Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-12
ANyIND1AN BRIDE.

AAoIS u WHY ARR 10y SlS1HOlCN H.
many tribal battle. RThe bridegr6omt
vas Thomas Dulaine Cronan, an Irish
man by birth. The marriage ceremony
was performed first by q Eoman Catho-
lie priest, after which the Indians had
l genuine old-fashioned wedding feast.
The wedding was the elimination of
Il courtship~ extending over seven years,
which has been attended by unusual
incidents.
Picture Eyes ut the age of IS was q
well-formed, pretty-faeed girl who
could not speak a word of any but the
Sioux language, and had never known
the ways and customs of the white
man. She lived then in a tepee with her
parents. Now she is IS years of age,
educated and refined. Her father, John
Moose, lives on the Standing Rock res
ervation, but the bride has been q Nom
Der of Col. Frank Duncan's family, hav-
ing been adopted by him several years
& with the consent of her parents.
1t was about ten years ago that Mr..
:.Cronan first came to this country. lie
was then about 25 years Of age and
came out west through the instrument
tdlity of Moreton Frewen, an English
fihancieE, who was at that time in
terested' with Marquis de Mores in the
cattle raising and exporting business!
Cronan was sent to America MS n sort.
: OF special agent to look after the in
terests of the English capitalists, and
his duties brought him to the cattle
/, raising regions of Montana and Wy
oming once each year. On his third
rip he had occasion to stop off at Me-
lora, and it was there that he met the
Indian girl. Upon the day of his arrival
a Sioux Indian had been thrown into
Jail for attempting to set fire"to a
raDchman's barn and there was n mob
of white men gathered: about the Jail
door evidently bent upon lynching fhe
Indian. The! plueky constable, who
was q small man, stood upon the door
step threatening to shoot the first man
that made move forward, but it was
certain that he could not stand the mob
off very long, and already a detachi
ment. of the would-be lynchers had be-
| gun to batter in the lone window ofthe
7 building. In the meantime an Indian
| girl had appeared upon the scene and
! was darling about making frantic eff
| forts to have some one understand the
| entreaties she was screaming in the In
| dian. tongue. E.NuTT r.
'Cronan, noticing the girl, asked who
she was, and was told that the man in
the JaiT was her father, and thut she
wanted the mob to spare his life, for
her sake. Erohan,! moved by. the help:
lessn9ss of the girl; decided to inter
cede?fo the lifegof the indian, though
he realized that it was a dangerous
move andsmight cost him his life.
Elbowtng jthfough fhesm0b, he SSbrang
to the side; Of the constable and shouted
outa plea for the Indinn. He Fer
severed inahis efforts whsnever'the,di din
subsidized tong enough for. him to be
heard, and in time he was successful.
The mob dispersed, leaving the consfa!
BILE in charge of the iail and hisfpEis-
oner. A few days later the, prisoner,
who was John Moose, was triedaI was
acquitted, having proved n*nlibf.
Cronan went back toi England, but
returned in six months 10 Medt1fa :, only
to find that Jbhn Moose Md HIS family
had"gone!to Bismarck. lie weHt,46 fhs
latter place on his: return trip from
Wyoming and found the Moose fnrnil55
sungly quarteredin q tepeeo on the bank
Of the Great Muddy. He learned. that
the girl had already been promised to
a young buck named Four Toe. who
had given her father a;6ertain quantity
Of tobacco for her hand. CBphAnEahd
an Interpreter wenttot the tepee OF; the
lucky Four Toe and proceeded at once
to negotiate for the purchase Of the
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