The Butte inter mountain., 1902-07-30
ECCENTRIC FRENCH NOBLEMAN,
LATELY MURDERED IN soUDAN,
RAISED CATTLE IN MONTANA.
FRENCH GOVERNMENT is
GLAD De MORES is DEAD
Was Regarded as Dangerous Aoitator, as
His Political Ideas Were Antaoonl:to
to the Present Form Of Government
Assassns Brought to the Scaffold BY
His Widow, an American.

It is not known to everybody that tho
Marquis de Mofes, who was assassinated
in the Soudan by Arabs six years ago.
was at one time a cattleman in Montana,
but such is the fact He was picturesque
and Quixotic French nobleman, and he
had a cattle ranch in Southern Montana
out of which he once thought he would get
very rich. lie was fascinated by the broad
brimmcd cowboy hat while in the cattle
business and he made it the style among
the romantic French political enthusiasts
OF Paris TO try TO turn the government
down about every six months.
DE Mores was slain by treacherous
Arabs while heading an expedition into the
interior Of the Soudan with the chimcrical
idea Of founding French-Islamitic empire
on the shores of Lake Tchad, which was
to block Cecil Rhodes scheme to build
what was TO be known as the Cape-to-
Cairo railroad His widow, the Mar
chioncss de Mores, Is now engaged in
hunting down and securing the punish
ment of the Touregs and Chambas who
slew her visionary husband.
Married an American.
lie Mores was born in Paris and there
married an American woman, Miss Won
Hoffman, who survives him as the Mar
ehioness dc Mores. He came to America
after his marriage and went into the cat
tie scheme in Montana on an immense
scheme. lie had ranch Of 20 900 acres
and thousands Of cattle, but the market
fell and broke him.
lie returned to Paris then and engaged
in politics. and in 1906 went on the ex-
petition into Egypt that resulted in hia
death. 1t has been said that his massacre
was instigatcd by the French government
to get rid OF him. He was frcbrand in
politics.
De Mores took no Europeans with him
on the expedition, but went into the
Soudan with a small number of Arabs, in.
tending to form an alliance with the
Mahdi OF Omdurman and conquer all OF
the Bahr-c Gael country and Join forces
with Commandant Marchand, who was TO
come in by way OF Fashoda. He believed
that the Upper Nile could be damned and
Egypt turned into desert while the Sa.
hara would be made TO blossom like the
rose.
Guide Betrayed Him.
he took with him for Tourcgs and Cham
bas at the Oasis Of Gazabc, and when he
got inland the latter killed him and his
two Arab servants. The bodies were
brought back to Tunis. The leaders of the
assassins were Bcchaoui and Sheikben-
add el-Kadir.
The Marchioncss de Morcs has RIM
down three of the assassns and one Of
them has died and the rest have been CON
demncd at Tunis. The cowboys of South.
ern Montana wish her every kind of luck.
though they never banked much on de
Mores' good sense. lie had plenty of
courage but his ideas were too fancy to 90
through the bluing water and keep color.
The Murderers Condemned.
An Associated Press dispatch received
today from Tunis, is TO the effect that the
trial OF the assassins Of the MARQUIS de
Morcs resulted in the condcmning to death
OF III kheir and sentencing of HANNA
ohiekah to 30 years Imprisonment.
Seventeen others accused of the as
sassination were sentenced in default. six
to be put to death and II to hard labor.