The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-07

reckoned with The Marquis made
things hot around the range and shot
one Of them. He said one day: Short
ly after I went West I was elected
to the executive committee of the sDa-
kota and. Montana Cattlemen'S asso-
citation, and upon my shoulders the
task of keeping order and REFRESHING
horse stealing in my immediate vicin-
made enemies, and in six months I
was shot at by unseen persons eighteen
times, thus beating George Washing
toms record at the, defeat of Brad
dock by one. My most. bitter enemy
was a man named Mitchell, and it. is
for killing him that I was tried. One
day, while accompanied Fby one of my
men, I was attacked by Mitchell and
two cowboys In the affray which en-
sued Mitchell was killed, perhaps by
my rifle and perhaps by that of my
man.. was Immediately tried by the
justice of the peace and discharged"
Despite the exhilaration of the Da-
kota air it was a desolate life out
there on those vast spectral plains,
stretching away like an ocean-gray,
silent, somber voiceless. The hus-
band was away so much, looking after
his herds and his, business, that his
wife grew homesick. With the ex-
ception of the priest and the little
chapel there was no companionship
band was absent.
Another thing, the bonanza features
SO radiantly predicted at the beginning
did not materialize. AS in all new en-
terprises, there were many drawbacks
and lack Of good American manage
ment by business men of experience
to keep things within bounds. Day
by day the wife grew thinner and
lonelier, and finally the Marquis said
they would go abroad and i've for each
other. After spending a million dollars
in the West he returned to New York,
took his wife to Paris and there they
began to enjoy themselves.
Unfortunately, the Marquis was al
ways a restless man. daring, dashing,
brave, boastful chivalrous kind Of
hero, and more or less revolutionary.
He joined the anti-SeTnite movement
and was arrested for completely in an
Orleans plot aainst the government.
In 1892 he fought duel with Capt.
Mayer, who challenged him and ran
him through.
In the spring of 1896 Marquis de
Mores was commissioned by the French
government to lead an expedition into
/ the Soudan to incite the Arabs to resist
the English advance in. Africa.
Marquise de Mores had been left be-
hind at the last outpost Of civilfza.
ton, but, brave, as she was, she had
misgivings, said that her husband car
ried many secrets of the Dreyfus affair
in which he was involved, and that
certain officers in the French army
were his enemies and anxious to get
him out of the way.
OF what followed such has come
to light.
At Djeneien, on May 80, Mores wrote:
I'VE narrowly missed falling into an
ambush prepared for us by our enemies
behind my back. Some of my camel
drivers have evidently been bribed.
my teeth"
His last letter, dated Imchignig,
June Z, states
81 hope to Ieave#here tomorrow with
the Touaregs. The Chaanba tried to
revolt I should not be surprised to
find that they have been sent with
me by some one with evil intent. =
There is something very treacherous
in all this"
His Death in Massacre Reported.
Eight days later, June Is, message
reached Tunis saying that De Mores
and his two Algerian servants, with his
interpreter, had been massacred at Ell
Quatia just a week previous. Three
weeks later their bodies were taken
to TuniS and a military expedition or
agnized to avenge the murder, but,
strange to say, the minister OF for
eign affairs ordered it abandoned.
The body of the Marquis reached
Paris, and the funeral ceremony at
Notre Dame, on July 10, 1885, caused
a nationalist demonstrations. Strong
speeches were delivered by friends OF
the deceased and there was great Ieel-
ing over it in certain circles.
Then the little American woman,
Marquise de Mores prepared to avenge
her husbands death. Her first thougnt
was to call on those American cow.
boys who had become her friends IN
Dakota, but it was abandoned as iiKe-
ly to lead to international compnca-
tons.
She wisely concluded to offer large
rewards and trust to the skill ana e4-
perience of Arab chiefs. In Wllal Ioi,
lowed one must admire the genius anu
determination Of an American "oiiian
who is in earnest.
Read this letter she wrote ana nau
translated into Arabic and sen. py
special conveyance TO all the notauIe
sheiks of the province where the mas
sacre occurred: ,.a4,x
In behalf Of the illustrious' oislih-