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sunshine -- Sent letter to wife -- Bed 11, snowing -- about 2 inches on sidewalks but melted into mud in streets -- fell heavily in the mountains --
Monday May 1
Variable -- no storm, but cold & unpleasant -- Monday May-day -- City election day, Dewey-day, holiday, cold day and a mighty mean sort of a day, generally -- 2 inches of snow, all over town this morning -- Bed 11 -- freezing -- "Dewey Day" was celebrated here by flags and drinks and general patriotic hilarity -- California & elsewhere ditto -- The Carson City trustees election today resulted in favor of the old board -- (see Appeal Report) [clipping]
Tuesday May 2
Clear cold & pleasant -- Rec'd letter from William Nelson, managing editor of SL Tribune, returning my Silver Peak article, crowded out, but asks me to revise & return it for publication -- Bed 12 --
Silver Peak Again to SL Tribune -- Wife Hair Cut!!! -- I weigh 207 lbs -- Newspaper Plant Attacked -Toenails Trimmed -- Hon C C Goodwin -- Wells Drury -- Big Rain --
Wednesday May 3
Variable & cold -- PM I remodeled my Silver Peak article, adding a page to it and sent it to SL Tribune by evening mail -- Bed 11 -- Letter from wife today --
Thursday May 4
Same -- Pleasant -- PM I still further remodeled & re-wrote & added to
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Silver Peak making 6 pages of it & sent it to SL Tribune by evening mail -- AM got my hair cut by Ed Bettincourt, barber -- 1st time in 2 years -- Got weighed at Charley Kelly's grocery -- 207 lbs -- as much as I ever before weighed in my life.
Friday May 5
Same -- This PM I performed the very difficult operation for me of trimming my toe nails -- last time Jan 8, in Reno -- Hard for me to get doubled down to, but made a good success of it --
Saturday May 6
Rainy-- Big rain early morning, and lighter steady till after noon -- grand good rain in town and heavy snow in the mountains -- 5 or 6 inches in Va -- Wrote a 4 page letter to Hon C C Goodwin, editor of the SL Tribune on his return from Silver party to Republican -- Got nice letter from Wells Drury, SF, in response to mine of Apr 15 -- Bed 11 -- still cloudy & threatening --
Charlie Goodwin -- Wife -- "Long Tom" Smith -- 1899 The Big Comstock Pumping -- 3 Tall Men -- 2 Bit Day -Good Catfishing -- Mrs Monckton Crazy Again -Broke Last Dollar, & have 16 Clean Collars -- Broke Flat --
Sunday May 7
Variable, cloudy, snowing in the Sierra more or less -- Sent my letter to Charlie Goodwin this evening, as I failed to do so last evening -- Wrote & sent letter to wife -- PM I met "Long Tom" Smith of Reno at the
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Arlington, was introduced by Surveyor Genl E A Kelley -- had a long & interesting talk with him -- 6 ft 7 inches tall -- Graduated from University last term -- is now reporter for Journal & intelligent young fellow -- He visited Virginia this AM & was shown with others down the C & C shaft to the big new drainage pump & connection with Sutro Tunnel -- Stream big as mans body, thrown by pump -- Smith returned to Reno by evening train -- I introduced him to Nobe Jellerson who is 6 ft 4 1/2 inches tall -- Charley Stone is 6 ft 6 -- Bed 11 --
Monday May 8
Clear & very pleasant -- Bed 11
Tuesday May 9
Same -- Andy Robert & wife went over to Washoe Lake today catfishing -- She caught 179 and he caught 172 -- biggest luck of anybody this season -- total 351 -- I only spent 2 bits for anything this day -- broke into my last dollar in doing so. I have 16 clean collars --
Wednesday May 10
Same -- Spent my last 2 nickels this evening -- for a good drink of "Old Continental whisky -- Bed 11 -- Broke --
Broke! -- New Big Gold Stike in Alaska -- Point Nome -Kentucky Whisky & Churches -- Pioneers Getting Scarce -My Silver Peak in Tribune and News -- Virden & Wife -Comstock Pump -- The Fruit Crop -2nd Elevator --
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Thursday May 11
Same -- blustering wind & dust -- Busted, had to borrow $2, & run behind for grub -- But I had a good catfish dinner -- Mrs Roberts presented the fish & I had them fried at my hotel -- The SF papers tell of a gold strike at Point Nome, in Alaska bigger & better than Klondike -- Will create big rush soon as season opens -- The Examiner says that out of original membership of 500, California Pioneers Society, only 31 survive -- According to the figuring of myself, Bill Givson and others, out of a membership of 508, of our Pacific Coast Pioneers Society, there are only 17 that we can account for as living in this section -- no doubt others living, but scattered throughout the country -- much more than are the Cal Pioneers -- Bed 11 --
Friday May 12
Same -- Bed 11
Saturday May 13
Same -- colder -- The Carson News this evening published my Silver Peak article, copied from the SL Tribune of the 10th in full -- I read proof -- credited to me -- just 2 columns in News -- A second elevator of the Comstock pump got into operation today doubling the drainage capacity -- The Comstock Brass Band at Virginia had a "Horrible" ball last evening --
"Horrible" Ball Fiasco at Virginia -- Wife -- 1899 Open Air Carson Band Concert -- Wife & Bessie -- Wife -Working Como Ore -- Mrs Monckton Crazy Again --
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Been advertising it last month or two in the three papers there -- Been giving free open air concerts every Saturday evening of the season -- Had "Horrible" street parade yesterday -- PM -- Horrible masquerade ball at Piper's Opera House last evening -- Only 37 makers on the floor -- The Enterprise gave list of names -- Band boys very indignant at such shabby patronage at the hands of the unappreciative public and expressed themselves so in morning Enterprise -- No more free open air concerts from them -- Yet the tickets were only 50 cts -- This evening our Carson band gave an open air concert in Capitol Park -- Very fine, and greatly attended & enjoyed -- The whole town there, chldren playing tag & rolling in the green grass, etc -- beautiful scene --
Sunday May 14
AM cloudy, cold & blustering -- PM a few light snowsqualls -- Evening sent 2 page letter to wife --
Monday May 15
Cloudy & cold -- thin ice this morning -- letter from wife inclosing one from Bessie -- I responded with 2 pages returning Bessie's -- Bed 11 --
Hard Killing Frost!!! -- "Old Mother Dale" Leaves -Hon Webster Patterson & Wells Herald -$5,000 Fire at Virginia City --
Tuesday May 16
Clear cold & pleasant -- Froze pretty hard last night -- much ice all about
