The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-17
20 YEARS AGO
 From The Empire
AUGUST IT. 1916.

I
 al of the S era m n 0 Elks, 85
 strong. Tn visitors were met at
 the dock when the Prince Rupert
 berthed by a band and the local
 Brother Bills" Later at the Elks
 Hall a brief ceremony was held,
 and Mayor B. D. Stewart delivered
 the keys to the city to the Sacra-
 mento group. Tours of the city
 were conducted during the after
 noon, and a dance was held in hon or of the visitors during the even , ing. Among members of commit tees for entertainment of the tour ists were: Guy McNaughton, J. L.
 Gray, J. J. Woodland, George M. Simpkins, William R. Garster, John l w. Troy and Charles Goldstein. The House of Representatives had the previous day passed the Naval bill which had been passed earlier | by the Senate. The bill called for
 the construction of eight battle ships and cruisers of over 30,000 tons each, to cost $315 100000
 According to dispatches from Eu- rope, after attacks of great vio- lence on the Somme front, the British had gained footing on the 1 first line of German trenches on the Thiepval and HoZieres fronts On this day large squadron of French and Italian bombing planes bombarded the munitions factories and hangars at Muggie near Trieste and then dropped bombs on Trieste. A third new dock was to be built soon on the Juneau waterfront. Work was to begin on the George E. James property north of the City Dock. The new wharf was to ex- tend at least 140 feet out to deep water.
 Nome reported that the Gladiator, one of the boats accompanying the Vilhjalmar Stefansson expedition, had arrived there from Herschel Island, but brought no news of Stefansson, who was planning to spend the summer north of Banks Land. The Gladiator was to load supplies and leave for Herschel Is- land within a week
 The Douglas Eastern Star cele- brated its seventh birthday the previous night with an entertain ment and banquet in the Odd Eel lows Hall in Douglas. Members of the Douglas organization and their families and nearly 50 mem bers of the Juneau lodge enjoyed the evening.
 This day was payday for all the departments of the Treadwell Mines. ] Col Daniel C. Jackling, managing director of the Alaska Gold Mines Company, the Utah Copper Com pany, Ray Consolidated Copper Company, Chino and Nevada Con- solidated Copper companies, and also director and owner of many street railways, newspapers, banks, electric power and other industrial concerns arrived in Juneau from the south on the Admiral Watson. Colonel Jackling was to spend some time in Juneau on his an- nual inspection trip.
 Jack Langseth, of Douglas, ex- pected to leave for a few days fish ing and hunting trip.
 The handsome silver trophy cup offered by Charles Hayden as a prize for series of baseball games between a Perseverance mine team and team from the Thane mill had arrived and was on display in the offices of the Gastineau Com cpany.
 | w. R. Nichols, Manager of the Pacific Gypsum Company mine had arrived from the South on the Princess Sophia. MT. Nichols stat led that work was to begin soon to open the third level of the mine. Up until this time the company had been getting all its ore from two levels
 4 Weather: Maximum, 54; Mini mum, AT; Cloudy, rain; Precipita- tion, 05 inch.
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