Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-25
A NATURAL SEQUENCE.

Mrs. Cora Belle Fellows Chasks
Now Wants a Divorce From Hel
Indian Husband-How She Wa
| Won by the Redskin-A Little Pap
| poose.
WASHINGTON, June 4.-The last chap
ter in the dramatic history of Cora Belle
Fellows Chaska has caused something of 6
| sensation in Washington, where Mrs.
Chaska is well-known. Her reported en-
deavor to get divorce from her Indian
husband is looked on as the natural &C.
quel of marriage that shocked her soci-
ETY. friends and brought sorrow to the
home of her parents.
Miss Cora Belle Fellows was the bright,
attractive daughter of Homer Fellows, a
clerk in the surgeon generals Office in the
war department.. She had been well edu-
Gated and had adopted school teaching as a
profession. She was member of DR.. Sun
derland's Presbyterian church, where Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland were communi-
cants, and took quite prominent and &C
tive part in church work. Socially she was
great favorite and had many friends
among the old resident class of Washing
ton. She made quite study of the Indian
question and became possessed of desire
to devote her life to the red man as his
teacher. Her parents tried to dissuade
her from burying herself in an Indian mis-
sion. Her friends added their entreaties
that she stay in Washington and continue
to adorn the social circle in which she was
80 brilliant an ornament.
- Miss Cora turned deaf ear to all their
Be- bo 4, L
in life was to elevate and instruct the
aboriginies. and BELIEVING this she set her
face towards the Dakotas. She, secured
appointment as teacher at one of the Sioux
agencies in South Dakota and was not long
in establishing herself in her new work
She was popular teacher. Not only was
her school filed with little Indian girls
and boys, but young braves, old enough to
use the tomahawk and wear war paint and
feathers, came to the wigwam of the white
sguaw and received their elementary in
struction. The school would have pros
pered had not Cupid entered and caused
higher grade was one Sam Chaska, a full
blooded Sioux, but one who seemed anx-
ious to adopt the white mans mode of life
and to gain a white mans education.
Chaska and his fair teacher fingered oft
over vulgar fractions and together entered
the elementary branch of natural philoso-
ply. Miss Cora finally grew so indispens-
able to the young chief that he concluded
to ask her to enter his wigwam and become
his wife. With all his native eloquence he
pleaded his cause.
Cora, the pride of her parents and the
pet of her friends, away off in Washing
ton, allowed her enthusiasm in the Indian
work to overcome her, and she consented
to marry Chaska, the ceremony being
performed according to the conventional
form. Hardly had the marriage taken
place before the Sioux bride real
lied her mistake. Chaska did not
prove to be the magnificent specimen
of natures true nobleman that she had
pictured him to be. He inherited the In
dams natural aversion TO earning liveli-
hood and supporting family. When next
heard from the Chaskas were represented
in humorous dispatches as figuring on the
stage of dime museum. 1t is but fair to
say that the accounts of their having ex-
hibited themselves in cheap shows were
never absolutely confirmed.
The next chapter opens with the advent
of little Chaska, copper-hued pappoose
has raised its infantine whoop in the
lodge of Sam. This news is followed by
the report from Chamberlin, s. D., that
Mrs. Chasks has decided to apply for
divorce from Sam. The causes which
have led to this are not given, but they
can readily be traced to dissimilarity Of
race, temperament and education