Digital Bob Archive

29 December 1978 issue

SEPTEMBER 18, 1913-In response to the lowered price for admission to the moving pictures at Jaxson?s Rink, John T. Spickett has reduced prices at the Orpheum Theater to 10, 20 and 30 cents.

SEPTEMBER 23, 1913-The Rev. Father E. H. Brown S. J., for the last 10 years pastor of the Catholic Church in Juneau, is leaving for the south on the steamer Northwestern. Failing health caused the priest to give up his work here. While here he supervised the construction of an addition to St. Ann?s Hospital and built the present church and pastor?s residence. In 1913 he served as chaplain of the first Territorial Senate. He is well known locally for his trail work, particularly on the trail up Mount Roberts from the end of Sixth Street. This has become known as Father Brown?s Trail.

FEBRUARY 24, 1914-The Irwin Addition to the City of Juneau will be placed on the market tomorrow. The addition adjoins Gold Creek and the cemetery road and consists of 46 lots. The lots are priced from $125 to $1,000.

AUGUST 5, 1914-The gasboat Fox, the long time mailboat out of Juneau on the Kake route, burned to the water?s edge off the north end of Douglas Island last night, but all members of the crew escaped without injury. The fire started in the engine room while the vessel was returning to Juneau from an intended trip to Lituya Bay with a load of freight for the mines there. The Fox turned back at Dundas Bay because of engine trouble.

JANUARY 2, 1917-?Taku? is the name the students of the Douglas High School have chosen for the school annual, the first number of which will be published this year. Arthur Olson is editor in chief with Alice Bollinger, Elmer Jackson, Vivian Sparling and Elmer Palmbom as assistant editors, Alec Sey, Impi Aalto and Helen Stoody as reporters, and Ula Beck as illustrator.

FEBRUARY 23, 1917-Charles Goldstein expects to purchase $100,000 worth of furs by the end of this season and he just recently received a $15,000 shipment of raw furs from Yukon Territory. That shipment brings his present inventory of furs to $40,000 and makes Juneau one of the major fur markets of the Pacific Coast.

JUNE 17, 1924-Work has started on the razing of the famous Circle City Hotel on Third Street between Seward and Franklin. It was erected in the winter of 1895-96 by Lockie MacKinnon and George Miller and contained 80 rooms, a bar and dining room. The last operator of the hotel was William Short, who ran it from 1913 until 1922. It was named by Mr. MacKinnon who had just come out from Circle City on the Yukon. (Note: The site is presently occupied by a part of the Behrends Department Store.)

JUNE 14, 1928-Sydney Laurence and his bride, the former Jeanne Valliers, arrived on the Aleutian and are staying at the Nugget Apartments. They will spend several weeks here and he will paint a number of local views for the Nugget Shop. One of his latest productions, ?Vitus Bering Discovering Alaska,? was recently received by the Nugget Shop and is on display.

MAY 3, 1929-Cash Cole, Juneau businessman, is the Auditor of Alaska, an office created by the Territorial Legislature which is now winding up its work. There were three nominations for the position: Cole, Elmer Reed and Charles E. Naghel. The three names were placed in a hat and Miss Ada Minzgohr, Doorkeeper of the House was asked to draw out one of them. She drew Cole?s name and both houses promptly voted unanimously to confirm the selection. Cole was a member of the legislature in 1921 and 1923 and was Speaker of the House in the latter year. In 1925 he was the preferential choice of the people of Alaska for governor. He served as Clerk of the House in 1927 and as Secretary of the Senate in the present session. Mr. Cole immediately named Mrs. Agnes Adsit and L. M. Sullivan as clerk of the Auditor?s office.

FEBRUARY 7, 1931-With a complement of 72 officers and men, the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa, Captain C. H. Dench, arrived here last night from Baltimore, Maryland, to take permanent station at this port. She will immediately start on halibut patrol in the Gulf of Alaska. The ship left Baltimore on December 10 after undergoing rebuilding there. Originally the cutter went into commission in 1915 and was stationed at Mobile, Alabama, until sent to Baltimore for the overhaul.

JANUARY 1, 1932-In the main event at the American Legion smoker last night, Freddy Mack of Juneau won over Nena Gurvich of Prince Rupert in a technical knockout. The torrid fighting lasted for two and two-thirds rounds.

APRIL 18, 1932-Four men narrowly escaped with their lives yesterday afternoon when a snowslide swept down upon the messhouse and drying house of the Alaska Juneau Camp No. 1 in the Gold Creek Valley. The three buildings were totally destroyed. William Black, cook, was working in the messhouse and three others were asleep in the bunkhouse until aroused by George Bacon who was carrying supplies to the camp and saw the slide coming. Each building was about 18 by 36 feet. The compressor house and blacksmith shop, about 300 feet from the bunkhouse, were not touched. Camp No. 1 is about half way between the Alaska Juneau boarding house in Last Chance Basin and the Perseverance mine camp and stood on what is known as the Peter Hallam ground.

JUNE 4, 1932-The Juneau City Council last night voted to issue a warning to all steamship companies touching here that stowaways will not be allowed to land and that they have to be returned to their ports of embarkation at the transportation company?s expense.