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NOVEMBER 18, 1886-During the present term of the District Court, a member of the jury panel, before being sworn in as a juryman, presented his papers and was made a citizen of the United States. It is not often that jurymen are served up so fresh.

Our new commissioner, L. L. Williams, has taken up his duties and upon his arrival John G. Heid resigned as the miners? recorder. Yesterday a election was held to determine whether there should be two recorders and two sets of records. Commissioner Williams was elected over John Timmins by a vote of 110 to 64, and we are spared the cost of two sets of records. All record books have now been turned over to the new commissioner.

N. A. Fuller bid on the Harris mining claims for $4,480 and bought Harris?s interest in the placer ground for $1,000. Patrick Corcoran bid in the Front Street business lot for $775. This is in settlement of the judgment awarded by the District Court last May and leaves poor Harris with only the building lots on which his home stands. There is a good deal of sympathy for him in the camp, partly because Fuller is not the best liked man in the district. When the town was surveyed by G. C. Hanus in 1881, it was found that Fuller?s house and lot were square in the middle of Franklin Street, just as Pete Erussard?s was in Seward Street. Pete moved his building, but Fuller has refused to do so and consequently Franklin Street is not cut through to Front, to the inconvenience of many citizens.

St. Ann?s School opened on the 5th with four pupils, but more are expected to enroll, Sister May Zenon is the teacher.

DECEMBER 4, 1886-Present steamship fares to Juneau from San Francisco are $70 cabin and $40 steerage. From Portland they are $60 and $35 and from Port Townsend or Victoria, $50 and $30.

Thirty-two laborers from San Francisco came up on the Idaho to go to work for the Alaska Mill & Mining Company at Treadwell. It is reported that most of the men employed there are now whites.

An arastra was built this season on the Perseverance lode at the upper end of Silver Bow Basin. The returns were good and there is said to be a good potential for a mine. The property is presently difficult of access because of the mining with hydraulic giants in the basin.