The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-24
SPOUSE OF A SIOUX PRINCESS.
Charles P. Jordan, Cousin of Gen. Gus
ter and Typical Border Scout.
From the Sioux CITY journal.

From the Sioux City Journal.
The queen of the Sioux is the wife of a
white man. Neither of them is or has
any reason to be ashamed of it. Red
Cloud, without question the greatest
Indian chief of this generation, gave her
away at the altar on the Sioux reserva-
tiOn. The Sioux queens husband is
Charles =. Jordan, brother of Lieutenant
Col. Jordan, United States Army,
cousin of Gen. Custer and one of the most
tried representatives of the government
IN the Indian country. He bears the,
honor of being the only white man who
was ever elected a mem Der of the Sioux
council. In their days of power, before
hardly a single white face had been
seen west of the Missouri river,
the. Dakotas Sioux were one
nation, ruled by one chief The
last of this autocratic dynasty was Old
Smoke, who died in 1859, after seeing his
people pushed westward and his power
curtailed. Although the husband of more
than one squaw, he left but one child a
tiny girl, who could hardly coo when Old
Smoke got ready to float upward to the
happy hunting grounds. When dying,
he took her in his arms and named her
The Beautiful Woman, and so she has
since been known. The Beautiful Wo-
but learned of missionaries, scorned dog
meat, and kept her nails trimmed and
her GLORIOUS black hair plated and
combed. She grew to womanhood high
spirited. proud and capricious ideal
squaw. But as no ideal chief came to WOO
her, she scorned an alliance with any
common member of the tribe.
Young Jordan, tall, bright-eyed fell
low of good educa tion and address, came
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Ridge. He fell in love with the princess,
and his love was reciprocated by the
Sioux MAIDEN. And so they were married
by priest in stole and surplice and with
all the formahties of the white man S
laws and customs. The big Sioux chiefs
came from miles around to attend the
wedding, the army officers from tine ueigh-
boring posts jingled their spurs in the
Old Virginia reel, which followed the
benediction, and the pretty Sioux queen
has since been plain Mrs Jordan A bevy
of black-eyed children bless the alliance
Charles p. Jordan, the Sioux
queens husband, has lived on the frontier
for many years. He is still in his
prime, and his adventures would fill a
book, or several of them. He has been
scalped, shot full of arrows, has been
tortured, and even condemned to death
by the hostiles. Thirty miles from Rose
Duu dgGhCy ne mas me IdElU ana STOCK
ranch, we'll wooded with oak, elm, ash
and box elder. There is big orchard of
cultivated fruits close by, and series of
artificial dams down the valley, in which
beaver are encouraged to construct their
own peculiar Notifications.
Jordans first meeting with the Sioux
queen was interesting, and well worth
describing. One DAY he was out in the
hills with his rife after antelope. He
suddenly heard a rustling in the brush
ahead of him, as of a wild animal rush
ing toward him. In a moment the
Sioux queen leaped down the hill She
had barely cleared cover when a
young Sioux brave, who had wooed the
royal beauty vainly with embroidered
mecca sins and protestations of undying
love, dashed, club in hand, through the
underbrush and after the still fleeing
maiden. Other and more civilized en-
dearments having failed, he was now pro-
ceeding to woo her in true Indian fashion
with club Before the ardent lover
could get near enough 10 express himself
to the maiden, Jordan tripped him head
long into a gulch. The girl was safe in
camp long before her impetuous lover
crawled out of the mud and water and
began looking about him for the snag
which he had struck Jordan afterward
had him disciplined by the tribe and he
was banished in disgrace.