Show HAS illS HAMh FULL Captain Woodson Inaugurates an Indian Marriage Boom Wichita Kan June 16 Captain Woodson of the Fifth cavalry at present acting Indian agent for the Cheyennes and Arapahoes at Darlington Darling-ton O T is pursuing duties not strictly in line with the ambition of a West Pointer Last month he issued an order dwelling strongly on the importance im-portance of Indians adopting the civil marriage rites Now Captain Wood son has his hands full for the Indians are coming in from all quart ers to be married by him Yesterday he married one couple who had been married nearly sixty years under the Indian rites Some of the Christianized Christian-ized Indians are getting remarried according to the religious rites and these knottying matinees are monopolized mono-polized by Paul Goodbear a full blooded Indian Presbyterian preacher There are about SOO couples to be married mar-ried in this way I |