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2 page letter to Van Duzer this evening with list of 6 more subs -- Bed at 11 -- heel still very sore and bad but improving a little by giving it all rest I can --
Friday December 1, 1899
Clear, cool & pleasant -- Worked strongly and effectually at canvassing to the tune of $10 cash received from some delayed and five new ones -- Moreover my bad sore heel showed decided improvement, allowing me to get around better & less painfully -- Still had to wear padded rubber shoe -- Bed at 11:30 -- clear & pleasant & I feeling easier in mind and body and auspicious commencement of the last month of the Nineteenth Century -- Sent letter to Van Duzer tonight inclosing list of five new, paid Subs procured today
Big Reno & Indian Foot ball Game -- 1899 Van Duzer -- Haley Out -- Lamy's Domestic Bliss Van Duzer -- Boss Agent -- New Pants 44x29 = $4.50 Magazine Rec'd -- Skillman -- Phila Inquirer -- Wife Geo Noel Married
Saturday Dec 2
Same -- The "second eleven" of the State University played a big football contest this PM down at the race track with the Indian School team and beat 11 to 0 -- our indians weren't in it -- The Indian band -- 24 pieces --marched to depot at morning train & escorted the Reno boys through town and back again after contest -- All the other young squaws and bucks from
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the school were in town to see the fun -- also old Capt Dave Numana, from Reno -- I was about town -- got no new subs, but collected some dues -- Bed 12 -- letter from Van Duzer -- asks me to canvas for ads -- says Haley his partner has got out of Concern -- had to get rid of him -- no good --
Sunday Dec 3
Same -- moderate -- 2 big page letter from Va -- Duzer telling of Haley's out, and giviing me full agency swing in this and Storey Cos, advertising & all -- Sent him a two page letter tonight on subject -- Bed 12 -- clear & cool --
Monday Dec 4
Cloudy & cold -- Recd one other copy of November Magazine by mail -- Bought pair of pants of Abe Cohn "Emporium" -- 44 x 29 for $4.50 & suspenders 50 cts -- Sent letters to A Skillman of Eureka Sentinel -- Philadelphia Inquirer with 50 cts in stamps for continuatioin of "The Clown's Protege" -- also one to wife -- Bed 12 blustering & threatening --
Van Duzer -- Sent Magazine to Jim Townsend John I Blair Dead -- Change in Magazine Proprietorship Steamboat Springs -- New Drawers -- The Bull & Boer Fight New Electric Light for Carson -- Cold Weather
Tuesday Dec 5
Morning cloudy, with a few light snow squalls -- PM more pleasant and sunshiny -- Letter from Van Duzer -- About town -- one new sub -- Evening sent Nov Magazine to old Jim Townsend -- Substation No 2, East Oakland, Cal - also sent him a 2 page letter -- Bought me a new pair of drawers
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for $1.50 -- Hohn I Blair the great New Jersey millionaire and owner of the Silver Peak mines died at his home in New Jersey last Sat -- worth 50 or $60,000,000 -- Bed 12 -very clear and pretty cold --
Wednesday Dec 6
Clear, cold, pleasant -- Bothered mostly today with getting into new pants and drawers -- pants a failure -- sent a letter to Van Duzer -- Bed 12 -- The new electric light works for Carson turned on big arc lights at the RR depot, and the State Capitol last Sunday night for the first time -- Old works been dead about a year & Carson in the dark from it -- New works at Mexican mill, Empire, 3 miles east of Carson -- The Bulls and Boers fighting terribly -- Reno Gazette of this evening says: -- It was pretty cold here -- down to 14º -- above zero -- colder there than here --
Cold Weather -- 15º -- Van Duzer -- Wife -- Snow -- 1899 Cane tipped -- Wife -- "Pacific Coast Pioneers" Linscott Military Instruction -- Mining Fads C S Mann -- Van Duzer -- D H Pine Dead -- "Black Cat"
Thursday Dec 7 Variable -- AM clear & warm -- PM cloudy & cold -- Evening sent 3 page letter to Van Duzer -- Bed at 11 -- very cold and snowing lightly -- Got letter from wife by this PM local -- Had a new tip put onto my cane today & took drawers to work --
Friday Dec 8
Same -- AM light snowstorms -- cleared off at 1 PM -- fine & cold -- letter from
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wife -- PM & evening wrote on an article "Pacific Coast Pioneers" for magazine if wanted. -- Bed 11 -- clear & cold -- coldest night thus far -- 13º above z -- Capt Fred Linscott of the 1st Nevada Cavalry, recently returned from Manila has been appointed military instructor at the State University --
Saturday Dec 9
Clear & pleasant -- letter from CS Mann and one from Van Duzer -- PM & evening in Post office writing my Pioneer article -- Bed 12 -- clouding for storm --
Sunday Dec 10
Variable, moderate -- slight shower of rain early morning -- Rec'd copy of "Black Cat" forwarded me from Reno, inclosing my letter from Eunice which I recd a few days ago -- My subscription expires with this month -- Evening sent 2 page letter to wife -- Bed 12 -- cloudy, breezy, threatening --
Jessie Shirley Troupe -- J P Jones -- P.CP. work Pioneer Article -- Fire Alarm -- Big Snowstorm Van Duzer in Carson & Va --
Monday Dec 11
Cloudy, with very fierce wind from the west -- snowing heavily in the mountains all day, and a light sprinkle or two reached here, laying the dust a little -- The Jessie Shirley dramatic show Co played at Va all last week & came down here yesterday to pass the Sabbath -- Play here all coming week commencing tonight -- Their band of 8 pieces is a good one
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and paraded street in uniform at noon, notwithstanding the fearful wind & dust -- Had pretty good house tonight, for the warring elements, & will do better if the weather gets out of the way -- PM & evening I wrote & sent a good 2 page letter to Hon J P Jones, Washington D.C., & also sent November Magazine to him with the letter -- Evening, light sprinkles of rain and snow -- Didnt attend theater, but worked in my post office on Pioneer article for the Magazine -- Bed 12 -- storm and bluster -- Big alarm of fire at 5 AM, owing to the dry manure covering the capitol grounds catching fire-- Big wind -- but conquered -- No particular harm done -- The Shirley troupe played "Doris" --
Tuesday December 12
Stormy -- Heavy rains in early day -- big snowstorm set in about 11 AM, till 3 PM -- 4 or 5 inches -- storm broke, and cloudy evening -- Van Duzer came on morning train & spent day on business in State House -- I had quite interview with him & saw him off on local at 5 PM for Va -- Evening very slippery -- Opera House filled -- Play "Wife for Wife" -- Bed 11 -- clear & cold -- About 8 inches of snow at Virginia today --
Wintry -- Nelson with Nov Magazine -- "Trilby" -- 1899 Van Duzer Goes Home -- Wildcat Joe Sent for Magazines from Van Duzer & a letter Pacific Coast Pioneer Article Written
Wednesday Dec 13
Variable & cold, with 3 or 4 hours sunshine about noon, which melted
