The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-08
Lord Gordon Gordon.

: oOIuOH ooTuon Is TODdDly mol n lOrt
In fact. His resonant and ~reverberatin,
naI1e does not appear at all In the British
book Of heraldry. He %codra tn,
designation of Milford; but when asked
in the New York court who his father
was, he replied, swell, really. gentle.
men, dye know | haven't any ideah !
never thought it worth while to in.
quiah."
LORD Gordon came to Minnesota in
1870, direct from Scotland, where he was
very much wanted and his first move
was to deposit $40, 900 with Mr.. Westfall.
banker, of this city. "Don't want any
interest" he said, in answer to a ques-
ton, this Is just a little pin money |
happen to have with me, you know, and
a few thousand in interest money is moth
ing 10 me. you know. / want a trusty
friend | like you. Mr.. Westfall, and /
want you to keep this trifie, really, you
see, instead of carrying il around in nv
pockets. | shall send to London for some
money soon-a million or so. Would
show you credentials. you know, but men
of HONOR with a lofty wave of his hand,
"do not descend TO such things So he
came among us and deposited his pin
money with Banker Westfall. OF course
his lordly generosity was whispered
about; how he didn't really make any,
thing at all of being a lord. and how he
refused to consider the bagatelle of inter-
est money in a city where a loan of
~greenbacks brought one per cent. a
month. Then he slyly laid his plans for
a :" haul"
Gordon bears a close resemblance to
Sothern as Dundredry-a smallish face
dark curly hair no moustache {; heavy
mutton chop side whiskers: a small
nose, retro4sse; a maj of medium size,
who gives the impression Of always COM
handing himself. In requirements and
power of execution he seems TO be a sort
OF Count of Monte Christo-a good Judge
OF men. and a supreme master of con
tingencies." lie has a wonderful range
Of languages, and also of language, from
the lowest billingsgate to the most elegant
and iiowery flights, from indecency, OBJ
scenity, and profanity TO the highest
reaches of sentiment and philosophy. He
has a sharply contradictory character in
all respects. AT times in business he is
cool and far-sighted, striking right to the
center OF the mark, and again he is puerile
as a school boy sometimes resolute and
strong, and again weak and vacillating ;
sometimes serious, and again volatile.
The only element Of character in which
he is consistent is his entire lack of posi-
tive conviction. He was generally polite
and even courteous during his short life
in Minnesota, but he seemed to have no
more moral purpose than a faun or a
Yucatan ape.
He had been in Minnesota only a few
weeks when IL was whispered around that
he was planning a purchase oil a grand
scale of lands along the Northern Pacific
for a colony of poor Scotch immi-
The land officers Of the road inter-
s..... III. w. - L.. - |.
few thousand acres of your beautiful lands;
for myself have more than enough
for the emnan Of my poor life; but for
beloved sister, for the qualification of
her benevolence. She would like to pre-
scent 10 some of my old tenants lands in
your free republic where they may rear
their families in peace and plenty; and to
crafty my beautiful sister. l would like
10 buy a few thousand acres-not many
thousand, you know-say-say-say.
about fifty thousand acres or so-just a F;
little for my poor people,"
Then there was a buzz The office of
he Northern Pacific was agitated. Here ,
a Lord-a Lord-who spurned in I
crest money-and he wanted a little bit :
IF land-flfty thousand acres, for benevo- ,
ent purposes! He would like to inspect /
{, of course, before purchasing. So they I
1aAHDka "a ailA ~ ilibl HIVlllDltl
orth. 1t was the last Of August when ,
he princelv retinue started-from st. |
Paul 10 the Northern Pacific, under CON- !
nand of Col. LOOMS, the deviser and {
of the excursion. Can the Y
of that caravan be toldg 1t was Z
equipped for a Lord. There were half a I
lozen teams with a carriage for Milford, /
the ~omnibuses, a~mbulances, etc. Q
were twelve men to do the manual I
abor, with a French cook and darkey .
walters in linen aprons and white silk I
and the royal table was unloaded \
rom the baggage wagons at every meal, l
md set out with fresh napkins, silver K
late and china-unhappily chinaware r
Without the Gordon arms. 7
All, it was gorgeous! Every luxury c
hat the markets of Chicago. st. Paul, u
nd Minneapolis could produce was there; s
nd all the game of the boundless prairie, d
woodcock to buffalo. Champagne :
hree times q day. For this creature was v
Lord, you sea Lord as lofty and I'M q
mindful of expense as Harold Skimpole. /,
When the caravan had skirted Oak Lake, 5
iilord wanted to see Fergus Falls. and b
When it had done Fergus Falls, he longed b
or Morehead. and when it had digested O
forehead, he yearned to visit the glimps- Il
S of the moon beyond the Red River.
10 on, and on, the deluded LOOMS press (,
d, ever rowelling the sable walters, ever h
and reproducing the French cook, p
yer perspiring between anticipation and G
pprehension, and sending relays of mes (,
engers for more ported grouse, more n
ranberry jelly and more champagne. n
icantime he studied the sphinx Milford, Q
nd concluded that he was "A queer cross (,
the lofty and the lowly; he was I
alf lord and half lackey; perhaps his "
ither was an English Earl and his moth e
r an Irish chambermaid. In November k
hey came back, half frozen. Milford had a
his fifty thousand acres in Otter II
all n Beaver counties. The Northern z