Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-04
Some of the Feminine Home
steaders Who, Are Blizzard
Buried in South Dakota
$50 FROM THE HAwkEyE STATE
Showed in on the Old Rosebud Reserve
They Are Undergoing Hardships of
EARLY Pioneers-Frends at Homo
Able to Help If They Could Be
Reached With Fuel and Provisions.

Philip, S. d., Jan. 3.-One hundred
and fifty young women are in need of
food and fuel on the prairies of South
Dakota, and an appeal has been sent
from Sioux City and Des Moines by
influential parents to the head offices
of the Northwestern Railway Company
to relieve them.
To her husband in Sioux City. Mrs.
A. A. Prichard one of the homestead
ers, writes as follows:
"You see am saving of writing pa
per. They are out Of everything at the
store. The storekeeper says his hair
has turned white the past month try
ing to keep people from starving. !
don't know what another storm will do
to the railroad, but citizens of Sioux
City and Des Moines ought to do some
thing to get things shipped in here soon
as freighting on the trail is altogether
too slow. Do something, and do 1T
quick, or all of us will starve and
freeze"
The $50 women who have been lead
ing the pioneer life on the prairies of
South Dakota never dreamed of facing
the danger which Is now before them
when they went to their claims, happy
and care free. last fall. The new rail-
road track had been laid as far as Mid
land, in Stanley county, but the line
has not been in operation, and the only
way the settlers have had OF obtaining
food was by wagon freight over the
old Deadwood trail. When the storm
came. and even the main lines of the
railroads were congested with coal and
grain supplies We're almost entirely
cut Off. The settlers have money, but
there Is nothing to buy.
Thru a desire for the rough and ro-
mantle life of the plainss many girls
from the most prominent and wealthy
claims. Among them are the Misses
Jennie and Mary Lyle, of Sioux City.
daughters of wealthy contractor.
Last year the girls attended the North
western University, but this year dea
cided to prove up a claim.
Miss Lottie Rogers of Ames, Iowa. is
another girl who has a claim far out
on the old Rosebud reservation. Miss
PHILIPPE Watrous Of Des Moines, whose
father is estimated to be worth nearly
$1,000,000, has a farm back in the foot
hills, more than forty miles from a
railroad station. Miss Watrous is so
fearless that she has guided several
parties and provision wagons in the
country about the foothills, and 1t is
said that only few weeks ago she
saved the lives of the women in a par
ty which had suffered a breakdown at
dusk and got off the trail.
Della Egan, sister of the auditor of
Woodbury. county, and literary wom-
an of reputation, left her library in
Sioux City last summer to make her
home in shack in the heart of the
country that few years ago was red
with the blood shed in battle with
warning Indian tribes. A social leader
on the plans is Mrs. L. Drakeley Rood,
wife of a physician, who is worth a
small fortune, and who is building a
100000 residence on Grand avenue, in
Des Moines. where his wife will return
dller sue proves up on their SOuth
Dakota claim.
Miss Helen Huntley of Marshalltown,
Iowa, is woman lawyer, but is spend
ing the winter on claim in South Da-
kota. She is a graduate from an east
ern law school, but when her invalid
brother. wounded as a soldier in the
Philippines, drew a claim on the great
Rosebud reservation. she went nv
proxy to live in the Indian country.