St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-12
A WESTERN ROMANCE.
Jessie Lacomber Marries thu
Scout Who Rescues Her.

| Jessie LacOmber Marries the
| Scout Who Rescues Her.
| Vicksbnrg Herald.
There is in Vicksburg a lady whose
| history is remarkable, and has around it
a veil of romance equal to the widest
conceived border drama. with the addi-
tional charm, however, that her history
is strictly true. Last Sunday quiet,
unassuming couple stopped at the Eng
ilsh Kitchen and registered as Mr.. and
Mrs. DoSh kensigtOn. Yesterday even
| ing the Z. III. man received a pointer
| that theirs was more than an ordinary
| history, and he called on the lady, her
husband being temporarily absent from
| the city. From her own lips the follow
ing weird tale of Indian life and cap
tivity among them was learned:
The lady's maiden name was Miss
Jessie Lacomber, a full-blooded Ameli-
can girl, and her father was killed by
the indians when she was about two
LagrettO, retired Mexican officer,
who became a citizen of the United
States many years ago. In 1871, the
child i'll question, then, but now the
lady OF tweity-seven or eight, was
stolen from her mother and Step-father
by the Banitto tribe of Indians i'll
Northern Idaho. Thirteen years passed
with no tidings of the little girls fate,
and the parents many times gave her
up as dead, but the story came to the
ears OF the department at Washington
and search was ordered. 1t may here
be remarked that when Indians steal a
white child the captive is carefully con-
cealed, and though sometimes almost
in sight of civilization, the prisoner is
carefully guarded and concealed on the
approach OF a pale face. Gen. Phil
Sheridan took the matter in charge, be-
lieying that the child still lived, and
after the expenditure of thousands of
government dollars, news was received
OF the girls whereabouts, ana she was
rescued on Aug. z. 1884. The chief
scout and guide was Dosh Kensington.
and. naturally enough for the ending
OF the romance, he was Smitten with
the charms of the pretty young miss,
and married her.
The lady'S story of her life among the
Indians is even more dramatic than her
capture, She tells of their marauding
expeditions, and graphically describes
the tOrtureS of the fagg0t and stake and
the tomahawk.
just like the story in the dime novels,
big brave fell in love with her when
she was thirteen and cOOlly announced
himself as her future husband. She re-
fused the proffered but doubtful honor,
and then process of coercion vas tried.
1t was, to say the least, annoying at
first, but it gradually increased 10 such
little persuasive means as gaShing her
with knife, she now bearing no less
than sixteen wounds on her person. She
still remained Obdurate, and from then
TO trnU. ~lnn tV.. tfa1
kindly as possible, but always kept
under the strictest surveillance. When
she had been rescued the young lady
was taken to her former home, only to
find that her stepfather had been killed
by MeXicans on the Rio Grande. Since
then she has travelled at ease, being
ward of the government and we'll pro-
vided for. Her husband, Dosh Kensing-
ton, was born III ColfaX, Col, and his
parents were killed when he was an in
FAINT by the ModOc Indians. The child
was taken prisoner and passed his life
IN captivity until he was ten years old,
when he was rescued by Col. Cheat
ham and placed in the government
school at San Francisco, where he re-
manned four years. For sixteen years
he was in the employ of the govern
ment. and was with Gen. Custer just
previous TO the battle with Sitting Bull,
but he was sent to Reno with orders
just before the massacre and thus es-
capped death. He started with Gen.
Grant on his memorable tour around
the world, but was recalled from Lon
don. He was with White Cloud, Big
Bear and Golden Eagle, of the Umatila
tribe, when arranging for the transfer
of their reservation to the government.
Afterwards he was detailed to look up
moonShiners in the mountains of Ken
lucky and Tennessee, and since then, at
various times, has been detailed on gov
ernment business.
Mrs. KenSington is quite pretty and
very healthy-IoOking. She has not as
much education as is the lot of young
ladies of the day, but she evinceS an in
telligence Oh current topics that amounts
almost to intuitive knowledge. On
every point she talks freely except the
one relating to her allowance from the
government, which she refused to di-
vulge, and this leaves an impression
that Uncle Sam has been rather more
generous with her than with other
wards. AS an Illustration of her innO-
cence. when the reporter presented his
card she scanned it attentiyely and
naively asked: "What is this for?' and
it required the explanation of the other
ladies present to let her know of its
use. They evidently don't use cards
much in the far West.