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written play -- Well rendered -- Good house.
Saturday March 31
Clear & pleasant -- Bed at 12 -- Yesterday forenoon & this AM I got in good house work washing up dirty clothes which have accmulated on me -- "good jobbie" --
Exempt Constitution and By-laws -- 1894 Director of the Mint -- Wife -- Kinzle
Sunday April 1, 1894
Cloudy and rather blustering -- dusty -- PM met in committee with Plunkett and Guggenheium, at G's store, and P. submitted his pencilled draft of our revision and correction of the Exempt Constitution, and by-laws -- He has now to place it in good style on the record book of the Association. Received a letter from R E Preston, Director of the Mint, Washington, D.C. saying: "Referring to telegrams heretofore exchanged between us, I have to say that the appropriation for the collection of statistics of the production of gold and silver is such that I do not deem it advisable to incur any expenditure for an article on the Comstock Lode. Regretting my inability to do so, I am, Very respectfully, R E Preston, Director of the Mint. Also rec'd letter from wife, Oakland, Cal, & one from Kinzle, Nevada City -- Bed 1 --
1894 Evangelist Crittendon Grand Lodge Nominations
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Monday April 2
Clear and pleasant -- Bed 12 -- Evening, I attended Lodge -- Participated in election as follows: ((clipping here))
Tuesday April 3
Clear, fine Spring day -- Bed 12
Wednesday April 4
Same -- Bed 12
Thursday April 5
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Friday April 6
" " Evening attended lecture of "Mr" Crittendon, evangelist, at Presbyterian church -- good house -- mostly women -- Greatest talker I ever heard -- talks more & said less than anybody.
Localized on Chronicle 1894 Louis Reick dead -- H J Harris memorial Exempt Const & by-laws finally adopted Mr C N Crittendon the Evangelist
Saturday April 7
Clear and pleasant -- In accordance with arrangement made yesterday I localized on the Chronicle today in place of Scott, who went to Carson today on business. Got along nicely -- Bed at 12 -- Louis Reick, one of the oldest Comstockers and a Pacific Coast Pioneer & proprietor of the Nevada Brewery, Six mile canyon, died at 1:30 this morning at his residence
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near the Brewery -- 75 years old -- Wrote him up in good style -- Leaves no wife or child, but about $50,000 property -- Inveterate bachelor --
Sunday April 8
Same -- PM I attended regular monthly meeting of the Exempts -- Made final report on Constitution & By-Laws -- all complete & entered up by Secretary -- Report accepted and Committee discharged -- Also reported Memorial Tribute on death of Bro H J Harris -- adopted -- Bed at 11 --
1894 -- A Chapter on Dreams
Monday April 9
Clear warm & very pleasant -- Bed at 12 -- Last Friday night I dreamed of finding some very rich ground or decomposed quartz or ledge matter, just "lousy" with gold both coarse and fine, and all ragged and rusty & dirty -- mixed up with reddish dirt -- but so rich -- a pound or two of purse gold to every pan -- coarse lumps from an ounce down and large pieces of rock, ten pounds and less, yellow with gold -- Waked up feeling awful rich -- the richest dream of my life in that line -- Saturday night I had a continuation or second edition of the same dream but little modified -- Last night I dreamed I was in California, somewhere, flat broke and making my way to the Midwinter Fair on foot -- When I got there I didn't like it -- considered it a foggy, soggy, unpopular sort of an affair and
The Evangelic Revival 1894 The Geiger Grade clear and McGurn's stages to Reno resumed running for the season
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in fact got so disgusted and exasperated with the whole snide outfit, and the foggy, cold weather and my own impecuniously uncomfortable condition and situation that I waked up feeling anything but rich, and not happy except in knowing it was but a dream -- Wonder what I'll dream tonight? Mr Crittendon, the evangelist, had a crowded audience last evening -- all the church could possibly hold. McGurn and Crampton completed clearing the Geiger Grade of remaining snow drifts.
Tuesday April 10
Clear, cooler & very blustering and dusty -- Bed 12 -- The Geiger Grade being cleared of last snow drifts and open for travel, McGurn's stages resumed running between here and Reno today for the season -- About 3 weeks earlier than usual --
1894 "Spider and Fly" -- John Church Dead
Wednesday April 11
Clear & pleasant but cool -- Freezing in shade all the AM -- M B Leavitt's "Spider and Fly" Comedy Co arrived on morning train -- Big crowd on street witnessed their arrival -- Evening I was at Opera House -- crowded -- Best house & best entertainment for many a day -- Big troupe, with 15 or 20 women -- Not much of a play but lots of incidents -- Splendid dancing & lots of it -- all high kickers -- as high as can be yet in long skirts, & no lady in that big audience could see anything indecent or all ob-
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jectionable -- That and the acrobatic interlude -- The acrobats were the features -- acrobats the best and slickest anybody here ever saw -- March of the Amazons was splendid -- Bed at 12 -- John Church, who first intoduced me into newspaper business on the Comstock is dead, according to SF Chronicle of the 10th -- God bless him and the devil miss him -- Bed at 12 --
Wife in Reno -- Sam in San F -- Kinzle 1894 Practical Printers
Got letter from wife -- Returned to Reno on the 3d inst -- wrote me on the 7th -- also yesterday -- Sam still at Oakland, & likely to stay in Cal till his round trip ticket expires, on the 23d inst. Having good time -- Wife inclosed letter from Bessie, Santa Clara -- Seth in bad state of health & on last legs -- Bessie was with Sam and their mother at Oakland, Sausalito & Midwinter Fair a few days ago. Wrote & sent letter to wife this evening also one to M Kinzle, Nevada City, inclosing coupons, etc.
Thursday April 12
Same -- Bed 12 -- Evening at Methodist church -- Crittendon revival -- It was transferred thither last evening & will stay there to a finish on next Sunday evening -- Church well filled --
1894 -- The Revival -- Jim Rule arrives State Treasurer Egan Dead -- Snow Wintry -- Close of the Evangelist
Friday April 13
Variable -- blustering & dusty -- Evening at Revival in Methodist church --
