Digital Bob Archive

28 October 1980

OCTOBER 10, 1896-John Myers has arrived from the south to accept the position of brewer at the Star Brewery.

Douglas Amateur Dramatic Club will give its first entertainment at Ohman?s Hall on the 16th.

Seward street is now being planked from Second to Third.

OCTOBER 17, 1896-The new elevated car tracks connecting the Silver Queen mine with the mill have been completed. The engine and cars have also arrived and will be running in a few days. Also at Sheep Creek, the new wharf is now ready for use. The City of Topeka stopped there this week and loaded 30 tons of concentrates.

The new and heavier machinery for the electric plant at Treadwell is now being placed in position.

The latest arrivals from the Interior include William Fee, Joe Buss and E. Sullivan. All are from Circle City. On the way out they learned of a new discovery made on the Clondyke River which empties into the Yukon midway between Fortymile and Sixtymile Creek. It is reported that some 200 claims have been staked there and that the showings are very good. Old-timers here, who remember past ?discoveries,? stampedes and rushes to various places along the Yukon, are inclined to regard the report with caution.

OCTOBER 24, 1896-The Nowell Gold Mining Company will erect a 30 by 70 warehouse next to the wharf at Sheep Creek. J. P. Jorgenson has the contract.

A three-story addition to the Hotel Franklin at Front and Main Streets is nearly completed.

The overhead wire plan for carrying electricity across Gastineau Channel to Douglas has been abandoned and a submarine cable has been ordered for the purpose. The lights will be turned on in Douglas City as soon after its arrival as connections can be made.

In addition to the $5 annual membership tickets sold by the Juneau Library and Reading Room, semi-annual and quarterly tickets are available at $3 and $2. They entitle members to all privileges, including baths. Non-members pay 25 cents for baths.

Joe Juneau has come out of the Yukon with a comfortable stake and took the Bertha to San Francisco. He is enroute to visit his uncle, Soloman Juneau, who founded both the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the town of Juneau, county seat of Dodge County, Wisconsin.

OCTOBER 31, 1896-Word has been received that Joe Juneau, after whom this camp was named, was robbed in San Francisco of 25 gold nuggets. He had just arrived from the Yukon where he has been mining.

Oran Kitely went south on the City of Topeka on its last voyage. He had spent the summer erecting and running a sawmill for the Jualin Mining Company at Berners Bay.