December 16, 1916 – K. L. Steberg sold a dog ticket for the Al-Ki, southbound Thursday, it being the first booking of a canine passenger by his agency. The dog was a non-resident, however, having arrived in recently from Tyee. The freight loaded by the Al-Ki at this port consisted of 115 barrels of herring and a couple of small shipments of fresh fish; also the boiler from the pile-driver, to be taken to Seattle for repairs.

December 19, 1941 – Robert F. Lyman, instructor of mining extension work at the University of Alaska, arrived in town Thursday on the Dart to conduct a mining exten...