Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1927 — Page 7

JUNE 22,1927

HEROES OF OLD WEST NOW REST NEAR DEADWOOD Graves of Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Preacher Smith Recall Past. BY JACK FOSTER DEADWOOD, S. D., June 22.—Mt. Moriah cemetery sits on quiet haunches above this tiny hill town. Among its firs and pines and lilacs stand three white graves. These are the graves of Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok and Preacher Smith, than whom there are no more famous characters in the story of the old West. Calvin Coolidge, who is vacationing in the State game lodge, south of Rapid City, will pass near these three graves some time during the summer. He will ride in his dark blue limousine along the same road they once drove their ponies over to kill Indians, capture desperadoes, and preach the word of God. In August he will see their living representatives in the days of ’76 celebration. A romanticist will travel a long prairie before he finds three more colorful characters than this trio. Bandits Tame Beside Her 1 Calamity still is talked about. They will tell you here how she staggered down the crooked street, dressed in men’s clothes, armed with a rifle and swearing vociferously. They will tell you she could throw a tin can in the air and put two bullet holes in it before it landed, that she used to drive the stage through bandit-infested country with a whistle and a grin. Then, perhaps, they will recount that she was the only one who would come into this town during a smallpox epidemic to nurse the Her last days were the days of those who live strongly anti recklessly in youth, and who die weakly and exhausted in old age. She drifted into a saloon and asked for a drink. The proprietor is said to have refused. Dies in Saloon Another person in the saloon said: “Don't you know that is Calamity Jane?” The proprietor called her back, gave her the drink which her tired body demanded, and she died there a few days later. And somebody in this town, it seems, still remembers her with a tender thought. Fragrant blue flowers and a bed of irises ready to burst into bloom grow on the grave. The epitaph on Wild Bill's grave tells only this: ‘‘Wild Bill, J. B. Hickok, Died Aug. 2, 1876.” But that is all that is needed. Wild Bill killed in the name of the law. He was a deadly shot with his between 90 ancl 100 notches on iris gun, but he shot only desperadoes. And always, it is said, he paid for his victim’s grave. Dead’s Man's Hand V/ild Bill was something of a Robin Hood of the west. He came to Deadwood from Kansas, lured by the shout of gold. One night an assassin shot him in the back while he was playing cards in a saloon. Wild Bill held pairs of aces and eights. It is now known as a dead man's hand. A grotesque red sandstone figure of him, scraped by some unknown sculptor, is placed at the head of the grave. Dojvn the grassy path is Preacher Smith's grave, a red. sandstone figure also marking the spot. This figure shows the dignified man of God. standing before a stump on which he placed his Bible. Killed By Indians Preacher Smith, the first Methodist minister in this country, was killed one night by Indians when he started alone from here to Crook City. They will show you in Deadwood the street where Preacher Smith used to cry for souls to come from the gambling dens and repent. His calm, confident voice in .the night sounded clear above the wind and snow. Deadwood is a queer, interesting town, built as it is on three layers up the side of the mountain. The dime novel Deadwood is about lost. Yet, still and everlastingly, stand the three white graves in the brooding cemetery above the town. AIR GROUP BOOMING MEW YORK. June 22.—The interest which Colonel Lindbergh’s transAtlantic flight has caused throughout America is attested by the membership growth of the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation, an organization formed by twelve ex-service pilots in 1924. This society announces that it had a steady growth until the successful flight of Colonel Lindbergh; since then the gain in membership has averaged more than 500 a day. New members are being urged to work for landing fields in their communities. LATE NEWS IN BEHRING JUNEAU, Alaska, June 22.—With the arrival of the first ship in fifteen years, inhabitants of an island in the Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, learned for the first time that Russia is no longer a monarchy. GUARANTEE TIRE & RUBBER CO. Everything for the Car for Less

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