Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-11
HUSBAND OF A SIOUX QUEEN.
A Cousin of General Cnst-r, whose Bride
Was Given Him by Red Cloud.

Was Given Him by Red Cloud.
The Queen nt thh Sioux is the bride
of white man. Neither of them is or
has had 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
reservation. The Sioux queens hus-
band, Charles p. Jordan, is brother of
Iieutenant.Colonel Jordan, of tho
United States Army, and cousin Of
General: Custer, and is one of tine
most tried representatives. of the gov
eminent in the Indian country. lie
bears the honor OF being the only white
man who was ever elected member of
the Sioux council.
In their days OF power, before hardly
single white face had been seen west
Of tho Missouri river, the Dakotas
lSloux) were one nation, ruled by one
chief. The lust Of this autocratic
dynasty was Old Smoke, who died in
1850, after seeing his people pushed
westward and his power curtailed.
Although the husband of more than one
sqnaw, he left but one child, tiny
girl, who c1uld 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 sine has
since been known. The Beautiful
Woman was . princess, She did no work,
but learned Of missionaries, scorned dog
meat and kept her nails trined and her
glorious black hair patted and combed.
She grew to wOmanhood high spirited
proud and capriGious-an ideal squaw.
But as no ideal chief came to Woo her
she scorned an alliance with any COM
mon member of the tribe.
Young Jordan, u tall, bright.eyed
fellow of good education and address,
came West as clerk to the Indian agent
at Pine Ridge He fell in love with the
princess and his love was rcciprocated
by the Sioux Indian. AMI SO they
were married by u priest in stole and
surpllce and with all the formalities of
the white mans laws and customs. The
big Sioux chiefs came from miles
around to attend the wedding, the army
officers from the neighbpring forts
jingled their spurs in the old Virginia
reel which followed tho benediction,
and the pretty Sioux queen has since
been plain Mrs. Jordan, A bevy of
black.eyed children bless the alliance.
Charles II. Jordan, the Sioux queens
husband, has lived on the frontier for
many years. He IS still in his prime,
and his adventures would fill book
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 Rosebud
agency he has fine farm and stock
ranch, well 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 beavers are encouraged to con-
struct their own peculiar Notifications.
Jordan's first meeting with the Sioux
queen was interesting and is well worth
describing. One day he went cut in the
hills with his rifle after antelope. He
suddenly heard rustling in the brush
ahead of him, as of a wild animal rush
ing toward him. In moment the
Sioux queen had leaped down the hill.
She had barely cleared cover when a
young Sioux brave, who had wooed the
royal beauty with embroidered mecca.
sins and protestatlons of undying love
dashed after the fleeing maiden with
club in hand.
Other and more civilized endearments
having failed, he was now proceeding
to WOO her in true Indian fashion-with
club. Before.the ardent lover could
get near enough to express himself tic
the maiden Jordan tripped him head.
long into gulch The girl was safe in
camp long before her importunate lover
crawled out of the mud and water and
began looking about him for tho snag
which he had struck. Jordan after
ward had him disciplined by the tribe
and he was banished in disgrace.