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AUGUST 24, 1895-The population of Juneau by actual count is now 1,324 of whom 977 are males and 347 are females. In addition, there is estimated to be a floating population of between 250 and 350. The school population, between ages 4 and 20, is 139.

The Canadian steamer Capilano of Vancouver, B. C., arrived yesterday with 180 tons of coal for the People?s Wharf.

SEPTEMBER 2, 1895-The current wage scale at the Mexican mine on Douglas Island is as follows, on a per day basis: Miners, $3.50; laborers, $3; drill men, $3.50 in summer and $4 in winter. At the mill, concentrators receive $3, feeders $3.25; amalgamators, $4; engineers, mechanics and hoisters, $3.50 to $5; blacksmiths, $5.

The Star Brewery is now manufacturing lager beer, the first in Alaska.

SEPTEMBER 7, 1895-A meeting of members and friends of the Episcopal Church in the United States has been called for 2 o?clock next Monday afternoon to organize a mission. Sunday services will be held at the Court house.

The Juneau Gun Club, recently organized, will build a club house at the bar, about seven miles up the channel.

Messrs. Olds and Orton, proprietors of the Occidental Hotel, have added three commodious rooms at the rear of the building and plan to install a laundry in the near future.

SEPTEMBER 14, 1895-The Rev. Dr. Nevius has come to Juneau under special commission from Bishop Barker of the diocese of Olympia to take charge of a mission of the Episcopal Church. Services will be held at the Log Cabin Church at 11 a.m. next Sunday and at the Court House at 8 p.m.

Professor S. A. Keller, principle of the schools of Juneau, has returned from a vacation at his old home in Ohio and is ready for the school year. The public school opened on Wednesday with 29 pupils enrolled.

SEPTEMBER 21, 1895-Rudolph Peterson, John Mullen and Dan Sanders are working placer ground on Windfall Creek and making good wages. They plan to work as long as the weather permits.

Before another year has passed there will be 560 stamps crushing ore on Douglas Island. The Treadwell mill now was 240 stamps and the Mexican mill has 120. A new mill of 200 stamps will be built between the two existing mills.