Digital Bob Archive

25 January 1980 issue

SEPTEMBER 11, 1915-The Treadwell Mining Company will send a team of six men to San Francisco to compete in the National First Aid contests in that city on September 23 and 24. This will be the first team from Alaska ever to compete in this event.

FEBRUARY 14, 1916-At 7 o?clock this morning the final blast was fired to tap Annex Creek Lake for the new power plant of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Co. Immediately the waters of the lake rushed through the tunnel which taps the lake at a depth of 150 feet. The tunnel is 1,200 feet long and there are two miles of 42-inch pipe from the tunnel to the power house.
Construction was begun in May, 1915. A transmission line with steel towers will carry the electricity across the mountain to Thane. H. L. Wollenberg, chief engineer of the Alaska Gastineau engineering department, was in charge of the work with Mr. Wilcox as his assistant. W. S. Pullen was in charge of the electrical installation and power line construction.

FEBRUARY 1, 1918-Lockie MacKinnon has leased the Zynda Hotel at Third and Main Streets from S. Zynda and has named W. A. C. Baldwin manager. MacKinnon is not new to the hotel business and was a partner with George Miller in the Circle City Hotel in Juneau, before the Klondike Rush.

JANUARY 24, 1919-The Fourth Alaska Territorial Legislature will convene on March 3 in the Garside Building at Third and Seward Streets, which will thus become Alaska?s capitol for the duration of the session. Lloyd G. Hill has been awarded a contract to provide the quarters and furniture, light and heat for them. The federal government foots the bill for expenses of the legislature, including salaries of members.

MARCH 1, 1921-John Rustgard today filed his oath of office and assumed the duties of Territorial Attorney General, succeeding J. C. Murpy. Murpy was appointed to the office in July, 1919, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of George Grigsby who stepped down to run for a seat as Delegate in Congress from Alaska.

JULY 30, 1926-By unanimous vote the Juneau Chamber of Commerce today went on record as disapproving any change for the present to Seattle time. Local sentiment is said to be overwhelmingly against any such change. Ketchikan recently went on Seattle time but so far is the only town in Southeastern Alaska to do so.

MAY 14, 1927-Peter Jellich, well known restauranteur, has purchased the Club Cafe on South Front Street near the Nugget Shop from A. M. Lauridsen. Mr. Jellich has been in the restaurant business at Dawson and Ketchikan and formerly owned the Arcade Cafe in Juneau.

FEBRUARY 8, 1929-Nearly 100 blue fox pelts from the farm of the Grand Island Fox Company were shipped south on the steamer Queen. Market value of the pelts is estimated at $8,000. The fur farm company is about seven years old and is managed by Bob Barclay.

JUNE 20, 1933-On July 1 G. J. Paul will open the Capitol Beer Parlor in the Pigg Building on Front Street next to the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company offices. Mr. Paul is also owner of the Gastineau Grocery.

JANUARY 17, 1934-Formal dedication of the recently completed new wing of St. Ann?s Hospital will take place tomorrow. The new wing increases the bed capacity of the hospital to 85. Since the hospital opened in 1886, 17,018 patients have been cared for and 780 babies have been born in the hospital.

JULY 18, 1935-Two Navy cruisers, the 610-foot Indianapolis and the 555-foot Detroit, will arrive in Juneau harbor tomorrow, the first of eleven Navy ships that are scheduled to visit here before the end of the month.

JULY 3, 1936-The entire complement of Company E, 7th U. S. Infantry, in command of Captain L. V. Castner, is here from Chilkoot Barracks for the Fourth of July. The men will take part in the parade and other events and will be here four days. They have their tents pitched in Evergreen Bowl.

JULY 1, 1937-Moving of the Douglas Inn from Front Street to its new quarters on Third Street and D will begin this evening in preparation for the opening on Saturday. The new building was designed by H. B. Foss. John Marin is the proprietor.

APRIL 17, 1940-Destined for the United Kingdom to be used in the construction of training planes, 200,000 board feet of Alaska spruce airplane lumber was loaded aboard the freighter Oduna of the Alaska Steamship Company yesterday at the Juneau Lumber Mills wharf.

NOVEMBER 10, 1940-The Pan American Airways DC-3 wheel equipped airliner which is relieving the flying boat Alaska Clipper on the Alaska run, arrived here this afternoon from Seattle. The plane left Seattle yesterday, flew first to Vancouver, B. C., and then to Prince George. The captain is O. J. Studeman with S. E. Robbins as first officer. There were only CAA personnel and non-paying passengers on this first flight over the route. The plane will leave tomorrow at 11 a.m. for Whitehorse and Fairbanks.

FEBRUARY 4, 1941-A 56-mile-per-hour gale whirled up Gastineau Channel last night and struck the Pan American airport on Glacier Highway. The hangar was demolished and with it three training planes belonging to the Alaska School of Aeronautics. Pilot instructor Clarence Walters of the aviation school estimated damage there at $7,500, which he said is covered by insurance. During the same storm an 80-mile gust snapped some of the cables anchoring Pan American?s Douglas DC-3 plane. The plane was tipped up on one wing and there was some damage. Two Pan American Electras were unharmed.