Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — END OF A ROMANCE. [ARTICLE]

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Mrs, Chaska Deserted by Her Indian Husband for a More Buxom Squaw. Mrs. Chaska, nee Cora Flower, who was married at Cheyenne City agency three years ago to a Santee Sioux named Chaska, or Samuel Campbell, is now living apart from him in a small town in southern Nebraska. Sevoral months ago Chaska and his family went to reside on tho Santee reservation, a short distance up the river from Yankton, that they might enjoy the fruits of Chaska’s Indianhood. Chaska is a Santee Indian, apd in company with his children receivos a government subsidy every three months. After two months of life on the reservation Chaska suddenly disappeared, and it was discovered that he had eloped with a young and buxom squaw. Mrs. Chaska, after waiting for his return for weeks, left the reservation with her half-breed children, vowing she would never live with Chaska again, Two weeks after she left Chaska returned to the atrency and is now living there with the woman who accompanied him in his elopement.