The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-03-06
HUNT FOR A COWBOY.

When L was on the AlSHdH lIoII-
tier we had in cavalry regiment
young man who had enlisted in the
line as private soldier, but who
bore the ancient and somewhat pom
darous name of Genille Cave-Brown-
Cave, and who was veritable SEN
sational novel in himself. This gen.
tleman is now a cowboy in Colorado
and is wanted to take his place in the
vacant mansion of Stretton-en-le-
Field, near Ashby-de-la-zouch in Lei
cestershire, England, for the old
baronet is dead Sir Mylles Cave
Brown-Cave, c. B., died short time
ago at eighty-fve, and Genille, the
Colorado cowboy, his only son, is
heir to the baronetcy, which dates
from the time of King Charles L.,
by whom it was conferred on the
Cave family in the year 1641 for
special service rendered to Mary
Queen of Scots when she was i'm
prisoned for a time in the old castle
at Ashby.
When he was in the cavalry regi-
ment on the Northwest frontier OF
India, Genille, who was tall, broad
shouldered, blue-eyed, manly frank
er," was not only an excellent boxer
but was exceedingly popular among
both officers and men for his dare
devil character. He was brave fell
low and had a hand to hand encoun-
ter with an Afghan by whom he was
+oJ
from his prison house through the
kindness shown him by an Afghan
deryish. He used to aStonish us
even then with the story of his event
full life, and during the last twenty
or thirty years he has added many
a chapter to the interesting volume.
He was only boy when his elder
brother was killed, and as he was re-
garded by his father as q regular
scapegrace he was sent to sea. He
served as captains boy on gunboat
in the British navy on the Australian
coast. He soon got tired of nautical
life, and much to his fathers chagrin
he left her Majesty's navy and en-
listed as a private in a Highland
regiment. Feeling that the position
of "clodhopper" was somewhat un-
dignified for Cave-Brown-Cave, of
Stretton-en-le-Field of Ashby-de-la-
Zouch, Genille took a step upward
by enlisting in a cavalry regiment,
and was present at the battle of Tel
el-Kebir in Egypt under Lord Wolse-
ley and afterward served in Afghan
istan. Then Genille appeared in Eng
land and became popular in the West
End of London among certain set
and was we'll known at the Cocoa
Tree Club" but he soon got into
debt and had a quarrel with his
father. Sir Mylles Cave-Brown-Cave
gave him a small yearly allowance
and ordered him to leave the country.
1t was then that Genille came over
to the land noted for the reburnish-
ing of tarnished regulations and was
commissioned by New York firm to
kill tigers and other big game for
the furrier market. He made some
money in Burmah, but squandered
it in extravaganza. After making a
passed through Yokohama and even
tually found his way to San Francis
CO. In Frisco he was immensely
popular, and it was said he had
matrimonial future before him. But
he suddenly shipped and was next
heard of in Kansas City, where he
worked as a day laborer in paving
the streets. From Kansas he went
to Arizona, and then to Texas. Find
ing the life of the wild and woolly'
West congenial he became a cowboy.
1t is said that his last letter bore the
postmark of Denver, Lut up to the
present time he has not taken any
notice of the formal intimation of
the executors of the late baronet,
and it is thought that he is either de-
termined to live a democratic life in
a free country which he has found
so congenial to his Bohemian dispo-
sition or perhaps he is dead. Ac-
cording to the English peerage
Genille Cave-Brown-Cave would in
the event of his death be succeeded
by his second cousin, Reginald Am
brose ve-Brown-Cave, c. b, COM
mander in his Majestys royal navy,
who is about ten years older than the
missing cowboy.
The whole narrative of this man S
life is one of the many instances of
the, romance which surrounds so
many Englishmen who leave their
country for their countrys good and
find home in the United States.
The story of the cowboy baronet
reminds one of the "Gentleman Tim"
in Mr.. Whites Arizona Nights. -
An ex-Chaplain of India, in the New
York Sun.