Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-10-27
Some Queer Marriages.

Some Queer Marriages.
An allanc" WA.ch may he declared
with absolute certainty marriage
with truly First Family" j. noted
IL the tetrn,hal, OH the 9Th inst, of J.
Palmer FarnesSorth, an attorney OF
Muskogee, Indian Territory, and a
daughter % chief Porter. Of The Creek
nation. The bride j. graduate oil
belmont College, q proficient must
clan, having been trained in New
York conservatory for two years; and
Judging from her picture, which APP
pears in the Eastern papers, possesses
graceful commanding figure, pleas
ing features, and, probably, except in
.warthy complexion, which the poet
transforms into "the nut-brown maid
when applied to womanly charms,
could hold her Own, so far rs appear.
ances go, in any drawing room Of the
Smart Set, who set the pace at Sara
toga, Bar IIarbor or Newport.
While VIC can find it possible to con-
done the act SO common on the from
tiers in early days, OF becoming a
"squaw man." under such exceptional
circumstances, we we're hardly pre-
pared for the antithesis OF this act, in
IL New york girl, Grace Wetherbee,
reared in plenty, beautiful in person,
and with excellent prospects Of a
happy life amid her own people, de-
serting all to become the "squaw" of
Sherman Coolidge, full blood of the
Araphoe nation. 1t may be said in
mitigation of the act, however, that
Coolidge is an educated Indian, and a
graduate of an Episcopal theological
school, at Fairbault, Minnesota. Miss
Welherbee's father, Gardiner Wether.
bee, was proprietor OF the Hotel Man
haitian, New York, several years, and a
man of prominence and influence.
Strange to relate, within the three
years that Mrs. Coolidge has taken up
her new station in life, she has thor.
oughly adapted her conduct to that OF
the people she has chosen as life com.
panions. She carries her pappoose
strapped to her back, wears brilliant
parti-colored shawl over her shoulders
and moccasins on her feet. II will be
seen she dresses more like squaw
than q white woman. She is some-
what careless OF her personal appear
ance and has become undignified in
her bearing; but she is devoted to her
husband and child and is fairly wOr-
shipped by the tribe. They have a
house for home, on a ranch, but
much of their time is spent in tepee
on the prairie. Coolidge wears the
conventional clerical garb, is q portly
man, clean shaver, with marked In
dian features.
The match is the result of a visit to
the West, several years ago, at Fort
Washable, by Miss Wetherbee, to the
family of the trader. 1t was then that
the couple met, while Coolidge was
conducting small Episcopal mission
on the Shoshone reservation. It was
q case of love at first sight, as such in.
congruous matches usually are. The
engagement was brief. The mission.
airy on the reservation, Rev. DR.. Rob.
erts, refused to make them husband
and wife, and they we're making pre-.
partitions to 60 to Casper, Mo-, two
hundred miles distant, to be united,
when the preacher relented and per-
formed the ceremony.
Coolidge, before adopting the pro.
fession of peace, was valiant warrior,
and rescued little boy and girl who
had been captured by the Sioux and
their parents murdered. He adopted
the boy and has educated him as his
own con.
Another instance of romantic mar.
riage was that month or two ago, of
Ernest Barbour, manager OF the Grand
Opera House, at Butte, Montana, to
Princess Chinquilla, the wealthy In.
dian vaudeville actress, which was
solemnized on Pullman car, on the
Oregon Short Line, few miles south
OF Pocatello. The ceremony was per.
formed by a clergyman taken from
Butte by Barbour for the purpose.
The previous day the groom had been
divorced from his wife in New York.
Barbour is a son of Rev. H. H. Bar.
bour OF Hartford, Conn, and Princess
Chinquilla, a full-blooded Cheyenne,
daughter Of the late chief Lone Star,
who journeyed to Washington and
made his famous address in behalf of
his people from the steps of the capitol.
Quite different, but none the less
interesting, was the experience OF Carl
Blumenscheim and Barbara Hummel,
of St. Louis, who, only few days ago,
made the discovery that the marriage
license, procured several months before
had not made them husband and
wife, although they had established
home and were living together as hap.
pity as doves. They lost no time in
supplying the omission, which even
after explanation they thought quite
unnecessary. They were Germans and
"a years of age.
AZ Gaping the climax of matrimo-
NAL mishap case is reported, this
week, in Portland. By mistake a
dog license was handed out to the ex.
pectant and naturally perturbed an.