The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-25
A PRETTY ROMANCE
Cora Belle Fellows and Chaska
Want a Divorce.
THE SIOUX HAS BEEN CIVILIZED
This 10 the End Of q Silly Girls Wilful Way
She Will Take Home to Her Par
ents Halfcaste Kid.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. ]
WASHINGTON, June PA very pretty
romance has been shattered by the news
telegraphed here to- day that Cora Belle
Fellows Chaska will apply for divorce
from her Indian husband, Sam Chaska-
Mrs. Chaska is Washington girl. Her
father, Homer Fellows, is a veteran clerk
in the war department, and although the
family has always lived modestly in q neat
little home on Capitol hill, Cora Belle was
great favorite In society here, where she
was received by the best people Of Wash
ington. She is remembered as a remarka-
bly, pretty girl and she might have had her
own choice of husbands from among the
toll City without gong to the wilds of Da-
kota- But Cora Belle was nothing If not
romantic. 1t Is said of her that. though
she bore an unblemished reputation, she
had planned more than one elopement dur
ing her girlhood. She always declared her
marriage would be sensational one and
she kept her word.
firing of Washington life, Cora obtained
permission from her parents to visit friends
IN Dakota, and went to Chamberlain, South
Dakota, where she spent several months.
There she met Chaska. Cora Belle did not
communicate to her family here the fact
she was receiving the attentions Of a more
or less wild Indian. Her father shared
General Sheridan's opinion that the only
good Indian is the dead Indian, ana so Cora
Belle didn't care to tell him that she pro-
posed to marry one. But just before her
marriage to Chaska she wrote to her
parents here and made clean breast Of the
whole affair. Her letter arrived here the
day the wedding took place in Dakota and
too late for Fellows to take steps to prevent
it He didn't send his blessing to the pair,
however, though like a good father he
hoped the marriage would prove as happy
as such a union could. Cora Belle didn't get
any answer to her letter. She didn't write
home any more. From acquaintances her
friends had learned she had gone to live
with her Indian husband and had entered
upon the task of civilizing him. The birth
of child, who il, of course, a half breed,
was not communicated to her family.
The statement that the young white girl
has grown tired of her red husband and
will apply for divorce was news to Mr..
Fellows. When a reporter called on HIM
to-day he didn't seem greatly disturbed
nothing about il. There has been no COM
munication between my family and my
daughter since her unfortunate marriage.
If any such step as that mentioned in this
has been taken, it is hardly prob
ably we should have been informed Of it."
Mr.. Fellows didn't care to say whether
Mrs. Chaska would be again received at her
home. She hadn't asked to be taken back
and this question need not be settled before
it should arise.
The wedding took place at the Indian
headquarters at Wise Birds camp in Da-
kota, March "a, 1855, and was wit
messed by the government attaches and
braves and squaws of the Sioux tribe
living there. For long time the marriage
was the theme of discussion at Pierre, Fort
Sul.y, Bennett and Cheyenne agency. Re
ports that the marriage was proving unsat-
were published from time to time,
but Mrs. Campbell declared these were uD-
true. About two weeks after the marriage
Chaska and his bride received an offer Of
S. 900 for a ter weeks engagement in a
Chicago dime museum. This was shown
Mrs. Campbell. ~ think this is an insult"
she was quoted as saying. 81 will never
accept such an offer as long as l can earn a
living. While am not ashamed If Chaska
and love him dearly, L think too much of
my friends and arents to make dime mu-
scum exhibition of myself" Then she
filled out a telegraph blank as follows: Il
cannot entertain your proposition. speak
for Chaska, my husband"
The Chaska marriage was recalled by a
OF last Thursday at the Church Of
the Ascension Fifth avenue and Tenth
street, New York, when Elaine Goodall, the
poetess of the Berkshire hills, became the
wife of DR.. Charles n. w. Eastman, or as
he was known when Sioux, "Ohyiesa,"
or 1.-THE Winner" Mrs. Eastman, like
Mrs. Campbell, is to continue her work
among the Sioux Indians. She will De with
her husband at Pine Ridge agency, where
the doctor holds the position OF government
medical inspector.