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The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-10-03
Hear This Concert

The following is a program of the
Lewis Concert Company, which will
be in Union October 9th. This is the
first number of the splendid course
secured for this season:
"The Land of the Might Have Been
Harris
Keep on Hopin'". ...... Maxwell
Entire Company
Legend ............ Wieniewski
"Mazurka de Concert" -. Austin
Mr.. Schuler
LA dome mobile opera (Rigoletto)
Verdi
Pale Moon" ............... Logan
"On the Stairs. ....... Mana yucca
"Traveling to the Grave" d. . Reddick
Mr.. Lewis
Adaptation from play Happiness
Manners
Miss Adams
May Night" ........ Palmgren
Hungarian" ............ Mcdowell
Miss Colliton
"Ava Marie" ............. Schubert
"Zregunerweisen" .. Sarasate
Mr.. Schuler
Character Sketch" ..... Selected
Miss Adams
Young Tom O'Doven" .... Russell
"The Little Home I Love" .. O'Hara
"Perspicacity" ....... Cartlan
The Great Awakening" e. Kramer
Mr.. Lewis
The tickets are on sale now at
Tinsley's Jewelry Store and the
prices are for six numbers only $500
for a season ticket or two for $500
to one person. All school children
can secure season ticket for $500.
Arrangements have been made that
no numbers will come in November
during the Gypsy Smith meeting.
Buy your ticket now and help to
make it possible to bring high class
lyceum talent to Union, and help your
children to appreciate the best.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-16

Bent. George Bent was on the
Upper Missouri rier, in what i:
Montana today, as early as 1916 il
the employ of the American Fun
Company. William Bent's first ad-
venture into the western wilder
ness was also in the employ of the
American Fur Company among the
Sioux Indians.
In 1924 William Bent built a
trading post on the Arkansas river
in Colorado, just below the pre- sent
city of Pueblo and was the first
permanent white settler in what is
now Colorado. By his fair and
open dealings and his fearlessness,
he won the confidence of the In
dams and retained it till his death
Among the rough fraternity Of
mountain trappers he was also very
popular and had a reputation for
great courage.
Almost equally popular and res
pected was his brother, Charles
Bent, who took a most active part
in the Santa Fe trade of the com
pany, often being elected captain
of the richly laden caravans of the
Missouri traders. Charles Bent
was appointed governor of the ter
by General Kearny in 1916,
and shortly afterward there was
an uprising of Pueblo Indians in
the governors home town where
he had gone for a few days visit
his family, and the red men
out to kill every American
in the settlement. They went to
the governors house first and muir
1ered him in cold blood, and the
story is substantiated that he faced
he end with a calmness and stole
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-16

ism characteristic of the race OF
strong men from which he came.
In 1928 William Bent, with St.
Vrain, another noted Indian trader,
began the construction of the cele-
brated Bent's Fort on the Arkansas
river, about Is miles from where
Pueblo stands today. 1t took four
years to complete it, and it was of
adobe brick construction. 1t was
destined to become one of the most
famous of all the western trading
posts from the Mexican line to
Canada.
Famous Bent's Fort
Accounts of the dimensions of
the fort differ, but on certain points
all agree. 1t was set square with
the compass on the north bank Of
the Arkansas river, 100 feet square
and Is feet high. At the southwest
and northeast corners of the walls
were bastions or round towers, 3OI
feet high, with loopholes for mus
kets and openings for cannons,
towers are said to have been
hexagonal in form and around the
walls in the second story of each
hung sabres and heavy lances with
sharp blades, designed to resist
any attempt to take the stronghold
by means of ladders. Flintlock
muskets and pistols completed the
means of defense.
Two immense swinging doors
made of heavy planks, studded
heavy nails and plated with
sh~eet-iron, to resist fire, formed al
vide gateway in the east wall of
he fort, and over this, the main
gate, was a square watch tower
the top of the belfry sur
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-16

en-, walking swiftly about the
courtyard and on the roofs of the
houses, clad in long buckskin
dresses and bright moccasins, were
full of interest; while the naked
children, with perfect forms and
the white of the Saxon race show
ing through the darker hue of the
mother blood, excited his enthus-
iasm. He wondered at the novel
manners and customs that he saw;
at the grave bourgeois and their
clerks and traders, who in time of
leisure sat cross-legged in the shade
smoking the long-stemmed Indian
pipes which they passed from hand
to hand; at the simple food-dried
buffalo meat and bread made from
coarse, unbolted wheaton meal from
Taos-meals which lacked season
ing and sweets of any kind.
Here, as it seemed to him, were
gathered people from the ends of
the earth old trappers whose faces
were lined and leathery from long
exposure to winters SHOWS and the
burning heat of many summers In
dams, some of whom wore civilized
clothing, but retained the reserve
and silence of their race; Mexican
servants, hardly more civilized than
the Indians; Yankees from New
England, Englishmen, Spaniards
and negroes. The prairie men re-
their adventures in the
the West, the South, on the
and among the mountains.
There was much talk of where the
buffalo had been or would be, of
the danger of hostile tribes, of past
of comrades who had gone
under" in battle or ambush and of
many other topics of the plains.
Kearny's Army Passes
One of the great events of Bent's
Fort was the passage of General
Kearny's little army on its march
into Mexico in 1916. 1t was a gala
day at the fort, an accident mar
the celebration for a few min
ties, however. A brass cannon,
purchased from St. Louis, was
to the muzzle by some en-
.husiastic employees to salute the
general. Being overloaded, it burst
ind injured a good many of the
,ystanders.
Kearny's army had encamped
line miles below the fort after its
.ng and weary march cross the
,lains from Missouri. On the
aorning after its arrival the fort !,
filled to overflowing with SOL
iers and officers, white trappers, {
1exicans, Cheyennes, Arapahoes,
and scores of the Indian ,
ives of trappers from the far S
way Columbia and St. Lawrence, :
lie Missouri and the Yellowstone. A
he scene was a picturesque one,
lere being a babel of tongues and
rgons. The walls we're lined with M
women and children, all eager laI
watch the white soldiers. IRE
A cloud of dust appeared moving t Wl
, the valley Eat the rate of a horse =
fast" at length announced =
e appearance of the troops. At {
e head of the column rode Gen IN
al Kearny. Behind him came a Y
mpany of the old United States 4
-agoons, followed by a regiment I
Missouri cavalry volunteers, two
ttalions of volunteer cavalry and
couple of companies of infantry.
was an army of LOO men and R.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-16
BACK-TRAILING ON THE OLD FRONTIERS

it greatly impressed the Indians,
who until now had not realized that
there were half as many men in the
whole white tribe" Swinging to
the left as it neared the fort, the
column marched up the valley,
forded the river to the Mexican
bank and went on its way. Part
reached Santa Fe, part marched
through to California and part
went to Mexico City. For several
hours while the troops marched by,
Charles Bent entertained in his
quarters in the fort a group of Of
ficers, serving mint-juleps. A few
months later some of these men
marched from Santa Fe to Taos
to avenge the murder of Charles
Bent.
By 1850 the fur trade had begun
to decline, the beaver having been
pretty thoroughly trapped out of
many of the mountain streams. Be-
sides that the silk hat had been in
vented and was rapidly taking the
place of the old beaver hat. The
mountains were full of idle trap
pers, and a colony of these settled
on the present site of the city of
Pueblo, where they farmed in a
limited way and Struggled much
whisky from Mexico to the plains
country.
The stagnation of the beaver
trade, of course, affected the trade
of William Bent, whose chief bust
ness was now in buffalo robes and
horses. The establishment at the
fort was much reduced, and in the
early SOS Bent tried to sell it to
he government for a military post.
AS too small an amount was offer
ID, in 1852 he laid charges of gun
powder in the buildings and blew
he old fort into the air.
Bent thereafter built a new fort
below Fort William and leased it to
he war department. In the late
,Os he built still another post,
where he died in May, 1869. His
Kit Carson, died at Fort
lyon, Colorado, just a year before.
George Bird Grinnell, in his in
aresting narrative, Beyond the Old
frontier, tells Of visiting the site
f Bent's Fort 10 years ago and
escribes its appearance then as
"In the autumn of 1912 / stood
n this historic spot, still bare of
rrass, and marked on two sides by
emains of the walls, in some places
mere low mound, and in others
wall four feet high, in which the
dobe bricks were still recogniz-
Bile. Here and there were seen old
it's of iron, the fragments of a
1sty horseshoe, of a rake and a
it of cast iron which bore letters
i'd figures which could be made
it as portions of the words, St.
ouis, 1852"
Such, briefly, is the end of
Fort, the oldest, largest and
ost important of the fur trading
,sts on the great plains of the
nited States. The land on which
e fort stood has been given over
the care of the Daughters of the
nerican Revolution to be used as
park for the counties of
zero and Bent"
by CheeIy-Raban syndicate.l
--O--
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-16
Bents Fort Oldest and Largest of Fur Trading Posts Of the Great Plains,
Stood for Years as an Impregnabe Outpost to Hostile Reds of Southwest

mounting which a flagstaff rose
This watch tower consisted OF &
single room, with windows on all
sides and a spy-glass mounted on
a pivot. Here was stationed con-
tinuously a sentry, with a chair
and a bed for his convenience, and
if anything unusual were noticed
through the telescope he gave no
tice and proper precautions were
Immediately taken. A huge bell in
the watch tower sounded the hours
for meals.
Perhaps the only feature of the
place which might come under the
head of a luxury was a combina-
ton bar and billiard room, a sec
ond story room rising above the
walls at the back.
The various warehouses, stores
and living rooms were ranged
around the walls of the fort and
opened into the courtyard within.
Whenever Indians entered the fort
to trade cannons were loaded and
sentries patrolled the walls ready
for action on an instant's notice.
In the later years of its existence,
these precautions are said
to have ceased. The corrals we're
outside the fort and were built SOL
idly of wood, with cactus plants on
top of the walls to prevent any ma
RAIDERS from going "over the top
Difficulties Of Building
The difficulties of building
Fort were many, which ac-
for the fact that its compile
ion required four years. 1t was
determined by the partners that it
should be built of adobe brick in
order to make it fireproof, SO that
t could not be burned by the In
Adobe construction was,
moreover, more durable and more
comfortable than wooden logs.
Mexican labor was imported, as
many as $50 men being employed
It a time.
A short time after the first la
'orers had arrived, smallpox broke
ut among them and it was ~neces-
airy to send away those not at
acked by the disease. Kit Carson
yas at the post at the time, and he,
18th the Bent brothers, was a VIC
m of the epidemic, but none of the
'hite men died.
A vivid account of Bent's Fort in
539 was given some years later
Y Thomas ]. Farnham, a traveller, |
no mentioned having met two of I
lie brothers on his visit there. ,
hey were, he said, clad like trap {
RS in splendid deerskin hunting
lirts and leggings, with long T
lnges on the outer seams of the v
and legs, the shirts decorated a
18th designs worked in brightly t
lored porcupine quilts, and on I
cir feet moccasins covered with Il
i'll work and beading. j;
The great establishment, stand n
g alone in the midst of a wilder t.
SIS, much impressed Farnham,
10 not lOnp before had left a re- u,
IN where men, if not crowded to- W
Their, were at least numerous. Hell tt
oke of the fort as a solitary abode II
men seeking wealth in the face Ell
hardship and danger, and de- &C
red that it reared its towers over D
cultivated wastes of nature like of
old baronial castle that had bs
-hstood wars and desolations of a
lturies. To him the Indian wom-I It
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-16

Wnen a comprehensive history
of the southwestern United States
is written, its beginnings will cover
many an interesting chapter on the
Santa Fe trail that, great highway
from the Missouri river to New
Mexico along which the commerce
of the prairies was carried from
1920 to the coming of the railroads.
It's northern extremity was hide
pendence, Missouri, and it extended
to the ancient town of Santa Fe,
which still disputes with St. Aug
Justine, Florida, the honor of being
the oldest town in America. In
the early days the Santa Fe trail
lay half in American and half in
Spanish territory, for the ford of
the Arkansas river in Colorado,
where the boundary was crossed,
was almost exactly midway be-
tween its extreme ends.
When expeditions first began to
be made from Missouri to Santa
Fe they followed up the Arkansas
river to the vicinity of where La
Junta, Colorado, now stands, and
then turning south, went first to
Taos and then to Santa Fe. Even
after the shorter trail was estab-
lished across the desert, the route
by the Upper Arkansas continued
to be used. On this branch of the
trail Bent's Fort on the Arkansas
was the great stopping place, and
it was in every respect the most
important outpost of the southwest,
ranking with Forts Union, Pierre
and Laramie, all situated to theI i
northward. 1t was the great cross
roads station of the southwestern
country and the trading point of an
enormous area.
Bent's Fort was built by the trad
ing firm of Bent & St. Vrain,
which ranked next to the American
Fur Company in the amount of
business it transacted in the period |
about 1910. 1t was situated $50 t
miles from independence, Mo-, and (
stood on the left bank of the river, '
half way between the present towns +
of La Junta and Los Animas, in {
Colorado. The date of its. begin ;
ming was 1928, but it took until
to complete. t
The early history Of the South il
west is interviewer with the story c
If the famous pioneer Bent family, p
several of whose descendants live II
.oday in St. Louis, where the Bents o
established homes after the trad h
ng days of the frontier had passed d
The founder of the family fortune A
n America was Silas Bent, who n
vas born in Massachusetts in 1868. D
His father was one of those who e
lttended the Boston tea party"
,ilas went to St. Louis in 1904 at
he time the government of Louis-|P
ana was turned yer to American ).
authorities and there he served as :,
udge of the superior court, dying :,
4 1927. Four of his sons, William, M
George and Robert, be- ~
anne prominent in the Indian trade ).
/ the west between 1920 and 1850, !.
emaining in that region until they ~
led. A fifth, Silas, as flag-lieu- Il
enant of the flagship Mississippi, h.
'as with Perry in Japan, and wrote -,
report on the Japan current. He -.
eveloped in his lifetime consider -
bic reputation as a scientist. ~
Build First Fort de
The leading spirit in this family ST.
{ Indian traders was William w. tn
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-16
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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-06

ish commanders made several de-
mands for the withdrawal Of the
Turks, but Renal responded that he
knew of no neutral n To the
French he explained that he had oc-
cupied these places because the Brit
ish had disregarded the neutrality OF
the straits by permitting the Greeks
to have free passage through them.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-06
WILDWOOD MOOSE ACTIVE

Wildwood Moose are on the job and
taking full advantage of the DISPENSE
ton that has been granted by the
Supreme Lodge to take in new mem
bers at an ~initiatory cost of $500. At
a recent meeting three new members
were taken in and the applications Of
two others are ready. Several more
are expected in the next few weeks.
The Lodge has made an increase of
"a per cent since March and is con-
fdent of reaching 100 per cent by
January 1, 1928. The next meeting of
the Lodge will be held on Wednesday
evening, October IL, at Firemen's Hall,
corner Pacific and Montgomery ave
nues. All members of the organiza-
ton will be welcomed. Some candi-
dates will be initiated and then the
entire gathering will be fed. All
Moose are good eaters. Several of the
members are good cooks and one is a
baker. A few are g%rocerymen and n
or two sell cigars, so there is sure to
be enough on hand to make the even
ing enjoyable.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-06

A CCORDING to the Freeman's
"A Journal of Dublin. cannon de
Valera DIS abdicated as leader of the
Irish republicans and Liam Lynch has
succeeded him. The newspaper says
this destroys hope of a rational peace
as Lynch is driving his followers to
fight to the bitter end. The repub-
licans are keeping up their guerrilla
warfare, but the Free Staters are
steadily cleaning them up, especially
now in County Kerry.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-06

is capable Of giving not only the great
sonatas and concertos, but also is
gifted In the presentation of the small
er and frequently the more popular
numbers. AS one new paper critic
remarked: classical music is played
deity by Miss ~Stolofsky, but 1t is
when, in encores, she gives the old
familiar numbers that she steals into
the inner recesses of Jne's soul"
On her concert tour during the COM
ing season Miss Stolofsky is to be ably
supported by Mr.. George B. Imbrie,
baritone, and Miss Magdalen Mass
mann, a notable piano soloist and ac-
cOmpanist
Miss S~tolofsky and her company are
booked for the Legion entertainment
in the Wildwood high school audito-
rum for Monday evening, October 8,
1922.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-06

CANCELLATION and concession were
~ the order of the day in the Near
East. The allies. in formally inviting
the Turks to a peace conference, as
sured them that they will take adj
vantage of this opportunity to de-
clare that they look with favor upon
the desire Of Turkey to recover Thrace
up to the Martha river, and Adrian
ople." 1t was even intimated that
Russia " ould be admitted to the con-
ference, and M. Franklin-Bouillon,
who last year negotiated an agree
ment between the Nationalist and
the French, was sent to Smyrna with
a mandate to deal with Renal. The
stipulation Of the allies was that the
Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora and
the Bosporus must remain free and
open to all nations. The British also
insisted that the neutral zone, which
embraces the straits and CONSTANT
NOBLE, must not be invaded by the
Nationalist during the peace negotia-
tons.
Early in the week Renal gave a
lone interview to a correspondent OF
the Chicago Tribune. in which he said
that he had no desire to provoke hos
tilities with Great Britain. but that
he insisted on complete independence
of the Turkish empire n complete
freedom of the straits to all nations.
He said Turkey had no wish to for
tify the Dardanelles. but that she
must control the Sea of MarmOra and
the Bosporus to secure the safety or
her capital-Constantinople. On We'd
nesday the KemaliSts announced they
would respect the neutrality OF the
straits pending an armistice corner
ence with the British generals. me
then formulated their reply to the
allied peace proposals. Not given to
the public at this writing, this answer
is understood to provide, among other
things. that the NatiOnalists shal oc-
cupy all strategic positions prior TO
the opening of the conference; that
all British forces en- route be recalled
and the British shall not forttfy the
neutral zone; that the Nationalist
shall occupy Thrace before the confer
ence. at which Russia. Ukrainia and
all countries bordering on the Black
sea shall he represented that If these
conditions are accepted. the Nation
alists agree to an armistice confer
ence at Mudania, which is to be fol-
lowed in three days by the opening
of the peace conference in Smyrna.
Meanwhile Renal, who has freely
expressed his distrust of the British
and especially of Lloyd George, sent
various units into the Asiatic rart OF
the neutral o and occupied strate-
g1c positions from which he virtually
controlled the Dardanelles. The Brit
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-06
sv EDWARD W. PlcKARD

n WING to the military and
~ diplomatic skill Of Musta-
pha Renal Pasha and his col
leagues in the Turkish Nation
alist government, and to the
strong determination of the
people of the allied nations not
to embark in another war, 1t is
practically certain that Turkey
will regain the territory in Eu-
rope which she lost in the
World war and probably a con-
siderable part of Mesopotamia,
now under British mandate. Do
you and your friends think the
Turks are entitled to this resto-
ration and are really no worse
than most of their neighbors?
Or do you believe it is worth
another great war to keep them
out Of Europe?
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-06
Ambiguous

Dick-"That Miss Sayler is much
older than l thought"
Gladys-"How's that?"
Dick-"I asked her if she had ever
read Aesop's Fables and she said she
read them when they first came out"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-06
THE IRENE sroLoFskY COMPANY.

Irene Stolofsky, violinist, has been
proclaimed by Hugh Dimond, one-time
concert master Of the Chicago Sym
phony Orchestra, as n Of the real
musical sensations Of the present gen.
Grafton.
Less than ten years ago this Chi
cago violinist, of Polish descent, made
a professional debut that brought en-
thusiastic comments from metropolitan
critics. Today she has thousands Of
d9votees who declare that she has no
superior among the women vtolinists
Of America.
Miss Stolofsky plays with a mastery
touch, with a strength and virility
much like a mans, but with an art
that puts into her rendition the deli
cacy only obtained by a woman. She
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-06
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Allies Ready to Permit Turkey to
Regain Her Former Terri
tory in Europe.
KING CONSTANTINE BUSTED

Greek Army compeIs Him to- Abdi-
cate and Declares for Wal to
Keep Thrace-Fe deral Fuel Dis
tributor Spens Gets Busy
Death of Senator Watson.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-06

Guilty, by loans from the American
people, who had no reason to expect
that they would not be repaid. He
also drew attention to the American
suspicion that if the loans were for
given the money thus released might
be used in new wars.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-06
ATTRACTIONS
ANNOUNCED FOR
LYCEUM COURSE
Everyone Sure to Be Pleased
With Talent Secured.
SPLENDID NUMBERS SELECTED
Sale OF Season Tickets Should Be
G~ratifyIngIy Larpe-course Fur
niehed by Redpath
Bureau.

The committee in charge of the local
Lyceum course has definitely an
nounced the attractions for the coming
season.
The course is especially we'll selected
and the sale Of season tickets should
be gratifyingly large
The fact that all the numbers are to
be furnished by the well-known Red
path Bureau is IN itself a guarantee OF
their power to please.
Lyceum courses are becoming more
and more popular each season. Their
offerings of good clean amusement,
splendid music and inspiring and In
formative lectures make them a
definite constructive force In commun-
ity life.
The attractions on the course are as
follows: