Show our ur old 01 forts 1 F mortn shall vey they ie be preserved pipes arved M F a 7 t wa george by ELMO SCOTT WATSON APLY this summer the secretary ot war wa announced that in the interests E of 0 economy and because they had outlived their usefulness some a fifty army posts were to be dismantled and abandoned soon afterwards mrs george A custer widow of the famous indian fighter was mas quoted in press dispatches from her botne in new dorkas york as buying it does seem as if some of the old frontier forts should fie saved we ought not to allow every vestige of that period to die we should preserve what history we have almost immediately her statement was 11 linked 1 ked with the tact fact that fort abraham lincoln n near ear bismarck N D was one of the army posts im marked 11 aked for dissolution and the suggestion was made that the post from which custer rode away to his death on the little big horn in montana in 1870 1876 should be preserved as a memorial to him and ills his gallant men of the seventh cavalry As a matter of 0 fact the present fort abraham lincoln has no connection with the old indian fighting days the original fort lincoln was built early in the seventies a few miles south of the present city of mandan N D it was first arst named fort mckean but that name was soon boon changed to the one illch honored the memory of our civil war president As usual the sioux indians resented the building of an army post in their territory which they regarded as a violation of the treaty with the government made at fort laramie laralle in am and began a series of attacks on the post As a result of these attacks and further evidences that the sioux were on the point of an outbreak gen phil sheridan commanding the unitary tary division of the MIsso missouri missoura url decided that A cavalry regiment which could pursue and punish the ho hostiles host stiles lles when nhen the need arose should be assigned to the department of dakota so the seventh cavalry commanded by custer was ordered up from new orleans ln in april 1873 and was stationed at fort abraham lincoln prom from that fort gen george A forsyth went on hla his exploring expedition up the yellowstone yellow stone in 1873 and in tile the same year gen den A II 11 terry mobilized at fort lincoln and fort rice another expedition which was to escort and guard tile the surveyors who were to make the preliminary survey for the northern pacific railroad through the yellow stone custers Ou seventh cavalry was a part of tills this expedition and had its first taste of fighting with the sioux in fact on one occasion the seventh narrowly escaped the fate ate which was to overtake it three years later inter from this post also custer started in 1874 on hla his exploring expedition in the black which gave to the world the news of the discovery of gold in that region resulted in a mad rush of whites into the alie beloved pah sab pa black and eventually event nally precipitated the sioux war of 1870 77 and on the morning of may 17 27 1870 1876 custer and his seventh marched gaily away from fort abraham lincoln to the stirring strains of tile the girl I 1 lett left behind me ale and rode away avay across the prairie toward the west the next net scene in the story of fort lincoln Is told in the final paragraphs of mrs custers Ou book boots and saddles thus thua on the ath of july for it toots took that time for the news to come the sun rose on a beautiful world but with its earliest beams came the first knell of disaster A steamer came down the river bearing the wounded from the lie battle of the little big horn of sunday june this buttle battle wrecked the lives of twenty six sit women at fort lincoln and orphaned children of off officers leers and soldiers Bold lers joined their cry to that of their bereaved mothers from that time on the life went out of the hearts of the women who weep and god asked them to walk on alono alone and in the shadow after the indian wars nars were over fort abraham lincoln gradually fell into disuse and by 1002 all of the buildings shown in the photograph above except two had been torn down during tile the world war a large modern post bearing the same tiame was vaa built on the opposite side of the river just below belov bismarck it I 1 la a this tort fort for which there Is no a apparent use ue that Is to be ba dismantled along with uh others none of which according to a government official lies has the slightest historical significance 77 W A 4 D by arzi iry t 7 F T f in V g 0 the over fort dearborn 11 02 L ben the agitation produced by the war depa ments announcement and the wide publicity given eh en to the case ol of fort abraham lincoln has served the useful purpose of recalling to am americans erl the part played by forts in our conr history and it has also brought forth the fact that more of them are being preserved pres ened in one form or another than Is generally realized in some cases their ruins are being preserved as memorials or are being used as the basis for reconstruction work in other cases exact replicas of the original fortifications have been built and in still others monuments or great boulders bearing appropriately engraved bronze tablets have been erected on their sites the list is so long that only a few examples can be given perhaps the outstanding example of reconstruction st of a historic fort Is that of ticonderoga on the shores of lake george in new york the preservation of this place so rich in its memories of colonial and revolutionary war history is due to the patriotic spirit of an individual stephen 11 II P I 1 pell of new york in whose family the land upon which ticonderoga blands has been owned for many years much has been done to restore ticonderoga to Us its or original ginal state and the work Is still going 0 on n illinois contribution to preserving the memory of her frontier outposts was the dedication last summer of a replica of fort dearborn which Is to be one of the buildings for the century of progress exposi exposition don in chicago in 1033 1933 skyscrapers ski scrapers now stand on tile the original sl site te of fort dearborn so the replica was built along the lake shore on made land which Is pushing the shore line out into lake michigan the little palisades ded structure which offers such a striking contrast to the tall buildings of stone and steel which make up Chi cagos skyline stands not far from the scene of the historic fort dearborn massacre of 1812 when the garrison of the fort was attacked and most of them killed by hostile indians after they had evacuated the fort and started on their fateful retreat to fort wayne waine ind this replica not cot only recalls the roost most thrilling incident in the history of americas second largest city but it also preserves the memory of the man whose name it bears an important figure in the early days of the republic who Is little known to most americans gen henry dearborn born in new hampshire in 1751 1731 dearborn studied medicine and became a do doctor c but abandoned his profession at the ou outbreak t of the revolution to raise a force of volunteers lie ile fought at bunker hill accompanied arnold on the expedition to quebec where he was captured after being exchanged he be entered the service again fought at monmouth accompanied sullivan on the expedition against the iroquois and was present at the surrender of cornwallis Cornwall ls after the war he was twice elected to congress and in 1801 jefferson made him secretary of war a position which lie he held field for eight years at the outbreak of the war of 1812 colonel dearborn was again in military service and was commissioned a major general in the american army ile he captured york in upper canada and fort george and after the war commanded the military district of new york monroe made him minister to portugal and after two years lie he resigned oil abild returned home flying dying in massachusetts in out in the west where pioneer history wits was a more reent recent affair than it was in the east and middle west there are many evidences of a desire to preserve the historic forts and reconstruct them while some borne vestiges of them still remain in kansas there Is agitation to reconstruct fort aubrey one of the pioneer sod forts ori on the arkansas river and make it a public park colorado la is busy with its plans for the reconstruction of bents fort near lamar the post whose history la Is a veritable iii sn mmary almary ot of ag historic santa fo r trail y P the dent bent brothers and ceran st vrain trading on the upper arkansas in the early twenties th famous adobe fort at first called fort begun in 1828 and completed in 1832 the la closure was ft as feet by feet the walls alls were four feet thick and fifteen teel feet lilah Bust bastions ions thirty feet high rose from two corners and were provided with loopholes for musketry and cannon fort dent bent was tor for twenty years the most important trading post on the frontier and to name all the men who were connected with it fremont kit hit carson dick wooton and a host ot of others Is to call the roll of 0 all the outstanding men in the earliest wild west what bents fort was to the santa fe trail fort laramie Lar unile was to that other famous transcontinental highway the oregon trail so it Is especially appropriate that a movement should now be under way in wyoming for or the purchase of 0 old fort laramie from its present owners it forms part of a cattle ranch and convert comert it into a state monument the last legislature appropriated for or this purpose and fort laramie may soon be restored to some of its former glory the history of fort laramie goes back to 1833 when robert campbell and william sublette trappers and fur traders established a camp on the north platte river a few ew miles west of what Is now the state line of wyoming here were erected a few cabins and this frontier outpost was first named fort william then F fort ort john and finally named fort laramie after jacques la camle a french canadian trapper whose exploits made him a noted figure in that region from the beginning the fort did a prosperous business in pelts and furs trading principally with the Oga ogelalla lalla bands of the sioux the and the Arapah oes in 1835 it became the property of the rocky hocky mountain fur company composed of milton sublette thomas fitzpat rick jim bridger henry draeb and john baptiste Ger gervaas vals later in the same year the post passed into the hands bands of luceen fontanelle for the american fur company which had been founded several years earlier by john jacob astor business was tins so good that the american fur company felt justified in spending 10 on improvements prove ments these included enlargements li improved fortifications and increased facilities for or handling furs and trading with emigrants and trappers the Ani american erlean fur company sold fort laramie to the government in 1849 and for or many years under national control it served as a principal depot for or emigrants and a base of operations against indians it was rebuilt and enlarged find and sun dried brick was used in strengthening the fortifications walls 20 feet high and 4 feet beet thick were built around it enclosing a space feet long by feet wide within this enclosure there were more than a dozen buildings chucked squarely against the walls fort laramie played a stirring part in the indian wars of the sixties and seventies and was finally dually abandoned as a military reservation in 1800 1890 it then passed into private hands hand and has had three different owners owners some of its buildings have been remodeled and put to varl various uses but others have cri crumbled ambled into th the dust of 0 oblivion from ron which fals it la now reposed to restore thle this Ill outpost D by atra union intermountain news briefly told by busy readers reader SUITS MUST DE BE USED BATHERS ARE WARNED TAX BENEFITS SCHOOLS SCHOOLS OPEN AUG FIVE ARRESTED IN CASE WALLACE IDA joe wayne evelyn miller walter and keneth mccaulley McA ulley were arrested here end and charged with stealing cars at billings billing and livingston Living mont robbing a cafe ot at 34 and holding up a service station near inear sheridan BOISE IDA through the lie medium ot of taxes which are paid by the employed emp loyes ot of the union pacific in idaho and I 1 the huge sum paid I 1 for the sanio same purposed purpose by the company itself there Is provided one of the principal sources of financial support for the schools in the state as well as for the county and state governments Is paid annually by the union pacific for taxes in idaho employed Emp loyes themselves on their homes and personal person I 1 property pay an additional large sum bum UT use of 15 sect and feet of flood waters from swanzey creek in millard SIll lard county to supply head bead of sheep and horses has been applied for at the stale state en engineers gin cers office by tile the fountain green Wool growers company UT deputy sheriff 0 it judd reports here that I 1 I 1 warned forty boys swimming without suits in burrise Burrl sons fis north of that it Is against the state law to swim in state waters without suits lie ile stated that those who were re found in the pond from now on without suits would be arre arrested led BE BEAVER AVER UT RENNET KENNET blackner of beaver had a third operation p performed er formed at a san francisco hospital in which both of his legs were taken oft off to the hips these operations were made necessary due to poisoning LOGAN UT school will open aug 31 in the cache county school district to a recent announcement no the entire calendar has not been made up yet but will ie be finished at one ot of the next board meetings PROVO UT 1500 persons at attended I 1 the utah county farm bureau picnic at geneva PROVO UT the provo city com commission mission authorized the retire men jentof t f worth of water ter works bonds of a series of dated sept 1 1021 1921 the rem remainder inde r ot of the issue was ref refunded 1111 d at 4 34 3 4 per cent interest OGDEN UT doctors have advised against the use of ogden and weber rivers by bathers on account of infection OGDEN UT the U S district engineer reports good progress being made on an 15 road projects la in idaho montana and wyoming MOSCOW IDA passage bassage of a state ceata cigarette tax with proceeds to be used for educational purposes was suggested at a meeting of nearly 80 idaho school officials at the summer session at tine thie university iver sity of idaho BOISE IDA the third annual western idaho state fair the premier exhibition of livestock and farm products will be held here sept 2 3 4 and 6 5 mccall IDA rayette lakes will furnish the water from idaho which will be mingled with water from the other 47 states in the unton union and will be used to christen one of the largest commercial liners ever constructed in an american shipyard to be launched this tall fall by the united states lines SALT LANE LAKE CITY UT tabulation of mineral production for 1030 1930 has been completed by the bureau of mines the report shows that utah had producers during 1930 1030 as compared with during 1999 1029 production decreased from tons to tons for the same comparative para tive years SALT LARD LAKE CITY UT the state tax tas levy lias has been fixed by the state tax commission at 82 mills nn an increase of 0 9 of a mill over the levy of IM 1030 0 which was 73 mills the levy Is divided a as follows general fund 24 mills state high school fund 2 mills state district school fund 56 6 0 mills the 1931 1031 levy Is based on a valna vallin tion ot of as compared with a valuation in 1030 of IDA nor k opert operating power sites ply pay taxes now in gooding goodeng endor the new law that litis las been passed assessable value ot of farm lands was decreased 10 per cent nt at ft a recent meeting ot of the county board of 0 equalization the adopt |