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Show Mme. Mustache Famous Character of Deadwood One of the famous and mysterious characters who thronged the streets of Deadwood, in the Black hills, in the latter seventies was a fine-looking, plump, little French woman of about forty years, called Mme. Mustache, from a dainty little hirsute adornment gracing her upper lip. For 15 years she had followed the railway and mining camp, conducting gambling houses "on her own," dealing her own game, handling the faro box like a veteran and maintaining "order" "or-der" (as it was .known) In every establishment es-tablishment she owned. Nothing was known of her antecedents, antece-dents, except that she was of a degres of culture superior to her environment environ-ment and was a good sport and a square dealer. Detroit News. |
