Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-30

all true cattlemen who had % be rec
koned with. The marquis made things
hot around the raprV and shot one OF
them. He said one day
shortly after ] went west ] was cleo
ted 10 the executive committee Of the
Dakota and Montana Cattlemens assoc
citation and upon my shoulders the task
OF keeping order and REFRESHING horse
stealing In my immediate vicinity fell
Naturally, In so doing | made many
enemies. and In six months | was shot
AT by unseen persons is times, thus
beating George Washington's record at
the dei1at Of BraddOck 10y one, MY
most bitter enemy was man named
Mitchell, and It Is for killing him that
/ was tried One day when accom-
panied by one Of my men, | was at
tackled by Mitchell and two cowboys
In the ARRAY which ensued Mitchell
was killed perhaps by my rifle and per-
haps By that Of my man. ! was imme-
diateiy tried by the Justice of the peace
and discharged.
Despite the cXhiuration Of the Dako-
Ia air II was a desolate ME out there on
those vast. spectral plains, stretching
away Ike an oc- an gray silent, som
Der, yoiceless The husband was away
so much looking after his herds and
his business. that his wife grew home
sick with the exception of the priest
and the little chapel there was no COM
partnership during the long days when
her husband was absent
Another thing. the bonanza features
SO radlautly predicted at the beginning
did not materiali2e. As IN all new en-
tcrprises. there were many drawbacks
and a lack OF good American manage
ment by business men Of experience TO
keep things within bounds Day by
day the wife grew timber and loneler
and finally the the marquis said they
would 20 abroad and live for each 9TH
er. After spending million dollars /"
the west he returned TO New York, to5t
| his wife TO Paris and there they began
| to enjoy themselves
Unfortunately, the marquis was al
! ways a restless man, daring dashing,
! brave, boastful, chlvalr0us kind of
hero, and more or less revolutionary
lie Joined the anti-Semite movement
and was arrested for completely in an
! ORLEANS plot against the government In
1892 he fought a duel with Capt, Mayer,
who challenged him ana ran him
through,
In the spring Of 1896 Marquis dc
MOres was commissioned by the French
government to lead an expedition into
the Soudan to ncite the Arabs to resist
the English advance In Africa
MarQuiese de Mores had been left be-
hind at the last outpost OF civilization
but, brave as she was, she had mlsgiy.
ings, said that her husband carried
many secrets Of the Dreyfus affair, II
which the French army were his enc
mics and anxious to get him out Of tn,
| way.
OF what followed much has come e
light
AT Djeneien, on May May 80, Morci
wrote
I'VE narrowly missed falling into al
ambush prepared for US by our enemie
behind my back Some of my came
drivers have evidently been bribed
They almost mutinled. l had to shov
my teeth"
His last letter. dated Imchignig, Jun
z, states:
81 hope TO leave here tomorrow witt
the Touaregs. The Chaamba tried L
revolt. | should not be surprised I
find that they have been sent with m
by some one with evil intent.
There is something very treacherous i
all this"
HIS DEATH AND MASSACRE RE
PORTED.
Eight days later. June TO- messag
reached Tunnis saying that De More
and his two Algerian servants, with hi
Interpreter. had been massacred at L
Quatia Just week previous. Thre
weeks later their bodies were taken {
Tunis and a military expedition or
ganized to avenge the murder, bu'
strange 10 say, the minister OF foreig
affairs ordered 1t abandoned.
The body Of the marquis reache
Paris. and the funeral ceremony a
Notre Dame, on July ~, 1896, caused
national demonstration Slron
speeches were delivered by friends 9
the deceased and there was great feel
ing oyr ii In certain circls.
Then the little American woman
Marquise DE Mores, prepared to aveng
her husbands death Her first though
was TO call on those American cowboy
who had become her friends in Dakota
but II was abandoned as likely to lea
TO international complications.
She wisely concluded 10 offer large n
wards and trust to the skill and eXper
ence Of Arab chiefs. In what followe
one must admire the genius and DC
termination OF an American woma
who is in earnest
Read this letter she wrote and ha