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winners -- I not in it -- The State University closing exercises yesterday & all off for vacation -- Post office getting on all right --- Boer war seems to have summarily ended according to telegrams and newspapers -- Evening sent page letter to wife -- Bed 11 -- Census enumeration commenced today --
Black Cat Toad Story Wife Examiner Geo I Lamy and Gardnerville Record I take a Buggy Ride Johnny Mallett's 2nd Funeral Old Mother Gray Dead My Bro Sam 88 Years Old
Saturday June 2
Clear, warm and pleasant -- 78º -- Received June Black Cat, confirmatory of yesterday -- I not in it -- Bed 11 --
Sunday June 3
Same -- Hottest -- 79º -- Wrote & sent 3 letters today -- Page letter to wife -- letter to SF Examiner inclosing 10 cts stamps for Sunday Examiner May 20 -- letter to Shortstory Publishing Co telling them to send me back my declined or "unavailable" MSS Toad story -- Bed 10:30 --
Monday June 4
Clear & pleasant -- 85 degress -- the hottest yet of the season -- Met Geo I Lamy in town and he asked me about chance of letting me to go up to Gardenerville & run his paper, the Record for a couple of weeks in about a month from now, when he & wife want take vacation over in California -- Bed 11 --
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Tuesday June 5
Same -- 88 degrees -- Broke and skirmishing financially -- Bed 11, tired -- PM I took a little ride up & downstreet with Doc Benton in this little open 1 hourse buggy -- only time since I did same with him 2 yrs ago -- stiff legs made it bad for me to get into buggy -- sprained my left shoulder in doing it -- -- My brother Sam 88 yrs old today --
Wife Sam's Outing Goodwin's Prize 1900 Hot Spell Photo of Virginia City Hot 92º Mrs Andrew Robert 43 Years Old
Wednesday June 6
Same -- hottest 90º -- got letter from Wife -- Same and George James have started on an outing toward Marlette Lake and "if he fishes successfully, you may receive a fish or so from him" Her school closes on the 22nd -- Goodwin's price for next to chief scholarship only amounts to "honorable mention" -- no coin-- Her leading cometition got $50 cash for prize -- Did more "skirmishing" today with $7.00 success -- Bed 11 -- Billy Cann the photographer, Constock, passed down on evening train & I met him -- He gave a lame apology for not furnishing me with desired photo of Virginia City -- Mrs Robert's birthday -- 43 --
Thursday June 7
Same -- 92 --By the up evening local train I sent by Jerry Bray, conductor for a photo of Va City -- Bed 12 -- Johnny Blez died very suddenly
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& unexpectedly in his barber shop at Reno of apoplexy Tuesday PM -- 48 years old, native of Germany -- leaves wife & 3 children in Reno, will provided for in good circumstances -- Mrs Andrew Robert was 43 years old yestereday --
Thunder Showers -- Lyon -- County Monitor Crown Point Control Change -- Comstock Cloudburst Joe Douglass
Friday June 8
AM hot, sultry -- About noon clouded up with heavy thunder clouds from SW & all sides & all around -- some rattling good thunder all the PM, & a few light showers, but good square rain all around, but not here -- The Virginia Report which came down this evening gives the following: Bed at 12 -- cool & very pleasant -- The Yerington Rustler, over at Yerington, in Mason Valley has gone out of existence and in its place appears the Lyon County Monitor, a similar weekly, published by the Monitor Publishing Co -- C W Patterson formerly ed & prop of the Rustler has rustled out and now runs the Argus, a weekly at Lovelock, Humboldt Co -- The Crown Point mine, has changed out of the Jones-Hayward control to the Sharon-Morrow etc control, with Billy Sharon Supt who is also now Supt of about all the Gold Hill mines -- Met old Joe Douglass this AM at the Arlington, down from Va en route for Walley's Springs, Genoa for a week or so for his rheumatism -- The Reno Ledger commenced Wednesday
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Reno Ledger -- Carson Indian School -- 1900 The Last of the Old Comoites, "Pony" Cremated
as a semi weekly with R R Crawford editor and WL Brandon business manager -- Independent Democratic -- W J Bryan, for President and Hon Frank G Newlands for reelection to Congress --
Como "Pony" Crowninshield's Sand Death The Last of the Old Comoites
Walter Crowninshield, better known as "Pony" when I lived and moved in Como away back in 1863-4 was found last Tuesday dead on the ground about 50 feet from his cabin two or three miles below or east of Como -- where [it?] had evidently been lying over a week, head badly mutilated and not known how, as much decomposed from lying there in the hot sun -- Coroners inquest was held, and considering condition, etc, wood was procured and remains were effectually cremated. I remember well that old "Pony",
Old "Pony" of Como Killed
like myself always kept a diary, writing up the days doings regularly every night when he went to bed, as I am doing now -- The last entry of his diary was just two weeks ago, May 26 -- It is therefore inferred that he died next day -- Sunday. Careful study of the situation shows that he had gathered a sack full of pie plant from his garden, to take to Como or send to Dayton -- that he got his old saddle horse to ride, as usual -- Whether the saddle turned in mounting, or in his reaching for the sack, his foot
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caught in the stirrup and he was fatally dragged on his head similarly inferred is unknown -- but his shoe being found also the saddle -- indicated his dragging till it got loose -- But he was not found till seven days later -- last Tuesday -- He may have laid helpless a day or two in the hot sun before death came to his relief -- Owing to stage of decomposition, however, he probably was summarily killed outright -- hope so -- Was the last of the Old Comoites staying in the district after I left -- living always alone like a hermit, yet always the same genial good old
Old "Pony" of Como Killed -- The Last of the Comoites -- 1900
"Pony" of old Como days -- I used to print letters from him occasionally when I was running the Gold Hill News. About 20 years ago, as shown in this journal I recorded the death by cremation in his cabin of George W Walton, speaking of him as the "last of the Comoites" and now "Pony" goes out in the same cremating proposition. The Virginia Enterprise of the 6th says:
Thunder Showers -- Belgian Hares My Comstock Report, $150.00 Received
Saturday June 9
Same -- Heavy thunder shower about noon did splendidly -- [Thunderinly?] cloudy during the PM, but little rain on Carson -- though showers seemed fully all around elsewhere -- Trenmor Coffin's little boy had about 70
