Digital Bob Archive

SEPTEMBER 17, 1887-E. H. ?Yank? Boggs, owner of the sawmill at Sheep Creek, is having steam power installed in his schooner, the Jayhawker, and will put her on the run from Juneau to the head of Lynn Canal. A lot of Juneau men are heading north now, bound for the Forty-mile country where coarse gold was discovered last year by our former townsman, Howard Franklin.

The Juneau Meat Market, Willis Thorp, proprietor, is advertising beef, mutton and pork.

SEPTEMBER 24, 1887-Professor Johnson has posted a copy of the ?Rules of Obligatory School Attendance? on the schoolhouse door. The rules were adopted by the Territorial Board of Education last summer and approved by the U. S. Commissioner of Education. They are as follows:
?Every parent, guardian or other person having control of any child, ages 6 to 14, residing within two miles of any school established and maintained by the government in Alaska, shall send such child to such school at least two-thirds of the time during which such child shall be taught each school year unless it can be satisfactorily shown that such child is physically or mentally disabled.? Failure to comply will be punished by fine or imprisonment.

The steam ferry Marion now makes three round trips a day between Douglas and Juneau, leaving Douglas at 9 a.m. and at 1 and 9 p.m.

The Sisters of St. Ann are erecting a new building for a hospital and will have it completed by fall. It measures 30 by 40 feet, two stories high.

Nearly all hotel rooms are full at present. About 50 men have recently arrived from the Yukon and others have come in from prospecting in the hills in this vicinity.

OCTOBER 1, 1887-Lumber for the new school house has arrived. J. P. Jorgenson has the contract to build it. The contract is said to be for around $2,000 and $15 was allowed for architect?s fees.

The Huntington mill on the Pilz property in the Basin is said to be grinding out from $1,000 to $3,000 a week, but expenses have been heavy and the mill has not yet paid for itself.

Merchants Koehler & James expect to buy and ship $10,000 worth of furs this year.