Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-06-07

H 3 proves the accuracy
M of this observation.
NI Her career reads
Al WIN, like romance. She
4 6Szz went to her present
E home from Wiscon
sin. Her husband, Il. E, Houghton,
is lawyer, and now a state senator.
The Doom was Just striking Washing
ton at the time, and Mrs. Houghton
got to investing money on her own ac-
count. She bought timber and coal
lands and desert acres, good if irrigat
ed. Besidts this, she became inter-
ested in numerous town sites, notably at
Bonner's Ferry and Post Falls. Every
thing has gone her way, and she is now
worth some $500, 900, all realized from
an original investment, it is said, of but
800. Mrs. Houghton is not boastful of
her success, however, and says that
what she has done can be done by other
young women, and that she feels the
great West is the place for the young
women of the crowded East, whether
they want to obtain wealth or hus-
bands Mrs. Houghton is little more
than thirty years old. Though natu-
rally one of the most retiring of women,
trips by rail to Tacoma and st. Paul to
consult with railroad officials and others
in regard to land deals. She has also
made many perilous trips by stage over
the wild and mountainous sections of
eastern Washington and northern
Idaho. Where many men would hesi-
tate to set out on a journey because of
snow or rough roads, Mrs. Houghton
sees in such obstacles an incentive for
her energy. She has acquired nearly
all her wealth since 1887.
Stimulated by Mrs. Houghton's ex-
ample, many young ladies from the
East are locating on the public lands Of
Washington. About Olympia, Tacoma
and other towns of eastern Washington
many Of these young ladies have made
and are now making locations. Many
of them have come from the far East,
principally from New York and Boston.
They have taken up their lands under
the timber, pre-emption or homestead
acts mainly, and in some cases they
have gone out into the woods, put up
cabins and made their nominal home IL
the wilderness, while engaged for a
part OF tho time In the towns from
eight to dozen miles away in teaching
or typewriting.
Quite number of them have very
good log cabins, we'll furnished and
truly comfortable. Lots of the girls
can shoot with the best marksmen of
the sterner sex, and if you go into one
of these cabins you will see a sight that
will interest you in the highest degree
deer horns, gun, skins of wild ami.
mails, Indian relics, glittering speci-
mems of ore, are few of these things.
The young lady's cabin, however, diff
fers from that of the young man in be-
ing more neatly kept. One of the
young women from the East is Miss
Lulu Lamson, of the Emerson High
school at Tacoma. She went there FIVE
years ago from New York City. She
came to make winning, and with this
in view did not differ from scores of
other young ladies who arrived about
the same time. Miss Lamson. began
teaching at once, and meantime took
up pre-emption claim and afterward
homestead at Washougal, on the Co.
lumbia river, near Ft. Vancouver. She
built a cabin and lived there for part
of year as required by the land laws.
Now she is the possessor of a comfort
able fortune.
Many of the most successful cattle
raisers of the West are women. Mrs.
Bishop Hiff Warren is credited with
being the wealthiest woman in Colora-
do. She is worth $4,000, 900 and has
made it on cattle with no other busi-
ness advice than that furnished by her
own mother wit. Two rich widows
who have inherited ranches from their
husbands are Mrs. Massey. of Colorado,
and Mrs. Mary Easterly, of Nevada.
Mrs. Massey went to Colorado rs agent
for a safe insurance company, married
man with $780, 900 head of cattle, and,
it is said manages them quite as well
as he did. Mrs. Easterly has not a
large herd, but her stock is of high
grade and she gets good prices for it.
She is worth 5000, ,00J maybe. Mrs.
Tiff, widow of John Iliff, the cattle
king, and Mrs Meredith, of Illinois. are
excellent business women and making
money on stock. OF unmarried women
there is Clara Dempsey, of Nevada, al
well as Ellen Callahan, of recent news
paper fame, who are worth, the one
$40, 200, the other, rather less, which
they have earned from the initial dol
lar themselves, and who are young wo
men to have made such q fair start In
the world.
NJ Kate Wilkins is equal partne,
with her father and two brothers in the
big Wilkins horse and cattle ranch In
southwestern Idaho. The father and
brothers devote themselves to the ranch
side of the business, while into the sis
ters hands have been put for the lasI
six years the outside work and she hal
sttended to the sales and shipment O
both cattle and horses. She doesn'
care for cattle and her work with then
is perfunctory, but all through the
West she is famous for her thorough
knowledge of horses, her quick and ex
cellent Judgment upon them and he,
skill in their management.
The first restaur; tOpened in Creede
Col, was owned and conducted by Q
is Mrs. Reid Miller. On April ], 1891
she reached Creede, too poor to pay
the freighter who brought her here
In exactly one year to day she was IL
receipt OF $500 month and had snug
sum in the bank. She is now worth
$4,000. Several other plucky womer
also made fortunes in the early days o.
Creede. One of them Is Mrs. Ella G.
Love. The latter was born in Ohio ant
when a girl taught school there. Their
she married and moved to Kansas
where, with her husband, she wen
through some of the Kansas real estat,
booms. They invested In the new cite,
and found as all but the sharks do OF
such occasions, the investment perma
nent, but Improbable. Mrs. Love hal
considerable monev locked .un N Kan
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.