Arizona republican., 1899-10-15
ONE OF tEDDY's STORIES.
General Roosevelt's Reminiscence of
 Calamity Jane.

press and some of the belated report
 CTS had gathered in a quick lunch
 Restaurant for a chat and a cup of cof-
 fee before taking the trip uptown.
 Stories were told of shop, and finally
 one of the men who had been much
 mixed up in politics told this tale of
 Calamity Jane:
 T got this story he began. from Governor Roosevelt, who told t Cne
 night when there was little doing and
 Ee had been induced to tell some of his western experience It is of CaIam- ity Jane, a woman who really existed and who was one of the most pictur-
 esque features of western frontier life A woman of remarkable bravery she absolutely knew no fear of any | Jhing-she had for a number of years most wonderful career in the wiIds of 1 Wyoming and the Dakotas along the l latter part of the sos and until after the gold fever had partially subsided in the Black Hills, and the steady and relentless march of civilization had changed Deadwood from mere min ] ing camp into Q hustling little city. Calamity Jane was one of the three perscnages who Were most prominent on the western frontier twenty-five years ago. Her associates were Col onel w. F. Cody C-BuffaIo BiIFO and James B. Hicock. known in those days as Wild Bill Of Cody it is necessary to say little: he has become a rich and powerful snowman, and makes every summer more money than he saw all told while acting as government scout with General Custer. Wild BiIl' met ignominioUs death at the hands of an assassin, being shot down from behind | by an outlaw named Jack Mccall, who 1 was caught and strung up by the i friends of the murdered man. 'Caiam- | ity was one of the lynching party and | assisted in averaging the murder of her !. friend and associate.
 James maiden name was Martha | Canary and she is a native of New England. She was a young girl when she went out west and her rowing dis position tempted her into following the life of a scout, and it was while engag- ed in this unusual occupation for wo- man that she received her singular nickname. She was with a small de- tachment of soldiers from Goose creek camp when the party was suddenly surprised by Indians, who were bent on massacre Several of the brave men were slain and Captain Eagan, the officer in command. was wounded. He reeled in his saddle and would have fallen to the ground but for Martha Canary. She spurred her horse to his side, seized him as he was about to fall and pulled him over on her horse in front of her. She then made q dash through the ranks of the Indians and brought the wounded man safely into camp.
 Captain Eagan's life was not the : only one thus saved by the brave fa- male scout. and it seemed that where ' ever danger was, there she was sure | to be found. This fact was jokingIy referred to by Captain Eagan. wlO l laughingly called her Calamity Jane i The name stuck tO her in after years and as such she has been known to | thousands who could not have told for C certain that she ever had any other ' Even after her marriage to a prosper C 0Us ranchman named Burke. it made s no Calamity Jane she re- | nained. Jane has always dressed in I mans apparel. Her suit of buckskin t was always well made and fitted her f neatly, and it always showed a bit or seInininity in decoration. Astride d a swift horse. with her long black hair lying behind as she dashed over hill : md dale, she was a picturesque crea- . ure. and one, too, wkO was comeIy and attractive.
 She was not perhaps. a paragon of
 
 3ociate of desperadoes, Q frequent visi- ] or to the dance halls that graced-or I nore frequently that graced-front- CT towns and mining camps; she drank | little now and then. though never 10 .xcess; she was a splendid shot with fife and revolver, her proWess being by scores of marksmen whom ! he had defeated, and she was very l handy, too, with a bowie knife. She l -Ould ride the most vicious horse or , mustang in Q manner that excited the i nvy of the most accomplished cowboy { Ind yet, though the church people 1 night not have called her a good wo- i nan, she had many traits that will l ertainly be recorded in the great book f life.
 There was genuine feminine ten P erness in her heart which prompted CT to share her last dollar or last strip = f bacon with hungry miner, and, iough she might have participated I a lynching she was. ever ready to oothe the dying, or to perform the ast sad rites for the dead. Love of ad- enture sent her into the Black Hills -ith the soldiers when the govern lent troops drove out the crowd of -hite invaders, but not long after she ad been there, she chose to cast her ,t with the enemy-the prospectors- nd remained there for a number of ears as one of the boys Jane may Q regarded as the pioneer new wo- lan,' for though she married and be- anne a mother, she never discarded CT jaunty scouts apparel. New ork Telegraph.