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Dateline: December 24, 2024.

The Daily Alaskan (Skagway, Alaska), January 1, 1900

    None of the readers of the DAILY ALASKAN will fail to appreciate the time and trouble necessary to get up this first chronological table of Skagway history. Next year it will be easier. There will be more important events to note and to look back to with interest.

JANUARY.
1 - Most destructive fire in the history of Skagway on New Year's Eve; Theatre Royal entirely burned down in thirty-five minutes. The splendid work of the fire companies and citizens prevented the great fire spreading. - The lowest temperature of the winter, up to this date, was six degrees above zero. - Joseph Sinclair drowned in Lake Atlin.
2 - George Johnson shot at White Pass by half-breed woman named Jessie. - New City Council installed in office: Messrs. Hislop (president), Guthrie, Keelar, O'Brien, Laumeister and Stanley.
3 - George Johnson dies; Patrick Murphy and Jessie arrested for murder. - Travel brisk oa the trail.
4 - Small fire in second story of Post-office.
5 - C. C. Figgins succeeds H. M. McCartney as general passenger and freight agent of the White Pass & Yukon Railway.
6 - Peterson & Co. open their Sixth Avenue store.
8 - James Eagle arrives from Dawson, having made the trip without dogs, tent, blankets, provisions or money, in thirty-three days.
9 - F. H. Clayson brings from Dawson news of the finding of James Hill, of Skagway, dying in a lonely cabin. - Council discusses the advisability of making Skagway a free port of entry. - Jessie Rounds held for trial for the murder of George Johnson.
10 - Daily Alaskan begins the agitation for stationary lights at dangerous points between this port and Juneau. - The Elite Club's great ball.
11 - Druggist Kelly returns from Dawson. - Public protest against high price of electric lights. - Proposition to start a new electric light company. - Heavy snow storm; mercury three below. - Annual meeting Y.M.C.A.
12 - Tom Neely narrowly escapes death from exposure on the trall between Log Cabin and the Summit.
13 - United States District Court holds its first sitting in Skagway.
15 - City of Seattle brings 312 passengers and 106 dogs. - Railroad fires a monster blast of 2700 pounds of dynamite. - Public excursion on the first passenger train run over the track.
16 - Elks' grand ball in aid of Hose Company No. 1.
17 - Brothers J. A. and W. Howey arrive from Dawson with $28,800 in a flour sack.
12 - Buller's suit against wagon road decided in favor of the latter. - Agitation for fire insurance started.
19 - Rich strikes reported in the Porcupine district. - Windlenow Club's dance in honor of A. D. Eliott, clerk of the U. S. District Court.
20 - M. A. Mahoney makes the trip from Dawson in fourteen days.
22 - Agitation against the passage of the Atlin alien law begins. - Trial of Gus Davidson, packer, for breaking down toll gate on wagon roud, charge dismissed on a technicality.
24 - Y. M. C. A. Red and Blue banquet. - Property holders appoint a committee to raise money for opposition to the claims of Captain Moore on the townsite.
25 - News reaches here of the passage of the odious Atlin Exclusion Act. - Seven steamers arrive in one day. - City of Seattle makes the trip from Seattle in 66 hours.
26 - Needful legislation for Alaska agitated.
27 - Wagon road and packer fight renewed; Al Brackett arrested for obstructing a public highway.
28 - Citizens appeal to President McKinley to intervene for the repeal of the Atlin Exclusion Act.
29 - The Daily Alaskan becomes a morning, instead of an evening, newspaper. - John Burke, steward of the Al-Ki, dies on the way between here and Juneau, of heart disease.
30 - Seattle Chamber of Commerce takes up the Dally Alaskan's agitation for lights in Lynn Canal, and memorializes Congress for a new lighthouse district for Alaska waters. - Dick Fieming elected fire chief. - William Bell lost on the Skagway trail. - Herman Oagland is engaged to Miss Alda Everest. - Mean temperature for month, 10.5 degrees above zero.

FEBRUARY.
1 - Two United States convoys arrested at Log Cabin by British Columbia officials on the ground that they could not pass the boundary line. - Wolves on the trail near Dawson; one of them killed.
2 - J. D. Stewart, whose robbery of a sack of gold dust led to the killing of "Soapy" Smith, presents a gold badge to Marshal Turner. - Deputy Collector Andrews holds all bonded liquors in Skagway and refuses to allow them to proceed under convoys; are permitted to go to Bennett.
3 - Wagon road riot; revolver and axes used. - Moore's wharf made the terminus of the railroad. - Fan Tail trail abandoned in favor of Too-Chi trail. - Annual meeting Y. M. C. A.
4 - Canadian Customs grant convoy privilege.
5 - Wagon road toll gate again destroyed. - Coal discoveret near Dawson. - George Winters, local agent of the Standard Oil Co., disappears. - Lodge of Elks organized.
6 - Charge against Al Brackett for obstructing a public highway by placing a toll-gate on wagon road dismissed. - Big strike reported of McDonald Creek, near Bennett. - Eight packers held for trial for destroying toll gate. - First Company of the National Guards of Alaska organized in Skagway.
9 - Fire in Herman Meyer's store, next to the Burkhart. - The fire bell placed in the tower of the hose house. - H. A. Beckwith brings his snow plough, but leaves it on the water front to rust as the only experiment of its usefulness.
10 - Railroad lowers its rates to Summit to 2½ cents. - Pay gravel reported on Connelly Creek, Skagway River.
11 - S. W. Mix describes at length the Porcupine discoveries. - Fifth Avenue Hotel opens.
12 - Bar Association of Skagway send a memorial to Washington, D. C., to secure a term of the United States Court held in Skagway. - Railroad stops Sunday work in its offices. Harry Hudson killed on the railroad by a blast. - The toll gate again demolished.
13 - Death of Robin Bryden Jack, civil engineer, from paralysis.
14 - Attorney John G. Price married to Miss Mabelle Clare Dent. - Hose Co. No. 2 gives a masquerade ball. - Discovery of gold on Tahkin River.
15 - Bar Association makes a presentation to Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Price. - First carload of freight carried to the Summit. - Daily Alaskan increased from six to seven columns on each page.
16 - Atlin miners threaten to riot. - Engineer R. B. Jack memorial services.
17 - Andrew Bronk dies of apoplexy.
18 - The Dally Alaskan reaches a regular of over one thousand copies daily.
19 - Railroad telegraph line opened to Glacier station.
20 - SKAGWAY'S PROUDEST DAY. - The railroad reaches the Summit, and a great banquet is given there to commemorate the event. - Glorious sunshine with the mercury twenty-two below. - Mean temperature at Skagway six above zero.
21 - Skagway's militia company petitions to be sent to fight the Filipinos.
22 - Newsboys have a Washington's Birthday banquet at the German Bakery. - Rev. Dr. Campbell, Episcopalian minister, drops dead in his cabin.
23 - United States troops moved from Dyea to the Dyea-Klondike wharf and hotel as barracks.
24 - Captain Gus Knaach dies at Haines of pneumonia.
25 - Geo. A. Brackett enjoined against collecting tolls on wagon road.
26 - Special illustrated Sunday issue of the Daily Alaskan, sixteen pages.
28 - Railroad Contractor Hugh Foy dies at White Pass of pneumonia.

MARCH.
1 - Dyea's big fire; Palace and Northern hotels, Chilkoot tram stables, Senate saloon and the Court House all totally destroyed in an hour; losses over $12,000. - Steamers shipped over the railroad to Bennett. - Hugh Foy's funeral. - Strike declared on the railroad.
2 - Trial of wagon road rioters begins. - Railroad strikers come to the city; one thousand men said to have joined the strikers; assigned reason a cut in wages from 35c to 30c per hour.
3 - Haines made a port of entry. - Bernard Farley, one of the alleged wagon road rioters, charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, held for trial.
4 - Wagon road rioters all dischareed on a technicality, except Farley. - Editor George T. Ulmer dies at Juneau of pneumonia.
5 - John Wise, steward of the railroad hospital, hurriedly leaves town, taking the company's cash with him. - Strikers go to church.
6 - News of Dawson's great fire on Feb. 15 reaches here. - Inauguration of the Arctic Brotherhood. - Indignant public protest against a circular issued by the strikers in an attempt to injure Skagway's commercial interests.- Erysipelas epidemic.
8 - Public meeting of strikers in which they fail to substantiate their charges. - Tom Dugan shoots and dangerously wounds William Ray and shoots himself dead.
9 - William Ray, shot by Dugan, dies. - John B. Wesley given an Odd Fellow's funeral.
10 - Steamer Dirigo wrecked on Midway Island: no lives lost.
11 - Mountain goat shot within half a mile of town, by Fred Weber.
12 - Mob of strikers go to Camp 1 and intimidate the workers.
13 - Strikers attack railroad shops at night; one of them, J. Robert White, is struck down by Dr. Whiting and put in jail.
14 - The troops from Dyea are sent for and arrive. - Striker White tried and sentenced to Sitka for six months. - General Turner opens a law office.
15 - End of railroad strike. - Dominion government orders a telegraph line to be built from Bennett to Dawson.
16 - New waterworks franchise applied for.
17 - Big St. Patrick's Day parade; a green banquet at Clancy's and a hot masquerade ball by the fire laddies.
18 - Indian Chief Endi-Ank looks for his cache of two years ago in the business part of the city.
19 - Strong protest from Atlin against alien law.
20 - Twenty-stamp quartz mill taken to Dawson by A. B. Willlams. - Fred Crewe starts to return to Dawson on a bicycle.
21 - Order from Ottawa that all lake and river steamers must have British officers. - Four steamers landing freight. - Beautiful sunshine and warm weather for the past ten days. - Steamer Dirigo libelled for salvage. - John A. Beckman given a Knights of Pythias funeral.
22 - Canadian customs officials again stop American convoys, this time at the Summit. - Arrival of Rev. J. J. Walter, founder of McCabe college.
23 - Deputy Collector Andrews again stops the shipment of liquor in bond.
24 - Commissioner Sehlbrede takes a hand in sanitary matters. - C. D. Beebe dies. - W. J. Ferry makes the trip from Dawson on a bicycle in eight and a half days. - Isaac S. Mollatt dies.
25 - Clams planted in Skagway Bay. - Bench warrants ossued for the arrest of packers for contempt of court in regard to wagon road.
26 - Firemen give a big funeral to C. D. Beebe.
27 - Chamber of Commerce organized.
28 - City Council declares the city free of debt.
29 - Wagon road rioters heavily fined; J. H. Brook, $500; John Mahoney, $250.
30 - Telegraph party arrives to put up the line from Bennett to Dawson.
31 - Steamer City of Topeka on the rocks near Wrangel Narrows. - H. L. Lombard drops dead in the Pack Train saloon from heart disease. - First sittings of the U. S. District Court held in Skagway. Case to decide the managership of Moore's wharf heard.

APRIL.
1 - Ernie and Gus Miller, of the Occidental, show the only serpent In Alaska. - Lakes begin to break up.
2 - Easter observed in all the churches. - Anniversary of the great snow slide on the Chilkoot Pass, Dyea; fifty-three bodies found. - Topeka still on the rocks. - Excursion to Haines to see the "boom" there.
3 - Court denies restrainining order as to the management of Moore's wharf asked by the Moores. - Burton W. Johanson, wagon road rioter, fined $500.
4 - Trustees appointed for the proposed McCabe college. - Juneau Elks come to assist in organizing a lodge in Skagway.
5 - Governor Brady and his family visit Skagway. - Chamber of Commerce duly organized.
6 - Y. M. C. A. moves to Victoria Hall, its present quarters.
7 - Skagway postoffice made a third instead of a fourth-class office.
8 - Two men start for Dawson on a tandem bicycle.
9 - Steamer City of Seattle breaks her crank near Juneau. - First regular meeting of the Elks lodge. - Funeral of Rev. A. J. Campbell, who died February 2.
10 - City Council grants a franchise to the Automatic Telephone Company. - Fool trip to Dawson on a tandem bicycle abandoned.
11 - Baptist Home Mission Society donates $1000 to help erect a church here. - Presbyterian Church organized, with Rev. J. A. Sinclair as pastor.
12 - B. B. Denton found guilty of lot jumping at Haines, Judge Ripinsky being the plaintiff. - Railroad earnings nearly $25,000 ser day, with only twenty-one and a half miles of track. - Miners rushing to Ketehikan. - Joseph E. Floyd, ex-deputy collector, dies at Atlin.
13 - Edward Hensel commits suicide at Atlin by blowing the top of his head of with a rifle. - Roderick Ryan dies of pneumonia. - Clarence Miller robs the Mug restaurant of $600.
14 - Strike reported in Warm Pass, twenty miles from town. - Steamer Dirigo damages assessed at $20,000.
15 - Cold snap makes Bennett trail good for traveling.
16 - Railroad located to Bennett.
17 - British sloop Dorothy seized for failing to report at Mary Island. - Arthur Copeland resigns the presidency of the Chamber of Commerce. - Hose Co. No. 2 elects directors.
18 - Steamer Humboldt reported to have struck Vanderbilt reef. - Fred. Ronkendorf opens his new cafe, corner of Sixth Avenue.
19 - Funeral of Ex-Deputy Collector Joseph E. Floyd, attended by sixty representatives of A. O. U. W., K. of P., Odd Fellows and Workmen of the World, and many friends. - Arrangements made to ship the Klondike clean-up out this way. - Chamber of Commerce memorializes Postmaster General on our wretched postal facilities. - George Ryan sent to Sitka for highway robbery.
20 - Vitto Bertone found dead at Log Cabin with $453 In his pocket.
21 - Mrs. J. W. Power leaps from steamer Farallon on her way to this port. - Trails in bad condition: five pack horses lost In the canyon. - Rev. W. H. G. Temple of Seattle preaches In Union Church. - Alien miners of Atlin institute damage suits against the British Columbia government for claims aggregating $15,000,000. - Arctic Brotherhood camp organized at Bennett.
22 - Indians at Chilkat, armed, stop white men making the trall from Halnes. - Junior Christian Endeavor Society organized.
23 - American customs convoys again permitted to go through to Log Cabin.
24 - First stock subscribed for McCabe college. - Knights of Pythias organize a relief club. - Steamer rates advance $2.50 for second class freight, to go into effect May 1. - Jerry Perry dies of erysipelas.
25 - Chilkat Indian outbreak squelched; two chiefs and several bucks arrested. - Married, F. E. Twichell and Miss Ethel Mary Reyburn.
26 - Dr. L. S. Keller elected president of the Chamber of Commerce. - Eight of the Chilkat Indiana found guilty and sentenced to Skagway jail for thirty days.
27 - Trail over Summit Lake declared impassable for heavy teams.
28 - Chamber of Commerce addresses Postmaster General on the need of better postal facilities.

MAY.
1 - James Larkin appointed fire warden and city sanitary iInspector. - Great rush to Burro Creek across the bay. - Very successful May Pole festival in the Presbyterian Church. - J. A. Whitson dies at Log Cabin of pneumonia.
2 - Steamer Orizaba of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company makes her first trip to Skagway.
3 - Greatest fire ever in Skagway; seven buildings consumed in an hour, including the Brown shoe store; a total loss of nearly $17,000 . -Chamber of Commerce appoints a committee on government school sites and public buildings.
4 - James Freeman commits suicide in Atlin. - Opening of Atlin mining season postponed to July 1.
5 - Six large steamers bullding at Bennett. - Division Engineer F. B. Flood marries Miss Leila Ada Miller.
8 - Frank Burns leaves the Alaska Steamship Co. to manage the White Horse tram.
9 - Movement to form a Masonic Lodge.
10 - Eighty turkeys start to walk over the trall to Bennett; there to be shipped to Dawson.
11 - Poles for the Automatic Telephone Company going up.
12 - Contract awarded for new Baptist Church. - Stage line started from the Summit to Bennett.
13 - Captain N. W. Robinson comes to Skagway to look out a site for an army post.
15 - College bullding committee decide that the edifice shall be of native granite. - First definite information as to the Cape Nome discoveries.
16 - Dawson had another tremendous fire on April 2ist, destroying the entire business portion, the losses aggregating $1,000,000. - All_traffic over the lakes stopped by the mounted police.
17 - Trails bad to Atlin and lakes almost open. - First large party of tourists arrives. - Chamber of Commerce invites Editors' Association to visit Skagway.
18 - Captain Irving presents the Arctic Brotherhood with 45,000 feet of lumber to build its new camp. - A vandal chops down Captain Moore's big tree.
19 - Telegraph line reaches Cariboo.
20 - President Farrell of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. brings a large party to visit Skagway. - Reply from Senator Fairbanks of the Joint High Commission, accepting the invitation of the Chamber of Commerce to come and look over the boundary question on the boundary itself. - Chamber of Commerce decides to advertise Skagway.
21 - Traffic on Lake Lindeman stopped by mounted police.
22 - Steamer Farallon is chartered by the Washington & Alaska Steam ship Co. and arrives on her first trip for that company. - Dance and social for a woman's ward in Bishop Rowe hospital nets $270.
23 - A. Harman drowned in Otter Lake on the 16th, the ice breaking under him.
24 - Y. M. C. A. entertains Professor T. S. Lippy. the Klondike millionaire.
25 - Efforts to combine all the lake and river steamboats made.
26 - Rich ore said to be found on Skagway hillsides; the "John Wesley," "Charles Wesley" and "Susanna Wesley" claims staked; great rejoicing among the Methodists. - Alexander Grey dies suddenly of apoplexy. - Steamer Danube ashore in the Gulf of Georgia.
27 - Bennett steamboat men fail to combine. - A cut rate to Dawson of $50. - Lighthouse tender Manzanita in port.
29 - Canadian Development Co. announces a $10 rate to Dawson.
30 - First Bank of Skagway falls. - Water very low in Lake Bennett.
31 - Chamber of Commerce raises a subscription of $455 per month for advertising Skagway. - Millionaire Professor Lippy leaves for Dawson and gives a check for $50 to the Y. M. C. A.

JUNE.
1 - Lake Bennett open for nine miles; Marsh Lake still unbroken.
2 - Rev. S. Hale Young, founder of the First Protestant Church in Alaska, twenty-one years ago, visita Skagway. - Public school closes for summer vacation.
3 - Knights of Maccabees organize a social club. - Ore from "Wesley" claims on the hillside proves to have been "salted;" Methodists study the Book of Job.
4 - Louis Urick killed on the Summit: buried under tons of snow. - Charles Mortz and Frank Kane drowned in Lake Lindeman.
5 - Bennett still too low for navigation; steamer Gleaner grounded at Cariboo.
6 - Rates to Dawson from Bennett rise to $100. - Rev. L. J. H. Worden, Episcopallan minister, is asked by Bishop Rowe to tender his resignation. - Arctic Brotherhood elects officers; Joseph T. Hayne elected Arctic Chief.
7 - Lakes reported open but Bennett still low. - Rallroad company break up Summit Lake with explosives.
8 - "Skagway Day": all good citizens turn out and clean up the streets and alleys; leading merchants handle rakes and brooms. - Steamer S. S. Balley leaves Bennet for White Horse. - Three steamers reach White Horse, two from Dawson, the other from Selkirk; they left Dawson May 25th and had to cut their way through new ice.
9 - Chamber of Commerce sends 1000 copies of the Daily Alaskan to Dawson, to advertise Skagway.
10 - Lakes still too low: scows and boats blocked with ice In Marsh Lake. - Bishop Rowe entertained. - Steamer Columbia leaves White Horse for Dawson.
11 - Another steamer out from Dawson; four first boats bring 300 passengers.
12 - First passengers from Dawson arrive; they bring over a million dollars of gold dust and nuggets. - News of the wreck of steamer Columbia near Five Fingers, on her way back to Dawson. - Business houses keep open all night.
13 - U. S. District Court sits in Skagway. - Jessie Rounds acquitted on charge of murdering Johnson at White Pass.
14 - Local option voted on; 463 vote for saloons and 68 against. - Lakes steadily rising; large steamers anticipate no further delays.
15 - Large Cook excursion party goes to the Summit.
16 - Chamber of Commerce gives a successful concert in the new reception pavilion. - News of George Sanger being killed at Porcupine. - Haines' brickyard started. - Seventy-five Klondikers bring out $200,000.
17 - Sol Ripinsky gets an adverse verdict in Haines lot jumping case. - One hundred more Klondikers arrive with heavy sacks.
18 - Multi-millionaire J. D. Rockefeller, Congressman E. J. Hill, Bishop Rowe and other distinguished visitors arrive.
19 - City Council says "curfew" shall ring every night at 9 o'clock, and that children on the streets after that hour will be arrested.
20 - Jessie Rounds, acquitted of murder a few days ago, finde $50 for drunkenness.
21 - Northwest Mounted Police refuse to permit people to pass to the interior "without two months' assorted provisions, and at least $500 in cash, or six months' assorted provisions and not less than $200 in cash over and above the money required to pay expenses from the border to Dawson."
22 - Contracts signed for the lowering of the water mains.
23 - Eight Klondikers bring out 119 pounds of gold dust earned by day labor. News of Joe Juneau's death in Dawson.
24 - News of wreck of the British steamer Danube on hidden reef off Denman Island; no lives lost.
25 - News of the finding of three dead men in a cabin near Moose Lake, Big Salmon.
26 - City Council grants a franchise to the new electric light company.
27 - Another great day for Skagway. - Revenue cutter McCulloch, that fired the first shot in the Spanish war, arrives with Senator Charles W. and Mrs. Fairbanks, Senator and Mrs. Addison Foster, E. O. Graves, president of Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Governor Brady, ex-Senator Swineford and others. - Musicale in the afternoon in Fireman's Hall, monster reception in evening in Chamber of Commerce pavilion.
28 - Senatorial party escorted to the Summit by Chamber of Commerce and leading citizens. - Views of leading citizens of Alaska laid before senators in able speeches at a meeting of Chamber of Commerce in the evening. - N. Haywood and J. H. Kanyon arrived from Dawson with 50 pounds of gold. - Moore's wharf case decided; C. E. Wynn-Johnson the general manager.
29 - Senatorial party receive on revenue cutter McCulloch. - George Carmack, discoverer of the Klondike, arrives with 1000 ounces of dust for cigar money.
30 - First scow load of brick from Haines' brickyard. - Edward G. Ward accidentally shot by Mrs. C. E. Turner. - Fifty gold-bearers from Dawson get in.

Stylish Turnout of a Klondike Millionaire. - Familiar Street Scene in Skagway
During the Dog Days of Winter.

JULY.
1 - License law goes into effect; many saloons closed.
2 - Kaufman Bros. send four men to fix a large American flag on Dewey peak.
3 - Edward G. Ward dies.
4 - Daily Alaskan printed in the National colors. - Chamber of Commerce, City Council and other bodies combine for a glorious Fourth. - Parade, speeches, sports, grand ball, fireworks. - Chamber of Commerce entertains eight visiting Congressmen and other distinguished guests at dinner. - J. M. Goodwin, the celebrated editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, here.
5 - Cape Nome diggings declared by the Juneau "Miner" to be another Copper River fraud. - Many fires on the hillsides.
6 - Railroad completed to Bennett; golden spike driven by Mrs. E. C. Hawkins; large excursion of citizens and distinguished guests. - Two thousand pounds of gold on the evening train.
7 - Verdict of the inquest on the shooting of Ward - accidental.
8 - Eagles elected officers - president, Dr. L. S. Keller.
9 - Many tourists in town.
10 - Clyde McDougal found starving in Laumeister's old ice house on the east bench.
12 - Welcome tendered Rev. and Mrs. Harrison, the new pastor of the Presbyterian Church.
13 - Allen's corrugated iron warehouse destroyed by fire. - Elks give a ladies' social.
14 - Alaska General Electric Company organized.
15 - New bell placed in the tower of the Presbyterian Church.
17 - Skagway's militia company gives a smoking concert.
18 - Suicide of A. J. Hill, manager for the Allen Bros. - Edward Tonkin absconds.
19 - N. M. Bobsford, manager of the Atlin branch of the Bank of Halifax, brings in $175,000 in dust. - Senator Perkins of California here.
20 - Colonel Thomas Fitch, "the silver-tongued orator of the Sierras," pays us a visit.
21 - Judge Johnson and the officials of the District Court leave to hold courts to Northern and Northeastern Alaska. - Lieut. Governor McInnes of British Columbia here.
22 - George Peck badly injured in jumping from a moving train.
23 - Kindergarten picnic at Reld's Falls.
24 - W. T. Iliff leases the saw mill. - Deutscher Verein organized.
25 - $400,000 of gold dust comes in on evening train.
26 - Quartz discoveries on Big Horn and Windy Pass reported.
27 - Steamer Anglian sinks at a wood landing near Little Salmon.
28 - Military ball by the Skagway militia company. - Forest fires sweep away the D. K. T. wharf at Dyea, used as barracks for U. S. troops.
29 - U. S. troops moved from Dyea to the Moore Park in this city. - First meeting of the Artic Brotherhood in its new clubhouse.
30 - S. H. Graves, president of the White Pass & Yukon Rallway, and W. Close, its financial agent, here.
31 - Cy. Warman, the celebrated magazine writer, payed a visit to Skagway.

AUGUST.
1 - Chamber of Commerce reports a total monthly subscription of $447, to advertise Skagway, and $155 received from out-of-town merchants.
2 - Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1 give a dramatic entertainment at the Armory.
6 - Bishop Ridley of the Church of England preaches to a large congregation in Union Church.
7 - Presbyterian Synod, 200 strong, visits Skagway.
8 - M. J. Cohen, merchant and pioneer of Juneau, dies. - Discovery of the "Engineers" group, near Taku Arm, surface ore assaying $12,000 to the ton.
9 - Chamber of Commerce appoints a committee to go to Juneau to confer with the Juneau Chamber as to calling a convention of citizens to formulate legislation for Alaska.
10 - Congressman F. W. Cushman of Tacoma here.
11 - Railroad begins grading at Cariboo.
12 - Chamber of Commerce reception to Congressman Cushman, in the pavilion.
14 - First large gathering of the German Verein; picnic, schutzenfest and ball in Camp 1 Park.
15 - Rev. J. A. Sinclair leaves for a vacation. - Strike of longshoremen on Moore's wharf.
16 - Convention of Alaska citizens fixed for October 9th, at Juneau.
17 - New Baptist Church opened with a concert.
18 - City Council gives an excursion to Bennett to raise a fund for public purposes; result $469. - S. E. Morse, Consul-General at Paris during Cleveland's first term, visits Skagway.
19 - Extraordinary high tide.
20 - Ruins of Theatre Royal removed.
21 - Railroad pay day; amount for month $75,000.
22 - Seattle Business Men's Excursion to Skagway; a party of nearly two hundred; Chamber of Commerce escorts party to Bennett, where they were entertained at luncheon by the Pacific Contract Co.; meeting of welcome in the Chamber of Commerce pavilion and many complimentary speeches by the visitors.
23 - Corner stone of the McCabe college laid.
25 - Rev. L. J. H. Wooden and family leave for Fort Yukon, where Mr. Wooden is sent as missionary to the Indians. - Steamer Willie Irving breaks down in Rink Rapids.
26 - Rey. Dr. Moorehouse, secretary of the Baptist Board of Education, of New York City, entertained at the Baptist Church.
27 - Wrecked Danube again on the run, thoroughly repaired and refitted; she brings 700 tons of freight.
28 - Judge E. D. Stratford here, to locate sites for government bulldings.
29 - Thos. Whitten measures Mount Dewey, and finds it 5240 feet high.
30 - W. J. Walker takes in $30,000 worth of machinery to Dawson.

SEPTEMBER.
1 - S. M. Irvin becomes trafic manager of the W. P. & Y. Ry., vice L. H. Gray.
2 - Contractor Heney gives a banquet to Hon. D. C. Frazer, M. P.
3 - Earthquake shock; no damage done except to weak nerves.
4 - Four men from Switzerland arrested on a charge of attempting to smuggle diamonds and watch movements.
5 - "Sailor Bill" Partridge reports the Florman quartz claims at Atlin sold in London for $600,000. - Twenty-five hundred pounds of gold from Dawson shipped on the steamer City of Seattle.
6 - Judge Day offers a resolution at the Chamber of Commerce meeting proposing a reciprocity treaty to take effect north of Prince of Wales Island.
7 - Chas. Sengfelder returns from Nome and says the whole district is marvellously rich.
8 - Frank Slavin and Peter Jackson have a boxing match at the Armory.
9 - "Kid" Gallagher found guilty of assault on Boss Baker Bauer.
10 - Earthquake shocks at Haines.
11 - Public school opens, with Professor Gwin as principal. - Concert and dress soiree for the benefit of Bishop Rowe hospital.
12 - Charles Eckerman shot dead by James Carroll at Dyea.
13 - Call issued for an election of ten delegates to the convention at Juneau. - Railroad hospital moved to Thirteenth Avenue.
14 - Louis Bunson dies from heart failure. - Body of George Sanger, drowned in McKinley Creek in June, is discovered. - Dr. Lamont Gordon, president of McCabe college, arrives.
15 - Another slight earthquake shock.
16 - Lowering of the water mains completed.
18 - Mass meeting appoints a board of electors to select the delegates to the convention at Juneau. - Senator Shoup of Idaho delivers and address to the Chamber of Commerce.
19 - Opening of McCabe college in rooms on Main and Eighth; thirty pupils. - Walter Church leaves for Nome.
20 - $400,000 in dust from Dawson, consigned to the Bank of British North America, comes in on evening train. - A third teacher engaged for the public school.
21 - Dyea elects delegates to the convention.
22 - Skagway elects as delegates to the convention: R. C. Smith, Thos. Whitten, C. A. Seblbrede, U. S. Commisisoners, A. S. Dautrick, J. T. Hayne, Gen. C. W. Turner, Rev. J. J. Walter, I. Kaufman, Dr. L. S. Keller. - Blockade of freight at Bennett and Dawson.
23 - Captain Moore says Cape Nome can be reached a month earlier by this route.
24 - Skagway delegates organize with J. G. Price as chairman, J. T. Hayne secretary.
25 - Several Skagway people leave for Nome. No one doubts the richness of the district now.
26 - Strike at White Horse, which begun on the 25th, won by the workmen.
27 - S. M. Irwin, the new traffic manager of the railroad, arrives.
28 - Land slide north of Rocky Polnt blocks the rallroad for a day.
29 - Public meeting decides to devote Union Church to public school purposes. - Tent of Maccabees instituted.
30 - Daily Alaskan recelves its first news by wire from Dawson. - U. S. troops moved into Astoria hotel, which is made the barracks.

OCTOBER.
1 - High winds and bad weather at Bennett. - The town booming.
2 - $750,000 of dust sent from Dawson to Canadian Bank of Commerce.
3 - Arthur Goddard, who killed his partner, James Prater, in Dawson, brought here for shipment to an asylum.
4 - Daily Alaskan exchanges greetings by wire with Atlin "Globe." - Captain Hall tows icebergs into port and sells the ice. - John Kalem starts for Dawson.
5 - Seven barges lost in Bennett. - Dawson reports by wire fine weather and brisk business. - Sack of gold dust lost from Occidental hotel.
6 - First snow reported; several inches on the Summit and at Bennett; none here. - Another shipment to Canadian Bank of Commerce of $250,000 in dust.
9 - Alaska convention at Juneau opens with forty-seven delegates. - Mass meeting called by Chamber of Commerce; passes resolutions protesting against the ceding of any part of Alaska territory. - Mrs. Pippin dies suddenly of heart failure.
10 - Railroad has twenty miles of roadbed made below Carriboo. - Arctic Brotherhood clubhouse completed.
11 - Canadian Bank of Commerce ships on the Dirigo 400 pounds of Dawson gold dust, and the Bank of British North America $300,000. - Ex-Gov. Swineford elected president of the Alaska convention.
12 - Reported that one-third of Dawson's people have left for Nome. - No ice yet reported on the Yukon. - Forty scows leave Bennett in one day.
13 - Storms raging all day at Bennett and steamers wind bound.
15 - Four hundred feet of snow sheds completed. - Weather in Dawson clear and cold. - Weather in Atlin open and mining continuing.
16 - Daily Alaskan's special correspondent wires that Dawson had its first snow two weeks ago, but the ten inches of preceding night the only fall of consequence up to this date.
17 - British American Corporation purchase large copper properties at White Horse from Porter & Co. - J. C. Price elected the delegate to Washington, D. C.
18 - Steamer Lindeman wrecked in Squaw Rapids. - Weather in Dawson 20 below; in Skagway 34 above. - Public school employs a fourth teacher.
19 - Quartz claims located on the east shore, near the harbor.
20 - Skating on Lake Dewey. - Dawson weather 10 above.
20 - Terminal town on the Cariboo extension, platted and named Closeleigh. - Close of navigation near. - Much floating ice in the Yukon.
22 - Navigation c.osed above Dawson. - Lake bennet freezes.
23 - O' Brien and Stanley resign from Council.
24 - Steamers Stratton and Olive May sink; Anglican in danger; many scows frozen in.
25 - Organization of the White Pass Mining & Development Co. - $73,950 of dust sent from Atlin.
26 - "Everybody's Birthday” at the Episcopal Church social.
27 - F. H. Whiting, superintendent of the railroad, resigns.
28 - Ice moving out of the river from Selkirk to Dawson; steamer to be sent to bring the mail from Dawson. - Atlin creeks frozen and mining suspended.
29 - Hydrants and supplies arrive.
30 - A. S. Dautrick and J. E. Lilly elected members of the City Council.
31 - Firemen celebrate Halloween with a masquerade ball. - Canadian Bank of Commerce moves to new quarters.

NOVEMBER.
1 - J. P. Rogers becomes division superintendent of rallroad. - Chamber of Commerce petitions the Lighthouse Board for lights in Alaska waters.
2 - Captain Moore lays the foundations for his mansion. - New winter trail to Dawson completed; said to save 120 miles.
4 - Work begun on the Chilkoot tunnel.
5 - News by wire from Dawson that river there has been closed since Oct. 24.
6 - Railroad begins laying track beyond Cariboo. - The Eagles have a grand social.
7 - Passengers of Anglican reached Skagway, having walked from Selwyn, where the vessel was blocked in by ice, Oct. 24. -District Court convenes at Juneau.
8 - New winter trail reported in fine condition.
9 - Three young men leave Skagway for Nome, crossing Bennet in a boat.
10 - Reported drowning of David Bixley and Abner Bowen in Chilkoot Inlet, which proved unfounded.
12 - Discovery of rich copper ores on Atlin Lake. - J. Smith and A. Beatty drowned in White Horse Rapids.
13 - Captain Hovey offers to City Council to use his troops In case of fire.
14 - Report of loss of Dumbolten party. three men and two women, on the 11th, in the upper Yukon.
15 - Special Treasury Agent Shartzer returns from Nome and corroborates the stories of its richness.
16 - E. F. Miller, charged with embezzlement in connection with the loss of a sack of gold in his Hotel Occidental, is tried at Juneau and acquitted.
17 - The Anglian's mall from Dawson arrives at Skagway.
18 - Railroad begins to bulld its own cars.
19 - Canadian officials report number of vessels, boats and scows to Dawson during open season at 900; number of people going in 5434; coming out 4683.
20 - Rich free milling ledge discovered on bed of Pine Creek, near Nugget Point, reported.
21 - Steamer Gleaner is the last large steamer to lay up.
22 - Chamber of Commerce receives reply from Lighthouse Board that the Board will ask for an appropriation of $300,000 for lights for Alaska waters.
23 - Mass meeting requests present City Council to remain in office until the city obtains municipal government.
24 - Arctic Brotherhood gives a house-warming.
25 - Postoffice moved to its new and convenient quarters.
26 - Skagway Eagles give a big social.
27 - First men to walk out all the way from Dawson arrive - Marion D. Landis and B. Hawkins.
28 - Two parties start for Nome. - Dogs scarce in town.
29 - Methodist Mission Board donates $1000 to McCabe college. - Thanksgiving celebrated; dinner to newsboys given by Kaufman Bros.
30 - Weather at Dawson 1 above; Selwyn 5 below; Bennett 20 above; Skagway 35 above.

DECEMBER.
1 - Canadian shipments to Bennett, nine months, amount to $3,600,000. - Captain Rant resigns.
2 - Skating on Lake Dewey begins.
3 - Elks hold Lodge of Sorrow.
4 - Edwards James Gray accidently killed in the Partridge saw-milll, Lake Bennett. - Small fire in Clancy's theater.
5 - Blackett-Patten lot jumping case settled by compromise. - President McKinley, in his message, devotes much kindly thought to Alaska.
6 - Chamber of Commerce decides to publish a circular showing advantages of Skagway route to Nome.
7 - Taku Arm in fine condition for travel.
8 - Extensive improvements begun at Moore's wharf to meet requirements Nome travel.
9 - W. F. Foster, lieutenant of "Soapy Smith," pardoned by the president, after serving one year of his term.
10 - Two hundred men on the Dawson trail mushing for Nome.
11 - Steamer Alpha laid up, the last of the Bennett fleet out.
12 - Heavy fall in temperature along the Yukon basin, 42 below at Ogilvie.
13 - Captain Hogan rescues Harry Morse, who was drowning In the bay. - Catholic bazaar closes, after two evenings, which netted $765.
14 - LaBarge frozen over; about six miles of Lake Bennett frozen.
15 - McCabe college roofed in.
16 - Banquet to F. H. Whiting on his resignation as superintendent of the railroad.
18 - First snow storm of the season.
19 - Snow storm continues and breaks the record. Two feet deep in the city, with heavy winds.
20 - Trains stilt at a standstiil, blockaded by snow. Wires to Dawson down.
22 - Chamber of Commerce first annual dinner.
23 - First term of McCabe college ends, with averages surprisingly high.
25 - Christmas celebrated as never before in Skagway. Horse sleighs and dog teams crowd the streets, and champagne punch and roast turkey goes a-begging.
26 - Eagle City Chamber of Commerce decides to co-operate with Dominion.
27 - Government to extend the telegraph from Dawson to Eagle.
28 - Chilkat river frozen, freighting to Porcupine begun. Bennett not yet fit for teaming.
29 - Steamer Mocking Bird wrecked on Dyea Point, owing to floating ice. - Action taken to form a Skagway shipping association.
30 - Trains again blockaded; rotary engine breaks down.
31 - Bennett solid, horses teams begin travel.