Digital Bob Archive

28 April 1980

DECEMBER 31, 1887-Jim McPhee has purchased Mark Eagleson?s horse and wagon and is now doing all kinds of hauling and draying.

The Treadwell mine and mill closed for Christmas, the first holiday since the Fourth of July. Many of the men celebrated the occasion in Juneau.

Herman Hart, W. H. McPhee and James Winn have dissolved the partnership known as Hart & Co., and Winn has purchased the entire business, including the bar stock. ?Slim Jim? is now the sole proprietor of the Opera House at Second and Seward Streets. He was born in Cornwall and came north during the Cassiar rush and to Juneau with the first settlers.

JANUARY 2, 1888-The New Year started off with a bang on Douglas Island. At 7 p.m. yesterday a powder magazine containing about a ton of giant powder exploded. This magazine was not the Treadwell mine?s main storage but was used to store powder that was to be used immediately. All the glass on one side of the big mill was shattered, and the doors were damaged. The shock was very strong in Juneau but was hardly felt underground in the mine. Robert Adkins, who attended the magazine, was blown to pieces, and there were a few minor injuries in the mill.

JANUARY 7, 1888-A masquerade ball is being held tonight at the Franklin Music Hall.

JANUARY 14, 1888-The mail steamer Idaho, Captain Hunter, brought 12 passengers and 130 tons of freight for Juneau this week. Among the passengers was Fr. John Althoff, priest at the Catholic Church, who had been to Victoria on church business.

JANUARY 21, 1888-Coasting down the hill from the top of Chicken Ridge is great sport for young old.

Judge Lafayette Dawson, president of the Territorial Board of Education, has been visiting the Juneau schools during the past week while here on court business.

A new resident of Juneau is Bernard M. Behrends, a young man of 26, who came over from Sitka late in December to take charge of the branch store of the Sitka Trading Company. A native of Bavaria, he came to this country with his parents when he was in 16, worked on a farm and clerked in a store in Nebraska and later moved to California where he did some prospecting and mining. He came north to Sitka last May to do further prospecting but instead went to work for John G. Brady at the Sitka Trading Company. In addition to running the store here, he will be agent for the steamer Leo which calls here frequently.