The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-11-03

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lieve that O'Donald was going TO
shoot him on sight. The 1arQu!s'
who was brave - any Hon. himself.
did not fear IN attack from the hum
ter. but he was afraid Of, legal en-
tanglements that might follow . clash
between them. He therefore wo0t %
the nearest town where . local ma
gistrate resided to seek the officials
advice. He laid his case before the
Judge and asked, what shall ! dot"
"Shoot first" replied the magis-
trate. who seemed amazed ut the
Frenchman's simplicity.
The result of this advice was the
return Of the Marquis to Little Mis-
souri, and gunfight between Dc
Mores and his followers and O'Donald
and his two friends. Luffsey was
killed and the other two men, O'D0n-
aid and Wannigan, were wounded.
The attack Of the Marquis and his
men was not justified and the stain
Of the killing Of Riley Luffsey was
never removed from the Marquis
while he remained in the west. He
was not brought to trial for nearly
two years, however, and then was
acquitted. It IL said that the Mar
quis employed nearly every lawyer
of consequence in Montana and the
Dakotas.
Begins Losing Money
The Marquis soon became busily
engaged In losing large sums of
money in every undertaking in which
he engaged. He bought steers ct
too high q price and sold them for
0Aa0 tn hNvs~tat 1T.
lars worth of cayuses for about twice
what they were worth. He flooded
the territory around Medora with
sheep, half Of which were too old
and toothless to survive a winter.
They died like flies when cold wea-
Their came.
Meanwhile, his plans for becoming
q great packer were progressing. He
built a slaughterhouse in Miles City;
in Billings he built another one. He
established offices in st. Paul, in
Duluth and in Brainerd, MINI. He
built refrigerator plants in Mandan.
in Bismark and at Portland. To
many his plan seemed practical
enough, for he argued that to send
a steer on the hoof from Montana to
Chicago and then send it back to
Montana in the form of beef involv-
ed much waste in freight rates. He
also pointed out that range steer
lost ten per cent in shrinkage on the
trip east. The cities along the Nor
thern Pacific were most enthusiastic
about the plan and presented the
Marquis with all the land he needed
for buildings.
The Marquis grew in local favor
and influence, for he was extremely
free with promises that Medora
would soon rival Omaha, that tele-
phone lines would be built up and
down the valley, that stage line to
Deadwood would be established, max
ing Medora q distributing center for
the Black Hills mines. The effect
was to stimulate some feeling of
civic pride, and a school was built.
Just why, it is hard to guess, for
there was marked lack of children
to attend 1t. Nevertheless a teacher
was procured male teacher-and
the bad men, gamblers, painted la
dies, saloonmen and others made up
a pot" to pay his salary and ex-
penses. The idea did not wear we'll,
however, and in a few weeks the
schoolmaster left the school to open
q saloon.
The Northern Pacific crosses the
river at Medora, and the Marquis
soon had the trains stopping on his
side of the stream, instead of in
Little Missouri. A paper was start
ed in Medora called the Bad Lands
Cowboy. The eastern metropolitan
daflies, including the New York Sun.
gave front-page space to the event,
and Medora achieved national noto-
riety. The Marquis, on his frequent
eastern trips, proved an excellent
press agent, and he spared no efforts
in imagination to tell of the glories
of the new and growing packing GEN.
ter.
The Marquis was spending money
like water in various local CONNER