Digital Bob Archive

17 April 1980

JUNE 25, 1887-William F. Bangham and E. W. Weesner of the Kansas Meeting of Friends arrived on the Olympian last week and yesterday called together the first Sunday School ever held on Douglas Island.

In the District Court 28 Juneau saloon keepers were convicted of selling liquor contrary to law and were fined $21.10 each.

A group of citizens met at the courthouse Wednesday evening to discuss a proposal to attempt to incorporate the town. L. L. Williams was elected chairman and John G. Heid was the secretary. Judge Lafayette Dawson spoke on the question and held that it would be legal to take such a step. He offered to draw a charter which could by presented to the citizens of the town for approval. A committee of five was appointed to work with him.

Plans for the Fourth of July include a parade headed by the cornet band, singing of the National Anthem, reading of the Declaration of Independence, an oration, and sports including foot races, broad and high jump, bucket race, backward races, tug-of-war, horse race, donkey race, canoes races for Indian men and women, and other events. There will be cash prizes.

The new Opera House will be dedicated during a grand ball the evening of July 1.

JULY 2, 1887-In May, George Forrest and Pat McGlinchy started to build a dock and float in front of the foot of Seward Street. Shortly after they started, Karl Koehler and others brought suit to stop the construction on the grounds that is was public area, an extension of the street. Judge Dawson has now rendered a decision which says, in part: ?Within six months the defendants must remove the obstruction from the foot of Seward Street for the full width of the street and to the low water mark and they are perpetually restrained and enjoined from erecting or maintaining such structures.?

Apparently there is little local enthusiasm for incorporation of the town, and the matter is not being pursued.

Mail is now being received twice a month.

The burro train is busy packing ore from the Basin to the wharf.

Joe Twan has reopened the Palace, recently vacated by Hart & Company, who has moved to the Opera House. He is securing a large share of the patronage of the irrigating fraternity.