St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-08
ROMANTIC COURTsHIP TO TERMIN-
ATE IN MARRIAGE IN THIS
CITY TODAY.
LOVE ON TIE RESERVATION
DIR. j. l.. LAMB AND MRS. HANNAH
CLOTHER ARE THE
PARTIES.
THEY MET AMONG THE sIssEroNs
Where Ho Was Government Ply
sician and She Taught the
Indian Mnidens.

A wedding will take place this morn
ing at the Metropolitan hotel for which
no cards have been sent out, at which
there will probably be no more dis
tinguished guests than several of the
hotel attaches, and about which little
or nothing. has been printed in the
daily papers
Nevertheless the ceremony will be the
sequel to romantic courtship carried
on by two people who, notwithstand-
ing they have passed the age at which
people usually wed, still find them
selves firmly in the meshes Of Col.
Cupid.
DR.. j. L. Lamb the government
physician at the Sisseton Indian agen-
cy in South Dakota, is the prospective
bridegroom, while his bride that is to
be Will reach here early this morning
and is Mrs Hannah Clother.
The story of their meeting in the far
west and the incidents which led to
their engagement read like a chapter
from some story book, and their mar
rage will come in the nature of a.
surprise to their friends at the agency.
DR.. Lamb, who came to town yester-
day and found his way to the Metro
pol1tan hotel, is well-built, pleasant
looking man whose service in the West
mas given him an exceedingly rugged
appearance. He was several years ago
government physician at the Warm
springs agency in Oregon, but resigned
TO prove up some land he had filed on
IN Cheyenne county, Neb
Ih1s done, he was reinstated in the
government service, and assigned to
DUTY at Sisseton just a year ago Jan.
a. Here it was he met the ladv who
IS to be Mrs. Lamb in charge of sixty
lndlan maidens in the government
school and as government physician
1t was his duty to daily visit the school
and look after their physical welfare.
AS the days sped by the doctor and
matron found added pleasure in each
others society, and it is a fact worth
noting that the Indian children kept
pfovokingly healthy. 1t may be in
ferred that the doctor conducted his
suit with the skill that would have
marked his supervision of a clinic for
When, seven months after his arrival
the matron was transferred to Fort
Lewis, Col, she left him with a prom
1se to be his ALL Life at Sisseton was
dull enough for the physician without
the cheery matron to receive him at the
end OF his daily two-mile drive to the
school, and after standing his solitude
nobly for some time he wrote her in
December to resign her position, pay a
visit in Albion, Neb., to her children.
one of whom is grown UP, advise them
Of her approaching marriage and come
to st. Paul. This she did and when the
Omaha train which reaches here at
7:25 this morning pulls into the depot
DR.. Lamb will be there to meet his
fancee.
DR.. Lamb will then proceed to Sc
cure marriage license and a clergy
man to perform the ceremony, which
will be held in the parlors of the hotel
Mr.. and Mrs. Lamb expect to leave on
an early train tomorrow morning for
the Sisseton agency, where the Indian
maidenss will welcome home their erst-
while matron and her proud husband,
their own doctor.
= Dr. Lamb is forty-seven years old,
while the bride-elect is forty-five, and
each has two children, one, in each
case, grown.