Digital Bob Archive

APRIL 30, 1887-The palatial sidewheel steamer Olympia, Captain James Carroll, has arrived at Juneau on her first trip to Alaska and will run the rest of the summer, making two trips per month. The steamer can make 22 knots and came around from the Atlantic Coast a few years ago.

Koehler & James, merchants, are enlarging their store building on the southwest corner of Second and Seward Streets.

The Treadwell mine continues to ship gold bricks valued at from $75,000 to $100,000 each month.

Thanks to Messrs. Hart & Co., Juneau now has a first-class theater, the Palace. It will feature George T. Snow and family who arrived during the past week on the Olympia. Others include Mrs. Snow and their two children. Their opening performance, ?Rip Van Winkle,? is drawing a large crowd. Other members of Hart & Co. are James ?Slim Jim? Winn and William H. McPhee.

The ?Boys in Blue? are asked to meet at the courthouse on Saturday, May 7, to organize a post of the Grand Army of the Republic.

MAY 14, 1887-A landing place is being built at the foot of Main Street by citizens who have businesses on the waterfront. It will be a landing place for the ferry from Douglas as well as others who wish to use it. Ferry passengers will soon be able to come ashore dry shod.

C. E. Coon, the druggist, is graveling Seward Street in front of his business, just below Third Street. There is also a plan afoot by merchants on Second Street to have it graded and graveled.

MAY 28, 1887-The new play at the Palace Theater will be ?Pure Gold.? A brother of George T. Snow will arrive on the next boat with a lady artist and a musician, and they will take a leading part in the play.

Decker Bros., the Juneau merchants, are opening a branch store near Point Sherman on Lynn Canal. There is much mining activity in that area, generally known as the Berners Bay district.

Dr. H. Craigie, dentist, has arrived with the intention of locating here permanently.