Digital Bob Archive

APRIL 18, 1896-A meeting of the Juneau Fire Association Monday night elected Karl Koehler president; Ed Decker, vice president; Emery Valentine, treasurer; J. R. Clark, secretary; Ed Webster, fire chief, and Frank Forrest, assistant chief.

There are at present 14 patients at St. Ann?s Hospital. Nine of them are from Douglas and one from Dyea.

The Juneau City kindergarten under the supervision of Mrs. J. W. Bixby will open at 9 o?clock Tuesday morning in the public school building.

MAY 2, 1896-Alaska Democrats will hold a convention at Juneau on June 1 to choose delegates to the National Convention at Chicago on July 7. Juneau is entitled to 11 delegates; Sitka, 6; Treadwell and Mexican mines, 5; Douglas and Seward City, 4 each; Wrangell and Kodiak, 3 each; Unga, Cook Inlet, Funter Bay, Wood Island and Unalaska, 2 each; Chilkat, Loring, Yakutat, Nutchek, Belkofski, St. Michael, Hoonah, Chikan, Point Berry, Killsnoo, Ketchikan, Sumdum, Sand Point, Afognak, Karluk, Howkan, Hunters Bay, Yess Bay, and Kake, one each. B. M. Behrends is chairman of the territorial committee and E. O. Sylvester is secretary.

MAY 6, 1896-A contract has been let by the Post Office Department to the Yukon Transportation Company to carry the mail between Juneau and Circle City, six round trips during the year commencing June 1. Mail is scheduled to leave Juneau in June, July, August, September and October, 1896, and June 1897. A little over a month is allowed for the roundtrip between the two points.

MAY 8, 1896-The Jualin Mining Company is the name of a new firm organized by H. W. Mellen and H. A. Hoggatt, two Juneau men. The property is located at Berners Bay. Many of the stockholders live in Indiana and the name is derived from Juneau, Alaska and Indiana.

The building long known as the Missouri Saloon, on Front Street, will reopen about July 1 as the Louvre Theater under the management of Max Endelman. He has extended the building from 60 to 80 feet in depth and when finished will have the finest theater arrangement on the coast.

Thomas S. Nowell and C. S. Johnson have been elected delegates to the Republican National Convention in St. Louis, with W. A. Kelly and T. R. Needham as alternates.

The new Franklin Hotel at Front and Main Streets and the Circle City Hotel on Third Street are nearing completion.