Digital Bob Archive

AUGUST 10, 1898-The steamer Oregon smashed the Douglas dock on her last trip to the channel and J. P. Jorgenson?s piledriver is now at work making repairs.

A movement is on foot to establish a cemetery in the Vicinity of Douglas City. A suitable place for burial is greatly wanted there and a public meeting probably will be held to discuss the subject.

AUGUST 17, 1898-The Juneau Opera House was crowded to its utmost capacity Friday night, the occasion being the first stag social of the local Elks Lodge, No. 420, BPOE.

Last Sunday, just three months after the Rev. Loyal L. Wirt preached his first sermon in Douglas, a Congregational Church has been organized there with 12 charter members. The Sunday School now has 75 members and will henceforth meet in the new Odd Fellows Hall. Church services will be conducted in Ohman?s Hall until a church edifice can be erected.

The Columbus Saloon has changed ownership and name, it is now the New York Exchange.

George Bach has purchased the Webster Mine on Gold Creek and is continuing to do development work.

Last week the deputy Grand Sire of the Improved Order of Odd Fellows came up from Seattle and instituted an Odd Fellows Lodge at Douglas. It will be known as Alaska Lodge No. 1.

AUGUST 24, 1898-The Front Street fire tower has been moved to a location behind the Franklin Hotel.

AUGUST 31, 1898-The 120-stamp mill on the Ready Bullion is about ready to start up and work is being pushed rapidly on the new Alaska United mill of 100 stamps and the new Treadwell mill of 300 stamps.

Frank Bach has arrived home from the Yukon, having come out over the Dalton Trail.

P. S. Early has gone to Yankee Basin to start up the mill on the Aurora Borealis.

SEPTEMBER 7, 1898-C. C. Salter is the new teacher at the government school which will reopen Monday morning.

Work on the Congregational Church building at Douglas probably will be started next week.

SEPTEMBER 14, 1898-E. Percy Pond, A. E. Johnson, and L. G. Hill have reconnoitered a trail for the Juneau Chamber of Commerce from the mouth of the Taku River to the new diggings on Pine Creek in the Atlin district of British Columbia.