Digital Bob Archive

JANUARY 2, 1897-The Al-ki is bringing tons of coal for the People?s Wharf, thus averting danger of a shortage.

Murphy & Raymond, the crack comedy team of the Pacific Coast, will make their bow to an Alaskan audience tonight at the Louvre.

Willis E. Nowell, superintendent of the Berners Bay Mining Company, spent the Christmas holidays in town.

Harry Sedley?s three-act melodrame, ?Stricken Blind,? will be produced at the Opera House next week. This is strictly a family entertainment.

The Inter-Sea Club gave a New Year?s dance at the Windsor with the Juneau Premier Orchestra furnishing the music and the Nevada Cafe

Some of our saloon keepers have announced their intention to run their saloon up to within two or three weeks of the convening of the next term of the District Court, then closing them for good. Much of the time of the court is usually taken up by liquor cases, at a great cost, and this is yet another argument in favor of imposing a high license fee on the saloons.

Uncle Tom?s Cabin at the Opera House is meeting with marked success.

S. A. Keller, teacher in the public schools here for the past three years, was examined in open court last Saturday for admission to the bar and passed the examination creditably. He plans to open an office in the Decker Building.

A reward of $50, with no questions asked, is being offered for the return of a solitaire diamond pin, lost on Christmas Eve. The pin should be returned to Miss Belle Adams at her place over the Montana Saloon on Front Street.

Local businessmen Rudolph and Marcus plan to leave soon for the head of Lake Bennett where they will build boats for the anticipated big rush to the Clondyke country.

JANUARY 16, 1897-The laying of a 400-foot electrical cable across the channel has been completed and it is planned that the current will be turned on in a few days, giving Douglas City its first electric light service.