Arizona republican., 1910-04-29
ROMANCE Of
 \ BEREsFoRD
BRITISH ADMlRAt'S BROTHER
 WHO GAVE UP HIS RANK.
The Late Lord Oelaval Beresford a Cattle Rancher in Mexico - His Estate Claimed by a Neeress as
 His Common Law Wife.

Fl PasO, Tex.-The sale of the Oji- tOs ranch in Mexico for sI9O, 900 wound up the affairs of the estate of the late Lord Delaval Beresford. who chose to spend his life on a cattle ranch of 1l0,- 900 acres in Mexico. his companion q negro woman. rather than in England
 Delaval BeresfOrd left England when young man, 20 years or more ago. be- cause he did not like the restraints oi the life he had been accustomed to. He wandered until he found q location that suited him. It was leagues from a railroad. in the mountain fasteness of the then almost unexplored stretches of northern Chihuahua. in Mexico Why he went there and why he selected this location for his home he told nobody He had money to buy the land. which was worth less than 90 cents an acre, and he had money to buy the cattle with which to stock it.
 He was rough and ready. as the cow boys say. He was an Englishman, but he did not have the English ways. He was ready to ride with the hardest vaquero. and at night would sleep with nothing but mother earth for q bed and only his saddletree for a pillow. That he was a lord, member of the British aristocracy. nobody knew for years. but he was admired as an Eng lishman with nerve and grit.
 Whether his relatives knew where he was nobody knew. He never seemed to a la but business letters. He made friends of his Mexican vaQueros and their fam lilies and he soon became known in Fl Paso. for he made visits every once in a while to the city. and it did not take long for the people to become aware when he was here. On these visits he treated everybody he met, neither race nor color being barred.
 But always he kept out of the spot light. He did not spend his money in the big gambling houses or in the bril- liantly lighted saloons. as other cow men do when they hit town with purses newly filled from their cattle sales. Always the small saloons the dives. were patronized. Delaval Beresford did not seek the best of society.
 AlltI O1lt Ol liltSt NlSiiS u was ih- mored that on his return to Ojitos ranch he was accompanied by q negress well known in the part of the city most frequented by the English man on his visits. Then somebody ex- plained that she had been taken down as his cook: that he was tired of the Mexican fare he had been getting.
 The next time he came to town the negress was with him and the pair went to one of the leading hotels and applied for a room for MT. and Mrs. Beresford," but all rooms were engaged Quarters were found elsewhere. and that night the usual BeresfOrd spree was begun and the negress was a part ner in it all.
 During the revelry the negress. known to her associates as Flo, an- nounced that she was Lady Flo and that she was the wife of Lord Delaval Beresford. brother of the English Ad- mirol. Lord Charles Beresford. Yves gwine back to old Englan' and fse gwine to see de Queen; she has ter see me. cause rse de wife of lord" she would tell her friends.
 Then it got to be common talk; everybody soon spoke of the couple as Lord and Lady Flo" The Englishman continued to raise cattle and ship them to Canada and sell them at good price and accompanied by his black companion he made regular trips to Fl Paso. He never denied the statements of the negress that she was his wife, and she made purchases at the stores and charged them to Lord Beresford. who always settled the bills promptly. No more letters passed between the Englishman and his relatives back in England than before the disclosure of his identity. however. and Lady Flo" never made her trip to see the queen.
 In 1907 early in the spring Lord Del aval Beresford took trainload of cat tie to Canada to the market. Return ing from the Canadian market the train on which he was a passenger went into the ditch near Medicine Hat Canada, and when the list of dead was printed there appeared the name of .Delaval Beresford. Mexico" Lady Flo" was in Fl Paso when the wires brought the news and at once went into mourning and proceeded to make preparations to take charge of the estate.
 Inside of ten days lawyer came to town from New York. The cables had been working and Admiral Lord Charles Beresford had acted. The body had been ordered shipped home and