The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-27
She KILLS SNAKES
RattIers Do Not Scare Former
Topeka Nurse.
Other Experiences on Her
Colorado Homestead.
DOOR PIMCHES FINGER-END OFF
Superintends Steam Flowing
and Care of Cattle.
ADVISES Young Men and Wom-
en- to $50 West"
DOOR PINCHES FINGER-END OFF

III, ~ you are woman how would YOU
lihe TO XIII rattlesnakes every 7av or
~ 70 i've alone with the nearast
rs siloor more than half a mile away.
acres, and the care of more 9ban 30
Inlckens and so head of cattle on
nom nestead, and then to sustain the
80 ra VI nnger, faint and be for an
iiorL W1thout medical attention?
ms mas been the experiences the
past four years of Miss Jessie brown
a former Topeka nurse, graduate of
Chrlst 3 hospital training course. She
WI " on ner way today to Carpenter.
wells county, Colorado, where she will
prove up on a homestead claim of 100
acres this fall, She was a guest at
the nome of DR.. w. F. Bowen, a To-
peka physician, and Mrs. Isabel Nc
arthur, a Well known Topeka writer
TINS week. She came here for treat
ment of the index finger of her left
hand. The end of the finger was
ps pr off when she shut the door
OF her two room house on the ranch
Sne tainted When she recovered she
picked up the discovered end of her
fnger, replaced it, and ran to the near
est nelghbor, more than half a mile
away. The neighbors had to chase a
horse for more than mile before the
animal could be caught and saddIed
for her to ride to Carpenter. five
miles away on the Burlington.
From Carpenter she caught the
train to CHEYENNE. Wyo., about 20I
miles from Carpenter, and had not
the train been two hours late, she
would have had several more hours
delay before she could receive atten-
ton. And at Cheyenne her experience
as nurse told her that the doctor
was dressing the wound wrong, so she
decided to get expert surgical atten-
ton for the injured finger Her In
jury is improving and she left for her
home Thursday. But this she regards
as only a minor incident of homestead
life
One Finger Less Don't Hurt
zone finger doesn't count in Colo
RADIO" said Miss Brown to a visitor
one day this week. ct can oversee the
work on my farm if 1 do lose the
finger. [ have a great deal to oversee,
and will be busy as soon as I arrive
home.
while nursing some people in west
ern Kansas who had claims in Colora- ,
do decided to take claim, and did
months out of the year for four years,
1 can prove up on it and the land will
be mine with little cost except for the
filing fees.
Kills RattIesnakes.
''Of course have to hire the plow-
ing, and other farm work done, but L
attend to about a hundred chickens
myself, well as look after about |
sixty head of cattle. The great worry |
about the chickens is to keep the |
I kill a RATHER every day or two, and |
don't think much about it any more. |
Afraid of them? No.
mo, again. I am not afraid of |
being alone on the farm. l have a two |
room house and enjoy living there. |
The climate is delightful. All summer
it has been rather cool. 1t has been |
fine weather for the growing of wheat !
of which I have one hundred acres. |
The other sixty is in pasture and on
cattle
them for a per cent on the profits.
mo, 1 don't do any blowing myself.
In fact the blowing in that country is
done with steam plows. Three or
engine, one to guide the p1ows and
one or two to haul coal and water for
the engine. The plows are in rows
and the machine is sometimes called !,
a gang pillow. However, the method |
is more economical than the old way Il
Cattle Thrive on Russian Thistle.
speaking about expense. OF course
[ have to pay for the fodder for the
the summer time they have thrived on Il
the Russian thistle-the weed which II
was condemned by law as being in
furious to cattle. In fact the cattle 4
will turn up their noses at any other
feed if they can find the Russian II
hunt for it, I believe
4 have been dividing my time be- n
tween farm work and nursing, coming
mere every summer Tor While except
last year.
Il enjoy life on the homestead
have nice neighhors. They look after
ne a little. The country is flat and
you can see from house to house. If
am not out of doors at least once
every day, the neighbors will come
over to see what the matter is.
"They are from nearly all the mid
lie west states, especially Iowa. The
desirable land is now claimed, but I
still say:
"'Go west young manor young
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