Waterbury Democrat

"CALAMITY JANE"

Lived on the Frontier Since She Was a Young Girl.

Anaconda, Mont., July 12.—Mrs. Josephine Winfield Brake of Buffalo, N. Y., authoress and Washington correspondent for a New York newspaper, has been in Montana the past week searching for "Calamity Jane," the noted plains woman. Yesterday Mrs. Brake discovered "Calamity Jane" in the hut of a negress at Horr, near Livingston. The poor woman 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 in the extreme and the noted frontierswoman wept like a child.

"Calamity Jane" has been on the frontier since she was a young girl. She was in the Black Hills at the time of the killing of "Wild Bill" (William Hickok), and it is said that it was she who captured his murderer. She rendered valuable service to Custer, Reno, Egan and other Indian fighters. Of late years she has drifted about the state from place to place, making a livelihood as best she could. During the summer she sold pictures of herself to park tourists. During the past couple of years she has been ill a considerable portion of the time. The newspapers printed columns about her through means of which the attention of General Eagan and many other friends of the woman was called to the plight of their friend of early days. The result is that Mrs. Brake took the step mentioned. The two women have left Livingston for Buffalo.

"Calamity Jane" is about fifty years of age. Her maiden name was Canary, and she is said to be from New York.

The last man she married was a drayman of Livingston named Burke.