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Thursday Oct 31
Same -- PM send 3 page letter to Salt Lake Tribune -- Bed 11 --
Friday November 1, 1901
Clear, cool & pleasant -- PM wrote & sent page letter to Will W Booth, Tonopah Bonanza, Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada, On Nevada Political Senatorial Status, Jones and Newlands -- in response to his of Oct 12th -- Bed 10 -- Strong, white frost and ice every morning now --
Saturday Nov 2
Same -- Bed 10 --
Sunday Nov 3
Same -- sent explanatory letter to Booth this morning -- PM wrote & sent 2 page letter to wife -- Bed at 10:30 -- cold & freezing --
Monday Nov 4
Same -- PM was at my new place, Harry Day's -- straightening up desk & things -- Bed at 10 --
"A Female Drummer " -- John P Jones -- 1901 SF Election and Eastern Elections -- RR Change of Time Li Hung Chang Dead
Tuesday Nov 5
Clear, warm & pleasant -- Bed 10 --
Wednesday Nov 6
Same -- Evening at Opera House -- "A Female Drummer" played -- Big Co & good
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house at $1 admission -- Grand conglomeration of nothing -- Worst I ever saw -- no plot, nothing -- but general fun and cutting up -- Bed 12 --
Thursday Nov 7
Same -- The telegrams say that John P Jones was at the wedding of General Corbin yesterday in Washington and gave away the bride, Miss Edith Patten, formerly of Gold Hill -- he being an old friend of the family -- The San Francisco election Tuesday resulted in election of Schmitz, Union Labor Candidate, for Mayor -- Elections throughout the East went Republican generally -- Li Hung Chang the greatest Chinese Statesman died at Pekin this morning -- Born in 1822 -- The V & T Morning Express train changed time yesterday of arrival to 9:50 -- 20 minutes ahead of heretofore time --
158) Telegram to Tribune -- Old Coat $4 Rain & Snow -- Wm Nelson -- Wife -- W W Booth Eureka Tailings -- Works Removal -- Senator Stewart Arrives Austin School Trustees Trouble
Friday Nov 8
Same -- The Short Line & Clark line big suit to come up today was postponed 90 days -- Sent telegram to Tribune -- Bed 11 --
Saturday Nov 9
Variable -- Busy at my new quarters, in Harry Day's house, fixing up, etc -- Got old coat fixed up by Jacobs, $4 -- Bed 10:30 --
Sunday Nov 10
Same -- Good rain in the early morning, laid the dust finely, and snow
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whitened the hills good -- Cloudy & cold during the day -- Sent page letter to Wm Nelson of the Tribune -- Bed 10 --
Monday Nov 11
Clear & cold -- Letter from wife, and from Will W Booth -- Bed 10 -- cold -- The Eureka Tailings Works on Carson River have been shut down for a month, permanently. Being removed to the Morgan Mill, 6 miles above -- Have worked out all below -- Hon Senator Wm M Stewart arrived today from the east with family -- Bed 10 --
Tuesday Nov 12
Same -- Evening met Pohl, Dixon and others interested in Austin school Trustee trouble to come before Supreme court tomorrow -- Bed 11 --
Frost and Ice -- Austin Case Submitted -- 1901 Postal to Wife -- John F Uhlhorn -- Jimmy Eagan Mayenbaum -- Rollin M Daggett Dies
Wednesday Nov 13
Same -- Heavy white frost and considerable ice every morning -- PM I attended Supreme Court, trial of Austin School Trustee trouble -- Got to argument of counsel & adjourned till tomorrow morning at 10 oclock -- Bed 10 -- cold and freezing --
Thursday Nov 14
Same -- Austin case argued and submitted -- Saw Robt Pohl off on the evening train -- told me he would see Alfred tomorrow in Reno -- Send a postal card
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to wife to that effect -- Through Doc Benton I met John F Uhlhorn at the Arlington -- knew each other well in the printing business in my palmy Gold Hill News days -- Havent seen him for about 30 years and we didn't recognize each other -- He looked different -- bigger by nearly 100 pounds etc -- He is now here on a smelting works arrangement -- Had a long & joyous chat together -- Also met Mayenbaum the lawyer ad Jimmy Eagan, whom I knew in Austin -- Bed at 10 -- Daggett died in San Francisco day before yesterday of tumor of the liver -- Great notices of his death in all the papers -- Native of Ohio, born Feb 22, 1831 -- over 70 yrs old now --
160) Jeffries Whelps Ruhlin in five Rounds Wm Nelson -- New Walking Stick -- Big Earthquake in Utah
Friday Nov 15
Variable -- stormy -- big blustering winds from the SW -- Strong shower of rain about 8 AM, but clouds broke for rest of the day -- Evening clear but very windy -- from the SW -- Evening at Livingstons hearing telegraphic report of big prize fight between Jeffries and Ruhlin at Mechanics Pavilion San Francisco -- Ruhlin beaten in five rounds -- fairly outclassed -- Bed at 11 -- Got letter from Wm Nelson of SL Tribune, for me to write up Nevada for New Years issue -- Bought me a new walking stick or cane today at Mrs Fox's store -- counterpart of my old Mike Conlon cane, which is worn too short -- Paid 4 bits for it -- old one cost $1.00 --
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Saturday Nov 16
Variable -- Bed 10 -- The Salt Lake Tribune tells of big earthquake in Southern part of Utah -- "At Beaver the court house was wrecked, and the Murdock building of the Brigham Young Academy Branch School completely shattered -- Panic among people at several places."
Wife -- New Pants -- Wm Nelson -- Wife -- 1901 Albert Lackey & family leave the Comstock for Good -Wife $15 -- Salt Lake Tribune 4 Pages -- "The Old Cross Roads" --
Sunday Nov 17
Same -- Sent page letter to wife by evening train -- Bed 10 -- Put on my new pants, recd Dec 10th last from Sears Roebuck & Co for first time today -- cost $2 -- Havent needed them till now -- first rate all the same -- Shall wear them regularly -- Met Albert Lackey at evening train leaving Gold Hill with his family to make their future home at Oakland California -- Been Supt of the Overman mine 23 years and now returns with money enough to make him comfortable in his nice new home -- He is 65 years or more of age --
Monday Nov 18
Variable -- cold -- letter from wife with $15 -- PM wrote 2 pages of a letter to the SL Tribune -- wrote & sent brief letter to Wm Nelson accepting his invitation to write up Nevada for the Tribune New Years edition -- Bed 10
Tuesday Nov 19
Same -- Finished four page letter to Tribune & sent it -- also page letter
