Show siou A INDIAN I 1 N WAIF lost bird adopted by G general becomes a bride little one was found in dead mothers arms after battle of wounded knee nearly 20 years ago it 11 omaha neb nineteen years ago last winter when the battle of wounded knee was fought in south dakota just over tho the nebraska line on the pine ridge indian reservation between the sioux indians and the government troops there was a slaughter of indians both men and women the indians were surprised early in the rooming morning As tho the soldiers rode down upon it intending to capture without a fight some indian by accident discharged his gun this was the signal for a conflict and the soldiers poured volley after volley into the tepees whore where but a moment before the indians had bad been sleeping among tho the indian survivors was a little girl the soldiers named her zinta lanful sioux for cost bird this child a babe baba a few months old was found clasped in tile tho arms ot of its dead mother who had bad been killed by a soldiers bullet both wrapped in a blanket and lying in a aupee geri gen L W colby of beatrice neb was in command of the state militia that supported the regulars grieved by the fato fate of the indian mother he took the little girl to his camp and when opportunity offered sent her to his home at beatrice where after I 1 the close of the war she was r christened Alar margareta gareta elizabeth colby and legally adopted she was a bright child and was given every possible attention clothed in rich apparel and treated as one of the family when old enough she was sent to the public schools and then to a finishing school in washington D C where she lived with a sister of gen colby and became quite a favorite in society having finished her education she returned to beatrice and a couple of years ago went to portland ore where she has since lived with her foster irid mother ther who moved there now comes the word from portland that the indian maiden has been married to albert Chall Chali vat a french canadian who has indian blood in bi als I 1 veins and that she and her husband will reside in the hudson bay country where Chall vats father has a vast tract of land nothing wins a man sooner than a good turn robert burton |