Digital Bob Archive

AUGUST 22, 1889-Among the passengers on the Ancon were M. Bierstadt and Chris. Eisele, artists of rare ability. They are on a sketching tour through Alaska and Mr. Eisele will again visit here next summer and spend several months.

The resignation of District Judge John H. Keatly has been announced. He has served since July, 1888, and reportedly will return to Iowa.

AUGUST 29, 1889-Samuel William?s saloon of Third Street in Douglas was entered the other night and robbed of liquor and bottled beer. Money in the cash drawer was not touched but the thieves opened the faucet on a keg of beer and let the contents run over the floor.

Frank Starr has a crew building a ferry wharf at Douglas and putting in a float alongside the Alaska Mill & Mining Company wharf at Treadwell to serve passengers from the ferry Julia.

Mrs. Archer, who during the summer ran a store on the beach at the bar to serve workers on the Treadwell ditch, has now closed it.

The proprietors of the Juneau Opera House are having some neat clubrooms fitted in the rear.

Napoleon L. Dupras, Juneau?s popular tonsorial artist, is having a residence built on Franklin Street.

SEPTEMBER 5, 1889-G. W. Garside has completed the engineering for the tunnel to tap Silver Bow Basin for the Nowell interests. It will be 9 feet high and 10 feet wide, 2,600 feet long with 400 feet of auxiliary tunnels. It is estimated that 20,000 tons of rock will be removed. Water is being conveyed to the site from Granite Creek by ditch and pipe.

On Douglas Island a new tunnel is reported being driven from the Bear?s Nest tunnel to property owned by M. W. Murray, Captain James Carroll and others. This is property that was not sold to the Alaska Gold Company when the Bear?s Nest was sold.

During the past summer the weather has been remarkably disagreeable, with probably the greatest rainfall of any summer since the American occupation. This is regretable because of the large number of tourists who visit us during the summer and who are likely to gain a false impression of our average weather.