The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-10
THE CAREER OF JOSEPH JUNEAU.

TI1 10 CAREER OF JOSEPH JUNEAU.
 Joseph Juneau, the founder of the town of Juneau, Alaska, and second cousin to Solomon Juneau, the founder of Milwaukee, was recently reported to be on his way from his home In Alaska to this city where his only remaining relatives live, but he must have missed connections somewhere, for he has not arrived, although expected some weeks ago. Word was received some time ago that he was in San Francisco. where it was said he met some of his old companions and perhaps a few new ones, and in the jollyihg-up process that followed the old miner came out with twenty-five gold nuggets missing. Since then he has not been heard from directly, but another relative in Kan sas wrote that the old prOspector was going to stop With him a few days af- ter a short visit at Dutch City. Where Dutch City is no one knows, There is a Dutch Hollow, Dutch Hole and Dutch Flat in California, but no Dutch City can be found on the map or in the postofffce directory. At any rate, his relatives in this city think that he has fallen in with some of his old mining companions and is having too good a time talking over the good old days in the '40s to think of anything else.
 It is an old trick of his, they say, to start from his home in Alaska, intend ing to come to the land of civilization and spend his declining years with his oAt Q ia .aG h. cisco, where he is sure to meet some of the old miners who worked with him in the wilds of the frozen north in the years when one friend was the whole world. There he will stay and chat over "reminiscences until the couple Of handfuls of gold nuggets which he brings down to pay the expenses of the trip are all gone in exchange for the food of friendship and the drink of cheer, and then the rugged old miner goes back to Alaska, finds some more gold and tries it all over again He has started for Milwaukee no fewer than six times, 1t is said, and each time gets no further than the coast.
 He arrived in this country some few weeks ago, and from dispatches re-
  same tactics of former trips. Meeting some of his old comrades of the mines. he went out to see the city and show his mates that he was still young. The flowing bowl went round and round, and pretty soon every thing else went round and round, and when the old miner awoke he found more than half his pile gone. The police succeeded in finding a portion of the valuable peb- bles, but most of them were never re- covered What the old man has been doing since then nobody knows.
 Joseph Juneau has had wide and varied experience during the seventy odd years of his life, and the episode of the other night is in keeping with the remainder of his history. He has been rich and he has been poor. He has been happy and he has been miserable. He was one of a family of twenty-one children, fifteen of whom were boys. He was born in Assumption, Canada. where Solomon Juneau was born. There he spent the first seventeen years of his life, when he suddenly dis appeared and was not seen or heard of for twenty years His family searched but could find no trace of the missing lad. Leaving home and working his way to the western coast, he struck the town of Portland, and in company with a man named Harris padded in an open canoe from Portland to Sitka.
 Before 1880 he struck out into the northern wilderness and discovered a rich lead of the precious metal and founded the little settlement which re- ceived it's name from the hardy from tersman and later became one of the important towns of the territory.
 Joseph Juneau is not a nephew of Solomon Juneau, as reported, but a second cousin of the founder of the Cream City. He is an uncle of Will liam c, Juneau, the real estate dealer of this city and of John Juneau, the contractor. Mrs. Delama Tasse, wife of a real estate dealer of Milwaukee, is | a niece of the gold discoverer. The late
 John Juneau, who for fortysiX years l lived on Market street, and in the days when Milwaukee was a village was the l poormaster and pathmaster of the com munity, was brother of the miner.- | Milwaukee Journal.