Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-09-14
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25 Devils Lake Inter Ocean: The most
interesting person who came to Devils
(. Lake AK because OF the opening OF the
reservation Is Miss Emma i. Kelly, Of
Kansas City, Mo. She Is q writer Of
ability, a.woman OF culture, and has
had an experience such as few women
have had. After winning her laurels
az q writer on the leading Kansas City
papers ; e 2 she accepted 9 position on the
stan OF The Chicago Tribune where
51 versatile and forceful style as well
as the depth and orfg inality Of her
thought, soon placed her among the
foremost writer's Of the day. With a
business foresight seldom equaled, but
which was the result Of actual study
and Investigation, she became inter
ested IN the Alaskan gold fields, and
with an undaunted determination she
starued Tor the frozen north, carrying
q years supplies She entered Alaska
oy way OF the famous Chilkoot Pass
S y was vas the only woman in the party
Du 'l' the chivalry OF the five or six men
VINO comprised the rest Of the party
could not have been equalled by the
knights OF the days when chivalry was
the ruling passion. s% 2hss Fl. '.:iH
During the trip she slept on the
frozen ground, sharing the hardships
OF the Fearful trip with her compan-
ions. After a trip that, WoarDd have
daunted any but the most courageous
she arrived at the camp which III a
few months became the Dawson City
OF gold seekers fame, nearly year
before the great rush Of. gold hunters
for that city, began. Being one of the
first to arrive she secured a number Of
the very best claims near that city.
After spending eighteen months at
Dawson City and seeing it transform
ed from a desolate camp of a Jew huts
to 9 teeming city with gold almost as
plentiful as it once was in. the streets
OF Jerusalem, she went three hundred
and fifty miles northwest to Circle
City, then a new town. Here her bust.
ness acumen again served her to I'D.
vantage and she again secured the
best locations. 4, She spent nearly
eight years in the Klondike country
and secured seven claims in all, two
OF which have been developed and are
now yielding rich returns. Leaving
her property there in, charge of a
superintendent, she returned to the
states, and at once engaged in the
business of developing the great oil
fields of southern Kansas. her fathe,
and brother being large operators
there. She now has a branch Office in
Kansas City, and is proving as success
full as an oil operator as she was 8
prospector in the Klondike
During her stay in Alaska She wrote
extensively for ts1,s, nr r Tine story n,
her "trip and her other experiences If
the frozen north being published If
+ Lippincott's. Leslie's MeChre's anf
Golfers. >..,s il. i 49,.
In appearance Miss Kellv ID pleasing
with am open frankness hut witt,
nothing to Indicate that she has see,
more of the world than the average
woman. She is five feet seven and ,
half inches tall. weighs $50 pounds
and is remarkably handsome With ,
purely classic face, q mouth fully ex
out all The higher womandy qualities
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