The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-21

D. JO4COuluG w MtAkCl<A 1SA6nG VI Buffalo, N. T., authoress and Washing ton correspondent for a New York pa per. has been in Montana the last week searching for Calamity Jane" the noted plainswonan. says letter from Anacenda.
 Yesterday Mrs. Brake discovered Calamity Jane" in the hut of a negro woman at Horr. near Livingston. Ca lamity" was suffering with fever. and was broken in spirit. The scene that followed the offer of Mrs. Brake to take Calamity to her own home in Buffalo where she could spend the remainder of her days in comfort, was pathetic. The noted frontier woman wept like child,
 about from place to place. making . livelihood as best she could. During the summer she sold pictures of herself to tourists. In the last few years she has been i'll a considerable portion of the time. Newspapers printed columns about her. by means cs which the at tention of Gen. Egan and manytcthers was called to the plight of their friend of early days on the plains. The re- suit is that Mrs. Brake took the ster just narrated. M
 Heroine of Many Dime Novels. A dispatch from Butte. Mont. last March stated that Calamity Jane had been admitted to the poornoase nf Gal latin county. Mont. and that she ex- pected to end her days there.
 She has been an Indian fighter, hunt CT. scout. poker playsr and miner, the friend of the oid-time soldiers of the plains and the heroine of dosen lurid novels of the kind that sell For lime Calamity Jane is not yet an old woin- an as far as years go, being on'y ~ But the hard and exciting, life she leo in the Black Hills and in the other mining camps of the West have aged her before her time. A receht sketch of her published in The Chicago Fri
 "caiamity Jane, like Dr. Mary. Walk CT. has always worn mems clothing. It Is doubtful if siie ever had skirt on in her life. for even when small girl her parents dressed her in clothing cut down from ths old uniforms the soldiers wore as the fort She he'd as- sociated with rlen and lived mans life.
 "She has lived all over the West. Her home was originally near Butte, and she has usually drifted back there after a few years spent at other Western towns. It is said that her maiden name was Canary. peadwood was the place she loved and her name is strong ly interwoven with the early days of that city.
 Grew Up With Soldiers. q.
 "Born in Missouri, her parents, when she was a small child. Journeyed n prairie schooners across the plaifls to small mining town near the site on which the city of Butte Is now built. Calamity's parents died when she was 2 years old, and she was left with no one to take care of her. The soldierssa the | fort which stood. there in those days had been fond of the child; and they adopted her after a fashion. paying an old woman to board her md sending her fant Astic clothing to wear. She was always around with the soldiers. and they taught her to ride and shoot and also to gamble and swear. s,ss ; "Tne old woman 'Eho was supposed to take care of Calamity, paid the child but little attention. and Calamity turned her attention, 70 'rustl;f' for her own food. She used to steal rides on stage coaches and go -,it and camp with theS Indians for weeks at time. EsreciaEr1 Aias she fond of heinz ,askei to sing for The rough crowds of solds icrs, trappkfs and lnireres AttoEether CaIarnity's early life was singulafix de- void of those gentle infiuences wkich are generally supposed to be essential to the proper training of child.
 How She Got Her Name.
 When she was 22 the. soldiers at the fort near Butte were ordered to proceed to Deadwood to rescue large party of miners besieged by Indians. Calamity. dressed like a man. volunteered 10 act as a scout and was taken along tg Capt. Egan, the commanding officer iol the expeditioh, who was ignorant of the fact that Calamity was a woman.
 "All the IndianS In the Northwest were at that time on the swarpath. and the soldiers had several hard fights on the way to Leadvtile. sIn one action, when the troops were charging the Jn- dians and had engaged in fierce hand to hand battle, Capt. Egan was wcund- ed and tufhbled from his norse. TWO Indians wetA riding down on the pros- trate man to scalp him. when Calamity Jane killed one of them. Before the other could Soiose in she had picked up the unconscious captain, and, throw ing his bodx across her saddle bow, dashed away with, him, and reached the main body of the troops in safety.
 When Capt. Egan recovered con sciousness he found that his brave res cuer was a woman. She was known At this time merely as Jane. in spite Ut the fact that she will not acknowledge ever having an ordinary name.
 " Well. Jane, said the captain, blinking up through the bandages over his face. you're a good one to have around in times of calamity.
 The soldiers immediately nicknamed the girl Calamity Jane, and that title she has borne ever since.
 Hunted With Buffalo Bill.
 Calamity, after this incident, went out with a good many different parties of soldiers on the trail after the Indians and won renown for her bravery and her splendid shooting. She was with Buffalo Bill on many of his hunting trips, and had record of the number of buffaloes she had killed.
 After the Indian wars she became a tTappeT, then a miner. She washed gold at Deadwood and all through the Black Hills and in Montana. At various times she had large sums of money, which she spent in the same way the other miners did in those days. She