Show UVLOJQ IU t CUFm WEEPS OVER TE MOST mSTRESSINij SHUIl = J r liON EVER I 1ijWN uN iNDiAN CllRCES I o I 0 LeLaPucKaChee a Dusky Bride of Seventeen Carried Off by an Indian Agent on r the Pretext that She Hasnt Finished Her Schooling Locked Up in the < H Schoolhouse and Lo Appeals to the LawN Law-N I y w 7 1 i Tama City la Dee 30Cupld Is In tears on the Indian reservation In Tama county where the Sac and Fo tribes + guard the remnants of their ancient dignity and hold clannish communion with each other over the faded glories f of the race Cupids feelings ha re been severely hurt through the latest outrage out-rage of the white man upon which the courts will shortly be called to arbitrate arbi-trate The outrage Is the forcible removal re-moval and detention of a bride of Loon Lo-on the pretext that the bride has not t finished her education and must still I be considered a schoolgirl until the white man shall be graciously pleased to decide that she has been educated sufficiently to take her place as the wife of a red warrior The bride owns the pronounceIt wlthasneeze cognomen of LeLaPuc KaChee and she was recently married to an Indian with the clopementsug gestlve name of TaTaPiCha Instead In-stead of saying tata to her pa however how-ever LeLa etc has been compelled to bid goodbyo to her lawfully wedded husband and therein lies the not unnatural un-natural bone of contention raised by the Indignant braves of the Sac and Fox tribes of Tama county As LeLa remarks re-marks with a scornful emphasis In tended to crush the critics who say that she should still be at school I am 17 and have a rl hit to be a wife But Indian Agent W G Malin has sent out an order that all Indian children under 13 must be enrolled In the training school which has been established by the Government at Toledo and It was In following up this order that the I dusky bride was discovered and carried off to school i As might be expected Ta to reduce his name to the Hist syllable In the interests in-terests of space resented the action of the Indian agent In treating his wife ns a truant and when he had found the girl gone and his tepee In a state of forlorn lonesomeness he discussed th question over the campflres and opined that even In these degenerate days an Indian had some rights that should prevent pre-vent the white mah carrying his wife off to school The young bloods of the reservation adocated the war paint and tomahawk remedy but the older redirien had some knowledge both traditionally tra-ditionally and practically of the suengrth of Uncle Sams arm and they shook their heads sadly as they replied that the waipath nowadays led to nowhere no-where but the lockup an undignified finish for the descendants of the original origi-nal owners of the soil But It was suggested that there might be some law burhd at the bottom of Justices trunk that would be found applicable ap-plicable to the case and a body of Indians In-dians thereupon repaired to the schoolhouse school-house whither LeLa had been earned determined to demand her In the name of the white mans law They found some one to espouse their cause In the person of E I Wilcox of Montour who has always taken a deep Interest In the Indians much to the disgust of some of the regularly appointed Indiana Indian-a ents In this State Mr Wilcox heading the delegation that demanded the return of the bride found that the girl had been locked in a room In the schoolhouse and ould not be released until the Indian agent deemed her sufficiently suf-ficiently well versed In the rudiments of a commonschool education to return to her husband and assume the role of wife possessed of the qualifications that the agent thought necessary Upon the peremptory refusal of the Indian agent to return the girl to her husband tho delegation withdrew In I good order and advanced on the Federal Fed-eral court where a writ of habeas corpus cor-pus was demanded for the release of the girl from school This was refused pending a hearing and all parties are now about to state their case so that a higher authority than the Indian Lelah lb I agent may determine whether h I lawfully a schoolgirl or a bride who can Ignore the trammels of civilization The grievances of the Injured husband are s ° t forth by him In the following pathetic plea Your petitioners state that the restraint re-straint Is Illegal because that on the 20th of October 1S99 your petitioners were and ever since have been husband hus-band and wife that they were lawfully married according to the laws customs and domestic relations of the Sac and Fox Indians that your petitioners have all their llvos been and are still tribal Indians belonging to said tribe and I resided on ond still reside on and with the said Sac and Fox Indians on their reservation In Tama county Iowa that said Sac and Fox Indians have always been and are still at the present time a tribal community entirely dependent on the United States Government the said Indians and tribe retain and control con-trol under their tribal laws all their moral social and domestic relations Independent In-dependent of the State of Iowa That tho defendant did with force and violence unlawfully cause the body of LeLaPucKaChec to be carried away and deprived of her liberty and the society of her husband and Impris oned her and still so restrains her Illegally Il-legally In a certain room of tho United States school building at Toledo la That your petitioners and their tribe relacivca are ot the religious conviction and honest belief that the petitioner LeLaPucKaChee Is to be thus Imprisoned Im-prisoned and restrained from hot liberty lib-erty and deprived of her husbands society so-ciety until her death and she cannot eat or drink or have any exercise or peace of mind And what does L < La do In her lonely Le prison at the Indian schoolhouse lah weeps and calls for her TaTa She resents particularly the Insinuation that her place Is rather In the schoolhouse than in the cooking department of her husbands establishment Nothing will I convince her that she is not forcibly i I detained to become the wife of the Indian In-dian agent and she declares that she will never marry him though he Is white and handsome and a man having authority to carry off maidens and married mar-ried women at his own sweet pleasure A 1 to the school she turns a deaf ear to all efforts to impart to her an education educa-tion When the teachers would have her see pothooks and hangers she sees thiough her wildly I dilating eyelids nothing but Instruments of torture tho Hlscoiy of the United States In words of one syllable tells her only that the white man made her ancestors look like a little less than a third of a dollar her that the geography only reminds the Sac and Fox Indians arc being crowded almost off the earth Instead of share of its surface owning a generous LoLaa teachers are In despair So Is LeLa So Is her husband So Is the Indian agent who really believes be la I doing his duty by abducting uneducated Indian brides and forcing an education upon them The tangle must soon bo unraveled or some ono will die of grief and worry Is It any wondor that Cupid Is In tears over such a situation |