Digital Bob Archive

MARCH 24, 1897-The Juneau city wharf has been sold to the Oregon Improvement Company but it is understood that name People?s Wharf will be retained.

The Treadwell mines are short of men and for the first time in many years there is no list of men waiting to go to work. This is due to the fact that many have quit to try their luck in the Clondyke.

Superintendent Duncan of the Treadwell mines has imported a number of homing pigeons for the purpose of experimenting in a carrier service between Treadwell and Puget Sound.

All northbound steamers from Puget Sound are carrying full lists of passengers and many people who wish to go to the Clondyke are being turned away.

On the next trip of the City of Topeka, Messrs. J. W. Morrison and O. D. Morse will receive four horses and a 14-seat wagonette which they will use to show visitors the points of interest in this vicinity, including the mines along Basin Road and at Sheep Creek.

MARCH 31, 1897-Lockie MacKinnon, one of the genial proprietors of the Circle City Hotel, is the happy father of a baby boy, born Friday morning.

The Mexico, carrying 300 men bound for the Clondyke, passed through Juneau this morning.

The sloop Alcedo, Captain Gallery, arrived Tuesday from the halibut banks on Frederick Sound with 8,000 pounds of fish. The fish was packed on fresh glacier ice from Taku and shipped to Seattle on the City of Topeka. The Alcedo returned to the fishing banks.

The local steamboats Rustler and Seaolin are shuttling back and forth between Juneau and Dyea, carrying full loads of passengers and freight each northbound trip.

William Ebner has purchased a corner lot at Fourth and Franklin Streets from the estate of Philip Starr and will erect a residence on it.

APRIL 7, 1897-Max Endelman has sold the Louvre Theater to James Winn and has taken a five-year lease on the Juneau Hotel.

Juneau merchants are extremely busy outfitting parties bound for the Clondyke. One merchant did $20,000 worth of business during the past week compared to $8,000 the same week a year ago.

The Valentine Hook & Ladder Company has new uniforms this week. The jackets and caps are cadet gray, trimmed with maroon silk. They will be paid for from the company treasury.