Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-14
GAVE UP CAREER fOR PRETTY
 INDIAN
Romance of Lieutenant In Ari- zona Told By Indian Com missioner luepp On Recent Visit to Phoenix.

PHONENIX. June 13.-While here Francis k. Leupp, the head of the Indian office in an interview said that the hope of the Indian lay in anal gamation with the whites. In one case at least this amalgamatinn proved to be a bad thing for the white man, whether or not. 1t helped the Indian. The facts of the case, which has strong local tinge. have just come to light. with the recent dis charge of the white husband from the United States civil service under which he has been employed in a clerical capacity at the Sacaton res ervation.
 This man was a West Pointer, had served through the Spanish-American war, and for a time after the war he was stationed in the Philippines. About the time the senate committee on military affairs was Investigating the water cure" to the Filipinos, this officer, who for the purpose of this narrative shall be called the Iieuten- ant, was summoned before the com mittee. Though he was supposed to know as much about the water cure as any man living, the committee learned little from him, so adTDitly eyasiye were his answers. He was not recalcitrant witness, but he was a very unsatisfactory one. He was granted six months leave of absence without requesting it and for some reason he came to the Sacaton reser- yatiun to put in a part of the period of his enforced idleness.
 4 visit which uaS intended fa ba short, was stretched out through the whole vacation of six months. He be- came enamored of a handsome and educated Indian girl, not full blood, engaged in teaching in the reserya- ton school.
 During the stay of the lieutenant at the reservation he met a Phoenix bus mess man who was on a hunting trip and the spent several days together so that their relations became quite confidential. One day the lieutenant told his Phoenix friend that he had determined to marry the Indian girl. The Phoenix man, who had been in Arizona almost ever since it became a part of the frontier, endeavOred to dissuade him In his opinion all in- dian maidens. whatever may have been their advantages of education and good looks, all come to the same end, and after middle life all look alike. He told the lieutenant that however cultured an Indian wife might be she would nyer be accepted as an equal by the wives of his broth CT officers, and in the end he would have either to abandon his wife or his military career. The lieutenant believed though that the Indian girl he was going to make his wife was different from any Indian girl the sun had ever shOne on. He felt tO- ward this girl very much the same as all men, white and black. from the dawn of creation have felt toward the girls they are about to marry He was further told that he could not marry the girl in this territory. The lieu. tenant replied in effect that love would find way and that he would take his wife from the reservation to an army post in North Dakota to which he was to be assigned at the end of his leave of absence.
 The Phoenix man afterward learn ed that the lieutenant and the girl were married, but he was not in formed Of the circumstances of the marriage nor of the place where il was soIemnized. It has since been learned that the license was procured in Pima county and that the lieuten' ant swore that he himself had Indian blood in his veins,
 The Phoenix man supposed that the lieutenant was still in the army until q couple of weeks ago on his return from California he met the lieutenant and wife at Maricopa. There had been a considerable reversion to the aboriginal appearance of the woman She had a couple of small children carrying one in her arms and drag ging the other along behind.
 The Phoenix man observed that the lieutenant was looking rather seedy; he asked him if he was still in the army. He replied that he had re signed; he had wearied of a military career, but he was now in the ciyi service, employed as a clerk at Saca ton. lie said that he had accom- panied his wife to Maricopa on heI way to the coast for the summer.
 Does the state of your finances warrant such an outing?' asked the Phoenix man jocularly.
 oh. he'll" replied the lieutenant SC riously: 'it isn't question of finan ees: she says it's too hot on the res eryation and that settles it.
 The man himself is now on th' coast and out of all touch with the ] government in whose service he be gan promising military carer.