Show A PRETTY ROMANCE I Cora B lle Fellows and Chaska Want I Divorce THE SIOUX HAS BEEN CIVILIZED Tkli lithe End of a Silly Girls Wilful Way She Will Take Home to Her Parents Par-ents a Halfcaste Kd Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch WASAINGTON June 24A very pretty romance has been shattered by the news telegraphed here today that Cora Belo Fellows Cbaska will apply for a divorce from her Indian husband Sam Chaska Mrs Cheeks is a Washington girL Her father Homer Fellows i a veteran clerk I I in the war department and although the I family has always lived modestly in a neat little home on Capitol bill Cora Belle was a great favorite in society here where she was received by the best people of Washington Wash-ington She is remembered as a remarkably remarka-bly pretty girl and she might have had her own choice of husbands from among the most eligible of the young men of the Capitol Capi-tol City without going to the wilds of Dakota Da-kota But Cora Belle was nothing if not romantic It is said of her that though she bore an unblemished reputation she ha planned more than one elopement during dur-ing her girlhood She always declared her marriage would be a sensational one and she kept her word TIringof Washington life Cora obtained permission from her parents to visit friends in Dakota and went Chamberlain South Dakota where she spent several months There she met Chaska Cora Belle did not communicate to her family hero the fact she was receiving the attentions of a more or less wild Indan Her father shared General Sheridans opinion that the only good Indian i the dead Indian and so Cora Belle didnt care t tell him that she proposed posed to marry one Bat just before her marriage to Chaska she wrote to her parents here and made a clean breast of the whole affair Her letter arrived here the day the wedding took place in Dakota and too late for Fellows to take steps to prevent it He didnt send his blessing to the pair however though like a good father he hoped the marriage would prove a happy a such a union could Cora Belle didnt get any answer t her letter She didnt write home any more From acquaintances her friends had learned she bad gone to live with her Indian husband and had entered upon the task of civilizing him The birth I oi a child who is of course a bal breed was not communicated to her family The statement that the young white girl has grown tired of her red husband and will apply for a divorce was news to Mr Fellows When a reporter called on him today he didnt seem greatly disturbed and said very quietly I have heard nothing abcut it There ha been no communication com-munication between my family and my daughter since her unfortunate marriage I any such step as that mentioned in this dispatch has been taken it is hardly probably prob-ably we should have been Informed of it Mr Fellows didnt care to say whether Mrs Chaska would be again received at her home She hadnt asked to be taken back and this question need not settled before it should arise The wedding took place at the Indian headquarr at Wise Birds camp in Dakota Da-kota March 24 1SS and was witnessed wit-nessed by the government attaches and braves and squaws of the Sioux tribe living there For a long time the marriage was the theme of discussion at Pierre Fort Sully Bennett and Cheyenne agency Reports Re-ports that thA marriage was proving unsatisfactory unsat-isfactory were published from time to time but Mrs Campbell declared these were untrue un-true About two weeks after the marriage Chaska and his bride received an offer of 5000 for a ten weeks engagement in a Chicago dime museum This was shown Mrs Campbell I think this is an insult she was quoted as saying I will never accept such an offer a long as I can earn I I living While I am not ashamed uf Chaska and love him dear I think too much of my friends and I acnts t make a dime museum mu-seum exhibition of myself Then she filled out a telegraph blank as follows hI cannot entertain your proposition I speak for Chaska my husband The Chaska marnace was recalled by a ceremony of last Thursday at the Church of the Ascension Fifth avenue and Tenth street New York when Elaine Goodall the poetess of the Berkshire hills became the wife of Dr Charles A W Eastman or as he was known wben a Sioux Ohyiesa or The Winner Mrs Eastman like Mrs Campbell is to continue her work I among the Sioux Indians She will be with i her husband at Pine Ridge agency where I the doctor holds the position of government medical inspector i |