Back From Klondike

BACK FROM KLONDIKE.

He returned to this city of his crutches.

Herman Armbruster who left Ann Arbor a year ago last April in company with George and Emory Kappler, Phil O'Hara and John Reimold, for the Klondike region, returned Sunday. They started with provisions for a year and a half but he says they did not reach the Klondike at all. They got as far north as Fort St. John, Peace River, which is in British Columbia. They were unable to pass from that region to their original destination because the country lying between was impassable at that time of the year on account of the water and marshy condition of the land. The only way to get across this region was to go during frozen weather. They therefore tried their "luck" in the gold fields of that region. But he says they found little gold. At places where reports said men were cleaning up $15 a day, the actual results did not exceed 75 cents a day. He returned to N. Dakota on the 28th of August stayed there some time and then went to Iron River, Wisconsin. Worked for a lumbering firm there until he was hurt last April. By some accident in the mill his foot was caught in a wheel and terribly wrenched so that he still is obliged to get around on crutches. He arrived home Sunday evening. He says the gold finds are not turning out any such amounts of "dust" as is reported.