Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-28
THE VALLEY CITY.
Observation-Disclosures Indian
Doctors wife.

sTAUNTON. VA, March &-(SpeciaD
This is the big County-Court day Of the
year. and released from the winters i'm
prisonment indoors by better weather
and improved roads the country people
are in town en- masse
The local politicians are prominent on
the court green, and the many candl-
dates for county offices are hand-shaklhB
with a curious. unnatural cordiahty.
Mere formal matters Of road petitions
and probation OF wills occupied the
courts attention.
The anti-Iiauor voters in stanton are
| organizing, having had a conference az
which several ministers were present,
and a local-option election this summer
Is looked for.
The FIGHT IS delayed until after May
because stanton votes Tor county
Sheriff. and under the local-option law
a vote on the liquor question cannot COLI
fict with another election when oflcers
are 10 be named.
some time last month q long-haired In
dian medicine vender. Or. Dakota Kay;
came 10 Stanton from Roanoke ana
Buena Vista. His companion was tan
brunette and they registered a. ens
Hoover House as DR. and MIS-. l)akold
Ray From their manner or IRE DC Wa
believed they were man ana Wlle' Iun
she says Or. Ray is her HUSBAND III
Doctor rented the biggest au1iloIl'in III
IT,
pie for several weeks gave tree Fauae-
Vile show 10 advertise his medicines lhe
tall brunette was business manager ana
SO great was their success that they
made some $40 here.
Dr. Raw became infatuated with an
Augusta girl Miss Ida r. harouu, and
as published I'm the Dispatch last frlaay'
went before County Clerk W. y. burnett
and. swearing that he was single man,
procured "a license. and on Ihurslay IN
the Fakleton Hotel parl0rs he and MISS
HarOuff were married
The tall brunette. after the stanton
engagement. had gone to Noodstock
alone with the medicine company, and
there she and DR.. Ray quarrelled. Ihey
returned here. she going 20 Toledo. o.,
her home. the medicine man marrying
after she left.
ceiving a newspaper clipping announcing
DR. RAYS and Miss HarOuns wedding, az
once came 10 Staunton arriving Sunday
morning. Yesterday afternoon, In Mayor
Lqndc's private Office. before the Mayor
Chef-of-Police Waters; ana me DiS5patcn
correspondent she told her tale, alleging
thar She alone is the Indian doctors
wife. and that he Is a bigamist she tells
her story with the snap OF a woman /
scOrned. and her bright. black eyes ilash-
ed as she picked up pen and signed the
bigamy warrant "
The alleged Mrs. Ray 20. ] is a stylish
addressed woman Of about y years. sne
Is tall and willOwy, and wears hne
clothes She SAYS her maiden name was
Mary Pauline Pate. and Toledo ~ her
home. where live her mother and sisters
and a brother. who is an official In the
CITY government; that In 1894. when she
was n member OF an opera company. shc
met DR. Ray whose real name Is VI. +.
Chamberlain at Dallas. Tex. where he
was at a fair with his medicines and
that after a two weeks cOurtShip they
were married at her boarding house by
Of
other witnesses present. but the names
OF these she is unable now 20 recall that
since that time they have lived together,
at one time spending six months az Lex
ingtOn. Ky
DR.. Ray is an Illinois man. who as she
says, was adopted into the Sioux tribe ~
an early age.
He claims to have known well Sitting
Bull and Rain-in-the-FaCe the big braves
who butchered Custer aud his men at
Little Big Horn IN 1876 He was proprie-
tor Of an Indian show az Chicago on
the Midway. and later AT tho Atlanta Elk
position had thirty-seven Indians. He is
a striking-looking figure, with flowing
locks and with his tan sombrero and
sweeping tan-colOred coat-taiis
The Commonwealth arrested him yes
terday In Shenandoah on two charges
higamy and unlawful lying-sO that
should the first charge fail it VIII
strengthen the prosecution in IT'S plea
that his life with his travelling com
naniOn was an unlawful one.
Policeman Simpson went 10 Woodstock
to-day. and will return tonight with DR..
Ray.
THE WARRANT EXECUTED
WOODSTOCK. VA March 27.-(Spe-
sial)-Dr Dakota Ray. AN Indian doctor
who has been attracting large crowds
here for some nights was arrested by
Sergeant KOOntz on yesterday afternoon
and held for the stauntOn authorities
ipon the charge of blgamy. He denies
the charge. He was taken 70 Staunton
on the noon train by Omcer slmms. OF
that place.