Digital Bob Archive

DECEMBER 11, 1897-John Timmins, who was sentenced to serve six years in the San Quentin Penitentiary for the shooting of newspaper editor Frank Howard here in April 1894, has been pardoned by President McKinley and has returned to Juneau.

DECEMBER 18, 1897-C. D. Garfield arrived on the City of Seattle from Olympia to become the bookkeeper at the C. W. Young Company.

The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company has commenced weekly service between Victoria, Wrangell, Skagway and Dyea but will not stop at Juneau. The steamer Islander is presently on the run.

The Cotillion Club, Juneau?s most fashionable organization gave a dance Thursday night at the Court House. Dancing commenced at 10 o?clock and continued to midnight with music by the Italian String Band.

Thomas Markham and W. T. Wiseman are completing a new bowling alley at Second and Franklin Street. It is a regulation Brunswick double alley and the owners are also fitting up one half of the building as a shooting gallery.

Judge A. K. Delaney and Judge H. W. Mellen, law partners, will soon move into their new offices on the second floor of the Delany Building on Front Street at Main. On the ground floor, Meyer & Company of Portland, Oregon, is putting a large stock of tobacco. In erecting this building it was necessary to demolish the first frame house erected in Juneau. Lumber for the house was cut to measure at Sitka for George E. Pilz, one of the founders of the town, and was brought here on the steamer Favorite. The Favorite unloaded at the north end of Douglas Island December 3 1881, and the lumber was brought over the bar in canoes. The building was put up in a single day and has been occupied and in use ever since.

JANUARY 1, 1898-There are now about 1800 electric lights in Juneau and 350 in Douglas, all supplied by the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company. Douglas is supplied by means of a submarine cable. The plant on Gold Creek includes 3800 feet of flume, 1860 feet of 26 and 24-inch steel pipe and carries water to the two Pelton wheels with a head of 228 feet. These have an aggregate of 325 horsepower and the two dynamos have a combined capacity of 3200 incandescent lamps.

Captain Malcolm Campbell, Juneau mariner, has purchased the steamer Alert and will operate her in local waters, particularly between Juneau and Dyea.