The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-11

Paris friends de Afores wrote encoura gfngly
of his great undertaking. He expected to
I gather about him a large number Of small
chiefs and they tribesmen and with his
! miscellaneous army join the forces Of OsInan
Digna at DOngOla or Wady Halfa- There
he expected to give battle to the Anglo
Egyptian army upon its arrival.
That de Mores could work great injury to
the English cause in the coming conflict
in the Soudan can be easily understood
He was a great favorite with the Arab
chiefs because of his dauntless courage,
his rowing spirit and fierce hatred of the
English. AS a fighter he was unrivaled-
He believed in literal predestination and his
countless narrow escapes from death, when
the chances we're 100 to against him, made
him careless of his life.
He proved this trait a dozen years ago
in this countryFsand there ARE many bad
men" in the West to-day who can tell thrill
ing tales about the Marquis There are
some others, too, but they are under ground.
His friends here are numbered by the
hundred They know that the Marquis in
the old days was crafty well as brave,
and it is this which makes them believe
that the de MOres will yet turn up alive
They say it would be just like him to have
the rumor Of his death circulated and send
a trusted servant to Tunis to confirm it,
Then he could carry on some secret project
with less bindrance
The Marquis was thirty-seven years old.
His full name was Antonio Maria de
VaIIambrOsa. His father is the Due de
Sardinia and the Of Spanish parents.
II 1882 when the Marquis was twenty
three. he mex in Paris Miss Medora Won
Hoffman, the daughter of Louis ven Hoff-
man. New York banker, and u power in
wall street Miss Won Hoffman was
doing Europe at the time, and after
snort engagement the marriage took place
abroad They journeyed to this country,
and the Marquis and his bride planned a
great Western trip Both of the young
people had large fortunes. but If de Mores
had had the wealth Of a Monte Cristo 1t
would have been too small for some of the
schemes he conceived. When they got as
far as Chicago the Marquis toured the great
packing and slaughter houses He dis
covered that the owners of these places had
amassed millions by killing and dressing
the cattle shipped to them from all quarters
Of the great West. He learned that the
ranch men made money, the killers and
dressers made money, the wholesale deal
ers ana commission houses made money,
and, finally, that the retail butchers made
money.
These items Of information stuck in de
NIOres' head and soon developed an idea
which at one time seriously threatened to
revolutonize the ranching, packing and
butcher business. His scheme was TO raise
his own cattle kill and dress it on the
ranch ship it on his own refrigerator cars
to the Eastern cities and there sell ii to the
con sunner over his own counters in his own
stores. To make his scheme national in
scope he expected in time to build a com
pIete cnain o: packing houses from the
Dakotas through the great cattle countries
to the Pacific In this way he would buy
Up all the cattle in the West as the ranch
men would have only comparatively short
distance to drive their herds to reach one
If his packing houses.
This was a pretty big scheme for a man |
If twenty-three. but the Marquis always |
went in for big things. Just south OF the
North Dakota bad Lands" and near the |
Montana line. is beautiful stretch OF coun- !
~ called the Garden Of Eden. There were