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dropsy -- At 10:30 was at the telegraph office -- no dispatch about Sam received -- came home feeling all right regarding it -- told it to our folks -- Bed at 12 feeling serene --
Hot Wave -- 100° in Shade!!! "Woods' Creek in Forty-Nine" -- 1898 Prodigal Son Returns -- Electric Storms -- Cool Atmosphere -- Sam Geologizing -- Our Army Befevered -- Heney -- showers Mrs Monsduck Crazy -- Matt Kyle
Monday August 1
Clear & hot -- 100° -- Revised my new story, "Woods' Creek in Forty-Nine" -- Postal card from Geo James to his father this morning -- At Independence lake, & will be home tomorrow -- all right --
Tuesday Aug 2
AM same -- PM variable, cloudy with light thunder showers -- About 4 PM, Sam & his mate George James, returned from their ten days outing, fishing, etc, out in the mountains, Independence Lake, Truckee, Overton, etc -- They each had a horse -- Both look rough & dirty but had a good time --
Wednesday Aug 3
Same -- a little cooler -- 93° --
Thursday Aug 4
Same -- Toward evening big electric storm, thunder & lightning & not a drop of rain set in for an hour or so -- I copying my story -- clear & cooler -- Bed 11 --
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Friday Aug 5
Same -- cooler -- 5 PM big rattling thunder storm, with little rain -- only a small shower to lay dust -- Sam went off down river today with Prof Hillman of the University, geologizing on various soils -- About 9/10ths of Shafter's army at Santiago down with malarial & yellow fever and all ordered back to America, commencing tomorrow -- Great trouble -- At Puerto Rico our troops are carrying all before them without fighting -- are advancing on San Juan & will be into it very shortly -- Bed 11 -- clear & cool -- refreshing --
116 -- "Woods' Creek in Forty Nine" -- Sent to SF Chronicle -- Carson Mint Ending Adolph Sutro dies -- Peace at hand Inkstand Upset
Saturday Aug 6
Variable -- cool -- PM some more thunder and a few drops only of rain -- Rained very heavy in the mountains -- Revised & completed, copied, etc, my new story -- "Wood's Creek in Forty Nine". The Carson mint is being dismantled, machinery of the adjusting dept, as well as of the coinage being taken down & shipped away --
Sunday Aug 7
Variable, 90° -- I completed my new story in every respect -- 3 illustrations -- "Woods' Creek in Forty-Nine" -- Penciled pictures of camp of the Pilgrim Mining Co at Woods', Dr H D Cogswells officer & home (Deerskin Cottage)
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near Carters' Creek and a full length picture of the Dr Himself, in hunting costume, buckskin suit, rifle, etc -- Inclosed private note, and mailed it to M H de Young of the SF Chronicle on the west bound train at 10:10 this evening -- 5 two cent stamps -- 4,870 words -- 450 lines -- 15 pages, legal cap, M.S.S. Spain yields all to the U.S. & peace will probably be concluded & hostilities cease next week -- Bed 11:30 --
Monday Aug 8
Clear -- 92° -- Adolph Sutro died at SF at 2:30 this morning -- 78 yrs old -- Bed 10:30 -- Worst upset of inkstand, this PM I ever had -- up my sleeve in table drawers, on my pants, carpet, floor, etc -- jet black --
Manila and San Juan About to Fall -- Hot!!! 1898 Jewett Adams in Reno -- Big Showshed Fire Sutro's Funeral and Cremation -- Big Wheat Crop
Tuesday Aug 9
Same -- 96° -- Spain's reply not received officially yet -- is being translated -- The Monterey has arrived at Manila & the Monsduck will on Thursday -- Plenty of troops have arrived and had severe battle with Spaniards on 31st & 1st -- we whipped 'em good, and now the advance on Manila is sounded, for the final victory -- San Juan de Puerto Rico is being closely hemmed in & must fall in a day or two -- Met Jewett Adams down town this evening -- looks fine & entirely recovered from his recent long & severe illness, which he says was from typhoid fever, complicated
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with gall stones in the bladder -- 4,000 feet of showsheds burned today beyong Truckee -- Train from Cal did not therefore arrive & will not till tomorrow sometime -- US weather service, Carson, says warmer tomorrow -- Bed 11:30 --
Wednesday Aug 10
Same -- Lively work was done reconstructing the destroyed railroad, and by 3 PM the delayed trains were enabled to pass east and west -- the delayed mail arrived here about 5 PM and the evening mail train from the west was only half an hour late.
118 -- Thunder Showers -- The War Ended!!! Hot!!! Protocol Signed and Blockade Raised -- Sutro's Will Merrick Booth's Fiasco -- Comstock Deep Mining Again
Thursday Aug 11
AM clear & hot -- 96° -- PM cloudy with light thunder showers, that laid the dust good & cooled the sultry atmosphere --
Friday Aug 12
Same as yesterday -- War with Spain ended today by the official signing of the "protocol" at 4:23 PM at Washington -- Both Govts notified all their military & naval forces and ordered immediate cessation of hostilities --
Saturday Aug 13
Same -- 96° -- PM cloudy but no rain here -- Sultry -- The blockade of Cuba and Porto Rico is raised -- Sampson was bombarding Manzanillo when protocol
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was signed yesterday -- don't know how he came out -- Letter from Jas A Yerington in reply to mine of June 12 -- He dates Aug 5, Molus mine, Bishop, Inyo Co, Cal -- It found him -- Sutro's will is long document & likely to meet much litigation, Resumption of deep mining on the Comstock is taking shape in San F -- leading Mining Cos holding meetings, etc -- It is officially stated that the war has cost $150,000,000 --
Rheumatic -- Powders -- "Decayed Veneration" -- 1898 Clara Woodliff Married -- Sutro's Contract -- Wife & 2 Children -- Cooler Weather -- No Irish There
Sunday Aug 14
Same as yesterday -- Jas A Yerington's letter recommended rheumatic powders that cured him permanently, so tonight I sent for a printed pamphlet on the subject, to Mr P Rossi, pharmacy, NE corner of Dupont st and Montgomery Avenue, San Francisco -- for my old Comstock & Carson friend, A J Banker, who is badly bunged up in his legs with rheumatism & stopping at the Reno poor farm -- copied "Decayed Veneration" in good shape for preservation --
Monday Aug 15
Clear, fine, cooler -- 88° -- Clara Woodliff's brother killed Tom O'Rourke on her account at Virginia City July 17, 1896 -- Mrs Clarise Kluge of S.F. claims to be a contract wife of Sutro, & that her son Adolph, 7 yrs old, and daughter Adolphine 5 yrs old are by him -- She goes in therefore for
