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DAILY EVENING REPORT
(INCORPORATED.)
Virginia City, Nevada.
Monday ... July 1, 1901

CASHED IN HIS CHECKS.

“Kentuck” Daniel Shuffles off This Mortal Coil at Carson.

John M. Daniel, better known to residents of the Comstock as “Kentuck” died at Circe’s hotel in Carson on Sunday morning about 2 o’clock. He was well cared for in his last moments by the people of the hotel. The cause of his death was inflammation of the bladder, from which he had long suffered. Some weeks ago he left for Walley’s Springs, but found no permanent relief there. Presumably he was making his way back to his old home the Comstock to die when death overtook him at Carson.

Mr. Daniel came across the plains from Kentucky in 1861 and settled in Virginia City. His first work was in a rick-yard; then he became a miner and finally, about 1865 began the career which he followed almost continuously until his death – that of a gambler. With John Pidge he became a proprietor of the International saloon and gambling rooms in 1867 and made a fortune there. But he was always generous, free-handed and a high-liver, and his money disappeared almost as fast as it came.

In ’70 he caught the Pioche fever and went to that place. There he made another stake. His restless disposition kept him on the move and the year 1871 found him in San Francisco in the ice business. In the course of a few years he was back again on the Comstock running a game, as of old.

Like nearly all the old-time sports, however, “Kentuck’s” money melted away as he grew older and the last few years of his life found him comparatively poor. But he was always good for a raise from his monied friends and from his last stake he made enough to keep him from dying “broke.”

As became a true Kentuckian, he always took an active interest in politics. He once spent $2000 in this county to help elect the late George W. Cassidy to congress. During the last few years the congressional bee invaded his own bonnet and he was an avowed candidate for the Republican nomination last fall. His street speeches at this time afforded much amusement to passers-by on the street.

Mr. Daniel leaves two children, one a son, John R. Daniel, who is a Justice of the Peace in San Francisco, and a daughter residing in El Paso, Texas. It is said that he was related to Senator Daniel of Virginia.

In the death of Mr. Daniel, the Comstock loses one of its most picturesque characters, one who has been identified with it from its earliest infancy. His passing is like that of an old landmark. He was a square sport and a law-abiding citizen, and there will be many to mourn his death.

The remains were brought from Carson last night by Undertaker Kunn and the funeral will take place in this city.

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VIRGINIA CHRONICLE
July 1, 1901

“Last Turn” for John Daniel

John Daniel died at Carson last Saturday night and the remains were brought here for interment. Decedent, who was more familiarly known as “Kentuck,” was the last of the once large contingent of local faro game proprietors which included Joe Steward, Ab. Gentry, Tom Buckner, Bob Patterson and others – a majority of whom were long ago summoned to the unknown hence and who like Daniel joined in the weary march of that fast vanishing host of early pioneers to the sunset side of the continent, whose bones strewed the trails and whitened the sands from the Missouri river to the Mohave desert. Daniel was a native of Kentucky and had been a resident of the Comstock since the early sixties. In preparing the body for burial Undertaken Kuhn found the nine spot of hearts in decedent’s left shoe evidently worn there for a mascot, as he like other men in the gambling business, held peculiar views relating to hoodoos, which included antipathy to black dogs and a sable cur discovered on the premises when the game was losing found the doors too narrow for his exit. Daniel was nearly 62 years of age and leaves a son, a Justice of the Peace in San Francisco, and a daughter, Mrs. McSorley, residing at El Paso, Texas.

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NEVADA APPEAL
July 2, 1901

Prosperous Business For Sale.

Upon the death of my husband, the late John G. Fox, I took up the business which he had carried on in Carson since the early sixties. I knew nothing of business, but was forced to do so in order to clear the estate which was left. I have accomplished the object in short time because the business has paid, and it is a splendid paying business. I did not intend to continue a business life longer than necessary, but have always desired to spend some time in travel.

This explanation is given as my only object in selling out. I therefore offer my entire stock of stationery, jewelry and wall paper and all the fixtures for sale.

I refer intending purchasers to Alfred Chartz, who acted as my attorney in the settlement of the estate of my husband, and who knows the condition of my business, for information.

Intending purchasers will have to show credentials and evidences of good faith, and upon such showing I will afford them every opportunity for inspection of books and of property and condition of business.

SARAH J. Fox.

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Special to the JOURNAL.

WASHINGTON, July 1. -- Reports from the Eastern States and the Middle West show that the terrible killing heat continues. Scores of people died today in the large cities, and great damage has resulted to crops.