The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15
CALAMITY JANE AGAIN.
THE NOTED WOMAN SCOUT PAYS A
VISIT TO DEADWOOD FRIENDS.

Female Member of the Trio Com
posed of Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill,
and Herself.
Deadwood. s. D.. Cor. Chicago Tribune.
When Hank Jewett'' drove TO tie Erik
horn depot one afternoon last week he
got two passengers. One was a stout,
heavy-set. dark woman, a trifie the other
side of 40, clad in plain black. and the
other little girl, apparently her daugh-
/ ter, somewhere near 9 years old
When Hank drove back from the depo5
and directed his team toward Wright 5
boarding house. on Upper Sherman street,
there was almost as much excitement in
town as when the first railroad entered
Deadwood.
Calamity James in town. shouted an
old-time miner, who caught a glimpse Of
Hanks load leaving the depot
Not man, woman or child in Dead
wood but had known Calamity Jane be-
fore she left here eighteen years ago, or
heard story after story of her wonderful
/ career The advent of a President Of
the United States into the Black Hills
would badly have created greater inter-
| est.
Calamity Jane is one of the three most
noted characters of the western frontier
| of post-bellum days. The other are her
| two former associates as scouts in the
government service-"Buffalo Biz CIV. T.
Cody and wild Bill' civilian Hickocll).
| The latter died with his boots on and
! sleeps in the cemetery on the mountain
side east of Deadwood beneath hand
! some monument, near which is that re,
/ Gently erected by Horatio w. Seymour,
| OF Chicago, over the remains of his broth
| er Clln, who came here from Racine, Wis,
I
| Calamity James maiden name is said to
| nave been Martha Canary Her own
story Of the manner in whicn she was
! first called Calamity Jane" is as toll
| lows:
IN the summer OF 1872 there was mill
| tary post on Goose creek, wyoming, near
| where the town of Sheridan now STANDS.
| At Sheridan Buffalo Bits only daughter
! now conducts hotel. In those days and
1or years after this was in the heart of
the Indian country.
One day a small detachment of troops
from Goose Creek camp was surrounded,
nearly, by Indians. Six soldiers were
killed and Capt. Egan was wounded. He
was reeling in his saddle and about to
fan when Martha, Canary dashed up
beside him, grasped him about the body,
and pulled him over upon her horse IN
front of her. Thus the gallant woman
scout saved the life of the United States
army of1cer-as she saved others-and
Capt Egan, while recovering from his
serious wounds, one day jokingly called
known by that title ever since.
Its aptitude will be better understood
when it is said that this remarkable
| character was always to be found at the
front wherever there was trouble, wheth-
| er fight with Indians or lynching bee.
And yet Calamity was never quarrel
some person. She would not be called a
| good woman by the Pharisees, yet her ma
ture had, nevertheless, a certain stamp of
nobility. Fearless and masculine in
nearly all her attributes, including the
| costume she usually chose to wear, there
| was yet feminine tenderness in her
share her ast oaT oT Rep last s rfp Of
/ bacon with a hungry miner, and which
| is wonderfully manifest in the metamor-
| phosis of advancing years. Her love for
| adventure, excitement, and the primitive
| wildness of the furthest frontier drove
her from Deadwood eighteen years ago.
| Yet she reappears now a kindly matron
in the prime OF life, and concerned only
for the welfare of her two little daugh-
ters, whom she. wishes TO have the ad-
vantages of schooling. She married a
ranchman named M. Burke after she left
Deadwood, and has been living over a
hundred miles north of here, beyond
Camp Crook, in Montana.
Calamity, when young, had more than
her share of good looks. But that never
restless characters of early days to trou-
BILE her about it, any more than she felt
so inclined. Her prowess with the SIX
shooter entitled her to so much respect
as was given to any man in the camp
she happened to frequent. The time may
come when a female of Calamity's stamp
Will De Cdlleu SIMPLY the newest New
Woman" She was certainly the most
mannish woman the west ever knew. She
| associated with desperadoes, frequentcd
dance halls, drank a little-but never
much-joined in sports, racing and hunt
ing, as a man would, was to be found
on the streets amid groups of men, talk
mans suit of handsomely made tight
fitting buckskins and a broad-bT1mmed
hat, and always rode one of the best
horses on the plains
At an Indian scare or n lvDchinv .T2na
would always take the lead, and was cas-
lily the most conspicuous chracter on
her buskskin suit, with her long, glossy,
black hair tossing over her shoulders, she
was a remarkable figure.
Jane had magnetism that was worthy
of greater deeds. Men would follow her
anywhere. She never shrank from danger,
and her sex-neVer entirely forgotten
lent to her daring an impulse that was
resistless upon her companions. 1t was
she who would arrange the details OF an
execution and after the ceremony would
superintend the funeral. That the late
Ianented had been a valued acquajnt-
ance AT one time never feazed Jane. If
it was for the good of the camp that he
expiate few of his sins on a convenient
mountain pine Jane was there to see that
everything was carried out according 10
Hoyle.
knife with equal skill, and none dared
dispute her prowess. She could ride the
most vicious mustang in way that would
excite the envy OIL any COWUOy. Appe-.-
emily she was born without the sense of
fear.
Jane was never known to create a dis
turbance and-which does not follow ne
cessarily, but is nevertheless true-was
never arrested.
Just before the opening of the Black
Hills Jane was a familiar figure at Fort
Laramie, where she was still a scout in
the federal service. This was subsequent
to her Goose creek engagement. She par
ticipated in the exciting scenes before
and after the Custer massacde, and If she
had had foreknowledge of the affair would
have killed a few horses to have been one
of the lost command herself
In 1875 the Black Hills was still an In
dian reservation, but the fame of its gold
deposits had attracted hundreds of ven
turesome prospectors who braved the
skull1ing Indian foe for the chance OF
washing out a few rich nuggets. Jane
came into the hills that year. when the
United States troops drove out a crowd
of white invaders. Jane came with the
troops, but the next year she cast her
lot with the happy-go-lucky enemy. the
prospectors, and became one of them.
When Wild Bill, the most famous char
acter OF the day. was shot down from be-
hind by Jack Mccall, she was one OF those
who arrested the murderer.