The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-09
TERRY. s. D., Aug. 1.-THE body Of

the Noun MorialfC metery, in Deadwood.
beside the bones of wild Bill" Hickok,
her friend Of long ago, whose murderer
she caused to be lynched twenty-four
years ago. Though she had had twelve
husbands, the last still living, il was one
of her diving requests that she b. allowed
to sleep by the side of the man she first
loved
Somewhere in North Dakota lives n
daughter. her only child, but the girl was
not at the bedside Of her mother. Calamity
Jane long ago sent her away for her own
good. 1t was an outcropping of the real
woman that prompted Jane 70 say long
ago that her daughter should not be
shocked by looking into the face o. her
mother.
So, when friends begged her to tell her
daughters name and hom during her last
sictness, the broken-down pioneer said with
fTrnness
Would yer hev me- shame my own
daughter? She'd wish she hedN't seen
this ugly old face. Let her be-
And indeed there was no trace in her
cross-lined, leathern features of the pretti-
pess which. it was said, belonged To the
Missouri girl who went over the noun
taiRs to Nevada forty years ago. Calamity
Jane was only 81 years old when she died.
hut. in these years the real Wild West was
born and diod It's passing left her forlorn.
Martha Canary-for that was her real
name was left lone girl in the mining
camp oH Virginia City, New, in 1862. Shortly
after their emigration from Princeton,
No, an Indian war separated the child
from Ler parents. She fell into the hands
Of an old woman who allowed her 20 select
what she would from the rough life Of the
camp 1t was horseback riding and crack
pistol shooting first, and not many years
later the girl sat on saloon bars and regaled
the mon with songs and stories.
Itwas aboLt that time that the real Indian
fighting began and the girl was eager to
display her Craftsmanship and marksman-
ship She applied AT a number OF posts.
attiTcd as a man, before she found one
where she was not known TO be a woman.
Gen. Crook accepted her as a scout and
she was happy. For time she served
in that capacity under Buffalo Bill. and
he, her lifelong friend. recently said ~
her record;
Though she did not do mans share
of the heavy work, she has gone in places
where old frontiersIneu were unwilling 20
trust themselves. and her cou-a ge and good
fellowship made her popular with every
man in the command In her neat scouts
uniform, Martha Canary made handsome
picture, especially when astride good
horse and riding like mad over the plains
on some wild expedition. She was &C.
centric then, and she is eccentric now.
but tho winsome Martha Canary Of those
days was not the Calamity Jane OF to-day
She wss al the camp where she had spent
much Of her girlhood, now the site Of Butte.
Mon, when an appeal came from Dead
wood for troops. She was then 81 years
old. When the soldiers marched TO Dead
wood to relieve party Of miners surrounded
by Indians she went along.
l. was not alone matter Of driving away
the Deadwood Indians; the whole North
west was in arms. At Goose Camp. S. D.,
a small detachment under Capt. Egan
was surrounded by large baud Of redskins
They had the soldiers at their mercy, with
the relieving troops too far In the rear.
Martha Canary rode like the spirit Of
death into group Of Indians who were
about to kill the wounded captain. Before
the Indians could realize what had hap
pened she had swung the Captain to her
saddle and dashed away. amid the patter
OF bullets, to place Of safety
When the Captain was told by the troors
that he had been saved by a woman he
said:
Jane, you're good one to have around
in times of calamity
And from that time on Martha Canary
was known as Calamity Jane
Among the miners, who came to know her
60 well, none Of her twelve husbands was
allowed TO change his wife's name. Each
of them was known as Calamity JAMES
man All but the last met violent deaths.
The first one she killed herself.
When she WAS in the prime Of her wild
life she trayersed every part OF Wyoming,
Montana and the Dakotas, ranched In
Missouri and fought Indians in Kansas
She made her stake in the mining camps,
and it went to regale the boys in Wild West
fashion Her passion for fighting Indians
was never satisfied
She crossed wild country in
frightfully cold winter to take important
messages to Gen. Custer The sickness
that followed the trying experience was all
that saved her from being killed with Gus
ter's army for she had planned to cam
paign with him.
When Indian fighting was not TO be had,
Calamity Jane found employment in carry
ing Government mail and driving stage
coaches. She was one Of the first of the
5000 arrivals that caused Deadwood to
spring into life in a night. She never failed
10 attend a lynching bee if she could be
present. and she didn't take hold at the
far end of the rope, either.
She was riding In stage coach driven
by Jack McCaull, notorious character
Of Deadwood. when a band Of Indians
swooped down. McCaull was wounded
and fell back on his seat. The six passen-
gers in the coach were helpless with fright.
Calamity Jane scrambled to the seat, dashed
the horses into a run and escaped.
II was this same McCaull who afterwari
was made the most memorable e1ample
of Calamity James vengeance McCsull
shot wild Bill" Hickok from behind a
tree, for a reason never known, after wild
Bill had staked him. Shooting from
ambush was the worst crime known in
Dsadwood in those days, and when Ca
lamity Jane heard of it she started at once
- find McCaull wild Bill was her friend,
and the fac. that she had once saved
McCaull's life did not deter her from