The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20
INDIANS WHITE WIVES
NOTABLE INSTANCES OF ROMANCE
ON THE FRONTIER

Some Runaway Marriages of white
Women with indians That Have
Resulted Happfly-Edueated In
dinns rs HusBnnds-Vniops Of
white Men and Indian women.
Chamberlain. s. D.. Cor. st. Louis Globe-Dem.
The elopement Of Mrs Minnie Cush-
man, the widowed daughter OF c. {.
Bateman, chaplain of the United
States army at Fort Belknap. Mont.
with Carrot White. a full-blooded
Piegan Indian, the ether day, and their
subsequent marriage, as announced in
press dispatches from Great Falls. Mont.
recalls similar cases which have oc-
CURED in the Northwest during the
past ten or fifteen years. AS in several
other cases in which the daughters Of
prominent and wealthy Eastern people
have run away TO marry Indians with
whom they had become enamored. Mrs.
I Cushman was a teacher in an Indian
schoOl-that at Fort Shaw, Mont.
Several other attempted eIopements
and marriages of young white ladies
Hl4O "SLS SOClGly DSLSS IN the East to
tulI-blood or mix-blood Indians have
been prevented by the determined on
position of relatives or friends. and in
at least one instance death alone pre-
vented the marriage between a white
teacher in an Indian school. whose
father bears a national reputation and
an indian. The writer distinctly re-
members the case, which came under.
his observation a few years a go Tba
young lady was a teacher in one of
the Indian schools on the Sioux reser-
walton near this city. She became in
ratuated with a young Sioux warrior
and would have married him against
the protests Of her Eastern relatives
had not Providence interposed and
thWarted the alliance. The Indian was
stricken with that dread disease CON
sumption, and failed rapidly. During
MS last days the young lady teacher
nursed him with the greatest devotion
ana when he died she for a time refus.
eu 10 De consoled. Since then she has
remained single, Notwithstanding that
1t IS said she has been offered the heart
and hand Of desirable white sl1itors
Inc most notable instance of a white
Iaoy marrying an Indian was the mar
rage some seven years ago of Miss
Elaine Goodale, the poetess and teach
er, 20 Dr. Charles A Eastman, then
resident OF Pine Ridge agency, where
Miss Goodale was a teacher in an In
dlan school. DR.. Eastman is known
as Many Lightning" among the Sioux.
He is a graduate of Dartmouth college
and by those who know him is ar,
knowledged to be a cultivated gentle
man. VINO might mingle with credit in
any society. DR.. and Mrs. Eastman
n
after their marriage and went East.
Their married life is said to be ideal in
every respect. The doctor Is FREQUENT
~ called upon by his brethren to look
after their interests before the various
departments at the national capitaI
Where he has materially assisted them
III the carrying out by the government
OF its treaty obligations with the In
dlan tribes. DR.. Eastman has con-
trlbuted articles to Eastern magazines
o.. Indian life, and his wife is also
contributor to the leading publications
one case of a white woman marrying
an Indian has turned out very badly
that Of Cora Belle Fellows. Her
marriage eight or nine years ago to
ChasKa, or Sam Campbell, as he has
since been better known; was the theme
at the time foriextended. and sensation
al articles in practically every publ
cation in the United States. Several
years ago she and her children were
basely deserted by her Indian husband
Campbell fel! in love with a squaw.
and accordingly did not hesitate in the
least to desert his white wife and chill
dren When last heard Of Mrs. Camp
bell was residing in Nebraska under
an assumed name.
The Episcopalian minister at Lower
Brule agency, Rev. Luke Walker an
educated Sioux, is married to a white
woman, and they live happily to-
gether. Mr.. Walker and his wife are
potn wen educated, and are respected
by those who know them. They are
doing good work among the Indians at
Lever Brule, and to their efforts is at
tr1buted a great part of the credit for
the rapid advancement these Indians
are making towards civilization.
One or the most romantic of frontier Incl
dents was the elopenent and marriage of
MISS Alice Tucker. daughter Of prominent
white residents OF Niohrara with John In
man. Sioux Indian, belonging at Rosebud
sixteen years of age, her parents gave
grand ball in her honor It was the event
or the season. and was largely attended
Among those from the adjacent reservatfon
VINO We're present were Peter Lastor and
wife, and the latter's fson, John Human. a
quarter-breed. 1t was a case of love at first
sight between Luman and Miss Alice. and
the match which had its birth at that time
terminated in the subsequent elopament On
a Saturday night. about three months after
the birthday ball. Mr.. Tucker gave another
dance at the little town of Watson where
he had opened branch store. Again his
daughter and Luman were present. The girl
returned home the next Sunday and nothing
unusual seemed to surround the peace of the
family circle. 1t was, however. observed
that a strange buggy in the alleyway
back OF the Tucker domicfie. but that not
being unusual no suspicious were aroused
Monday morning dawned. but as the ex-
ertion of the Saturday night dance was SUI
fc:ent excuse for the daughters non-ap-
pearance. little attention was paid to the
hardness of the young lady In appearing
from her room. Her absence was finally dis
covered, and upon investigation 1t was found
that her trunk was gone. was also the
strange buggy which had lowered SO mys-
teriousiy in the alley at the rear Of the
house. Tucker went to Lasor's. and the
young man there was scared into giving them
Lrman had gone to O'Neill. Neb.. to get
married. A telegram was sent to the author
tiles at O'Neill by the Infatuated father or
dertng them to arrest the clippers if they ap-
peared there. The father then started by
team, hoping to overtake them
Upon reaching O'NefIl he found no signs
of his daughter and her abductor After
returning home he sent kilograms to a num-
Der of sherids in the adjoining portion OF
South Dakota, and shortly received inteIIi-
gerce that the clippers had been lawfully
married at Tyndall, this state. For a time
the irate father refused to extend the par.
ertal blessing. but declared that he would
have the couple arrested and his daughter
sent to the reform school After the clone
ment Mrs. Tucker discovered that for some
munication with the Indian, the letters being
addressed to Ann Dewey, Alice's roommate
who acknowledged her interest In the cope
ment.