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to P J Keyes, care of Frank Shay, atty-at-law, San Francisco, enclosing $5, postal order -- also one to Judge Webster of Journal asking $10 -- Bed 12 --
Tuesday Dec 3
Cloudy, gloomy day -- Two more jurymen secured out of the open venire of 20 ordered, and which were picked up by the US Marshal about town --Another open venire of 30 talesmen ordered returnable at 11:30 AM -- I executed & signed the Doten homestead document, & sent it to Judge Wm Webster this evening, also sent letter to Journal -- Wrote letter to wife, & bed at 1 -- clear & cold --
Journal $10 -- Wife -- Webster -- 1895 Mahara's Colored Minstrels -- Ed Cochran Leaves Durrant sentenced to be Hanged
Wednesday Dec 4
Variable -- pleasant -- Letter from Journal $10 -- Return tonight -- Bed 12 -- Replied to Webster of Journal -- Short letter to Journal -- Bed 1 -- cloudy and cold -- Also sent letter to wife --
Thursday Dec 5
Variable, very blustering & dusty & threatening a big storm -- Testimony for the prosecution progressing -- Sent letter to Webster & one to Journal -- Evening at Opera House -- Mahara's Colored Minstrels -- They played to a good house at Va last night, and to a good house tonight -- Street Parade
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at noon was extra good -- fine band -- Very good performance -- Bed at 1 -- About 20 in this Minstrel troupe.
Friday Dec 6
Cloudy, variable, with a light shower or two in evening -- Mason on the witness stand all day -- Got letter from Col P J Keyes, S.F. Bed 1 -- Durrant sentenced today to be hanged --
Saturday Dec 7
Same -- cooler -- Prosecution still pegging away -- Bed 12 -- Clear & freezing hard --
Sunday Dec 8
AM cloudy -- PM clear -- Letter from wife -- sent letters to Webster for $10 and to wife -- Bed at 1 -- clear & cold -- freezing good -- Letter from wife says Ed Cochran leaves for Chicago this morning, where has a chance for good employment.
1895 -- Heney's Second Trial Journal Prosecution closes and Defense Gets in Journal $10 -- Odd Fellows Rejection $12 -- Wife
Monday Dec 9
Clear, cold & pleasant -- Frosty pogonip morning -- District Court as usual -- at 10 AM & I reporting -- Prosecution testimony -- Evening about town -- Bed 12 -- Letter to Journal --
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Tuesday Dec 10
Same -- Prosecution closed with Langevin sensation -- adjourning at 3 PM till 10 AM tomorrow, when the defense starts in -- Bed at 1 -- Cear & freezing good --
Wednesday Dec 11
Same -- Defense on deck -- Langevin impeached -- Heney on the stand -- Very lively & interesting -- Sent letter to Keyes -- Bed 1 -- Letter from Journal with $10 -- Letter from wife, and letter from A B Stoddard, Secy of lodge -- rejecting -- with $12 I gave him when last at Virginia --
Thursday Dec 12
Same -- Prosecution gets lively on the defense -- "Quien sabe" -- Bed 1 --
Heney's Second Trial -- Pickler's Shoot 1895 -- Durrant Sentenced to Be Hanged First big snow -- Bad Item in Journal Jekley and Webster
Friday Dec 13
Same -- Defense working along -- Pickler bullion steal job in this PM -- Bed 12 -- Theodore Durrant was sentenced on Wednesday -- day before yesterday -- to be hanged February 21 -- Appeal to the Supreme court taken -- but Durrant will hang all the same -- (But he didn't all the same)
Saturday Dec 14
PM blustering & threatening bad weather -- Prof Price on the stand most of day -- adjourned at 4 PM till Monday at 10 AM -- Bed 12 --
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Sunday Dec 15
Big snow storm began before daylight and kept at it most all day -- 6 or 7 inches fell -- good sleighing -- The following editorial item appeared in this morning's Reno Journal: ((clipping here)) This evening I sent a two page letter to editor E D Kelley on the subject, and one to Judge Wm Webster. Bed at 1 -- cloudy and pogonip & very cold -- 1st big snow of the Winter.
1895 -- Winter -- God Sleighing -- Slippery Journal -- Senator Jones -- Wife -- Kinzle Court Night Session -- Virginia Enterprise Linotype Print -- 9 inches snow on the Comstock
Monday Dec 16
Storming and very wintry -- frequent snowstorms, slippery -- Good sleighing -- Court engaged on Mint sewer assays principally -- and in absence of Prof Price at the S.F. the most important witness, court had to adjourn at 1:50 PM to 10 AM tomorrow -- Sent letter to Journal as usual also a note with it on "Impartiality" -- Sent also a 3 page letter to Hon J P Jones Washington D.C. -- Evening, wrote letters to wife, M Kinzle, Nevada City Cal and Col P J Keyes, San Francisco -- Bed 1 -- Clear and freezing hard --
Tuesday Dec 17
Very variable -- frequent snowsqualls -- Train 4 hours late -- so Prof Price did not arrive till 4 PM -- so an evening session of court at 7 was held -- Price on stand 2 hours till 9 -- Adjourned -- Bed 12 -- The Va Enterprise
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came out this morning printed by linotype -- The first in this State -- Va papers say 9 inches snow fell this storm --
Big thaw -- Wife and Bessie -- Journal $10 1895 -- Closing of Haney Trial -- Rain -- Keyes & Shay
Wednesday Dec 18
Same as yesterday -- Price and others on the stand -- Bed 1 --
Thursday Dec 19
Cloudy and very thawy -- snow disappeared very fast -- Rebuttal going ahead and toward wind-up -- Court held evening session from 7 to 9:30 -- The Langevin family made the evening session very interesting and enjoyable -- Wrote letter to wife in response to one inclosing Bessie's last letter expecting to be home Christmas -- Bed 1 --
Friday Dec 20
Stormy -- Rainy AM -- PM variable -- evening clear -- court started in at 9:30, 1/2 an hour earliest yet -- Testimony concluded briefly, and at 10, arguments of counsel commenced with US Dist Atty Jones for the Prosecution, followed by Coffin and Woodburn for the defense, W concluding at 4 PM -- only had one hour recess at noon -- Court adjourned till 10 AM tomorrow -- got letter Judge Webster of Journal with $10, from E D Kelley the editor of the Journal and from Pat J Keyes, S.F. Frank Shay proxy. Says our suit put off till January 23, 1896 -- Evening wrote up some of tomorrow's
