St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-11
Some Account Of the Amer
lean Experience of the
Nervous Frenchman.
How He Came West to "GpoW
Up With the Coun-
try"
A Man With the Courage Of
Napoleon and the Gail of
a Reporter.
Western Career OF a Man
Since Even More Fa-
nous.

having souie trouble in the land of his
birth. On the last of April he was ar
rested in Paris. charged with having in
cited the laboring men. communists and
anarchists or the French capital to OPP IN
rebellion. Ranking the marquis with
anarchists and laboring men is laugha-
bic to those in the Northwest who are
cognizant of the erratic Frenehman's
real political principles. He is leglti-
mist.of the most pronounced type, be-
lieving in the divine right of kings. and
has resolutely refused to be reconciled
to the existing republican government
of France.
The Marquis de Mores is the oldest
son of the Due de ValDmbrosa. de-
scendant of one of the oldest families of
France. Just after finishing his educa-
ton he saw an article in a LOnuon news
paper which. reflected somewhat upon
tn. character of his father. He in
Stantly took passage across the channel
anu ch,I.;iiged the editor of the offend
Ing Journal anu forced him to fight with
him. This was wnen be had barely at
tanned his majority. Like most duels
QIVSIpIL0tGI Wy iiOOoAJ
was badly nurt in this encounter.
: Seven or eight years ago the marquis
met in Paris the daughter OF Won H0tf-
man, the rich New York banker, and
married her. He had been somewhat
wild during his youthful days, and his
family thought 1t would he safer for
domestic peace to send him over to
America. So he came to New York AMI
took a position in the banking house Of
ills father-in-law. Here he remained
doing nothing except TO draw fat sal
ary-untii the position, because of idle
ness. BECAME perfectly intOlera6e to
6nt of his nervous aud naturally active
temperament; land then he cam to the
great, free. busting Northwest ITO
grow up with the country"
The uneasy French, nooleman struck
The Northwest at Il most happy epoch.
IL was the boom season for North Da-
kota that gifded era when mon created
a.fortune in aday and spent ltiHa nights
debauch. He came to st. Paul, presented
his credentials. and fell immediately
into the clutches of the general pasSen-
Fer agent of the Northern Pacific rail
read. A special car WAS placed at his
disposal. and in twelty-four hours he
found himself in Bismarck.
; There ti0urished at that time, in the
lively city of the Upper Missouri. a law
yer by the name of Allen. He had come
West bearing the credentials of a New
York club man, and had established a
record as
4 "A FIRST-CLASS DRINKER,
a fair hand at poker. ami an altogether
good fellow The marquis bore letters
bf introduction to Mr.. A lien, and before
the Frenchman had been six hours in
Bismarck he had been Introduced to all
the local dignitaries, and it was uni
gersally known that he had father-in
law worth S15.ODOJJ. That settled it.
The marquis became great social ia
yorite. 1t was known that ne
had come West to establish a
Stock rancll. Usually, in those
days, a man who came to that
country to establish stock ranch
would have in his possession dozen
sheep, five or six cows and bull, and,
possibly. Norman stallion. The mar
ouis had none of these, but he did have
an unlimited letter of credit from Won
Hotfman's bank in New York. 1t will
be understood, of course, that his
credentials gave him unusual popular
itv in Bismarck. and he had no diff
caity whatever in gaining access to the
very best society. But the marquis did
not seem to be searching for social dis
tiuctiun out there on the confines of
civilization. He wanted to go further
west, and SD, under the guidance of Mr..
Allen, he found his way TO the Little
Missouri, $50 miles west of Bismarck.
And now the real merits Of the man
began to shine out cOnspicu0usly. He
bought a town site. This was not out
of the usual programme, however, for
nearly every man-Whetiler he had
money or not-wOuld buy a town site as
soon as lie struck the territory. Indeed,
a man could not presume TO move i'll
the best Dakota society in 1885 unless
he was the fortunate possesSOr OF one
town site OF more.
But the marquis went further. He
bought two or three ran .heS from pio-
Deer people who had been holding down
claims and living on antelope vcniSon
until the season for suckers to run. He
made contracts with all the frontiers
men within radius of thirty miles to
take a flock of sheep on shares. and
then hired an experienced sheep farm
er to 60 out into Washington territory
and buy up all the sheep he could find.
In less than six weeks an era of sub
stantial prosperity had dawned upon
the Little Missouri wilderness. the cor
ner stone of which was the letter of
credit held by the Marquis de MoreS on
the banking house of Won Hoffman.
But even in this wilderness the
DEVIL. OF UUMAN JEALOUSY
fourd an abiding place. In distributing
his sheep on shares and buying ranches
for cash, the marquis unfortunately
overlooked one important individual.
This was a ''b-a-d man from Texas
r yf1n ctn a
bar and absorbed whisky while all the
other fellows were reapfng rich har-
vest out of the pocketb00k OF the French
tenderfoOt. Finally this unruly indi-
.y1dua. turned loose with his revolver
and terroriZed the town. Accompanied
bv his two chums, he started out to find
tie marquis, swearing to kill the
sibloated aristocrat'' on sight. Mean
time, to keep his hand in, he emptied
his revolver into the upper story of the
leading hotel, hoping that one OF the
Straw shots would strike the Frenchman.
ali of the denizens of Little Missouri
cave the ruffian wide berth. A tele-
gram was sent to Mandan for the Sher-
iff, who started west at o'clock q. m.
On freight train, and arrived at the
seat of war about 4 O'Clock p. III. The
sheriff found the town terrorized, and
a the Marquis de M0reS nowhere III Sigiit.
He tried to arrest the gang, but they
lust laughed aG him, and, mounting their
bronchos, rode out of town.
Now the marquis made his appear
sance, He and two or three companions
were waiting just outside the limits OF
the village, and when the roughs made
their appearance, without exchanging
word fire was opened upon the bad man
and his gang. One was killed and one