Digital Bob Archive

17 November 1980

NOVEMBER 6, 1897-C. W. Young is putting a new addition on his store building and is also building a new front which dresses it up considerably.

The Treadwell company is building new railroad tracks along the beach between the Douglas sawmill and the chlorination works. Foundation work has also started for the 300-stamp mill which will be located near the chlorination works. A start has also been made on a 100-stamp mill on the Alaska United Gold Mining Company claims, and it is reported that still another mill, of 120 stamps, will be built.

Judge A. K. Delaney is building a two-story office and store building on Front Street at Main.

NOVEMBER 13, 1897-The new U. S. gunboat Marietta, which has replaced the Pinta in Alaskan waters, is a Juneau visitor this week. Her headquarters are at Sitka.

A committee of the Presbyterian Church has purchased a lot at the corner of Fourth and Franklin Streets and will build a replacement there for the Log Cabin Church.

NOVEMBER 20, 1897-At midnight last night a Taku zephyr struck the City of Topeka, moored at the Pacific Coast Steamship Company wharf at the foot of Main Street and parted all four of her lines. She was blown out into the channel where both anchors were dropped and she remained until this morning. Most her crew and many of her passengers were ashore and did not get back aboard until morning.

The Ladies Aid Society of the Log Cabin Church will hold a fair this weekend at C. W. Young?s hall at the corner of the People?s Wharf.

Allen Shattuck arrived on the steamer Elder from Seattle and expects to locate here. He has been engaged in the hardware business and is a brother of Henry Shattuck, head bookkeeper for C. W. Young. Allen first came to Juneau in 1896.

NOVEMBER 27, 1897-J. F. Malony and Jack Dalton left on the City of Seattle Wednesday night for Puget Sound. They are investigating the possibility of raising finances to build a railroad from Chilkat over the Dalton Trail to Fort Selkirk on the Yukon River.

DECEMBER 4, 1897-A jury has acquitted William ?Slim? Birch and Hiram Schell in the shooting death of deputy Marshal Watt last spring. The jury decided that despite the fact that Birch was a fugitive from justice when a posse attempted to arrest him, he had acted in self defense in the shooting.