The Butte inter mountain., 1903-01-21
Russian Nobleman Taken at
MissouIa Upon a Vulgar
Charge of Debt.
HUMILIATING RECOGNITION
AT HANDS OF OLD FRIENDS
Garden City Chin Scrapers Find That
His lordship Was Formerly on Their
Own Craft in That Vicinity and Had,
Moreover, Departed Without the
Formally Of Paying Up.

Count Valentine Agreneif. the Russian
nobleman who made the handbook men
OF Butte stand aghast with his punging
among IS to shots here, has met real
trouble over at Missoua. He has been
5agged there for brace of board bills
II seems that while he is able to call long
shots as If he had second sight, board
nills @ pursue MN with the dogged rcsolu-
ton OF mining case detective.
Count Agrenef, once the crony of
princes, marquises and belted earls. lies
~ the Missoula bastle, according TO the
dispatches, awaiting removal to Helena
TO answer to charge preferred against
nm by some vulgar creditor who seem
ingiy mas no more respect for the blue
Dlood OF Europe than for box OF macca-
rom that has been out in the wet and got
mildewed.
Laid by the Heels.
The count. who was enormously ac
credited among the horse sports with the
title OF Count William Berjerski Buck.
hardski, was laid by the heels at Missoua
last night when the train which was bear
ing MS noble presence to Spokane whizzed
INTO the station. 1t was quite a surprise
to. the count to be waited upon by sher-
III, remembering that while at home in
the court OF the Romanofs he was usu-
any met on every street corner by a hipt
chamberlain or the polsher of the door
knobs and handed a bunch of roses.
IL seems that the sheriff at Helena had
teiegranhed that the keeper of hotel AT
that city had bill against the count and
Agreneit. scion of the house of Agrencff,
was pulled on the charge of attempting
10 nee the country without luuidating.
ne dispatches say that the count was in
dignant at the action OF the Helena hotel
keeper, declaring that the latter had pos
session OF the swell dress coat i'm which he
used TO escort countesses and duchesses
through the noble rooms OF the Winter pal-
ace while the czar was off sifft or playino
Ping-pong with the cook, and was there
lore well paid He desired to know what
more hotelkeeper required in payment
for his paltry bill than the noble vestment
already in his hands.
There Was More to Come.
But that was not all the trouble en-
countered by Count Agreneft alias Buck
hardski, the erstwhilc chin-scraper OF
pieDian miners cowboys and other such
gentry AT the COW town of Missoula II
appears that Agreneff has been in the
barber business long enough in Montana
To nave acquired a residence and likewise
to have exercised his credit and his abil-
ity to make it useful and profitable to him
IN various places.
AS soon as the gives were placed upon
MN at Missoula. and his noble but bar
bering person was cast into the local
prison. Missoula barber and a Missoula
hoteikeeper George Potts and Harry Pat
ten by name, recognized him as a barber
who had dalied in Missoula last fall and
had done business with them.
They both asserted that Agreneff had
departed from Missoula before the winter
set in owing them money and learning
that he had sos in his clothes they at
tached the lucre nus was the count dis
tressed in foreign land by many claims
upon his liberty and property
He was said in Butte by the poolroom
fanciers to have left here with much more
than sos by great deal, but it has been
rumored since that he played the bank be-
fore leaving, which would explain the low
tide of his exchequer