Show JANE RED did tho the ramous famous r amous squaw die 0 of a broken I 1 steart because her tr buck ran away did jane red jacket die of a broken hart la Is there enough of feeling sentiment or love about an indian to work upon the heart until it would cease to do its duty until it would lay down the bur den of life thereby causing the human machine to stop atop we were wera about to say lay that may be the savage thit that still lurks in the breast of the red race predominate but perhaps that would be saying too much the indian has never shown as much of feeling ax as has the white man but doubt doubtless lees tha many years of association have softened his nature so that a spark at least of the light of love may have entered his hia heart when jane red jacket died a few weeks ago it was given out that pneumonia was the cause since that time tim it has come from the very beat of medical authority that she had no symptoms of pneumonia just a few hours prior to the hour that she breath ed her last breath while in vernal looking after of ter the liberation of her bar nephew happy jack who was in jell jail for selling liquor to indians on the res er she had a long talk with a friend of hers and she told more of her innermost thoughts on that occasion than the she ever did all her life before usually reticent and close mouthed she aha was very talkative and communicative this time and the burden of other her conversation mitt ion was w her love affairs aff airs and she had miny many of them during her eventful life in her younger days she was good to took look at and was very popular with the young bucks and many a one lost his heart to her jose jaae not only had many love affairs but she had several husbands the first of whom was red jacket who died a nu meriol years ago the last one she loved best of all and he loved her bar at arat but soon tired of her and left her atta ho hi went want away and took up with another squaw jane loat all interest in 1 life she drooped and pined and there w was a faraway far away look in her aye ye when she he went won t to this friend the she said eaid she was sick and the friend asked her where she was sick right here she replied and indicated with her hand over her heart asked how long she had been sick in the heart she replied that she had been sick ever her man went away last winter to live alv with another squaw the friend who know knew something of hearts examined janos janes and was waa astonished to find that it had gone all to pieces it was pound ing and jumping in a most erratic and irregular manner and the examiner know knew that the woman would not live very long not a symptom of pneumonia was there here to be found next day jane loft left for the agency at whiterocks where she died pneumonia could easily have developed before she reached whiterocks and that may have been the immediate caus of death but who knows grief may have hastened the end whatever Wha tho the cause may have been we are brought face to face with the fact that the indians are fast disappearing from the fitce face of the earth the race is not composed of odthe ake same robust manhood of the years ago A race that is subject to exposure that cultivates neither the physical nor the intellectual mighty soon runs itself out if the earth depended for its population from such a elass class of people we would soon be but few in number it is a fact not generally known that more Indians die of tuberculosis thin than any other disease A physician was asked why that is so and the answer was because of so much exposure and eo BO little of the cultivation of the physical one day he dresses to as the white man dreiss drees es ea and another day he dresses in his native and he pas s no attention to the weather |