Show THE CALAMITY JANE OF HARTES HARTE'S STORY While Bret Harte was dying In London the woman who according to Buffalo Bill suggested to the novelist the character of Cherokee Sal in his greatest and most famous stor story The Luck of Roaring Camp was celebrating her Both birthday ay in true wild West Vest style in Oakes N. N D. D She is known to the length and breadth of the continent as Calamity Jane the most remarkable woman the frontier has I ever developed She shifted for herself from the time I the she was 10 years old At 15 she was famous famous fa- fa for her a rifle and as a I horsewoman S an Before IndIan she fighter was 20 O she was wa celebrated as and was appointed a regular scout United States tS army T. T She was given her soubriquet In 1872 b by Capt Egan whom she saved from death at Goose Creek S. S D. D She once saved Jack McCaul and six passengers by taking the reins of the l Deadwood adwood coach after McCaul was wounded by Indians and brought It through safely Afterward she hel held 1 up Jack McCaul S With a butchers butcher's cleaver and helped lynch him Si he had assassinated Wild Bill LO who VB ii had nuu been her ner ncr inena LO VB ii nuu her ner ncr inena She has followed the mining booms from Mexico I to British Columbia She has scouted and prospected in every State ln in the e West AVest I i She has fought men In fair fall fight and won She has killed scores of Indians helped run down and lynch many desperadoes des des- She never has known fear tear nor a home She never claimed consideration because of her sex Dozens of men whose lives she saved are now enjoying the calm cairn lif life of prosperous pros pros- porous civilization The West est that she 1 loved v- v has s Passed away Bret Harte der deI described de- de I scribed r it U years a ago Col Cody has given ri up the real for the artificial and yearly I show shon makes a fortune out of ot his Wild Ud West Vest Calamity I b Jane remains In the wild West 1 T The 1 for i the 11 free untrammeled n lt J eix- eix still possesses her The fhe wild blood Ii that was born borl borlIn in her still flows in ncr her nerI 1 I I veins and will until ly lys s she dies i The comely e beauty of the girl scout long lons ago was blotted out by years and i dissipation but the tremendous spirit of the woman burns brightly no nouh uh S She was on her way from m Jamestown N. N D. D to Livingston Mont when her I birthday called for Cor a a. proper celebration I This was in the thc cow town of Oakes She S drank much and in one saloon the cowl cown cowboys cow cow- b boys began bean n to chaff her I l Calamity Calamity l Jane n smiled grimly and asked every everyone one up to the bar They howled I Two revolvers suddenly appeared In the I womans woman's s hands She can draw as quick I as any man who ever lived I Dance anC you dance dancel she she commanded and she fired a few shots by way of emphasis I II I I. I S. S N They danced and with much vigor The They did other I things that she command command- i trifled ed ed le Calamity a with m y 4 The Jane e manner is sa not fr frai a ai in person which g Jo Jos to s she be shut up that saloon was powerfully con Coil In the tho Hoffman house the other night Buffalo Bill Col Cody heard of the womans woman's wo wo- wo- wo mans man's latest exploit and smiled sadly says the New York World I Calamity Jane is true to herself and the old days he said Then his mil mind 1 seemed to travel back to th th 1 days clays rnest He was a big factor in the wild I free life 1 instead of f being i a rich n. n Calamity was a character character character-an an odd one She always was different from froni any woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man I ever knew and it has been my fortune for for- tune to meet many different kinds of W wo wO- wO men None of us on the frontier ever met any anyone one like her Only the old days could have produced her She Sh belongs to a a. time and a class that is fast disappearing A A more daringly eccentric woman I have nave never known She is one of the old frontier types and she had all their merits and most of their faults There is no more and never will he be again and that is why we like to look back and why the few that remain of ot the timers old-timers we Ire marched with and fought with have a warm place in itt our affections affections af af- af- af whatever or wherever they may be I I have seen very little of Calamity Jane for many years Th The last time I saw her was In Buffalo last sU summer mer She was nas at the Pan American exposition and was very ve-ry tired of the East I t expect she was no more mor tired of Buffalo But But- falo than the Buffalo police pollee were of l Her r for her sorrows S seemed to need a good deal of ot drowning and she got into lots tots of trouble A civilized d town was never to her liking anyway I 1 heard the other day dav she was in Billing Bil- Bil ling hugs Mont an old stamping ground of h hers rs I expect she was on the way to some of the new camps One never knows where Calamity will turn up n next neat t. t There are not marry many m men n living that know the Vest West as well as she the does And Acid there are probably few of the timers old-timers living that have seen mpr more of the lively times in the early days She was gEn sen- rally raily in the thick of what was g going on l 1 do not know much ab about ut her early life I guess gues nobody else does but herself Her maiden i n name was Martha Canary anti and eJ she was s born in ai Princeton r Mo in ln 1852 A few fee years vears after thi this her bel mother died and In 1862 the family moved to Virginia Virginia Vir- Vir Vir Virginia ginia City Nev which was was then in the early days of the boom An Indian uprising uprising up up- rising separated her from her father and brothers and at the age of 10 she was thrown on the world to make her own way alone Before she was 20 Gen Crook appointed her ller a scout under me From that time titus on her life was pretty lively all alt the time She he had unlimited nerve and entered into the he work with enthusiasm doing good service service ser son vice on a number of occasions Though she did not do doa a mans man's shar share l I I. I l S J of the heavy work she has baa gone In places J where old frontiersmen were Ivere unwilling to trust themselves and her courage and good fellowship made condo her popular with every man in the command In her neat scouts scout's uniform Martha Canary made a handsome picture especially espe espe- daily when astride a good horse and rid rid- log ing mad d over hr the plains b on some wild expedition She was eccentric tr then and she 1 ii is eccentric now but the winsome Martha Canary of those days das is not the Calamity Jane of today Her odd nickname was received In 1872 1812 in a peculiar way She was at that time at Goose Creek Camp S. S D. D Dt where Capt Cant Egan and a small body of men were stationed The Indians were giving a lOtof lot lotof lotof of trouble and there was much fighting One day y Capt t. t Egan Was wa surrounded nl by liy a large r band T They nW were fi fighting n nd desperately desperately des des- for their lives bu but were being steadily but surely slaughtered Capt Cant Egan was wounded and had fallen off his horse In the midst of the fighting it is said sal the woman rode into the very centre of the tile trouble dismounted lifted the Captain Cap Cap- tam tain in front of her on er saddle and dashed out They rhey got untouched unto but every other man In inthe the gallant compan company com corn puny pan was slaughtered When he recovered Capt Egan laush- laush spoke of Miss 1 Canary as Calamity Jane and the name stuck has to her ever since since- so that while thousands have heard of her very few have ever heard her real name It was from her that Bret Harte took toole his famous character of Cherokee Sal in The Luck of Roaring Camp I |