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Tuesday June 2
Same -- 72° -- Bed 12
Wednesday June 3
Same -- 68° -- The papers are full of the Dunham murder near San Jose Cal last Friday -- Dunham murdered a whole family of 6 persons and escaped -- Many parties out after him & the $10,000 reward offered for him -- Tragedy not far from San Jose and the New Almaden road, and murderer supposed to have got over across the valley into the Arroyo Hondo county, about Mt Hamilton -- to the south of and not many miles from where I mined and prospected for copper -- Great place to hide in, and not easy to follow and catch him.
1896 -- Harry Brown and Poker -- Keyes -- 51 Marie Hentschel's Funeral -- Comstock Payrolls Alf Doten Jr -- Bill Zirn Killed!
Thursday June 4
Same -- 66° -- yesterday's San F Examiner, under the head of "Played Too Much Poker" says: [clipping here] PM I attended the funeral services of Marie Hentschel, a young girl, south end of town, who has been lying helpless with paralysis for several weeks at the home of her mother and sister -- Letter from Keyes -- Comstock payrolls for May, $62, 347,91.
Friday June 5
Same -- Letter from Alf Doten Jr -- Bed 12 -- Cool and almost frosty --
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Saturday June 6
Same -- Bill Zirn, the discoverer of the famous Zirn mine, at Pine-Nut, was killed this PM in his mine by a big rock caving upon him -- I telegraphed it to the Journal this evening -- For particulars see next page --
1896 -- Heney's Mortgages -- Wife & Bessie -- 53 Frank Mayo Dead -- Disappointed Wheelmen
Sunday June 7
Same -- warmer -- 82° -- I answered Alf's letter -- An excursion party of forty or fifty wheelmen were expected from Reno, and 26 came down from Va to help receive and entertain them -- but only 3 came -- Some sort of a disagreement among them --
Monday June 8
Clear & a little cooler -- 78° -- letter from wife & Bessie --
54 -- Dem Convention Reno -- From & to J P Jones Cubic foot of Marble -- 165 pounds I weigh 184 -- Jim Townsend -- Doc Benton's Leg Broken Congress Adjourns
Tuesday June 9
Same -- Letter to wife --
Wednesday June 10
Same -- Democratic Mass Convention at Reno -- Ryan -- Dennis faction got away with it --
Thursday June 11
Same -- warmer -- 81° -- Letter from J P Jones, & sent him one in return --
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Congress adjourned at 4 PM today -- Saw a dressed cubic foot of Walker river marble weighed today by Lindsay, the stone cutter of Carson -- weighed just 165 pounds --
Friday June 12
Same -- 84° -- I was weighed today -- 184 pounds --
Saturday June 13
Same --
Sunday June 14
Same -- Breezy & dusty, but 84° -- letter from wife -- At evening train I met Jim Townsend just from Bodie, bound for San F -- Very rheumatic, but jolly as usual -- Says he was born Aug 4, 1823 -- This [clipping here on Dr Benton]
1896 -- Warm Weather -- Bart Burke Leaves Virginia 55 -- I.O.O.F. Grand Lodge -- A Native of Columbia, Cal Nevada Earthquakes
Monday June 15
Clear & sultry -- 86° -- Hottest of season -- At evening train met Bart Burke bound for California, leaving Virginia for good -- Been there as long as I have, and now dont want to stay any longer and die with it -- The I.O.O.F. Grand Lodge commenced at Reno today -- Rep National Convention St Louis tomorrow --
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Tuesday June 16
Same -- Earthquakes here and at Va, about 4 AM felt quite strongly -- but no harm done -- This evening at the Arlington I met S A Knapp of Knapp & Laws, merchandizers at Hawthorn, on a visit -- Born in Columbia, Triolumne Co, Cal. The Reno Gazette gives this about today's earthquake -- And here is what the Chronicle Va said -- copied into the Reno Journal: [clipping here]
56 -- Bunker Hill Day -- New Hat -- 121 Anniversary McKinley Nominated for President!!! Carson Bank Changes
Wednesday June 17
Same -- 84° -- Bunker Hill Day, bought me a new hat -- IOOF Grand Lodge closed at Reno today -- Evening ball of Curry Engine Co at Opera House well attended -- 121 st anniversary of Bunker Hill --
Thursday June 18
Same, Republican National Convention at St Louis closed today -- Nominated William McKinley of Ohio for President and [blank] for Vice President -- Another sharp jolt of earthquake at Va at 1 PM -- No harm --
Friday June 19
Same -- Wife reelected [assistant principal at Reno High School] last evening --
Saturday June 20
Same -- 84° -- The Silver party State Central Committee today in Reno
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appointed or elected 15 delegates to represent the Silver party of Nevada in the National Bimetallic Convention at St Louis July 22 -- Date of holding State Convention Sept 8 at Elko -- Primaries for delegates to it -- Aug 22 -- This clipping from the San F Chronicle, June 20, gives me my first knowledge of the death of my old time mining and ranching friend [Henry W Coe] -- First on the Rich Gulch of the Mokelumne in 1853, as a miner, and subsequently as a hop and fruit rancher near San Jose in 1860 -- Good bye Coe --
1896 -- A Railroad Team Wreck -- Big Thunder Shower -- 59 Cycling Excursion to the Comstock -- Corbett-Sharkey Fred Hart in Carson -- Launch of the Tahoe
Sunday June 21
Clear & warm -- 86° -- About 5 PM a 12 horse team with 2 wagons, loaded with grain in sacks was run into at RR crossing on the main street side track south of the depot by switching train -- one wagon badly smashed & load demoralized -- nobody and no horse hurt -- About 40 cyclers, boys & girls wheeled to Va, returning by 10 PM -- Some loving couples being 2 hours on the road --
Monday June 22
Clear & warm -- 82° --
Tuesday June 23
Same -- Evening big clouds brought heavy thunder shower for about an hour -- laid dust finely --