Digital Bob Archive

18 August 1978 issue

FEBRUARY 12, 1887-A meeting of those who wish to become members of a brass band in Juneau is called for next Monday evening at the office of The Alaska Free Press. It would be well to have its members composed of those who are permanently located here. Our businessmen will undoubtedly be called upon to help pay for the instruments, which will be the property of the town. Those who can read music or have ever played before are especially requested to join.

MAY 20, 1893-The new steamboat Rustler has arrived in port yesterday at 9 a.m. and was brought up from Puget Sound, where it was built, by Captain Patterson. The vessel is owned by the Berners Bay Mining and Milling Company and will run between Juneau and the mines in that area, in command of Captain Ed Thornton. The Rustler has sleeping accommodations for a number of passengers and is fitted up with spacious galley and dinning room. The engines were built by the Vulcan Iron Works and are of 80 horsepower. On the trial trip it made 9 knots and averaged 8 knots on the long voyage from Seattle.

NOVEMBER 15, 1912-Emery Valentine is circulating a petition addressed to Delegate James Wickersham and referring to the creation of a legislative assembly of the Organic Act enacted last August. The legislature is to convene at Juneau on the first Monday in March, 1913, and the petition points out that there is now no suitable place, either public or private, where the two houses can meet. It asks Congress to take immediate steps to construct a capitol building for the territory.

JANUARY 16, 1913-The City Council is considering a contract between the city and Oliver Drange, Ole Olson and Martin Holst doing business under the firm name Juneau Fish & Ice Company. The company proposes to erect a substantial cold storage plant, with an ice capacity of 10 tons per day, to operate a general fish, ice and cold storage business on 200 by 60 feet of tidelands adjacent to the city dock. Some of the area is to be filled with rock from the Alaska-Juneau tunnel Roberts. For the rest, the city is to drive the necessary piling, then lease the site to the company for 25 years.

JANUARY 20, 1914-Charles Goldstein has leased the McGrath Building, on Seward Street diagonally across from his building, to house his mercantile business while a new building is being erected. The new building will be of concrete and will measure 100 by 100 feet with five floors plus a full basement. It is being built by the Goldstein Improvement Company with A. W. Quist as contractor. When finished it will house the Goldstein Emporium.

FEBRUARY 7, 1914-The City Council took an emphatic stand at last night?s session on the suppression of the liquor traffic in the restricted district. The body went on record being opposed to the evil and placed the burden of enforcing the law against selling liquor without a license on the Department of Justice. A letter will be written to the District Attorney offering the aid of city officials in enforcing the law.

OCTOBER 2, 1916-Harry Smith has purchased the Buick roadster formerly owned by J. F. Mullen and is having is refitted with a 5-passenger body. It will then be placed on the Perseverance stage route along with the Ford car and the large Stewart truck.

OCTOBER 2, 1916-M. Altemueller and Emil J. Altemueller are leaving for their homes in St. Louis, Missouri, after finishing construction of the modern dairy buildings of the Juneau Dairy Company on the L. H. Smith homestead at Mendenhall. They are brothers of William Altemueller of the dairy company. The buildings are modern in every respect and have been planned with a view of future enlargement if needed.

DECEMBER 10, 1916-The Douglas Island Amateur Athletic Association celebrated its organization last night with a smoker at the Natatorium, followed by a banquet supper with entertainment. Two picked local basketball teams played to a 16-4 score in the opening event. The program included accordion solos by Mr. Popcorno and vocal numbers by F. Cornwall and F. A. Lynch, the Irish tenor. The evening closed with a four-round glove contest by two lightweights, Granger and Sharkey. It was called a draw.

MARCH 2, 1917-At the last General Election the voters of Alaska were given the opportunity to decide whether after January 1, 1918, the territory would be wet or dry; whether or not the sale of intoxicating liquor would be permitted. The Canvassing Board has now completed its work and announces that following results for the four judicial divisions:

First Division, dry 2941; wet 1669.
Second Division, dry 1035; wet 597.
Third Division, dry 2556; wet 1418.
Fourth Division, dry 2520; wet 1131.

MAY 4, 1929-Appropriations made by the Ninth Territorial Legislature for the two years ending in 1931 have now been totaled and amount to $2,275,000. This is about $75,000 less than was appropriated two years ago.