Arizona republican., 1904-02-26
AN INDIAN ELOPEMENT.
Chief Red Fox and Pretty Ball Woman
 Surprise Their Folks.

Cupids dart never sped truer to the mark than did the shaft sent by Chief Red Fox of Lame Deer Indian agency. Montana. when he drew bead on Ball Woman, the pretty Pottawatomie SGuaw with whom he eloped from the Indian Territory early this week He met her at the Cheyenne frontier day festivities.
 They were hoth at the union depot at Denver last nigAt. chief and squaw. happy as clipping lovers can be. They mad a section in Pullman over the Burlington out of Denver for Chief Red Fox is q sly old Reyuard and has ValCable ponies on a wide stretch of hills in Montana. He was paying his way with d lavish prodigality, and the section the two occupied with nuts. candy and fancy pieces of Sayly color ed cloth which he had bought en route for his pretty squaw wife.
 Many passengers were amazed to sec an Indian travel first class. When h. dians travel they have to bear creden- uals. Uncle Sam does, not roam at vii! from the reservation. Chief Red Fox was equipped with passport from Agent Clifford of the Lame Deer agency of Montana which said he left
 
 Friendly visit" to the Pottawatorlie reservation in the Indian Territory.
 Ball Woman had a passport too Hers was signed by Agent John H. Seger of Pottawatomie reservation in Indian Territory and was only good for sixty days. This passport was se- cured upon the representation that she was merely going to the Lame Deer agency on a visit. But as soon as she was safely on the way she was joined by Chief Red Fox, and the two were married in Wichita. Kansas.
 Chief Red Fox was unsuccessful iu his open and above board wooing of Ball Woman. for the reason that she is an heiress and her title to an immense stretch of land in Illinois is still in the courts. The chief Of her tribe used what influence he had to break off the match, and as a result of his in- teTference Chief Red Fox and Ball Woman planned an elopement. which was carried out fully as well as the romances of their pale face brothers and sisters who skip by the light Of the moon.
 Joe Bush. one of the best known In dians in the middle west. was the fa+h- CT of Ball Woman and through him de- ] SNSil'ltu lO ilei N NtldltNeE liIIe 10 lands in Illinois her grandfather. Shawbeuer. died possessed of.
 The Indinas had two modern suit cases in which they packed their he- ,ongfnSs.
 Their dress was the coordination of the picturesque costumes of the mo- mads of the plains and that O. the civ ilzed Indians. Chief Red Fox wore "citizens clothes and had a broad sombrero 10 distinguish him from oth- CT passengers. His hair was cut short and his feet were enCased in shoes. His bride wore woccasins. small and cover ed with beads. She wore Navajo blank ct and there was little to distinguish her from the border savage. Yet inside the blanket was that of a civilized w0- man. She wore the blanket and moe casins merely as d travelling costume. She was educated at the Indian school on the reservation.
 Whether the government will take steps to stop the runaway couple is not ! known. Their passports are regular 1 and the railroad men who knew they were e!oping were apparently anxious to see them get to their destination in safety.-Denver Republican.