Digital Bob Archive

NOVEMBER 19, 1887-Guill and Miller of the Enterprise Restaurant received on the Idaho 100 dozen fresh Baltimore oysters. They are selling at 75? a dozen.

Peter Hahn has completed his building on the waterfront and has opened for business with a large stock of watches, clocks and jewelry. Hahn learned the watchmaking trade in his native Germany, then came to the United States and mined in the Black Hills of Dakota Territory for 13 years before moving to Juneau in the spring of 1885.

A new advertiser in the Free Press is A. Goldstein & Co., which is located on the waterfront just north of the wharf and carries an immense stock of general merchandise.

NOVEMBER 26, 1887-The stumps are being cleared out of Third Street by the property owners. And a new sidewalk is being laid on Second Street from Seward to the Juneau City Hotel. The old plank sidewalk was in very bad shape.

Pat McGlinchy is operating a store and ?soda water? emporium at the Nowell mine on Douglas Island. He now introduces himself as the Mayor of Irish Flat.

A Canadian steamer, the Sardonyx, brought a cargo of lumber and coal for the Alaska Mill & Mining Company. Despite the output of two sawmills on Gastineau Channel and one at Shakan, it is still necessary to import lumber to keep up with the demand.

DECEMBER 3, 1887-All mines in the area are now closed for the winter except the Treadwell and the Alaska Union, both on Douglas Island.

M. B. McKanna is advertising his Douglas City Hotel. Board and lodging is $7 per week.

Dankert Petersen, master carpenter, has completed a new building on Second Street to house the Schmeig & Petersen drug store. Schmeig learned the pharmacist trade in Germany and came to Alaska with the Army in 1867. Both he and Petersen have been residents of this camp since its beginnings.

There is good ice skating now on the pond back of Chicken Ridge. And ice is plentiful in town, too. Small glaciers are springing up all over. Better drainage, with underground pipes, is needed.

DECEMBER 17, 1887-Hoonah Indians brought in two canoe loads of halibut this week. The fish weigh from 25 to 125 pounds each and have found a ready market.

The U. S. Navy ship Thetis has been in port while on a cruise of Southeast Alaska waters.