The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-13
HIS indian SPOUSE
Beats Millionaire John Hite in
the Courts.
MAKES HIM A BIGAMIST
And His Young PaIeface Wife
No Wife at All.
MAKES HIM A BIGAMIST

- "44i5 SlOIy An american red
woman has been fighting a whit man
multi-millionaire for her honor, her stat
US as d wife and her share in her hus-
bands many millions. and the Indian wo-
man has won.
she has fought without money, in
strange courts, against tremendous
ODDS. She has fought for years.
Her antagonist was the millionaire
John R. Hite, paleface Of Mariposa
County, California
By all the laws of the white mans
civilization the Indian woman and the
millionaire have been man and wife for
nigh on twenty-five years.
Yet the millionaire married secretly one
of his own race in San Francisco two
years ago-married her, while in Mari
posa County, a gray haired, red skinned
woman, bowed with years spent in serv-
ing him as wife, waited for him 10 come
back to her.
She would have been waiting for him
now. with faith born of ignorance had
not some one told her that in San Fran
cisco there was another-a beautiful pale
face-whO had stepped into her rights.
Then it was that she gathered her blan-
ket about her and came down from In
dian Peak Ranch to claim recognition as
the lawful Mrs. Hite, and she has won it.
Her husband, the millionaire white man
was unfaithful. She has placed upon
him the brand of bigamist
She has tsamped the white woman who
became his wife two years ago, withe the
most terrible mark that can be stamped
upon a woman.
The red woman has appealed to the
white mans laws and found justice be-
cause of them. It is the strangest story
that ever grew out of the conquest Of the
Indians by the Dalefaces.
Thirty years ago. Lucy, the Indian girl,
was beauty, radiant with the shade
wy dUskniess of her tribe.
Day by day she heard her eyes likened
to the tints of midnight that were IA
miliar to the jewellers in the open air
She knew of coral that it was of red sim
liar to her lips A wild rose was held to
match her cheeks. The texture of satin
was explained by an American who COM
pared it to her wealth of hair. Her life,
wild, free, glorious as the long. fair days
had in it plenty of admiration and plenty
of excitement.
With her sister. Maresa, which is the
Indian for Mary, with her father and her
brothers, she wandered through the noun
tains Of the Sierras, hunting. fishing
cooking. The white man was familiar to
her and pleasing. She met him con-
stantly hunting gold wherewith to coin
money. He paid her many compliments
and made her of much account among
the red men of her own tribe. whom in |
time she rather looked upon with con-
tempt
From Maresa, who was some years her |
senior, she learned that the white man |
had many laws hiatt were good for his |
women folks" She learned with quick |
ened pulse and beating heart that his |
squaw was treated as an equal, never
beaten. never hidden to work unless she
desired She heard how in the towns the
white man dressed his sQuaw in stains
and plenty of beads how she had soft
feathers to lie upon and walls thicker
than any tent where the rain never
came through.
She heard how the white mans laws
made him always good and faithful to
the woman he loved, how he would fight
for her. work for her and never desert
her unless she was very wicked.
Maresa made her understand as she
had learned 1t herself, from white men
and women Of the mining towns, that the
white vans wife was his greatest
pride.
He may only have one, the elder sister
explained, therefore she is everything to
aim
1t is easy to ina gine. then. to what
lights the ambition of these two maid
ms scared. Together they dreamed of a
ime when. among the many white skin
led explorers who were constantly find
ng their way into the forests, two would
ome golden-haired. fair-skinned. soft
-oiced ard offer to them a biding place
lmong the white squaw
They told their dream only to each 9th
r until at last one day they confded it
o him who was to make it true.
All this happened when the depths of
california still held forth the promise Of
-old. The spirit of adventure spread
rom north to suoth. It caught in its
wave the youth of Virginia. Exploring
arties were made M from all sorts and
Of its people. The fower Of
IS aristocracy went to try their fortunes
With those OF the lower classes.
To just what set young John Hite be-
onged cannot be put down. for he him
elf has nor given many data with regard
o his family before he came into the ST.
rras
While the two duskv maIdans dreamed
Z happiness from mating with the white
lan. John Fite. one the yong Virginians.
rith party of daring and enthusiastic ]
ompanions penetrated from canyon to ,
anyon along the trail of the great ST. j
rras
With youth in their limbs and ambition !
2 their hearts. the climb was as easy
: the fight Of a bird. Nothing inumi-
ated them. The wilder the country the
ghter was the note they sang. Cat in
0 The free air they caroied the tune that ]
-as 10 bear them To glory. J
Mighty IS the power Of sold they
arg nersiste0tly. While about them in
reat drifts gathered and grew ,i'es Up
y nules Of snow. A. first they rsiolCed Z
j its grandeur. They pelted each ether
18th it like school boys. They --sI Il
or waer. They sweete1ed Z 'sr ice 4
ream- Il had no appearance e fatal ,
y until l. became lu9enecrabta ;
suddenly, IN al thc futese-t n .hefr =
Unit for gold they became aware that Z
hey were in the midst ~ S.sr'a bllz- a
ard. The snow no longer feE rom
threatening sky. Il was ca-ri IS about d
hem in whirIwinds 7. moved ur- FL one 7
ERECTION downward from tas -cavens :
bout. bUt IN a thousand Gss- vest.
or5h. south e. was .fZoo=slr's u czl-
1la5e its direction. The vc.rra men * 2
;7ring for gold were carried a.-s (; WITH g
.t strength 10 resist. Thsl- sors had