Show SIOUX INDIAN WAIF lost bird adopted by general becomes a bride little one was found in dead moth ers arms after battle of wound ed knee nearly 20 years ago neb nineteen years ago last winter when the battle of wound ed knee was fought in south da kota just over the nebraska line on the pine ridge indian reservation between the sioux indiana and the government troops there was a slaughter ot indians both men and women the indians were surprised early in the As the soldiers rode down upon it intending to capture without a fight some indian by acci dent discharged his gun this was the signal tor a conflict and the sol diers poured volley after volley into the tepees where but a moment be tore the indians had been sleeping among the indian survivors was a little girl the soldiers named her zinta lanful sioux for lost bird this child a babe a few months old was found clasped in the arms of its dead mother who had been killed by a soldier s bullet both wrapped in a blanket and lying in a tepee gen L W colby of beatrice neb was in command of the state militia that supported the regulars grieved by the 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 the close of the war she was carlst ened margareta elizabeth colby and legally adopted she was a bright child and was given every possible at 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 where she lived ith a sister of gen colby and be came quite a 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 mother who moved there now comes the word from portland that the indian maiden has been mar ried to albert Chali vat a french ca aadlan who has indian blood in his veins and that she and her husband will reside in the hudson bay coun try where Chal hats father has a vast tract of land nothing wins a man sooner than a good turn robert burton |