The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-25


alone prevented the marriage between a
white teacher in an Indian school, whose
father bears a national reputation, and an
Indian. The writer distinctly remembers
the case, which came under his observa
ton a few years ago. The young lady
was teacher in one of the Indian schools
on the Sioux reservation near this city.
She became infatuated with a young Sioux
warrior, and would have married him
against the protests of her Eastern rola-
tives had not Providence interposeJ and
thWarted the alliance. The Indian was
stricken with that dread disease consump-
ton, and failed rapidly. During his last
days The young lady teacher nursed him
with the greatest devotion, and when he
died she for time refused 10 be consoieE.
Since then she has renamed single not
withstanding that it is said she has been
offered the heart and hand of desirable
white suitors.
The most notable instance of a white
lady marrying an Indian was the marriage
some seven years ago OF Miss Elaine Good
ale the poetess and teacher, to DE- Charles
A. Eastman, then a resident Of Pine Ridge
Agency where Miss Goodale was a teacher
in an Indian school. DR.. Eastman is
| known as" Many Lightnings'' among the
Sioux. He is a graduate of Dartmouth
| College, and by those who know him is
/
man, who might mngle with credit in any
society. DR.. and Mrs. Eastman left the
Sioux reservation a year or two after their
marriage and went East. Their married
life is said to be ideal in every respect.
The doctor is frequently called upon by his
brethren to look after their interests be-
fore the various departments at the ma
uonal capital, where he has materially as
sisted them in carrying out by the govern
mRQf of IFS Oh1iratiO7o with ba Tn
dian tribes Dr. Eastman has contributed
articles to Eastern magazines on Indian
life, and his wife is also a contributor to
the leading publications.
One case of a white woman marrying an
Indian has turned out very badiy-that of
Cora Belle Fellows. Her marriage eight or
nine years ago to Chaska or Sam Camp
bell, as he has since been better known,
was the theme at the time for extended
and sensational articles in practically ev-
cry publication in the United States. Sew
| eral years ago she and her children were
! basely deserted by her Indian husband
| Campbell fell in love with a squaw, and
| accordingly did not hesitate in the least to
desert his white wife and children. When
last heard of Mrs. Campbell was residing
| in Nebraska under an assumed name.
The Eplscopalian minister at Lower
! Brule Agency, the Rev. Luke Walker an
educated Sioux. is married to a white wo-
man. and they live happily together. MIR
Walker ana his wife are both well edu-
Gated, and are respected by those who
know them. They are doing good work
among the Indians at Lower Brule, and to
their efforts is attributed a great part of
| the credit for the rapid advancement these
Indians are making toward civilization
One of the most romantic of frontier in
cidents was the elopement and marriage
of Miss Alice Tucker, daughter of proni-
nent white residents of Niobrara with
John Luman, Sioux Indian, belonging a.
Rosebud agency. On Dec. 81, 1893, when
Alice was 16 years of age her parents
gave grand ball in her honor. 1t was the
event Of the season, and was largely at
tended. Among those from the adjacent
reservation who were present were Peter
Lasor and wife and the latter's son, John
Luman, a quarter-breed. 1t was a case of
love at first sight between Luman and Mss
Alice, and the match which had its birth
at that time terminated in the subsequent
elopement. On a Saturday night, LbOut
three months after the birthday ball, Mr..
Tucker gave another dance at the little
town of Watson where he had opened a
branch store Again his daughter and Lu-
man were present. The girl returned
home the next Sunday, and nothing I'M
usual seemed to surround the peace of
served that a strange buggy was in the
alleyway back of the Tucker domicile, but
that not being unusual, no suspicious were
aroused.
Monday morning daWned, but, as the ex-
ertion of the Saturday night dance was
sufficient excuse for the daughters lIon-
appearance, little attention was paid to the
hardness of the young lady in appearing
from her room Her absence was finally
found that her trunk gone, as was
also the strange buggy, which had lowered
so mysteriously in the alley at the rear of
the house. Tucker went 10 Lasor's, and
a young man there was scared into giving
them some information. He said that AL
ice and Luman had gone to O'Neill, Neo,
to. get married. A telegram was sent to
the authorities al O'Neill by the infatuated
ather, ordering them to arrest the elop-
ers if they appeared there. The father
then started by team, hoping to overtake
them.
Upon reaching ONeill he found no signs
of his daughter and her abductor. After
returning home he sent kilograms TO a
number of sherlffs in the adjoining por-
ton of South Dakota. and shortly receiv-
ed intelligence that the clippers had heon
lawfully married at TyndaI this state.
For a time the irate father refused TO ex-
tend the parental blessing, but declared
that he would have the couple arrested
aud his daughter sent TO the reform school
After the eopement Mrs. Tucker discov-
cred that for some time her daughter had
been in secret communication with the In
dian, the letters being addressed to Ann
Dewey Alice's roommate, who acknow-
lodged her interest in the elopement.
Alliances between white men and Indian
women have been much more numerous
than those between Indians and white wo-
men. OF men prominent in history, John
Rolfe, the romantic young Englishman who
welded Capt. John Smiths lovelorn Poca-
hontas, was perhaps the most notable. In
his day no one ever thought that the word
"squaw-man' would be invented as a
term Of reproach to white men who Loyalty
allied their blood with that of the red man
and made their interests common with his.
Some of the most prominent men in
American history had Indian wives, whom
they loved and honored. Descendants OF
Pocahontas vaunt their noble birth. There
are even descendants Of George Washing
ton IL the chronicles Of early Ohio are to
be believed, who have Indian blood in their
veins. Other prominent characters in his
tory who had Indian wives were Sam