Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-21
HUSBAND OF A SIOUX QUEEN.
A Cousin of Gen. Custer, Whose Bride
Was Given to Him by Red Cloud.


Was Given to Him by Red Cloud.
From the Sioux City Journal
The queen of the Sioux is the wife of n
white man. Neither of them is or has any
reason to lie ashamed of 1t. Red Cloud
without question the greatest Indian chief
Of this generation. gave her away at the
altar on the Sioux reservation. The Sioux
queens husband is Charles p. Jordan,
brother of Lieut.. Col. Jordan. United
States army. a cousin OF Gen. Gus
ter. and one of the most tried representa-
tives of the government in the Indian coun-
try. He bears the honor Of being the only
white man who was ever elected a member
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 1889, 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 hunt
Ing grounds. When dying he took her in
his arms and named her the Beautiful
Woman. and so she has since been known.
The Beautiful Woman was a princess. She
did no work, 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-an
ideal squaw But, as no ideal chief came
to WOO her, she scorned an alliance with
any common member of the tribe
A Gay Wedding.
Young Jordan, a tall, bright-eyed fellow
Of good education and address, came west
nj
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 formal
tiles of the white mans laws and customs.
The big Sioux chiefs came from miles
around to attend the wedding. The army
officers from the neighboring posts jngled
their spurs in the old Virginia reel which
followed the benediction, and the pretty
Sioux queen has since been plain Mrs. Jor-
dan. 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 booker
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
a fine farm and stock ranch, we'll wooded
with oak, elm. ash and boxeder. There is
a big orchard of cultivated fruits close by
and a series of artificial dams down the
valley in which beaver are encouraged to
construct their own peculiar Notifications.
Jordan's first meeting with the Sioux
queen was interesting and well worth de-
scribing. One day he went out in the hills
with his rifle afte- antelope He suddenly
heard a rustling in the brush ahead of him,
as of a wild animal rushing toward him.
In a moment the Sioux queen leaped down
the kill. She had barely cleared cover when
a young Sioux brave, who had wooed the
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casins and protes tations of undying love,
dashed, club in hand, through the under
brush after the still fleeing maiden. Other
and more civilized endearments having
failed. he was now proceeding to WOO her
in true Indian fashion-with a club. Before
the ardent lover could get near enough to
express himself to the maiden Jordan
tripped him headIong into a guch. The
girl was safe in camp long before her i'm
petuous lover crawled out of the mud and
water and began looking about him for the
snag which he had struck. Jordan after
ward had him disciplined by the tribe, and
he was banished in disgrace.