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Show El OF A RDMAN11E Cora Belle Fellows Tires of Her Indian Huaban'd. Th .WiirrlaR Uns Provd a Derided Failure Fail-ure The PoeteM of the 15erkliiru ill Is 4tarri ft Full-lilood Jniiiin IJoetori Washington, D. C, June 24. A very pretty romance has been spoiled by the news telegraphed, here to-day that Cora Belle Fellows-Chaska will apply for a divorce from her Indian nusband, Sam Chaska; Mrs. Chaska is a Washington girl. Her father. Homer Fellows, is a Veteran clerk in the war department, and although the family has alwajs lived moderately in a neat little home on Capitol Hill, Cora Belle was a great favorite in society. so-ciety. Everywhere she was received by toe best people of Washington. She is remembered as a remarkably pretty J girl, and she might have had her own choice of husbands from among the most eligible of the young men of the capital city without going to the wilds of Dakota, but Cora Belle was nothing if not romantic, and it has been s&id of her that, though she has an unblemished reputation, she had planned more than one elopement elope-ment during her girlhood. She always claimed that her marriage1 would be a sensational one and she kept her word. Tiring of Washington life, Cora obtained ob-tained permission from her parents to vi.-it friends in Dakota, and went to Chamberlain, South Dakota.where she spent several months. There she iliet Chaska, a young Sioux Indian. Cora Belle did not notify her family here of th fact she was receiving the attentions atten-tions of a more or less wild Indian. Her father had always shared General Sheridan's opinion that the only good Indian is a dead Indian, so Cora Belle did not care to tell him she proposed to marry one. Just before her marriage to Chaska she wrote to her parents here and made a clean breast of the whole affair. Her letter arrived here the day the wedding took place in Dakota. The father did not ertd bis blessings to the pair, however, though, like a good father, he hoped the mar riage would prove as happy as such a union could. Cora Belle did not get any answer to her letter, and she did not write home any more. From acquaintances her friends had learned she had gone to live with her Indian husband, and had entered upon the task of civilizing him. The birth of a child, who was of course a half-breed, was not communicated her family. The statement that the young" white girl has grown tired of her fed husband and will apply for a divorce was news to Mr. Fellows. When a reporter called on him to-day he did not seem greatly disturbed, and Said, very gently: ''"t have heard nothing about it; there hos been no communication between my family and my daughter since her unfortunate un-fortunate marriage. If any such steps as that mentioned in the dispatch, has been taken, it is hardly hard-ly probable we should have been informed in-formed of it." Mr. Fellow3 did not care to say whether Mrsi Chaska would he again received at her home. She hadn't asked to be taken back, and this question ques-tion need not be settled before it should arise. The wedding took place at the Indian heada uarters at Wise Bird's camp, in Dakota, March 24. 1S88. and was witnessed by the Government attaches at-taches and braves and Squaws of the Sioux tribe, living there. For a long time the marriage was the theme of discussion at Pierre, Fort rfcally, Bennett Ben-nett and Cheyenne agency. Reports Re-ports that the marriage was proving prov-ing unsatisfactory were published from time to time, but Mrs. Chaska declared these were untrue. About two weeks after the marriage Chaska and his bride received an offer of $5,000 for a ten weeks' engagement in a Chicago dime museum that was shown Mrs. Chaska. "I think this an insult," she was quoted as saying. "I will never accept such an offer as long as I can earn a living, and while I am not ashamed of Chaska. I love him dearly. I think too much of my friends and parents to make a dime museum exhibition of myself." Then she filled out a telegraph tele-graph blank as follows: "I can't entertain your proposition. I speak for Chaska. my husband." Notwithstanding this, however, she, in company with her husband and baby filled an engagement shoitly afterward at both the West and the South side museums in Chicago. The Chaska marriage was recalled by a ceremony of last Thursday at the Church of the Ascension, corner of Fifth avenue and Fourth jstreet, New York, when Elaine Gnndall. the poetess poet-ess of the Berkshire Hills, became the wife of Dr. Charles A, W. Eastman.or as he was known when a Sioux, l-Ohy-lesa, "Th Winner." Mrs. Eastman like Mrs. Chaska, is to continue her work among the Sioux Indians. She will be with her husband at Pine Ridge Agncy, where the doctor holds the position of Government medical insqector. |