The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28
SOME INDIAN R0MANCES
AN ARMY CHAPLAIN's DAUGHTER ELOPES WITH 4 PIEGAN INDIAN.

Other Instances Of Marriages of White Women to Indiars-Romantic Affair of Miss Tucker and John Luman.
 The elopement of Mrs. Minnie Cush- man, the widowed daughter of G. c. Bateman, chaplain of the United States army at Fort Belknap, Mont, with Garrott White, full-blooded Pie gan Indian, the other day. and their subsequent marriage, as announced in press dispatches from Great Falls, Mont, recalls similar cases which have occurred in the northwest during the last 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 Cushman was teacher in an In- dian school--that at Fort Shaw, Mont.
 Several other attempted edopements and marriages of young white ladies who were society belles in the east to full-blood or mixed blood Indians have been prevented by the determined op- position of relatives or friends, and in at least one instance death alone pre- vented the consummation of the mar riage rite between white teacher in an Indian school, whose father bears national reputation, and an Indian. The writer distinctly remembers the case, which came under his observa- tion few years ago. The young lady was a teacher In one of the Indian schools on the Sioux reservation near this city, She became infatuated with young Sioux warrior, and would have married him against the protests of her eastern relatives had not provi- dence interposed and thwarted the all lance. The Indian was stricken with consumption and failed rapidly Dur ing his last days the young woman teacher nursed him with the greatest devotion and when he died she for a time refused to be .consoled. Since then she has remained single, notwith- standing that it is said that she has been offered the heart and hand of de- srable white sutors.
 The most notable instance of a white woman marrying an Indian was the marriage some seven years ago of Miss Elaine Goodale, the poetess and teach CT, to Dr. Charles A. Eastman, then resident of Pine Ridge agency, where Miss Goodale was a teacher in an Indi- an 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 ac- knowledged to be a cultivated gentle man, who might mingle with credit in any society. Dr. and Mrs. Eastman left the Sioux agency year or two af- ter their marriage and went east They now live in St. Paul. Their mar ried life is said to be ideal in every re- spect The doctor is frequently called upon by his brethren to look after their interests before the various depart ments at the notional capital, where he has materially assisted them in the carrying out by the government of it's treaty obligations with the Indian tribes. pr. Eastman has contributed articles to- eastern magazines on Indian life, and his wife is also a frequent con- trfbutor to the leading publications.
 One case of 8 white woman marry ing an Indian turned out very badly that of Cora Belle Fellows. Her mar riage eight or nine years ago to Chas- ka, or Sam Campbell, as he has since been better known, was the theme at the time for extended and sensational stories in practically every publication in the United States. Several 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 chil- dren. When last heard of Mrs. Camp bell was residing in Nebraska.
 The Episcopal minister at Lower Brule agency, the Rev. Luke Walker, an educated Sioux, is married to a white woman and they live happily to- gether. Mir Walker and his wife are both we'll educated, and 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 mak- ing toward civilization.
 One of the most romantic frontier in- cidents was the elopement and mar riage of Miss Alice Tucker, daughter of a prominent white resident of Mo- brara, with John Luman a Sioux Indi- an belonging to the Rosebud agency On December 31, 1893, when Alice was sixteen years of age, her parents gave a ball in her honor. It was the event of the season, and was largely attend ed. Among those from the adjacent reservation who were present were Pe- ter Lason and wife and the latter's son, John Luman, a quarter-breed. Ii was casekof love at first sight be- tween Luman and Miss Alice, and the love which had its birth at that time culninated in the subsequent elope- ment. On a Saturday night about three months after the birthday bal Tucker gave another dance at the lit- tie town of Watson. where he had opened a. branch store. The girl re- turned home the next Sunday, and nothing unusual seemed to surround the peace of the family circle. It was however, observed that strange bug gy was in the alleyway back of the Tucker domicile, but that not being un- usual, no suspicion was aroused.