Diary 72-02: February, 1896 - preliminary transcript

Saturday February 1, 1896

Variable but fine -- Bowels bad in addition to my cold -- Ate not a morsel today and felt better for it -- Bed 1 -- Bob Grimmon started in as lessee of the Arlington Hotel today --

Sunday Feb 2

Same -- Sent 2 page letter to Bessie, who expects to go back to her California school next Tuesday -- my health improved -- ate a good dinner -- Bed at 1 all right --

Monday Feb 3

Variable -- cooler -- Usual health again -- Sent letter to Kinzle, also a copy of Enterprise to wife, giving account of discharge of Prof R C Storey, Principal of the Gold Hill public schools last Saturday, for lack of tact in getting along peaceably with the teachers under him -- Been trouble last year or two from it -- The schoolboys had a jollification over discharge -- Saturday evening, firing guns, ringing bells & whooping her up -- Salvation Army established in Carson Hall next to Dempsey's saloon--

Tuesday Feb 4

Clear & cold -- Visited the State Fish Hatchery, 3 blocks west from the main today -- Fred Boyce manager -- Wrote it up & sent to the Journal, with note to Webster -- Bed 12:30--

10 Mangus, Printer -- M C Tilden Dead Journal $10 -- Kelley -- Webster -- Wife

Bessie gone to California -- Magpie Dead -- Miss Gracie Plaisted in "Tina"

Wednesday Feb 5

Variable -- Met E H Mangus, printer, today, from S.F. Used to work for me on the Gold Hill News -- Got a job now in the State Printing office here --

Thursday Feb 6

Clear & cold -- Letter from Webster with $10 -- Sent a letter to editor Kelley & one to Judge Webster -- Comstock January payroll, $69, 239, 66 -- Letter from wife says Bessie left for Santa Clara Monday night -- also that our pet magpie we have had for last year or two disappeared. "Two weeks ago Sunday last, he went out of sight utterly and completely. Whether he was stolen, or some of the wild cats about caught him, is more than I know, but I am inclined to the latter belief -- We miss the little fellow" -- Evening I was at theater -- Miss Gracie Plaisted and dramatic company in "Tina" -- Very good indeed, and had a full house --

Keyes -- W Bullo -- Kinzle, Wife & Bessie Austin -- Cold 11° -- J P Jones -- Chills and Cold Wife -- China New Year -- 1896

Friday Feb 7

Same -- Sent letter to Keyes, San F., & one to W Bullo, Va City -- letter rec'd from Kinzle -- Bed 12 -- sharp & frosty --

Saturday Feb 8

Letter from wife with one from Bessie inclosed -- The Reveille says 12°

above zero last Saturday night -- coldest of the season at Austin --

Sunday Feb 9

Same -- Sent letter to J P Jones, Washington, inclosing clippings from Journal, etc -- Evening, chills from a cold -- Bed 12 --

Monday Feb 10

Cloudy -- not well today

Tuesday Feb 11

Clear & springlike -- Bed 12 --

Wednesday Feb 12

Same -- Sent two page letter to wife, returning Bessie's, & telling of a dream I had about Bessie last night -- Bed 12 -- Much fire cracker & jollification in the Chinese quarter in honor of China New Year.

Thursday Feb 13

Same -- still unwell from cold

Friday Feb 14

Same -- Catheter trouble

Saturday Feb 15

Same -- Still under the weather -- Bed 12 --

12 Mrs Shattuck Set Free -- Insanity the Assigned Cause -- The San F Call of Feb 14 has the following about the wife of E.J. Shattuck, watchmaker, etc who lives here in Carson and has their son

about 12 years old with him: ((clipping here))

Bad cathetral trouble -- Wife & bessie 13 "Trilby" Wife -- Truckee Ice Palace Failure Lake Tahoe Road Open -- Padarewski -- 1896

Sunday Feb 16

Clear, pleasant and springlike -- Sick and troubled from bad cathetral trouble -- unable to introduce at all for last three days, from stricture, inflammation or something similar, near the bladder -- Most of time in bed today, and finally at 3 PM for all night --

Monday Feb 17

Same -- letter from wife, inclosing one from Bessie -- Succeeded with catheter at 5 PM, after four days -- longest ever yet -- Bad, sick time of it -- Bed at 2 --

Tuesday Feb 18

Same -- Still troubled a little with catheter, but improving -- Evening at Opera House and saw "Trilby" played by A M Palmer's Dramatic Co -- Well played and interesting -- Good house -- Bed 1 --

Wednesday Feb 19

Same -- Sent letter to wife, returning Bessie's -- Truckee Ice Palace carnival in progress, but a failure owing to the warm weather not allowing of good ice forming in the Palace walls -- Road from there to Lake Tahoe opened -- About 20 people from the Comstock and here went down tonight,

to San F, to see Padarewski, the great pianist -- Bed at 1 --

14 Fitzsimmons Knocks Maher Out in One Minute

Thursday Feb 20

Same -- Sent letter to New York today for a copy of Puck of Jan 23 -- Bed 12

Friday Feb 21

Same -- Big Fitzsimmons and Maher fight at Langtry, Texas -- M knocked out in one minute --

Saturday Feb 22

Same -- Washington's Birthday -- Much display of flags -- PM the Carson Guard paraded with band -- Sent letter to Kinzle, Nevada City -- Maher was knocked out in one minute and 45 seconds yesterday on the Rio Grande, half a mile from Langtry, Texas -- just across the Mexican line --

Sunday Feb 23

Same -- Sent another 2 page letter to Kinzle -- Edgar Wilson Nye, ("Bill Nye") died at his home in North Carolina, yesterday -- Born in Maine, August 25, 1850 --

May Williams, My Landlady -- Keyes 15 Unwell and Dizzy-headed -- Trial Jurors 1896 -- Rain -- Journal -- Cold Snap

Monday Feb 24

Clear, pleasant and springlike --

Tuesday Feb 25

Same -- Miss May Williams took charge of my lodging house today as landlady --