Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-06-09

than those who knew the business,
with a result the shrewd stockmen
came out on the long end of all bust
ness deals. The upshot of the whole
thing was that 80 percent of the cattle
purchased were not slaughtered at all,
but were shipped to the eastern stock
yards where, by reason of their poor
condition, they brought considerably
less than they had cost the MARQUIS.
De Mores' bubble blew up quickly. The
packing plant went out of business
his energies to straight cattle. raising.
One day the Marquis, in his guile.
less manner, fenced a piece OF land
at the mouth of a coulee in such
manner that it obstructed recognized
trail. De Mores had difficulty in un-
Outstanding the laws and customs OF
the west. It was his idea that the only
necessary procedure in the taking up
of land was to stake it out, something
in the manner of person taking up
mining claim. The marquis had had
several bits of unpleaSantneSs over this
habit but not until ne fenced the land
at the mouth of the coulee did any
thing really serious occur.
A local character, Frank O'Donnen,
who had some slight reputation as
gunman, found his trail blocked by the
fence. Whereupon, swearing that ne
would cut all such fences that the
marquis built, he tore down the wires
and re-opened the trail. Word of the
act and threat came to De Mores, who
flared up at once. Serious trouble APP
peared Imminent. with prospects OF
some killing. when a stockman in the
vicinity sent word to the sheriff at
Bismarck The sheriff, Harmon, was
busy elsewhere. and he sent his orotn-
er an inexperienced deputy, 70 Me-
dora. Harmon found ODonnell on
horseback with two other men, Riley
Iufsey and an individual known as
"Waynegan." ODonnell refused to sub.
nit to arrest on the ground he had
committed no crime. Whereupor Har-
mon Joined De Mores, who was In
town, for a conference.
MARQUIS Ambushes Them
Half an hour later ODonnell, Luf-
sew and Waynegan, rode out of town.
Presently shots were heard from the
distance. A rancher started running
towards the scene of battle and as he
ran he counted II shots. He came
across the mount of one of the men.
The animal was shot through the
lungs and lying across a railroad track
The rancher knew train was. due
soon. and he paused to roll the horse
off the rails. Running on, he found
a second horse. Then he came upon
ODonnell, shot through the thigh, and
Lufsey, dead. with two bullet holes
through him.
The two horses and the men had
been shot from ambush by the mar.
ouis. whose face was badly scratched
by gravel which a bullet from one OF
the men on horseback had kicked into
his eyes. He surrendered himself read
ily, wired his father-in-law that he
tense. He secured the services OF every
well known lawyer in eastern Montana
and Dakota, so that ODonnell ana
Waynegan, who Swore to see DE Mores
hang for the death of Lufsey, were
forced to send to Minnesota Tor an
attorney.
incidents which ended in the dismissal
of ali charges. ODonnen and Wayne
gan, defeated. faded out of the pic
fure and the marquis had no more
trouble with them.
Still interested in business, DE Mores
established stage line from Deao,
wood to the railroad at Meaor ;;. IL I'll nae nf
a brief existence, and then, ike az OF
the marquis projects, blew up. Next
ne Mores became enthusiastic about
the possibilities of tropical fruit, raised
under glass in heated hot houses. he
sent at once for a high-salaried gar
dener from Paris, and upon the ar
rival of the man began having grouIlo
cleared for the greenhouses.
It happened that De Mores' father;
in-iaw Visited him at this time, ana
found little enthusiasm for the PROF.
ect Of his daughters husband. re
withdrew his financial support; me
gardener returned to Paris s,, anu date ate
palms and cocoanuts resumed growing
isagehr1ish.
Returns to France
The. marquis returned to France, puG
made occasional trips to Medora untl
as late as 1889. After leaving America
he went to India and China and upon
his return to Paris the newspa s, n
carried a story about wonderful Is
land in the far east which the mar
auis had visited, According to De