, 1889-09-26

A FAIR GROUND FAKE.
An Alleged Indian Wedding In Mis-
rouri.
A long.haired chap calling himself
Captain Jack Crawford Is giving Wild
west hippodrome exhibitions at the fairs
in the East, while he induces the people
to believe are superior to Buffalo Bilps
widest dream of Indian and cowboy life.
AT st. Joseph, No., he threw in an In.
dian wedding" as one of the features,
and succeeded SO well in his little
deception that the town was al broken
up over the event, and the most aristo-
cratic people showered costly presents
upon the bridal party. One of the local
papers deyotcs several columns to de-
scription of the affair, from which the
following extract is taken:
The Indian wedding was the great fea-
ture of the day. 1t was indeed a gro
tesquely brilliant event, and highly en-
joyod by the audience. TWAS decided
novelty. During the rendition of the
musical programme the people had good
opportunity to speculate upon u semi
circle of straw, a hurdle, u table and
pile of fagots. This display was
arranged III front of King Rorn. Pre-
liminary to the marriage ceremony came
several piles of horse-blankets, which
were spread over the straw. AT given
sig nal Bach's band struck up the bridal
march from "Lohengrin," the west por-
tails swung open and the party entered,
headed by Captain Jack on horseback.
Next came Wo-ha-buck, the interpreter,
then Tuo.oma, the groom; lno-oo-co.mo,
the bride; Fu-clo-thes, the groomsman,
and Ne-yer-swet, the bridesmaid, all in
single file, followed in the same order by
thirty warriors, In festal dress. This
dress was highly picturesque, consisting
of buckskin boots, clean cotton flannel
drawers, and shirt of red flannel,
frnged in flaming orange, and each
garment bearing upon the breast the I'D
vcrtisement of the Mcdonald shirt fac
tory. 1t is customary in Apache, as in
France, for the attending guests to wear
the costume of the groom. The groom
could only be distinguished in this in
stance by pair OF polished buffalo horns
in his head dress. The bridal party was
led to the table, and the attending guests
sQuatted In scmi-circlo on the blan kets.
Captain Jack got the hurdle between
himself and the table and then com
menced the ceremony. The groom
answered all questions, which were put
through an interpreter, by nodding his
head and matters proceeded sntistat tori
ly enough until II was put to him
straight whether he would have the
woman for his only wife, and have no
other wives or mashes but her. To the
the surprise of all he made u decided
negative sign to this. The question was
put again, and he negatived harder than
ever, and so third time, until the in
terpretcr explained that it was the
Apache custom for a fellow to have as
many wives as hc pleased, and that this
fellow already had three. This made
Tuo .oma Al hero at once. He was
resarded as ,, man , on whom whom.
now stated that so far as he was con-
ccrned they were man and wife, but
that the marriage was not legal in the
eyes OF the Indians until their form of
the ceremonial had been gone through
with that he had been OH the plains u
good many years, but had never wit
messed an Indian marriage. The Apache
rites then began. The interpreter lighted
the pile OF fagots. Suddenly the
groom, taking blanket, left the party
and walked straight over to tho trapper' 5
cabin. The.bridc Immediately followed,
also carrying a blanket Brcathlcss
silence. The two entered the cabin.
Great speculation on the part OF the
audience. Captain Jacks face aghast.
NO, lIlt uuDI vi lllt tlUlIi slNi UOt tlOSt.
Eight thousand different expressions of
the faces of the spectators. Nearly II
panic Captain Jack and the interpreter
In hurried conversation. A smile on
the captains face. He explains that
the Apache marriage ceremony con-
,isls ,h h,n IN 70 the groom 9a0es and tleadhing
Tuo-oma having no tecpee handy had
borrowed the cabin for that purpose.
II la ipiarnrptpr said snNnnt IN ~
which sounded Observation-Disclosures
cum-oli, and the groom emerged from
the cabin wrapped in his blanket, and
the bride likewise enyeloped, came after
him. Then followed u Wedding dance,
i'll which all the squaws and bucks
joined. The movement of this saluta-
torial freak is a cross between the un-
certain gait Of string halted horse and
the limping of Richard the Third, while
the accompanying chant makes ones
marrow freeze with q thought OF the
walls of purgatory.
Following the dances cane feast OF
watermclons, during. which the doors
were opened to visitors and u great
crowd gathered in the arena
Didn't-Say-So and see the balance of the
tribe clean out the juicy fruit before
them.
The bridal robe was made from mate
rial furnished by Mrs. Wilson, Mrs.
Hartzell, Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Walker
of the w. q. II. u. The bride was
dressed in the w. &. 4. U. headquarters
yesterday afternoon, and she was greatly
pleased. Looking down at the gorgeous
apparel and toying with the long Bridal
veil, she could only exclaim in delighted
tones, "Honicuml Honicumw Good |
Goodl). Miss Clifford sent out an cle-
CANT wreath of orange blossoms. but a
more SNOWY crown, literally bejewcled,
had been provided and the bride pre-
ferred 1t. This was placed on the bride $
head in the big tent west of the amphi-
thcater by Mrs. Walker, and the orange
blossom wreath was given to the bride.
maid.
A shantytown Affair.
Mrs. Stremmcl was arrested by Con.
stable Gordon yesterday morning upon
the complaint of Mrs. Edcr, and taken
before Judge Curry. The woman was
accused by Mrs. Elder with attempting
| to provoke an assault. After hearing
the testimony OF several of the neigh.
bors, the Judge imposed fine Of 81 and
costs upon the woman.
These parties live In Shantytown and
an animosity seems to exist among
them.