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Rode back with Evan Williams -- Brought small sack of couple of pounds of the gravel -- Evening at home -- Bed at 12:30 -- Cold night, with frost --

Wednesday Aug 31

Same -- 65° -- About town -- BEd at 11:30 -- Frost last night nipped the tomato and potatoe vines, etc, down at Carson and Reno last night -- 1st frost of the season --

Bob Patterson [Grizzly] Cold nights

Wife $40

Thursday September 1, 1887

Clear, cool & very pleasant -- 65° in the schade -- Was about town most of the day, also in evening -- Bed at 12 --

Friday Sept 2

Same -- warmer -- wrote letter for Bob Patterson to manager of Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco for a taxidermist to stuff a grizzly bear which Bob has contracted to be killed by a hunter in Alpine county for the Pioneers cabinet -- Bed at 1 --

Saturaday Sept 3

Same -- PM borrowed $40 of Bob Patterson & sent it, greenbacks, in letter to wife by evening mail -- Evening about town -- Bed 2 -- cold frosty night --

Miners' Union Picnic cold

Sunday Sept 4

AM clear, cool & pleasant -- coolest of season thus far -- MIners Union Picnic at

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