Digital Bob Archive

APRIL 14, 1897-Marshal L. L. Williams has purchased a lot at the corner of Fourth and Gold Streets from Frank Bennett for $1,200 and will build a house on it.

A. B. Thompson and Shelly Graves left Tuesday on the Rustler, bound for the Yukon. They took with them five tons of staple supplies. Several other Juneau businessmen have also been stricken with the Clondyke fever, packed their itkas and departed.

The Ebner mill in the valley will soon be enlarged with the addition of 10 more stamps.

APRIL 21, 1897-Hugh Day, making his sixth and final trip to the Yukon on his mail contract, left Friday with 2,250 letters. His route takes him as far as Circle City.

Frank Forrest is clearing his lot on Franklin Street between Fourth and Fifth preparatory to building a residence.
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. P. Jorgenson is improving his property on Front Street. He has torn down the old carpenter shop and is replacing it with a two-story building with 50 foot frontage.

APRIL 28, 1897-A detachment of 20 Northwest Mounted Police, in command of Inspector Scarth, arrived on the City of Topeka and will go to Dyea on the Schooner Sea Light. They are going to the Clondyke to keep order in the new camp and will be stationed at the new town of Dawson City.

It will no longer be necessary for the City of Topeka to load glacier ice during her stops here as she is being equipped with a refrigeration plant.

A two-story addition is being built to St. Ann?s School. Ed Ellingen has the contract.

Percy Pond and Lloyd Winter have returned from Dyea where they have been taking pictures along the trail.

The Pacific Coast Steamship Company has raised passenger and freight rates. This was expected as the Alaska Steamship Company has been unable to secure a vessel to replace the recently wrecked Willapa and hence there is no opposition line at present. The new rates will be more than double those in effect since the spring of 1895 when the Alaska Steamship Company started operation.

The new bell for Hose Company No. 1 has arrived. It weighs 650 pounds and a new tower is being built for it in on Front Street.