Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-28
RED JACKET" o. NEBRASKA.


House Foyoritcs,
The dance-hoUse. which used to keep
up with the trail Of civilization as the
latter pushed its way to the shutdown,
viii soon be a thing Of the recollection.
The traveller from Cbadron. Neb., who
sat in the Grand Pacific yesterday,
waiting for an Eastern train had
been talking on the changes in the
West, and incidentally spoke Of the
dancc-hoUse.
ihe last one in our town disappear
ed several years ago. he said. and the
last noted character i'm connection with
inc institution died and was buried
the other day before I left home She
was known in that section as Red
Jasket. She was the terror Of The coun-
Try. Her nickname grew out of her
wearing an old red jacket, which she
always put ON when She started out on
the rampage. From underneath the
fringe OF the jacket there usually hung
Irom four TO siv navy revolvers, and she
rode q brOnch0 as a man would ride
Her body was put in pine box. and
tnaJ was placed ON dray and one man
with a shovel accompanied it as grave
digger and pail-bearer. She looked 40
laazard i'm death as she had for the
last ten years of her life. She was not
more than fifty years old. She looked
seventy-fye.
she Rad run the gamut. She had
fallen lrom the summit to the depths.
She went Go Minnesota from New York
State. She was born i'm the latter State,
and when sine she left If as the bride Of
@ banker I'm Minnesota she was q hand
some. intelligent and contented woman.
Ter husband died three years after the
marriage, aad She lived with her
daughter for some time after, until
she met another man. whom she mar
ried. lie was an adyentWer. He gal
lOped through her fortune and left her
Tenniiess. Then she met q real estate
man i'm Sioux City who pretended to
pity her. The woman was In need of
taa-, and before she realized it. per
haps, she had compromised herself. asd
then he left her with the shame upon
her. Just then they were constructing
the ElkhOru railroad. and a hard crowd
followed mp the tracks. This woman
went along One night she killed
man i'm danCe-hOUse. and this h8r-
aeDed her more than oversize was not
arrested. Soon after she killed another
man at Valentine She was not arrest
cd for that although the cowboys tried
TO teach her o. lesson by stripping Off
her garments. putting q rope around
her body and dragging her through Tho
streets
GA man who claimed to be her hus-
band se.tlgd i'm Wonte River Valley.
near Dakota Junction, near what is
now ChajgOn. She advanced him
money TO prove ND his land, and then
she came on and made her entrance I'm
the town by riding through the main
street, shooting right and left
every store in town closed up.
She rode away To the ranch where tc
man who claimed to be her husband
had settled.
conc day she was out looking over
her pos ssions when she saw q char
actcr known as Arkassa5 John herding
horses. The range happened TO De ON
her lend. She g1iloped towards him,
and. as she was ming on him rapid
ly he dism0uuted and disappeared in
lae l1ieael, She sent q yolley aIter
MN, ana then turned and drove ms
nerd 10 nef place. Later Arkansas
goAn oyerJook her ana demonstrated at
her taking his stock She drew her
gun ON him and made him climb q |
tree. He finally got his horses, but it |
cost A-m considerable money ana more .
ioG9ie.
H"@ otAOu ever! one NAoA sie met |