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own style and sent it out to the nearest local 

 paper in Ashcroft — a town on the C. P. R. R. 

 — over three hundred miles from Bear Lake. 

 The "ad" was so earnestly and oddly written 

 that it attracted the attention of some of the 

 big magazines, who voluntarily published it 

 for the sake of its humor. In response to the 

 "ad" he is said to have received in all sixty- 

 five answers, out of which he picked two that 

 he "was willin' to pay the freight on," to use 

 his own words, and in the course of time one 

 of these two was finally accepted. She is an 

 English woman, and came a distance of sev- 

 eral thousand miles to meet him. 



According to the testimony of all those in 

 Barkerville who have seen her, she is a com- 

 plete success as a wife, and she is very much 

 in love with her husband, as he is with 

 her. 



Kibbee, to my mind, and from my personal 

 knowledge of him, is a wonder of strength, en- 

 durance, agility, and nerve, as most of the men 

 who "make good" in these far northern sec- 

 tions are. 



The following letter written to me by Mr. 

 F. J. Tregillus, an English mining engineer, 

 under date of December 26, 191 2, will give 

 a better illustration of what privations and 



