Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-06
AN OVERDRAWH TALL
Concerning a Rock Island Woman
Who Spends Her Sum-
mers in Denver.
HAS BEEN GIVEN WIDE PUBLICITY
Heroine Knows How to Shoot
But Confines Her Operations
to Small Game.

The story following, which ap-
peared in Denver Post of recent date,
and which, with various variations
and Celebrations and even a quantity
of red ink, has gone the rounds OF the
western press, is found, upon inves-
tigation at the home of the heroine.
Mrs. Putnam, VIII % is the daughter of
S. w. McMaster and lives at her
fathers residence on Fifth avenue, to
be somewhat exaggerated. Mrs. Put
nam is the possessor of all the accom-
plishments for which she is given
credit and more. She is good rifle
shot and she frequently hunts small
game. She usually spends the sum-
mer season in Denver, and it was
there that this rather Overdrawn tale
was incubated in the resourceful
brain of reporter. But here is the
story:
Three women will go from Denver
into the wilds of the Rocky Mountains
to hunt the mountain lions and other
wild game that Teddy did not get.
They will go to Sweet Water lake,
and will remain probably two months.
They are Mrs. Jeanette Putnam,
Mrs. Thomas Chivington and Miss
Lou Bergh.
"Miss Bergh is a Denver stenographer
and resides at 1888 South Fourteenth
street. Mrs: Chivington is Chicago
society lady and the wife of the son
of the famous Colonel Chivington.
She is visiting Miss Bergh. Mrs. Put
nam is of Rock Island.
The Champion of wisconsin.
Mrs. Putnam is the champion lady
rifle shot OF Wisconsin. She has
hunted all through that state and
will now try her hand at the big game
of the Rockies. She has been APP
pointed guardian and general of the
party, as the other ladies have had
no hunting experience whatever.
Mrs. Putnam says that she has been
af.er muskallonge aud wildcat and
has often brought down deer. She is
not in the least afraid, although there
may not be another person within
miles of where the ladies are camped.
Mrs. Putnam has been to Sweet
Water once before. and is the only
woman that has ever entered that
region, which for years has been
almost inaccessible.
1--WE SHALL take the train to Gyp-
sum- says Mr.. Putnam. From
there we shall have a 25-mile ride by
stage. The country is very pictuT-
esque and very wild. Mountain lions,
wildcat and bear are thick and we are
sure TO have enough to keep US busy.
We shall sleep in tent and eat very
little that we do not shoot. Grouse
mi f1-n1
to go hungry.
After Big Game.
Z" We intend to go after the big fell
lows, however, and expect to bring
back few trophies in the form OF
lion rugs, which will look we'll on our
parlor floors next winter
while hunting in Wisconsin, where
she has usually spent her seasons,
Mrs. Putnam has met with many ex-
citing adventures. Once while fish
ing in Mud lake she saw shiny OBJ |
ject in the water which she thought |
was large musksllonge. She threw |
her hook and it appeared to snag the |
object. She pulled the line aud dis
closed mans forehead and eyes. |
She said she nearly tainted. The man
had been washed from a raft and his /
feet had become imbedded in the mud.
The bald part of his head was what |
Mrs. Putnam had seen. Mrs Putnam
is very petite beauty, with tiny
hands, but she holds her rifle with an /
grasp and can hit the
mark every time. She is an absolute
~ fearless hunter and always ready |
for go with the biggest bear or lion.
She will try to br eak Roosevelt's
record"