Digital Bob Archive

APRIL 1, 1895-Mrs. C. E. Corman opened a kindergarten in the government school this morning. She previously has conducted kindergartens at Butte and Helena, Montana.

APRIL 8, 1895-The Willapa struck an iceberg on her last trip southbound and had to go into drydock in Seattle. Her arrival is thus delayed.

The upper floor of the Elligen and Rudolph Building at Third and Gold Streets is being converted into offices.

The new 30-stamp mill of the Juneau Mining Company is expected to be running by July 1. The mill will have 12 Frue concentrators.

B. M. Behrends has been appointed receiver for the Juneau Mining & Manufacturing Company which owns a mill in Silver Bow Basin.

William Ebner has leased the Takou Consolidated mill and mine for the season and will operate it and the Dora mine. Late last fall he ran through 200 tons of Dora ore which gave satisfactory returns. Tramways from both sides of the valley bring ore to the mill from respective claims.

APRIL 15, 1895-Archie Campbell is building a new residence at Second and Gold Streets.

The steam schooner L. J. Berry brought up 40,000 feet of lumber from Wrangell for J. P. Jorgenson.

The Juneau Mining Company received on the City of Topeka 10 ore cars and a lot of machinery. Horses and lumber will arrive on the Al-ki in a few days.

John Timmins, sometimes known as ?Blackjack? Timmins, an associate editor of the weekly paper The Searchlight, incensed by an article that had appeared in the rival Mining Record, Tuesday evening about 6:15 entered the office of the latter paper and after an exchange of words with Editor Frank Howard, drew a .38 revolver and shot the editor twice, once in the groin and once in the head. Howard is in St. Ann?s Hospital under care of Dr. Leonhardt and will probably recover. Timmins gave himself up to the deputy Marshal and is in jail. The newspaper article criticized Timmin?s actions during the recent fire when he attempted to direct the firemen in their duties. He was said to have been drunk at the time, but the article did not mention him by name. Timmins had an unsavory reputation in San Francisco before he came to Juneau in 1886. In 1891 he wounded another man with a revolver in a dispute over a card game.