St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-07
CHASKA-FELLOWS HUMBUG
4 Screaming Farce Withered Chestnut
---Baseless Fabric---Played-
Out Hoax.
One of Several Romantic Fabricati0ns
by IMAGINATIVE and Conscience
less Correspondents.
A Scandal Involving a Charming Fe-
male, High Officials and Noted Peo-
pie Of Chicago and Pierre.

Special to the Globe.
PIERRE, April 6.-The Chaska-Fel-
lows wedding is one of the biggest
canards that was ever sprung on a
gullible public, and was long since re-
garded by the inhabitants OF this sec
ton as rank and mouldy chestnut.
There probably is such party as
ChaSka on the reservation somewhere.
but as far as he is concerned in mar
rage with the noted Miss Fellows, it is
all the veriest bosh. Your correspond
ent has conversed with numerous men
who reside along the river adjacent to
the place called Swift Birds Camp,
where the scene of the romance is laid
by the imaginative Pierre special cor
respondent, and these men are pro-
nounced in saying that there is nothing
to it. They are in a good position to
know, as they meet and converse with
Indians and half-breedS almost every
day, and have got the matter straight.
Even the John Robb referred to in the
recent Pierre special giving highly
colored account of the marriage, who is
Indian trader at Cheyenne agency, was
seen by the writer last Friday and in
formed him that the story was hoax
from beginning to end. This is contra
dictory to what he is given as saying in
the aforesaid especial" The whole
secret of the matter lies in the fact that
several correspondents of the daily
press, in this city, have a superabun-
dance of imagination, and while it holds
out they will not let the Eastern press
suffer for want of SenSatiOnaliSm from
the wild and woolly West, from the story
of hail storms with hail stones as large
as goose eggs or prairie 'nigger-headS,"
to the case where fourteen murdered
men were found buried at ranch ON
the reservation, OF the romantic tale Of
love affair between Washington belle
and dirty, ugly savage, as the
cases have been put Oh record. The
correspondents referred to make money
by this work, but is hoped that when
Pierre and the newly-Opened reserva-
ton begin to boom they will turn their
talents and energy into another line,
viz: Recording in a legitimate way
what transpires in the development of
this grand country.
Pierre people are just now greatly ex-
cited to know what will be the outcome
of case which has just been sprung,
involving in scandal noted people Of
Chicago and Pierre. The facts are
nearly as follows: Four years ago
there came to Pierre to reside a
young lady of surprising lowell
ness, niece of a certain wealthy
and well-known wholesale merchant
of Chicago. The young lady
soon cast about her for the worlds of
masculine hearts she might conquer,
and at once had a train of admiring
gentlemen in her wake. 1t finally came
about that she married a handsome
young man, painter by trade, and son
of a painter, born of poor but honest
up housekeeping in this city, and while
the head of the house was striving for
an honest living, it seems that the femi-
nine division was entertaining at all odd
houIS strangers unawares. This finally
led to their separation, and the young
lady went back to Chicago to reside
with her uncle, the aforesaid wealthy
merchant, who agreed to make her his
heir in fee simple, having no other
charge upon which to cast his bounty,
but not wishing to also make the delin-
quent husband participant of his gifts,
he not long ago instituted proceedings
on behalf of his niece
FOR DIVORCE.
Now the husband comes back and
brings in counter charges against his
wife as to her infdelity to their mar
rage VOWS, ETC., and summons to APP
pear in the Chicago court very prom
inent banker of this city, as well as a
county official who is known through
out the length and breadth of the terri
tory, as partcipes criminis in proving
his charges. Developments of start
ling kind are looked for when the affair
is stirred more deeply, and, of course,
Pierre gossips can talk of nothing else.