Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1917 — REDS FLOCK TO BE MARRIED [ARTICLE]

REDS FLOCK TO BE MARRIED

Chippewas in Large Numbers Obeying Justice’s Order That They Must Be Legally Married. Deer River, Minn.—This village was visited by a large delegation of young Chippewa Indians of both sexes from the Bowstring country, who came here to be married by Justice Ed Cahill. The justice a week ago declared he would give them a week in which to get married, subsequent to many arrests made by the sheriff of Itasca county on complaint of the Indian agent at Bena that .young Indian couples are living together without being.legally married. It is not the intention of the department, it is said, to interfere with the marital rights of the older natives, who married years ago under tribal laws, but it is the younger members, and in most cases the well-educated ones, some of whom have college educations, the department officers are watching.