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Friday May 3
Same -- Bed 12 -- Got letter from John Piper, relative to Henry Piper and mint -- trouble -- Got letter from Kinzle, Nevada City, Cal, today inclosing proxy to vote his Centennial stock at annual meeting of the Co in Gold Hill next Tuesday PM.
Saturday May 4
Same -- Bed 12 --
Sunday May 5
Same -- letter to wife -- Bed 12 --
I at Centennial Meeting -- Gold Hill -- 1895 Centennial Assessment -- At Virginia My room 5 -- "Columbus up to Date" My lost 493 shares Centennial Re-issued
Monday May 6
Cloudy, variable & dusty -- Took morning train at 11 AM to Gold Hill -- Centennial annual meeting -- Election of officers, etc -- After that I rode with S D Baker in his buggy, to Va, went to Enterprise office -- fixed up notice of assessment, No 48 -- 1 ct per share, also wrote Centennial item for the paper -- Took evening train at 5:10 to Carson -- Bed 12 -- I was in my old room, No 5, Douglass bldg, for a few minutes this PM, just before I took train for Carson -- Got reissue of my lost 493 shares Centennial today --
Tuesday May 7
Clear warm & very pleasant -- Evening at theater -- Play "Columbus up to Date" --
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Carson Amateur crowd -- Over 80 in it, little and big -- Best variety performance I have seen for years. Big house -- Everybody enjoyed hugely -- Grand success. Bed 12 --
Spring Weather -- Big Fruit Prospects -- 1895 Nevada Colonization -- "Capitol Notes" "Columbus up to Date" -- Horrible Carson Valley Murder
Wednesday May 8
Clear, warm & pleasant -- Fine spring weather -- Trees all leaving out -- Young fruit setting in abundance -- Evening I was at Theater -- "Columbus up to Date" repeated to another good house -- Bed 12 -- Sent "Capitol Notes" to Journal this evening -- PM attended lecture of W E Smythe, Editor of the "Irrigation Age", on Nevada colonization at District Court room -- About 50 present --
Thursday May 9
Same -- Mrs Sarrman murdered yesterday PM at ranch on Carson river, 14 miles above here, by party unknown, but I think by her husband -- Head split with a hatchet and afterward her corpse put on a bed and bed set afire -- Husband working in the field saw the smoke, & put out the fire, so he says -- Bed 12 -- The "Columbus up to Date" crowd took a special train to Reno & played there tonight -- $1 for round trip, including the show -- cheap -- Virginia City next Saturday evening -- Sent letter to Journal this evening about murder --
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Jones Examination Resumed -- Frost -- 1895 "London Gaiety Girl" Comedy -- Jones held in $25,000 bonds Pat Keyes Passes by -- Joe A Miller and the Keeley Cure
Friday May 10
Clear & pleasant -- Train late, arriving nearly 1 PM, so the Jones examination was not resumed till 2 PM -- I was about -- J H Dennis helped me and I got good report of the proceedings & sent it to the Journal -- Evening theater -- "London Gaiety Girl" Comedy operetta -- Pretty good company from San Francisco -- Variety -- leg and high kicking show -- not very good house -- Bed at 12 -- A very slight frost tonight -- Col P J Keyes passed to Comstock on AM train. I met him at depot.
Saturday May 11
Same -- Jones examination came to abrupt conclusion in 1/2 hour this AM by Jones being held in $25,000 to answer before the US Grand Jury -- gave bonds -- Bed at 12 -- Jones got 10 bondsmen, five from Va City, who gave $6,000 were more than called for -- $31,000 -- Met Joe A Miller of Austin, the always County Clerk, etc, yesterday -- He is here to take the Keeley Cure -- He took his first "shot" this morning -- too drunk the PM or evening before.
Hot Spring Weather -- Nicholl's Wife Extra Hot in San Francisco -- Sunstroke -- 1895 85° hot -- Kinzle -- Sick Room Neighbor
Sunday May 12
Clear and hot -- 85° -- Very hot over in California -- Unprecedently hot for this particular time of the year. I wrote & sent a letter to A Nicholls,
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Los Angeles -- Bed 12 -- Letter from wife, inclosing one from Bessie --
Monday May 13
Clear & hot -- 84° -- SF papers say Saturday was the hottest there for last 25 years -- 85° -- One man working on street prostrated -- genuine case of sunstroke and only one the doctors ever found there in S.F. -- PM I sent another letter to Journal -- on Mint principally & matters connected -- Bed 12 --
Tuesday May 14
Slightly cloudy -- About the same for heat -- 83° -- PM I wrote & sent letter to wife, Nicholls, & Kinzle -- Bed 12 -- A young druggist clerk named D J Ashbury brought yesterday to room 13, opposite mine, very sick, delirious, with 3 men to forcibly care for him troubled my rest some last night -- He showed improvement this evening -- Fred Sargent in room 8, is nearly dead with whooping cough and old age.
The Sick young Druggist -- W S James Passes -- 1895 Thunder showers -- APA Excursion to Reno Mrs Heney leaves
Wednesday May 15
Fair, and warm -- 83° -- Bed 12 -- The young druggist in Room 13 opposite mine is still very sick and this evening, worse, -- Said to have typhoid fever -- groaning much, & evidently suffering much -- delirious & stupified with morphine injections hypodermic -- requiring constant attendance -- Only 21 or 22 yrs old and likely to die shortly. When I went to bed, at 12, he
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was resting quietly -- W S James, Secy Centennial passed through from Gold Hill bound for the mine today --
Thursday May 16
Variable and cooler -- PM some light thunder showers laid the dust good and purified the air -- Sent letter to E D Kelley of Journal -- Evening, following the express train from Va came a coach special, with over 200 APA on board bound on a big fraternal visit to Reno -- Had brass band -- played 2 or 3 pieces at depot -- Hitched on 2 more coaches & took about 100 more APA from Carson -- over 300 in all -- Returned about midnight -- Mrs Heney went down to San Francisco tonight.
The APA at Reno -- D J Ashbury -- 1895 Susan B Anthony at Reno -- also Dr Anna Shaw Ex Gov Burnett of California dead My sick Neighbor -- Nevada safe for biggest fruit crop
Friday May 17
Clear & very pleasant -- The APA last evening at Reno marched from the RR depot through Virginia and Sierra sts to Masonic Hall, with band at head -- Quite an army in all -- over 100 new ones initiated at the Hall -- Susan B Anthony and Dr Anna Shaw, both big lecturers on Woman Suffrage, from the East, also arrived there & will lecture there this evening -- Ex Governor Peter H Burnett -- the first civil governor of California, died at San Francisco at 3 PM yesterday -- My sick neighbor David J Ashbury in Room 13, opposite mine, shows some improvement, but is still delirious
