Digital Bob Archive

8 December 1980

MAY 6, 1899-Thirteen Juneau business firms have signed an agreement to close their establishments at 8 p.m. except on Saturdays and not to open them before 8 a.m. Signers include Brownsville Woolen Mills, Alaska Furniture Company, Batchelor and Bernard, B. M. Behrends, Alaska Electric Light & Power Company, Kaufman Bros., Jay Decker, C. Goldstein, S. Blum & Company, C. W. Young, D. W. Walker, Louis Levy and G. A. Anderson.

Silver Bow Lodge No. 2, Independent Order of Odd Fellows has now organized and the officers have been installed.

MAY 13, 1899-Sixty men last night signed the muster roll of Company B., National Guard, District of Alaska, at the Opera House. The organization will be completed next Friday and the men will take the oath and elect officers. Uniforms and rifles will arrive on an early boat.

JUNE 3, 1899-A special meeting of the Alaska Chamber of Commerce Thursday evening adopted a resolution to the Department of Justice in Washington asked that early action be taken on the rebuilding of the Juneau court house.

A. Nivens, a practical miner from California, has taken charge of the Alaska Juneau 30-stamp mill in Silver Bow Basin. Five more stamps have been added to the mill of the Humboldt Mining Company, the old Webster property which adjoins the Ebner property on Gold Creek about two miles from town. At the Gilbert mine in Silver Bow Basin, Superintendent C. H. Pearse recently put six men to working driving a crosscut tunnel.

JUNE 10, 1899-The Pacific Coast Company, which owns and operates the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, will build a big coal bunkers on their wharf at the foot of Main Street at a cost of around $10,000.

Col. F. D. Kelsey, in charge of Company B of the Alaska National Guard, has negotiated with Superintendent H. F. Robinson of the Pacific Coast Company for the lease of the large freight shed to the left of the Juneau city wharf and it will be used as an armory for Company B. Juneau is thus the first city in Alaska to furnish an armory for her home troops. George Burford has been busy organizing a regimental band for Company B. Those who have signed up include J. T. Spickett, A. Shattuck, W. W. Goldstein, Grover Winn, D. Caro and L. Winter.