Digital Bob Archive

19 August 1980

FEBRUARY 1, 1894-When E. J. Ott, foreman of the chlorinization works at the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company, went to work in the morning of January 13 he found that about $7,500 worth of gold precipitates was missing from the clean-up tank. The tank was always kept locked and a clean-up was made twice a month. Ott found that the lock had been forced and the cover torn off the tank. Last Monday Frank Jurgens was arrested in Douglas and charged with the theft. A part of the missing precipitates were found in the bottom of a barrel in C. F. Fuehr?s drug store in Douglas which Jurgens had been running during the absence of Fuehr. He is being held in jail here with bail set at $5,000.

FEBRUARY 8, 1894-A stereoptican show, Picturesque Alaska, was given at the Opera House this week. The slides were furnished by local photographers Winter & Pond and E. O. Sylvester gave the narrative.

Henry Moses and W. H. Lewis, fur dealers of Butte, Montana, have been in town buying furs from the Indians. Fur prices are said to be off this year. Mink are bringing from 75 cents to $2.50; bear skins from $10 to $35; otter from $2.50 to $6, and beaver from $2.50 to $3.75.

Dr. William Hammond who had been practicing medicine in Juneau, left on a recent steamer and is reported to be a bigamist. Three of his wives had gotten together and were waiting for him on the dock in Seattle.

The safe has arrived for the Harrison Brother?s bank. It weighs five and a half tons.

FEBRUARY 15, 1894-There was an immense snow slide half a mile up Basin Road last Sunday, filling the valley and breaking off trees and telephone and electric light poles and pushing 400 feet up the opposite side of the valley. There was a whirlwind of blowing snow over Juneau for some time.

FEBRUARY 22, 1894-The Juneau Athletic Club has been given new impetus and is now meeting at Ashby?s Hall. Wrestling and boxing are the main sports at present.

Early Monday morning there was an immense snow slide south of town. The water in the channel was thrown into the air and churned into foam and floating snow made a bridge clear across the channel until the tide swept it away.

J. P. Jorgenson has turned out 70 Yukon sleds for the anticipated spring rush.