The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-07-18
JANE ON HER TRAVELS.

JANE ON HER TRAVELS.
All the way east Calimity Jane and
Mrs Brake, the lady who is taking
her to raise, are creating considerable
of a sensation and as they pass
through the different villages en- route
the natives come out to stare and
wonder and the newspaper men make
remarks. The st. Paul Dispatch man
visited Calamity as she passed
through St. Paul and wrote as fol-
lows:
Calamity Jane" the woman scout,
ranger, cowboy, Indian fighter and
poker player, whose arrival in St.
Paul was mentioned in yesterdays
Dispatch, left last evening on her
way to her future home in Buffalo.
She came and went with Mrs. Jose
phine Winfield Brake, who is taking
her to Buffalo, as she says. to estab-
lish Jane in her own country home
near that city.
It would seem more reasonable that
she would take up her residence in
some well-located dime museum. AS
a side show she would prove draw
ing attraction.
Mrs. Brake registered for BOTH and
her handwriting shows plainly that
she was more or less agitated and
nervous. She evidently had her hands
full on the trip from Montana, by the
time she reached st. Paul.
James associations and her ways
have been enough to make her a rath-
err trying person for travelling COM
panion.
She gets her name of Calamity
Jane from a faculty she has had of
producing ruction at any time and
place and on short notice. Kill
Jane has one recommendation, and
that counts for considerable. She is
perfectly willing to be what she seems
to be and seem to be what she is.
Mrs. Brake calls that characteristic
by more complimentary name, and
told the Dispatch that Jane was
honesty personified.
She has been obedient, ALSO She
never takes a drink of whisky with
out asking Mrs. Brakes permission
first. She is no stranger to corn
juice and about four times a day she
imbibes, after giving notice of her
intention. So as to have everything
handy, she keeps big black bottle
with her belongings.
She smokes too, and long, black
cigars at that Last evening she was
out of cigars, as Mrs. Brake happened
to mention. The scribe at once hand
ed her long shady-looking Pitts
burg stogie, but she did not smoke it
at once. She hid it in her shirtwaist,
evidently little ashamed of her
fondness for such an unfeminine ar
ticle.
She is not strictly feminine in 9th.
err ways, for she wore buckskin trous.
ers too much of the time to be &C
quainted with up-to-date feminine ap
parrel. So when Mrs. Brake fitted
her out with dozen ready-made shirt
waists, she chose time when she
was alone to array herself in hel
new-found splendor. A box of face
powder was near at the time, and she
, sprinkled that around in promiscu
. Gus manner on her bright blue shirt
, waist, black skirt. face and hair She
was a sight to behold when Mrs
Brake opened the door and surveyed
her.
Jane has horror of reporters, ant
= showed hand satchel, with the enc
. all battered up. She had used it on {
q Montana newspaper man who publish
v ed some statements about her no
strictly true.
HE didn't see me, and l got J,
good crack at him. His head was GU
q considerable" she said.
= Jane told about her experiences II
= the early days in the west. Her pa
y rents took her to Montana and boil
died soon afterwards. She icll int,
- the hands of an old woman, from
If whom she ran away, attaching hersel
to an army post. AS she grew older
. she took up her life as a soldier. Sh
, killed Indians. and they nearly kille'
a her half a dozen times. She saved tn
, life of Captain Egan and fought witt
q Custer, Bill Cody and nearly all tn
q old Indian fighters.
Cordova fire and waterproof glove
at any price $1.O0 at the Eastern.