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from their vacation -- Made new frame for my bed springs today -- Comstock payroll for December, $56,167.16 -- over $6,000 less than November -- Evening down town awhile -- Bed 11 --

Tuesday Jan 4

Clear and fine -- Bed 11 --

Wednesday Jan 5

Same -- Painted the top mouldings, door casing, etc in my room, red, hung door, etc, shaved and went to bed at 11 -- Mrs Grimmon, the popular landlady of the Arlington Hotel, Carson fell from a stepladder, Monday, while watering some plants in upper hallway and was thought to be seriously, if not fatally injured -- No bones broken but internally injured --

First Good Snowstorm -- Sleighing -- Slippery -- 1898
Durrant Hanged!!! -- The Twentieth Century
My New Writing Table

Thursday Jan 6

Variable -- About 5 PM a blustering snowstorm set in -- At 11 when I went to bed it was clear, moonlight and sharp cold -- 5 inches of snow and I heard sleighbells on the street -- Odd jobs today --

Friday Jan 7

Clear and fine -- snow melted some -- tolerable sleighing, for Reno -- W H T Durrant, was hanged at the San Quentin state prison, California today at 10:40 A.M. for the murder of Blanche Lamont in the Emmanuel Baptist