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WAUPACA COUNTY POST

October 13, 1898

 

BACK FROM THE KLONDIKE

 

            J.L. Tollefson of Scandinavia, who was one of the party which went to the Klondike gold fields from that village last spring, returned home on Saturday last. He was forced to come by sickness, having had several attacks of stomach trouble.  He was in the city with Halvor Thorson on Tuesday, and to a POST reporter stated that the other members of the party, Olaf Skye, M. Danielson and Nick Peterson, were still on claims they have near the Selwin river, which is a branch of the Yukon, and that all were well.  He says that their prospects are of the best, and that there was gold and lots of it in the country there.  His party has not yet got down to bed rock on account of the high water which has been prevalent during the summer, and do not expect to do so until winter sets in and the ground freezes up.  Mr. Tollefson expects to return in the spring, if his health will permit.