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Miss Fellows’s Marriage.SHE SAYS CHASKA IS A MAN AND NOT ADUDE.Chicago, March 80. —A Times special from Pierre, Dak., says : “Your correspondent has endeavor*^ to gather all the facts relative to the reported marriage of Miss Cora Belle Fellows to Chaska, the Sioux Indian. To that end a dispatch was forwarded to Fort Bennet, which is some fifty miles short of Swift Bird’s camp, on the Cheyenne agency, where Miss Fellows is in charge of the Indian school and where the marriage was repoited to have taken place, first on the l?th and later on the 24th. The reply states that a courier from the reservation who arrived at Fort Bennett report the marriage of the teacher and her Indian lover as having occurred at Swift Bird’s camp on the evening of the 24th, the ceremony having been performed by a missionary of the Episcopal Church in the presence of a large number of the Sioux braves and squaws and a few Government attaches of the reservation. The reply further states that Chaska is not a full-blooded Indian, nor is he the worthless vagabond that he has been painted in the dispatches sent out.Miss Fellows, or rather Mrs. Campbell (for the latter is said to be Chaska’s modern), was highly incrensed when shown by the courier the newspaper’s report of her intended marriage, containing reference to Chaska as a shiftless Indian, of theivish proclivities.She told the courier to inform any one who asked for information that Chaskn is a man—not a dude—and far superior to thesensationalists who have been maligninghim. They are asking no favors, she said, further than to be allowed to conduct their affairs in their own way. The marriage has been the all-absorbing topic of discussion, the courier reports, among the people of Forts Sully and Bennett and Chayenne Agency.
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Harrisonburg Rockingham Register
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Thu, Apr 05, 1888
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