The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-06-27
END OF A ROMANCE
Cora Belle Fellows Tires of
Her Indian Husband.

Her Indian Husband.
The Marriage Has Proved a Decided Fail
ure-The Poetess of the Berkshire Hill.
Marfiss Full-H lood Indian Doctor
WASHINGTON, D. c., June PA
very pretty romance has been spoiled
by the news telegraphed here to-day
that Cora Belle Fellows-C haska will
apply for a divorce from her Indian
nusband, Sam ,Chaska. Mrs. Chaska
is d Washington girl. Her father
Homer Fellows, is veteran clerk in
the war department, and although the
family has always lived moderately in
neat little home on Capitol Hill,
Cora Belle was great fayorlte in So
ciety. Everywhere she was received
by the best people of Washington. She
is remembered as remarkably pretty
girl, and she might have had her
own choice of husbands from
among the most eligible of the
young men of the capital city without
going to the wilds of Dakota, but Cora
Belle was nothing if not romantic, and
it has been said of her that, though
she has an unblemiShed reputation,
she had planned more than one elope-
ment during her girlhood. She always
claimed that her marriage would be O.
sensational one and she kept her word.
firing of Washington life, Cora OBJ
tanned permission from her parents TO
visit friends in Dakota, and went to
Chamberlain, South Dakota, where she
spent Several months. There she met
Chaska, a young Sioux Indian. Cora
Belle did not notify her family here of
the fact she was receiving the atten-
tions of a more or less wild Indian.
Her father had always shared General
Sherdan's opinion that the only good
Indian is a dead Indian, so Cora Belle
did not care to tell him she proposed to
marry one. 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. The father did not send his
blessings to the pair, however, though,
like good father, he hoped the mar
riase would prove as happy as such
union could. Cora Belle did not get
any answer to her letter, and She
did not write home any more
From acquaintance 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 was of course a half-breed,
was not communicated 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 did not seem greatly
disturbed, and said, very gently:-''I
have heard nothing about it; there hos
been no communication between my
family and my daughter since her I'M
fortunate marriage. If any such steps
as that mentioned in the dispatch,
has been taken, it is hard
ly probable we should have been in
formed of it,"
Mr.. Fellows did not care to say
whether Mrs. Cbaska Would be again
received at her home. She hadn't
asked to be taken back, and this ques-
ton need not be settled before it should
arise. The wedding took place at. the
Indian headquarters at Wise Birds
camp, in Dakota, March "a. 1883. and
was witnessed by the Government at
taches and braves and squaws of the
Sioux tribe, living there. For long
time the marriage was the theme of
discussion at Pierre, Fort Scally, Ben
nett and Cheyenne agency. Re-
ports that the marriage was prov
ing unsatisfactory were published
from time to time, but Mrs.
Chaska declared these were untrue.
About two weeks after the marriage
Chaska and his bride received an offer
Of So, 900 for ten weeks engagement
in Chicago dime museum that was
shown Mrs. Chaska.
Il think this an insult" she was
quoted as saying 81 will never accept
such an offer as long as l can earn a
living, and while [ am not ashamed
OF Chaska. [ love him dearly. | think
too much of my friends and parents
to make dime museum exhibition of
myself" Then she filled out a tele-
graph blank as follows:
can't entertain your proposition.
| speak for Chaska, my husband"
Notwithstanding this, however, she,
in company with her husband and baby
tiled an engagement shortly afterward
at both the West and the South side
museums in Chicago.
The Chaska marriage was recalled
by ceremony of last Thursday at the
Church of the Ascension, corner of
Fifth avenue and Fourth street, New
York, when Elaine Gondall. the poet
ess of the Berkshire Hills, became the
wife of DR.. Charles A. w. Eastman, or
as he was known when Sioux, Oily
lesa, The Winner.n Mrs. Eastman
like Mrs. Chaska, is to continue her
work among the Sioux Indians She
Will be with her husband at Pine
Ridge Agency, where the doctor holds
the position of Government medical
inspector.