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Dave Keith, engineer, formerly of the Comstock, but now foreman of the Ontario mine, Park City, Utah, where he has been the last thirteen years -- He is in after mining machinery -- and went up to Va this evening -- Fred Stevens my old Gold Hill friend also at the Ontario mine -- Comstock payrolls for July footed up to $62,706.50 -- Evening cool -- Bed at 12 -- almost frosty --
Tuesday Aug 4
Same -- 80°-- But there was white frost this morning in various parts of town -- Newlands addressed large audience at Va last evening, & will here tomorrow evening -- Is up for re-election to Congress -- Bed 12 -- cold.
8 -- Newlands speaks in Carson!!! Nicholls Charley Thompson Sent to Insane Asylum
Wednesday Aug 5
Same -- 78° -- Hon Frank G Newlands came down on the evening train from Va -- Dynamite guns resounded and bonfires blazed along the street in honor of the occasion -- Grand mass meeting at the Opera House -- Sam Davis chairman -- Newlands rendered account of his stewardship in Congress, experience and working of the recent conventions, etc -- Spoke an hour & forty minutes -- Remarks well received as usual -- The Comstock Glee Club quartette enlivened the occasion by some choice songs -- and afterward at the Arlington, sung some more -- festive time -- bed 12:30 -- breezy & cold --
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Thursday August 6
Same -- 76° -- Newlands went to Va on this evening local -- Mailed my 4 page letter to Nicholls, that I wrote on the 26th ultimo -- Dated it Aug 5 -- Bed 12 --
Friday Aug 7
Charley Thompson of Carson, engineer, contractor, brakeman, etc at times on the V & T RR was sent to the State Insane Asylum, Reno, this evening -- Been getting that way for some time -- leaves wife & family here -- Bed 12 --
1896 -- Edw M Freeman -- "Notes" -- Big Relay Race Carson & Reno -- Bessie -- Harry Brown's Career Fearful & Fatal Heat in the East
Saturday Aug 8
Same -- 80° -- Letter from Edw M Freeman, 767 Euclid st St Paul Minnesota inquiring about Centennial -- I sent reply by return mail -- Also sent short "Notes" to Journal about the Rep State Central Committee, today -- Letter from Bessie, Reno -- Bed 12 --
Sunday Aug 9
Bicycle relay race at the race track, this PM, between the Reno and Carson clubs -- 50 miles, for fun and glory -- Five mile relay heats -- whole time, 2 hours & 40 minutes -- Best 5 miles in 13:50. Martin Simas of Reno made best single mile in 2:38 -- Carson won by nearly a mile -- Then followed horse and foot racing, etc -- wrote & sent letter to Bessie, Reno -- Bed 12
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Monday Aug 10
Fair & warm -- 86° --
Tuesday Aug 11
Same -- 92° -- Fearfully hot weather in New York & Chicago -- Hundreds of people and horses dying from excessive heat --
Wednesday Aug 12
Same -- 90° -- Harry Brown's career published in SF Examiner of yesterday -- 150 people died from heat in New York yesterday and 80 in Chicago.
1896 -- New Lessees of the Enterprise -- 83 Col Robt P Keating Dead
Thursday Aug 13
Fair and warm -- 89° -- The old Daily Territorial Enterprise, Virginia, came out this morning with Norris & Blake as lessees -- No other change -- Norris has been editor, reporter etc ever since I was on it and Frank Blake, chief printer -- They have a linotype machine now, run by Blake, and only a boy apprentice to assist -- Small force, but very poor paper as compared with what it has been -- General Robt P Keating died this evening at Virginia, of typhoid fever, resulting from his recent political convention experience amid the fearful heat at St Louis -- He came home very sick all the way, and was too far gone to recover -- Remains to be sent to San Francisco accompanied by his family to the residence
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of his wife's mother Mrs O'Sullivan -- He was one of my longest known residents of Virginia, Supt of the Hale & Norcross and other mines, a very energetic politician -- good citizen and a leading man among men -- His loss will be severely felt by many -- Native of Ireland about 60 years of age --
84 -- Keating's Remains Pass By -- George Thomas Wife -- Little Old Mike Conroy Dead -- Tom Wren
Friday Aug 14
Same -- Bob Keating's remains passed down for San Francisco this evening accompanied by his family -- I was at the train and saw them --
Saturday Aug 15
Same -- Letters from & to wife -- Met George Thomas of Va at the Arlington -- Just from Rubicon Springs, where he has been last 2 wks --
Sunday Aug 16
Same -- Short letter to wife --
Monday Aug 17
Fair and 80° -- Little old Mike Conroy was found dead, on the railroad track, a short distance below the depot early this morning -- lying on his face with both hands in his pockets -- He was about as usual last evening and was walking home to his cabin when he evidently fell forward and died at once -- probably from a sudden attack of heart disease of
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which he frequently complained -- He was an old well known resident of Carson about 70 years of age, US army pensioner, native of Ireland, single, etc -- Used to be about Dempseys considerably -- Hon Tom Wren is in town --
Tuesday Aug 18
Cloudy -- 82° -- Evening a light thunder shower or two -- Bed 12 -- showery night --
1896 -- Funeral of Col R P Keating -- Wife -- 85 Bessie Leaves for Cal -- The First White Child
Wednesday Aug 19
Cloudy with several good thunder showers in the PM -- Evening down train delayed at Mound House, waiting for C & C train, which was delayed by a big flood at Eldorado Canyon -- Letter from wife says Bessie leaves Friday morning for Cal and her school duties -- Wrote letter to Bessie, bidding her good bye, etc -- The funeral of Bob Keating took place in SF on Monday I think. Many attended from the Comstock and Carson -- The Carson Appeal of this morning gave the subjoined copied from the S.F. Daily Report.
86 -- Jim Hardwicke Dead -- Silver Primaries "Capitol Notes" -- J P Jones Frank Sinclair for Dempsey
Thursday Aug 20
Fair & cooler -- Evening "State Capitol Notes" to Journal -- My old
