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Thursday December 1, 1898
Very frosty morning -- clear, fine day -- PM wrote letter to Geo I Lamy, of the Gardnerville Record, inclosing my bill $20 for services as Reno correspondent from Sept 19, 1898 to date -- Will send it tomorrow morning -- Evening down town -- Met Mayenbaum at the Palace, & we had another long & interesting chat -- Bed 11 --
Friday Dec 2
Same -- Senator Stewart left for Washington last evening and Congressman Newlands this morning, to attend session of Congress, which opens Monday -- Met A K Grim at train this morning, from SF & going on short visit to Va -- Was a banker there when I first came there, also President of Union Express Co -- He knew me -- Bed 11 --
"A Boy Wanted" -- Newlands Out for US Senator!!! Congress Meets -- Wells Herald No 13 -- Cold Yard Cleaning Tim Dempsey Retires -- Cold -- Stewart Sued -- President's Message --
Saturday Dec 3
Same -- Evening at theater -- Ed Piper passed me in -- "A Boy Wanted" -- Very lively and amusing variety performace, singing, dancing, two female acrobats, all sorts of general cutting up & queer situations -- no plot -- just very lively fun -- 10 ladies & 12 gents -- good troope, from the East -- Went on to California after the show -- good house -- Bed 11 -- The Reno Evening Gazette contains annexed telegram from Winnemucca
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announcing candidacy of Newlands in place of Stewart --
Sunday Dec 4
Same -- Journal this morning has column telegram from Winnemucca announcing Newlands for Senator, and indorses it -- Creates quite a stir --
Monday Dec 5
Same -- AM down town -- PM home, writing -- Congress met today -- President's message in the papers --
Tuesday Dec 6
Same -- colder -- freezing in shade -- PM & evening wrote 4 page letter No 13 to Wells Herald -- & got it off in east bound train at 8:40 -- Bed 11 -- freezing very hard --
Wednesday Dec 7
Same --
Thursday Dec 8
Same -- Worked hard, most of day cleaning up the front yard of our premises -- Bed 10 -- tired -- coldest night so far -- 14° above zero --
176 -- Zero -- Znap & Hon M H de Young -- W Drury Treaty of Peace Signed -- Pacific Coast Storm Hon Eugene Howell -- No 13, Wells Herald
Friday Dec 9
Same -- colder -- Bed 10 -- 12°
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Saturday Dec 10
Same -- 2° below zero early this morning -- PM & evening wrote 2 page letter to Hon M H de Young, S.F. to learn about my story, "Wildcat Joe," sent to Chronicle last June 16th and not yet appearing or sent back -- Also letter to Wells Drury S.F. inquiring about Jim Townsend -- The treaty of peace between Spain and the United States was signed by the joint peace commissions at 8:45 this evening, at Paris -- (Paris time) -- War was formally declared April 24th -- about 7 1/2 months ago -- Very cold weather east -- last day or two -- 19° below zero in Denver, Colorado yesterday morning -- Heavy wind storm in Oregon and California coast -- Thursday & Friday did much damage to shipping and wharves in San Francisco and other places -- Bed at 11 -- 16° above zero --
Sunday Dec 11
Same -- Thermometer got down to zero this morning -- Evening I wrote a two page congratulatory letter to Hon Eugene Howell, re-elected Secy of State -- Bed 12 -- Very cold & zeroish -- Wells Herald came, with No 13 in it -- 2 1/4 columns --
Zero Weather -- Wells Herald No 14 Jim Townsend Again -- Capt Charley Warner & Dec Weather 1898 Columbus' Bones Gone Home
Monday Dec 12
Clear, fine & cold -- zero this morning all over town -- some reported
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below -- Sent my letter to Howell this morning -- Zero night --
Tuesday Dec 13
Cloudy and moderating -- PM & evening wrote No 14 -- 4 pages -- for Wells Herald & sent it on evening train -- Met Jim Townsend at morning train, returning to Bodie from S.F. Looked 10 years better than when I put him aboard the train for S.F. wks ago last Saturday -- Surgeons at S.F. doctored up his rupture by hypodermic injections, but did not consider safe to make capital operation at his age -- Bed at 11 -- cloudy, moderate & threatening rain or snow --
Wednesday Dec 14
Same -- Variable -- moderate -- AM I visited Capt C C Warner at hi bachelor home near the iron bridge -- Evening I fixed up a transcript from my Journal for him of December weather for the four preceding this, commencing with 1894, he claiming that the first storms of the winter came on or about Dec 20th -- That holds good for 1894-95, but not for the last two winters -- will see about this one later on -- Bed 11 -- cloudy -- The bones or remains of Christopher Columbus were shipped from Havana, Cuba yesterday for Spain there to be re-interred forever --
178 -- Wells Drury -- Bryan Gets Out of the Army Return of the Big New York Regiment --
Thursday Dec 15
Cloudy & threatening -- A brisk short snow squall at noon -- Raining hard
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throughout California yesterday & probably also today -- PM & evening at home -- writing etc -- Bed 11 -- AM clear -- Rec'd responsive letter from Wells Drury, S.F. --
Friday Dec 16
AM clear -- PM cloudy -- Between 9 & 10 AM two section of the great 1st Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry arrived from S.F. Cos I & L on first section and A B & D on the second section -- Best are expected to pass tonight or later on -- They stopped about an hour & the boys had quite a run about town -- Same regiment, 1,300 strong passed through her July 12th & 13th last for Honolulu -- They are not returning home on 2 months furlough in time for Christmas -- About 500 of them in this lot today -- Others just arriving in S.F. Many are in the hospitals at Honolulu and at SF sick with typhoid fever -- 50 of them dead from it & other sickness, mostly at Honolulu -- They don't like that country -- too unhealthy and not as good as America -- anyhow -- This advance lot today
Sharp Earthquake -- Wells Drury -- 1898 Geo I Lamy $15 -- Ben Higbee Dead -- No 14 Geo I Lamy
