of the
discovery for the transportation of live
fish.
Live brook trout, for instance, were.
shipped by rail, the journey consuming
seven hours, at temperature of Is de-
grees, in vessels filled with water to-
which these algae had been added.
The trout were all fresh upon arrival.
while others shipped at the same time
in pure water not containing these
algae not single trout arrived alive
The explanation of this phenomenon is
probably that these algae, like other
green plants, decompose the carbonic-
acid exhaled by the fish and so reoxi-
die the water. The two scientists are
also of the opinion that the algae rem
der the poison which may have beer
secreted In the fish. harmless.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03
PLAYS AND THE PUBLIC.
Clyde Fitch Thinks American Theatre
Not Altogether Hopeless.

New York, March 3.-That the
American theatre is not altogether
hopeless and that the people who crit
icize it so much and stay away from
it might be better occupied in trying
to improve it, was the message which
Clyde Fitch conveyed to the League
for Political Education at its lecture
in the Hunson theatre.
People who want to improve the
theatre should go to the theatre" he
said The demand creates the sup
Ply, but NO amount of supply will
create & demand
Mr. Fitch mas little faith, however,
in the small eclectic crowd"
1t was not they. but the general
public" he said. who made Bernard
Shaw a success. Candida had a des-
perate struggle for existence until
fashion, loking around for Lenten
penance. discovered it and took it up.
Man and Superman' had one of the
smallest first night audiences of the
season, and only began to draw good
houses when the general public took
hold"
b But there is an audience from
which something can be hoped, Mr..
Fitch thinks. 1t comes up from the
bowels of the earth" to see plays like
The Little Minister" or THE Chris
tian," and contributes to the great
triumph of good plays artistically
done.
These people want to be entertain
ed,"N said the lecturer, land would
rather be entertained by worthy OBJ
ject than by an unworthy one, but
they don't want to be bored by art for
arts sake, when the art is buncombe.
They are not interested in German
provincial life or in the limited num-
Der of tunes the French can play us
On their social triangle, but they do
want to see plays of our own life.
THE American theatre is not in a
bad way" continued Mr.. Fitch. "It
is in good way. We are in the habit
of thinking of our troubles as peculiar
to our own soil, but that is not SO.
Sir Henry Irving lost his following
during his later years, and could not
play out whole season in London.
Bernhard and Rejane depend for
their audiences on foreigners and pro-
.vincials, and even have to make for
eign tours. In Austria and Germany,
II is true, things are different. In
those countries there is a big, serious
minded public which goes to the
theatre with rested stomach and q
free mind"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03
INTERESTING STORY OF
OLD FORT ATKINSON
A Pnef History Of the Cid Trading Post at Mandan,
North Dakota. Well Remembered By Old Timers.

A. l.. Van Osdel, in the Bismarck
Tribune: have read your published
article relating to old Fort Atkinson
with interest. The history of that old
trading post at the Mandan villages,
together with Forts Tilton, Clark, Ber-
thold and Stevenson, are intensely in
teresting.
The rapid development Of the fur
trade on the upper waters of the Mis-
souri-of which these posts were ear
~ exponents-followed the return of
the Lewis and Clark explorers in 1906.
The Mandan Indians were then 10
Gated in two fortified villages at the
mouth of Knife river, near the pres
cnt town of Washburn, North Dakota.
During the year 1907 an enterprising
Spaniard. named Manuel Lisa, headed
trading expedition from st. Lewis to
the Yellowstone river. Learning from
the explorers that valuable fur
grounds were in that favored region
He was accompanied on his voyage
up the Missouri by George Dranilard,
John Coulter and William Potts, three
of the members of the Lewis and Clark
expedition. who acted as partners,
guides and interpreters to Lisa in the
wilds of the upper Missouri country.
Two trading posts were established by
Lisa: Fort Manuel at the Mandan viii
lagos, and Fort Lisa (Which was &C.
cupted by Andrew Henry, at the
mouth Of the Big Horn, on the Yellow.
stone
In 1911 Lisa headed another expedi-
in search Of Andrew Henry and his
companions, who were driven by the
Blackfeet Indians to the three forks
OF the Missouri, where Dronillard was
killed.
During the voyage up the great
river, Lisa overlook the Hunt-Astoria
expedition at the Grand Detour, or big
bend. near the present town of Cham
berlain, 8. D. The two expeditions
made famous through Washington
Irving's Astoria" voyaged together
~ far as the mouth of Grand river,
where Hunt and his men started out
from the Arickara villages, which was
then located there, to the Columbia
river and Pacific ocean.
In descending the MISSOURI river in
DO fall of 1871, Lisa abandoned his
far-trading posts until the close of
oar second war with England, owing
70 the hostility Of the Indians. caused
~ the British fur traders. who occu-