found the Marquis de Mores a pleasant gentleman.
Little Missouri will double her population before spring.
The new depot will be soon completed and will be a good one.

It is worth remarking that Butler, McGeeney, Walker, Fitzpatrick,
Anderson, and Frank Vine all conducted bars of one description or
another. The "business" which is "booming" in the first line,
therefore, seems to have been exclusively the business of selling and
consuming liquor.

There is one further item in those "Notes":

L. D. Rumsey, of Buffalo, N.Y., recently returned from a
hunting expedition with Frank O'Donald. Frank is a good
hunter and thoroughly posted about the country.

For the bloodthirsty desperado, by whose unconscious aid Maunders had
contrived to get the Marquis into his power, was back in the Bad
Lands, earning his living by hunting as he had earned it before the
fatal June 26th when the Marquis lost his head. There had been a
"reconciliation." When O'Donald had returned to Little Missouri from
his sojourn in the Mandan jail, he had been without money, and, as the
Mandan _Pioneer_ explained, "the Marquis helped him out by buying the
hay on his ranch 'in stubble.'" He bought the hay, it was rumored, for
the sum of one thousand dollars, which was high for hay which would
not begin growing for another eight months. But the "reconciliation"
was complete.

If Roosevelt met the Marquis during the week he spent in Little
Missouri, that September, there is no record of that meeting. The
Marquis was here, there, and everywhere, for the stately house he was
building, on a grassy hill southward and across the river from his new
"town," was not yet completed, and he was, moreover, never inclined to
stay long on one spot, rushing to Miles City or St. Paul, to Helena or
to Chicago, at a moment's notice, in pursuit of one or the other of
his expensive dreams.

The Haupt brothers, it was said, were finding their senior partner
somewhat of a care. He bought steers, and found, when he came to sell
them as beef, that he had bought them at too high a price; he bought
cows and found that the market would not take cow-meat at all.
Thereupon (lest the cold facts which he had acquired concerning cattle
should rob him of the luxury of spacious expectations) he bought five
thousand dollars worth of broncos. He would raise horses, he declared,
on an unprecedented scale.

The horses had barely arrived when the Marquis announce