Digital Bob Archive

27 May 1980

JUNE 20, 1889-Lyman S. Knapp, Alaska?s new governor, passed through on the steamer George W. Elder enroute to Sitka to take up his duties.

P. H. Fox, the Douglas postmaster, has completed a new oven for his bakery.

JUNE 27, 1889-The residents of Douglas have raised about $2,000 toward the building of a dock there. A meeting was held a couple of weeks ago with builder Frank Starr who proposed to put in the dock if the residents will advance between $2,000 and $3,000. He will repay this out of revenues from wharfage charges.

All three local schools are now closed: No. 1 taught by Miss Rhoda Lee, for white children, with an average daily attendance of 25; No. 2, taught by Miss Alice Hill, for Indian children, with an average daily attendance of 30, and St. Ann?s School with an average of 17 attending daily.

It is learned that John Treadwell has disposed of his entire interest in the Alaska Mill & Mining Company, and that Mr. Fry has sold a large part of his stock. D. O. Mills, who recently visited the mines, now owns about one third of the total stock interest. H. C. Perkins is general manager of the company with Thomas Mein as superintendent.

Robert Insley was the winner of the $200 purse in the prize fight at the Opera House Saturday night, defeating P. Moran for the lightweight championship of Alaska.

JULY 4, 1889-The Fourth of July started off with a real bang at an early hour this morning when an old Russian cannon used to fire a salute exploded. It had been charged with five sticks of giant powder and was not equal to the strain. Pieces of iron flew in all directions. A ten pound chunk struck C. W. Young?s carpenter shop and a 30 pound piece went through the roof of the Koehler & James store, while a 40 pound piece went clear through the end of Strickland?s carpenter shop with a tremendous crash. It was a miracle that nobody was injured.

These fine weekends the town is nearly deserted as all the able bodied take to the hills prospecting. There is not a rock unturned within miles of Juneau.

JULY 11, 1889-Development and assessment work is being done on dozens of claims on Gold Creek, Salmon Creek and Lemon Creek, at Auk Bay and Berners Bay, in Yankee Basin, at Sheep Creek and on Douglas Island. Dr. F. S. Reynolds has men at work taking out ore from his Sheep Creek property for shipment to Seattle. Tunnel work has been started on the Blossom and Col. Seller lodes, owned by Malony, Gamel, Forrest and McGlinchy.