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Telephones Arrive for Cross Channel Connection

News of the Gold Camp - 08/07/1980

JULY 27, 1893-George M. Landerking has sold his interest in the photographic business to his partner, Lloyd V. Winter.

The telephones have arrived for the line which will unite Juneau and Douglas. There will be five stations ? at the post office and wharf in Juneau, and at the Yukon Hotel, the Bach and Webster store and on the wharf in Douglas.

AUGUST 5, 1893-The new boarding house Archie Campbell has been building on the Fuller First for his employees is now completed.

The Canadian Pacific steamer Islander was in port this week with 85 passengers. The company lost the early part of the season because of a ruling by the Collector of Customs that its ships could not touch at Alaska ports, but this was overruled in Washington.

Mr. Teller has arrived from Valparaiso, Indiana, to teach the white department of the Douglas City school. Dr. J. E. Connett will teach the Natives. In Juneau, David Davis will teach the white school and Mrs. Saxman the native school.

SEPTEMBER 2, 1893-The Grecco-Russian Church is nearing completion. The cross was placed atop the building last week.

A cable placed across Gastineau Channel for the telephone circuits has proved a failure. The cable leaked, short-circuiting the wires, and it is thought that fish may have bitten into the covering. An aerial cable will now be strung at the narrow part of the channel.

Frank Hammond, the new deputy Collector of Customs for Juneau, who succeeded Frank H. Ward, has rented the Day residence on Chicken Ridge.

SEPTEMBER 9, 1893-Col. William Winn and his family will arrive from Wisconsin on the City of Topeka to make their permanent home in Juneau.

John W. ?Wes? Waydelich has been delivering a fine lot of garden produce to town from his ranch at Auk Bay.

The electric light plant to be placed in the Nowell mill on Gold Creek has arrived. It will also supply arc lights to illuminate Juneau streets.

W. J. Bryant, inspector of hulls, and Charles Cherry, assistant boiler inspector, both with the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service, have inspected the Yukon, Julia, Logger, Seolin, Lucy, Lone Fisherman and Rustler, all headquartered at his port. All passed the inspection.