Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-01-03
CHE State Day by Day.
MEN ARE SCARCE THERE.
Society Woman Picks Out a Cowboy
for n

for n Husband.
The marriage recently of Miss Grace
Howard, daughter Of Joe Howard, Jr.,
the well known New York journalist,
and Joseph Manore, the manager of the
brides cattle ranch west of the Mis-
souri, river. is the sequel of an interest
ing romance.
The bride is well known in official
and society circles in Washington,
New York and other eastern cities.
She came to Dakota in 1887, and estab-
lished an Indian mission school seven
teen miles north of Chamberlain, on
the Crow Creek and Winnebago reser-
walton. After the first two years the
school, which had been named Grace
Mission, in honor of it's founder. was
merged into a government contract
school,.
In the enlargement of the schools in
fluence she always received every en-
enlargement from the officials Of the
Indian beureau in Washington and also
from the agency authorities. Her con-
tract with the government did not ex-
pire until June, 1897, but early in that
year she. at the solicitation of friends,
decided TO withdraw from the manage
ment of the school. The bitter fight
waged in congress at that time against
contract schools had considerable in
fluence in her decision.
She informed the Indian office that If
the government was willing to our
chase her school she was willing to sell.
Special Agent Slater of the Indian de-
partment was sent to investigate, and,
as the result of his report, the govern
ment paiu her a satisfactory price for
her interest in the institution.
Shortly after retiring from the man.
agement Of the school h purchased a
cattle ranch on the White river, west of
Chamberlain, and has since been en-
gagged in cattle raising. In some quar-
tiers she has become known as the
Cattle Queen" of South Dakota. Her
efforts have, from the first, met with a
gratifying success. The ranch was
named Grace Ranch" in honor of the
owner. 1t is situated in Lyman coun-
ty, which is larger that Rhode Island,
Delaware or Maryland.
IN approaching the ranch from the
Missouri it is necessary to travel for
thirty miles along the table land or
divide" between the White river and
American Crow creek. South of White
river IS the Rosebud Indian reservation.
In addition to looking after the affairs
of her ranch, the cattle queen, some
time ago, established a store near her
dwelling, where she disposes of goods
to her copper-colored n~eighbors south
of the river and to neighboring ranch
men.
After locating upon the ranch h for
mer New York society belle was fire.
quently asked how she could he con-
tented in a thinly-settled regi"n, thirty
or forty miles from a railroad, and
with no near neighbors with whom she
could associate. She invariably replied
that she had not the slightest desire to
return to the East to live, as her health
was much better in the pure air of
South Dakota than it ever had been in
the East. Joseph Manore, to whom the
cattle queen has just been married, is
well known in the central portion of the
state.
He was formerly q farmer in Brule
county. lie gave up farming 10 accept
a position at Grace Mission, n has
since remained with the woman who
has now become his bride. After she
went on the cattle ranch west of the
Missouri river, he accompanied her as
the manager of her ranch, and their
close association during the years that
he has been in her employ eliminated
in their marriage.