Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-04
Nanrastcr fatelltQenrer.
WEDNESDAY EVENING. JAN. 4. 1882.
WESTERN WAYS.
A VERY SMART GIRL.
,,NGuLaK DEATH OF A RAnCaMAN.

Why Miss Belle Clinton Expects to be Worth
$3.50 in Ton Years.
Chicago Tribune, Des Moincs Letter.
The smartest girl I've met in Iowa l
met yesterday at Nevada, Story county,
northwestern IOwa-Miss Belle Clinton.
Miss Clinton is bright rosy checked
girl of about twenty, as full OF fun and
health and vigor as a good girl can be:
Two wears ago Miss Clinton was school
teacher. Saving up by her teaching about
s1GO. she last spring borrowed span of
horses from her father, rugged up
{" prairie schooner" and, taking her little
brother, started for Dakota. Miss Clin-
ton says laughingly to-day, speaking Of
her trip d" Why never lived SO nicely in
nv life, aud l never had such an appetite
and such courtesy received everywhere !.
Rough, rude men would come to Our camp
and after had talked to them awhile,
offer to build my fire and actually bring
water to me. We went up through the
wheat country which they call the Jim
River country It's about 100 miles east
from the Missouri at Fort Sully. home
steadcd 1G0 acres Of land. Then took
up :: timber claim Of about 12O acres
more"
"What lisa timber claim?"
"Why, hired a man anu we set out lO
acres of trees. This gave me 100 acres
more. SO have :,2O acres now. They
were young locust, apple and blackwell
nut sprouts. l sowed peck oi locust
beans, pint Ofapple seed and two bushels
of black walnuts in our garden in Iowa a
wear ago. These sprouts were little fel-
lows and we could set them out fast-just
20 along and stick them in the ground.
But they are just as good. believe my
1000 little black walnut sprouts will be
worth $15 apiece in ten years and $40
apiece in fifteen. My locust trees will
some time fence tho whole country"
"Then what did you do?''
eve built a shanty and broke up five
acres of land and this fall We came back
to Iowa to spend the winter and hero We
are. In the spring I'll 80 back with more
black walnut and locust sprouts and take
up 16O acres more. The trees arc jus
what want to plant, anyway, and They'll
pay better than any wheat crop that could
be raised-only Tve got to wait for then
ten or twelve years !; but can wait.
Here is girl who owns in her Owp rish
800 acres Of splendid black prairie Soil nov
and who will own 4S0 acres IL the spring
every acre of which will bring S. within
three years and $40 within five years All
$50 within ten years Her black walnu
and locust trees will be worth as mucl
more. At thirty she will be worth $25,
600.
Singular Death Of u Kanchman.
George Miller, the superintendent 0
Stewards extensive cattle ranch on tn
Swcctwatcr, seventy miles north of Raw
lins, Wy. r., accidentally shot himsel
there and died almost instantly. He la,
left the dinner table and had gone into tn
saddle room intending to ride out on tn
range when the men were startled by TIN
sharp report of "a pistol and 4 cry from
Miller, and on running into the next room
found him on the floor in pool of blood
His only words were, II am shot," III
died unconscious within ten minutes. Ii
taking down from a peg his pair of CLAP
areros I brace of pistols hanging over hi
leggings had fallen at his feet and strucl
the board floor. The hammer Of one Q
them, not being Oh the safety notch, wa
discharged, tho ball entering his stOmac
and ranging upwards. Miller was a ma
OF property and leaves a wife, son an
daughter in Council Bluffs, where he i
we'll known. His body was brought il
over the mountains seventy miles by hi
employees and taken TO his home. TIL
ranch of which he was in charge is one q
the largest in Wyoming, the value Of til
cattle alone being over $3.50, ,OO0.