Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-25
INDIAN ROMANCEs.
From the St. Paul Pioneer Press)

rOIJ Wnlte, full-blOOd Piegan Indian,
the other day, and their subsequent
marriage, as announced in press dis
patches 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 en-
amoured, Mrs, Cushman was a teacher
IN an Indian school-that at Fort Shaw,
Mont
Several other attempted elopements
and marriages of young white ladies
VINO were society bellies in the east, to
I full-blooded or miXed-blood Indians
have been prevented by the deter
mined opposition of relatives or friends,
and in at least one instance death alone
prevented the consummation of the
marriage rite between a white teacher
In an Indian school, whose father bears
a national reputation, and an Indian.
Inc writer distinctly remembers the
case, which came under his Observable
a few years ago.
The young lady was a teacher in one
or the Indian schools on the Sioux res
erVatlon near this city She became in
1atuated with 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 consumption, and failed rapidly.
During his last days the young woman
teacher nursed him with the greatest de-
votion, and when he died she for a time
refused to be consoled. Since then she
has remained single, Notwithstanding
I that it is said that she has been offered
the heart and hand of desirable white
suitors.
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 teacher,
to DR.. Charles A. Eastman, then a resi-
dent of Pine Ridge agency where Miss
Goodale was teacher in an Indian
school Dr. Eastman is known as Many
Llghtnlngs among the Sioux. He is a
graduate of Dartmouth College, and by
those who know him is acknowledged to
be cultivated gentlemen who might
mingle with credit in any society DR..
and Mrs. Eastman left the Sioux agency
year or two after their marriage and
went east. They now live in St. Paul.
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 before the various de-
partments at the national capital, where
he has materially assisted them in the
carrying out by the government of its
tribes. DR.. Eastman has contributed
articles to eastern magazines on Indian
life, and his wife Is also a frequent con-
tributor to the leading publications.
One case of white woman marrying
an Indian 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 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 children. When last
heard of Mrs. Campbell was residing in
Nebraska.
The Episcopalian minister at Lower
Brule agency, the Rev. Luke Walker,
an educated Sioux, is married to white
woman, and they live happily together.
Mr.. Walker and his wife are both well
educated, 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 advance
| ment these Indians are making toward
civilization.
One of the most romantic frontier in
cidents was the elopement and mar
riage of Miss Alice Tucker, daughter of
prominent white residents of Niobrara,
with John Luman, a Sioux Indian be-
longing to the Rosebud agency. On
Dec. 81, 1898, when Alice was Is years
of age, her parents gave ball in her
honor. 1t was the event of the season
and was largely attended. Among those
from the adjacent reservation who were
present were Peter Lason and wife and
the latters son, John Luman. a quarter
breed. 1t was case of love at first
sight between Luman and Miss Alice
and the love which had its birth at that
time eliminated in the subsequent
elopement. On Saturday night about
three months after the birthday ball.
Tucker gave another dance at the little
town of Watson, where he had opened
a branch store. Again his daughter and
Luman were present. The girl returned
home the next Sunday, and nothing un-
usual seemed to surround the peace of
the family circle. 1t was, however, OBJ
served that a strange buggy was in the
alleyway back of the Tucker domicile
but that not being unusual no suspicion
was aroused.
Monday morning dawned, but as the
exertion of the Saturday night dance
was sufficient excuse for the daughters
non-appearance, little attention was
y
in appearing from her room. Her alb
sence was finally discovered, and upon
investigation it was found that her
trunk was gone, as was also the strange
buggy which had lowered so mysteri-
ously in the alley at the rear of the
house. Tucker went to Lason's and a
young man there was scared into giving
some information. He said that Alice
and Luman had gone to ONeil, Neb., to
get married. A telegram was sent to the
authorities at O'Neil by the infuriated
father ordering them to arrest the elop-
ers if they appeared there The father
then started by team, hoping to over
take them.
Upon reaching O'Neill, he found no
signs of his daughter and her abductor
After returning home he sent kilograms
to number of sheriffs in the adjoining
portion of South Dakota, and shortly
received intelligence that the elopers
had been lawfully married at Tyndall
this state. For time the irate father
refused to extend the parental blessing
but declared that he would have the
couple arrested and his daughter sent to
the reform school,. After the elopement
Mrs. Tucker discovered that for some
time her daughter had been in secret
communication with the Indian. the let
ters being addressed to Ann Dewey,
Alice's roommate, who acknowledged
ner interest IN the elOpement.
Alliances between white men and In
dian women have been much more nu-
merous than those between Indians and
white women. The last queer of the
Sioux tribe is the wife of a white man.
Red Cloud, the last of long line of fa-N
nous Indian chiefs, himself gave her
away at the altar on the Sioux reserva-
ton. The Sioux queens husband is
Charles P. Jordan, who bears the honor
M hn nT1lvT 1uhi 70 rtn &C
ever elected a member of the Sioux
council tarrha Resa 11t1f11l Nom a n >,