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JP Jones Royce & Lansing Comedy Co
Got reply from Jones of my letter March 16 --
Wednesday April 4
Clear & pleasant -- About town as usual -- More cases of smallpox reported -- guess its got loose and getting promiscuous -- Evening at the Opera House -- Royce & Lansing Comedy Co & Swiss Bell Ringers -- 1/2 doz or so of them, including 2 women -- Very good variety music performance, including bells, banjos, violin, zithers, ocarinas, etc -- Lansing played six instruments at once -- banjo, accordian, Harmonica, cymbals, bass drum, triangle and shook a lot of bells on his head -- Very good performance, but the smallpox scare only allowed about 1/4 of a house -- Bed 2 --
Gold Hill Comstock Statistic again K of P Ball Harris' policy Garrard
Thursday April 5
Same -- as usual -- Evening, theater same as last evening -- $50 house --
Friday April 6
Same -- PM at Gold Hill -- Evening at Opera House -- Grand ball of the Unified Rank K of P -- Big affair -- Fine drill at the [comman ?] Bed at 2 -- Got a letter from Garrard dated 5th stating that he had received that day following dispatch from the Director of the Mint: "For what amount will Doten work up Comstock as per my letter of nineteenth ult" --
Saturday April 7
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Same -- Rec'd policy for JJ Harris -- No 1857 -- Evening at my Lodge -- 4 initiated -- Bed 2 -- Telegraphed Garrard that I would (and did) send him a letter by this evening's mail --
Exempt Meeting Garrard, et al
Sunday April 8
Same -- PM attended, as First Vice Prest, the regular monthly meeting of the Exempts -- this PM -- Got a letter off by the 3:45 express, to Garrard -- I offered to do that Comstock statistical job for $250 -- Evening about town -- Bed 12
Monday April 9
Clear & pleasantest of the year thus far -- Around as usual -- PM wrote and telegraphed to Garrard -- Telegraphed -- "If Kimball still rejects ask whats most will pay. Can promptly suit him and on time. Will write sevening's mail" -- Evening was at regular bi-weekly meeting of the Irish Land League in lower hall of the Miners Union -- Music, ballads, recitations, etc, Bed 1 --
Gold Hill M Simmons & Plymouth
Tuesday April 10
Same -- warmer -- Was down at Gold Hill -- rode down with Sam Jones in his buggy -- was about town -- Returned at 7 on train -- Mose Simmons called in -- Going to old Plymouth tomorrow to see to the settlement of his father's estate -- deceased -- We dined together at Otto's & had some beer at the Arcade Saloon, and bade each other good by -- I wrote a nice 2 page letter this evening & sent it by Simmons to brother
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Samuel Doten -- Bed 1 --
Wednesday April 11
Same -- about town as usual -- Rec'd letter from Garrard dated yesterday containing acceptance by Jas P Kimball, Director of the US Mint, Washington, of my offer to
My $250 offer accepted Pub Docs The Champion Tooth-Puller Catheters
furnish the desired Comstock statistics for $250 -- Evening down town -- Saw the "lightening tooth extractor" perform on the street, in front of the International -- Must have pulled a hundred or more teeth -- free of charge -- Big crowd of audience -- Recd 1 doz catheters No 4, from Wakelee & Co today -- Bed 2 --
Thursday April 12
Same -- Rec'd by mail today a bag containing 12 books weighing 50 pounds or more -- It was from Senator JP Jones, Washington -- "Pub Docs" -- The 4 big ones were Powells survey of the Pacific coast and rest were reports of Director ot the Mint on the Gold & Silver production of the United States -- Evening at Degree Lodge -- Work in all 3 degs, and twelve took the first -- most that ever did at one time -- Harry Jones 1 of them - Bed at 1 --
Dusty Aquarium Show Car
Friday April 13
Same -- Bed at 1 -- Streets very dry and very dusty -- Storekeepers howling for the sprinkler --
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Saturday April 14
Same -- Evening at my Lodge -- No initiation -- only regular work -- Big car 64 ft long came up today -- Painted up in fine style, and labeled New York Aquarium Car -- Took station near depot -- Had car steam calliope for attraction - I paid 2 bits admission -- Full of live rare birds, monkeys, etc.-- big boa constricter, big vampire bat, nine crocodiles in a big tank amid ships - largest 60 years old, 12 ft long, big as my body -- the smallest 4 or 5 ft -- good show -- This PM I took ride with Chief of Police Henderson in his buggy about town, down 6 mile canyon and out on Divide -- Saw the quarantined smallpox people -- Two houses of them will
Smallpox disappearing Street sprinkler started Mose Simmons returns
be released, tomorrow, all cases in them being cured -- 2 other houses have a few cases convalesing -- Bed 1 --
Sunday April 15
Same -- Finest yet -- Street sprinkler started about noon or a little before & laid the dust finely -- Everyone out, and the aquarium show & the churches were well attended -- AM at room -- PM down town -- Evening at room -- About 9 Moses Simmmons came -- He got as far as Reno, concluded to come back instead of going to Plymouth -- After consultation I wrote the following telegram to Chas S Davis the attorney in charge at Plymouth "If needed in settlement of father's estate can come immediately -- Answer." Moses Simmons -- Then we took it over to the telegraph office & started
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it cost $1 for the ten words -- Will be delivered in morning & probably replied to in the PM -- Then we took a little cruise up & down street together,
Mose Simmons Gold Hill Delivered JJ Harris' Policy
visiting saloons and having a social chat -- Bed at 1 --
Monday April 16, 1888
Cloudy but pleasant, with a few very little sprinkles of rain -- PM at Gold Hill -- visited with Sam Jones at Crown Point works office awhile -- Walked home by way of the reservoir on the Divide to see Mrs JJ Harris of Gold Hill -- Found her & delivered to her her husband's policy for $2,000 -- About 10 AM, Mose Simmons received 2 replies to his telegram, one from his brothers telling him to come and help settle estate satisfactorily and other from Chas S Davis telling him to come on or send power of atty to somebody to act for him -- After consulting he concluded to start for Plymouth tonight -- I was at Gold Hill depot as he passed down & gave him a parting shake hands -- He will lay over in Carson to attend to business there & leave Reno on Wednesday morning for the East -- Bed at 12 --
Tuesday April 17
Clear & very pleasant -- PM rode with Lawson to Gold Hill on his buckboard -- Walked down to Jack Long's, at lower 'bus station -- Was well treated, & came away with 1 1/2 doz fresh hen & duck eggs, in a cigar box -- Presented by Jack [Soon?]
Joe King & wife
stopped in to see Joe King & wife -- She just a few days in from Austin -- He has
