Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-04-04
THE MARQUIS De MORES.
THE DARING CAREER OF THE GEL
EBRATED DUELIST.

His Unsuccessful Experiments in the Bad
Lands of the west-A Mark for Assss-
sins-Deeds of a Trave Mantle Was
Ably Supported by His wife.
The duel between the Marquis de
Mores and NJ. Camille Dreyfus, in Eu-'
rope, recalls the many famous exploits
and deeds of De Mores few years ago
In our country. The marquis was GER
tainly a most wonderful man, and de-
served better treatment from the COM
munity in whic' he moved than he re-
ceived.
He was passenger aboard a Northern
Pacific train one day that was shooting
nlong from ST. Paul, Mimi, toward the
setting sun. He was bound for the Bad
Lands, where he was about to put into
operation his gigantic, though unsuc-
cessful, schemes of sheep raising and
beef slaughtering.
For some reason or other the country
was down on him. At every station we
stopped a report would be received that
at the Bad Lands station hundreds of
cowboys and other tough citizens were
waiting for the marquis, and that he
would be riddled with bullets the mo-
ment he stepped from the train. The
train pulled into the depot at the Bad
Lands, and De Mores. with each hand
carelessly laid, but ready for quick use,
on a pair of handsome silver mounted
repeaters. stepped out on the platform.
Bad men galore crowded around him,
but when they saw the plucky nerve of
the young aristocrat they honored and
respected him for it, and not a single
arm in all that vast crowd was raised to
do him the least harm.
A DINE NOVEL CHARACTER.
The story of his life in this country is
quite interesting. He first landed at New
York in August. 1882. Before long he
became attracted by the stories of the
new country along the line of the North
ern Pacific railroad in Dakota and Mon
tana and soon afterward he came out in
person to investigate for himself. With
sombrero on his head, red shirt on his
back, corduroy trousers tucked into very
long legged boots, and with plenty Of
silver mounted jewelry in his belt he
pursued his investigation far and wide
on horseback, and finally decided to
found a city. He bought outright six
square miles of land on the Little Mis-
souri, river, which was then considered
to be, by the wise men of the northwest,
about the very worst bit of earth on the
whole North American continent. Hence
the knowing ones shook their heads
gravely and predicted ruin.
, He built a rude shack of logs and mud
which he furnished luXuriantly for his
2 wife, secured large tracts of government
, land and bought numerous herds of cat
tie. Al first the herders and roaming
wboys of the Bad Lands looked upon
him to be an adventurous crank, who
would surely leave the country after he
| had secured a few hunting trophies to
e carry back to Paris. They hated him be-
i cause he had a servant and wore clean
+ clothes. He was a ''monopolist,' they
i said, who was going to fence i'll the coun'
try They tried to scare him away, but
they found he had been a soldier once
and would not scare. The cowboys said
he had come to drive them all off their
ranches. The hunters declared he was
going to buy up their buffalo grounds
and, to own the truth, the young mar
did really act as if he were going to buy
the earth.
Before many days he won the respect
of his western neighbors in more ways
than one, but still they took him to be {
veil plumed bird that ought to be pluck
ed and who could be easily swindled
: Their ire was raised to the highest pitcl
: when the Marquis gained control Of
= about 10000 acres of land in Montana
e which took in the three principal trails
!, through which the cattle We're driven tt
the east. south and west.
a STARTLING ADVENTURE.
The COW boys began to shoot the French
It mans ca le wholesale and menaced hi
h herders when the latter were off duty
le Appeals to the sheriff proved useless; S,
. finding himself in bad fix the Marqui
>. determined to take the matter into hi
II own hands and stop the matter himself
le He declared if he found "A man killing
N his animals he would shoot the rascal
O. like he would a steer. In six months h
es was shot at by an unseen enemy no les
= llldll Eighteen lllltS. LIS lllOSl bltltl LUG
y were a man named Mitchell and an oil
a buffalo hunter called Lutfrey,
IT One day while riding over the prairie
e. accompanied by one Of his most faithful
followers, a man named Paddock, a bu
: let whistled by his head, the smoke cur
re ing from a little bunch of sage brus
ie about 200 yards in front Without
Is moments hesitation the marquis dug hi
= spurs into his horses TANKS and dashe
1r head foremost directly toward the an
r. bush. The ringleader of the gang jumpe
TX to his feet and leveled Winchester &
ut the marquis; but the latter like tlasl
or and while going at full speed, drew h
IN little silver mounted repeater, and I'll
Us would be assassin fell in his tracks, t
:. rise no more,
no Another of the band was badly woun(
ne ed and the rest quickly leaping to the
IT, horses. sought safety in flight. tt