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midnight -- Shook down 2 or 3 buildings & did more or less damage about the city, but nothing serious -- nobody killed -- At Mare Island the quake

Major Ford Dead -- Klondike Nuggets -- 1898
By Will O Young

did damage to gov't works to extent of many thousand dollars -- PM I was at Journal office and met Will O Young, son the Judge W H Young, Reno, formerly of Va -- Will is a tall, hearty young fellow, about 34 yrs old, and just returned from Klondike and Dawson -- showed us a pound or two of nuggets -- the two biggest about $100 each -- Had a long and very interesting conversation -- half a dozen of us -- Came on visit to his family, etc, and will start back again next Saturday -- Major George F Ford, old time Comstocker, and lastly Supt Yerington's private secretary at Carson, died there suddenly at an early hour, of apoplexy, or heart disease -- native of Mass 55 yrs old --

26 -- Cuban War! -- Stanfords Whip Reno 35 to 1
C C Goodwin -- Teachers Institute, Winnemucca

Friday April 1, 1898

Variable, dusty, blustering and cooler -- Busy at odd jobs about house -- Much exciting war news -- Congress adjourned till Monday when important message is expected from the Prest on the Cuban question --

Saturday April 2

Variable -- morning a snowstorm of an inch -- melted and cleared off prin-