Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-04
SMART WESTERN WOMEN.
Great Opportunities for Plucky Girls &c
Become Rich Cattle Queens.

Become Rich Cattle Queens.
Women have lots of enterprise, grit and
get-up about them. if they are only given
half q chance to do as they would like to do.
know 1t will be astonishing to some, but
It is nevertheless true that Colorado alone
has over one thousand female stock growers
who own their herds in fee and manage
their own business to suit themselves.
These ladies. writes Fort Davis TEX
correspondent, are as wide-awake and live
~ and know a good business bargain when
they run mp against one just as well as q
horrId man does
We have in Texas two ladies' who are,
perhaps, the largest individual sheep and
stock owners on the continent. Down IN
Uvala County lives the Widow Callahan,
who owns something like 0,0o0 sheep IN her
own right. These are divided into bands of
about 2, 200 each. with a "pas tOra' for every
flock and s'bossero" over the whole bust
ness. Their grade is fine, cross between
the straight Mexican and the Vermont Meri-
no, and all branded with the ladys own
particular trademark. She employs some
thing Ike forty hands (mostly Mexicans),
and her annual clip Of wool Ia really
startling. When the long trains Of wagons
start out each spring and fan Tor market,
loaded down with the widows wool, it is in
deed a sight worth seeing. There was a
genuine cattle queen living southeast of
here In Neuces County, not long since, who
has since become famous as Mrs. Rogers,
the great herd-owrer OF Southwestern
Texas. This lady is probably worth round
million Of dollars, and her history has been
q remarkable one. Although able 20 buy
and sell some OF cur Eastern rnlllionaires
4 Sot.- - l. g. =
hind spanking teams, yet this lady VIII not
own carriage CT her own, preferrng 20
rlde the free-and-easy style Of cowboy on
horseback. 1t Is hard TO believe the fact,
when she goes cashing and galloping over
the prairie after an uuruly steer, that Mrs.
Rogers Is on ths shady side Of fifty. Mrs.
Rogers came 20 Eeuces long tine ago
with her husband, who was a. the tine q
stock man Of considerable means When he
had accumulated herd OF 20 600 fne cattle,
more or less, the gentleman suddenly died
Gifted with rare business ability, hls wife
at once took charge Of the a.aira, id her
own buying, selling ard hiring. and 10
very short time had dog bled the cou1ercssl
strength Of her late husbands herd.
A San Antonio gentleman tells the fol-
lowing story Of his experience with prem
iaeat cattle queen. who has her head
quarters somewhere in an earthly paradise
IN Southwestern Texas She was At tks
tine alone in San Antonio aad stopping a,
che Of the frsi-cizss hotels See gave her
name 70 tie hotel clerk, bat requested tat
i. be not placed upon the register. and tnss
/. sny newspaper Esn cane 20 see her, o.
inquired for her, 70 say faily that ste was
..no. IL"
81 have been awfEily persecztsd oJ those
fellows sad ste. .and ore % them eTea
had the cheek 20 srrrep.5.so1sly obtain rzy
photograph ard publish CT; q Il n TIE
Philadelphia Tines. 1 wo1t see ar CT
them, tel yea"
SIZE deposited IN tie hotel safe 8 sesTe.-y
box Containing diamonds, etc. vs--e1 ~
aesozr e.I,oso Her ss161ed watch, trzce-
is.g. rizrs. ETC. were sparklszz with f@s-