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Show A PRETTY INDIAN MAIDEN. Ten Thousand Orient to the White Man Who Marrit- Her. PlKKUE. S. Dak.. Sept. S The publicity pub-licity given the ncent st:i'. meat of Fred Ihipive, the old French squaw -man, that he would give i'.O.tHH) to the right young man w ho would many one of his favorite half-Mood Indian giris, has had the effect of eliciting doens of letters from marriageable young men in different parts of the I'liiled Slates, and the prospects are that a lig wedding wed-ding will yet result from this generous offer on the part of the old man. Hut the old man says he must have good- evidence ut hand that the man who weds the girl will prove a model husband. While the squaw is one of the handsomest of the great Sioux ref-ervation. yet the match mu-t be made on strictly bu-iue-s principles, prin-ciples, and the old man alone is to be consulted in the matter. Tin-re is a t tinge of romance connected v illi the ntTair already. l seems thai a young chief w ho learned of old man Ihiproc's intention of having his preity daughter marry a white man. conceived the idea that an otter of ponies n.ighi win the friendship of the old man and gain for himself the fair maiden's hand. Hut Thipree refused the chief's oiler of imi ponies for the young squaw, and the Indian went his way a sadder and completely com-pletely broken down chief. |