The new South-news., 1907-11-09

Claims In the Northwest.
In the great Canadian Northwest
where the erstwhile wilderness Is
waxins with golden sra'a and towns
ara r7ringjng up overnight. not &ev
women have gone to seek their fort
uue, 2hae. A homestead grant N
160 acres is free and any head OF q
family" man or woman. may secure II
upon application to the Canadian gov
eminent Usually. OF course. the sp
plicant is a man. but occasionally q
woman essays to make her fortune on
the prar.es ~iihou, masculine aid.
Miss Marie Gilroy. OF Saskatchewan.
IS one 0s the most famous woman SET
slerp q. the west; She put her last
shilling into prarie farm and spent
seven years in a hand-tohand tussle
without fortune. sitting on her own
binder, cutting her own grain. hand
ling the plough In the burroughs and
doing stable duty. In 1906 her noid'
ing excited the admiration OF a young
Englishman and Miss Gilroy was in
duced to hand over lock. stock and
barrel to him for the round sum OF
$4,000. Today Miss Gllroy is touring
Europe on the proceeds o, her original
s2pQ0.
Mrs. McGilvray. who came to the
Canadian West twenty years ago with
six small ohildrcn, is another promI'
aent woman farmer OF Saskatchewan.
Beginning almost penniless her lGe
acres OF homestead have now grown to
an eight hundred acre estate and her
children are settled round her In com
fort and a.rlaence
Salome Wertman came with her hus
band and little family from Russia and
soon she. TOO, was a widow. She still
kept on trying to earn bread as she
says. and sixteen years after her alb
sofutely penniless start she stands as
one Of the successful land owners OF
Saskatchewan.
Mrs. Ferris is known as the woman
farmer" OF the Portage Plains. Left
with family o. young children, she
has managed her farm most success
hlly since the death CT her husband.
S1e comes from Belfast. ireland. and
when she arrived in Western Canada
With her husband thirty-two years ago
they had no capital al all. She now
has IN estate Of 760 acres and her two
sons settled near at hand. each the
owner OF section and half Of land
about Ave hundred acres.
Mrs. Grant has beautiful farm on
toe banks Of the Canadian Killarney.
in Southern Manitoba. Three years
ago she went there from Scotland,
With her son. young man just out
OF college, and her daughter. A year
ago, just as they were preparing for
spfing seeding. thel son was stricken
down With appendl syrs and in twenty
four hours was M. Filled with
hatred for the plan NAkhe decided to
leave 1t. but the mEQing after her
sons funeral. when stA was packing
up, her daughter calledNo her. Moth
er, come her, quick," Sfe hooked and
saw that men. teams and plonghs
quietly and without a brd Of explain
.tion wscf- -Asedppi0 work on ths h
put In the SCI Ie(op for the two
D'ossssd. Ussssssd har>.sA4.iss and af~a"' raap
ed the entire = besy!,ter that Mrs
Grant talked nNf re Of goins
home" Her farnE the shores O.
the Canadian Kir ss was home t'
her u
Many women I eachers. too. are
found on the Canadian praries, bu
they never remain long in the schools
though they do not leave the prairies
Ever been in Siberia" asked the
reporter.
"Er--yes." answered the distins
uished Russian refugee. i took
knouting there one summer. -Sn'
cago Tribune.