| Show 1 i iiii 1 l lri ml I 1 1 1 hi H i W WHO TTO T 11 TO W WAS As 1 WHO I 1 by louise HI al comstock t JL hll I l H H M 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 all H t BILL JONES 0 MOST of us 11 ll Light lidnin lit nin bill T TO jones lives as frank bacon who carried that role in the play through a spectacular run of three full years in new york or as will rogers who recently brought it further glory in the talkies tallies tal kies but had a real self quite outside of the play he be inspired ills his name it has recently been revealed by the nebraska state depar department ament of publicity was william wallace kennedy wall for short who lived some sixty years ago in brownsville Browns ville neb in the early nineties kennedy left nebraska and located at napa calif where he became jailer and guard of a chain gang assigned to general duties about town wall was a great teller of good yarns many of which the county clerk wrote up for publication in the local newspaper among them the story of driving bees across the plains the editor of the newspaper was frank bacon who recognized the merit of the stories conceived out of them the character of their teller and built up about him the framework of his bis play was published in 1918 under the co au thor ship of winchell smith and frank bacon v v v CALAMITY JANE HD started in 11 life fe as martha S jane canary that was in missouri bourlin in 1852 over her grave stands a monument which bears the name mrs jane burke that monument is in deadwood S D where her life ended in 1903 1003 in between those dates Is the history of one of the most famous or notorious women in frontier history calamity jane a woman of many husbands and many names a woman who frequently dressed in mens clothes clot lies and held her own with men in the rough life and dangerous work of taming the wilderness why the calamity jane one legend says she saved the life of an army officer during a fight with indians and as she carried him safely out of danger lie he remarked jane youre a wonderful little woman to have around in times of calamity from now on your names calamity jane but bill that has been proved to be pure myth for the real reason take your pick of these any one or several will do as well as any other because she carried guns and wits was given to inviting calamity because she suffered several buggy smashing accidents in cheyenne wyo find and was considered unlucky because she bashed the treads heads of men who displeased her and always brought calamity with her into a camp because of her bedraggled and notoriously down at the heel appearance when returning from her trail expeditions or in liquor or because her lovers sometimes mi husbands developed habits of dying viole violently nUy V V V CAPPY RICKS E VEN as cappy ricks kicks hero of 11 l 1 the book by that name and of it its a sequel cappy ricks retires both by peter B kyne capt robert dollar enjoyed little more excitement and fame than he has found in real life ills his Is one of the most romantic stories in the annals of modern commerce captain dollar is one of the fast disappearing tribe sturdy hardworking capitalists with firsthand first hand training in mining or lumber camps on the western plains or on shipboard who in the and rose to take commanding positions in the commercial world dollar rose from a lumber camp where lie he started in as camp cook became a pioneer in transpacific trade and in a period of some thirty years has built up a transportation system which is one of the most famous if not the largest in the world dont wait for your ship to come in lie he used to say just keep em out come in all right JIS as as you keep sendan em out in 1001 1901 captain dollar sent ills his first ship out to the orient laden with lumber and bro brought light back in it a cargo of silk and spices rice and tea ile he thus practically opened the slumbering orient to american trade which has increased per cent since that time today a multimillionaire and the best known american east of the suez captain dollar resides in san rafael calif here lie he lives frugally and personally conducts family religious sen ices dally in his bis own home 0 1932 western newspaper paper union |
