Notes

Collection: Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903

	User	Note	Page	Work	Collection	Time
	Special Collections	I agree -- cap-lower case. And poem-style. The important thing with this article is to capture the names, for searching.	7	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 60 - Volume 62	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	Special Collections	This is an interesting letter from his brother, but a little confusing. It seems he does not believe the confession (or that there was a confession) because the document can't be found. And that he has information about the guilty party, but he do...	5	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 60 - Volume 62	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	Special Collections	My guess would be that it's a typo, and that "commission" is what is meant.	11	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 60 - Volume 62	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	Special Collections	No, just the newspaper and date. Thanks for asking.	20	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 60 - Volume 62	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	do you want ALL of the masthead, including prices, typescripted?	20	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 60 - Volume 62	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	"Those old standard pioneers, R. H. Taylor and W. D. C. Gibson, absent but still in full commusion." "Commusion" is not found in dictionaries, and it is difficult to determine what is meant here,	11	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 60 - Volume 62	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	Governor Washington Bartlett, publisher of the first newspaper printed in California in January, 1850, had suffered a stroke on August 23d, and died at age 63 on September 12, 1887, two days after this article was published,	11	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 60 - Volume 62	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	At the end of the second paragraph, in the sentence that ends "wondering what the morn might bring," Doten has lightly penciled out "morn" and written "tomorrow",	11	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 60 - Volume 62	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	Yerington was originally known as Pizen Switch.	6	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 60 - Volume 62	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	Thompson & West's History of Nevada, 1881, page 347, col. 1, reports "Cornelius Hill was found dead, with his throat cut from ear to ear, in a store house at the upper end of Spring Valley, Storey County. He had been robbed of all valuables, his h...	5	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 60 - Volume 62	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	Special Collections	It seems like Doten knew his Biblical verses!	3	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 60 - Volume 62	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	"Sheol Fire", "Hades fire" is found in these verses of the Holy Bible: Luke 16:24 "I am in agony in this flame."; Deuteronomy 32:22 "For a fire is kindled in My anger, And burns to the lowest part of Sheol, And consumes the earth with its yield, A...	3	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 60 - Volume 62	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	Special Collections	It's the poet in him!	11	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 56 - Volume 58	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	Today "umbrageous" is simply the adjective form of umbrage: to take offense or annoyance. In the 1800s umbrageous referred to shade or shadow, especially as cast by trees.	11	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 56 - Volume 58	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	Now owned by Gannett, The Old Colony Memorial (est.1822) is a semiweekly newspaper still (2020) published in Plymouth, Massachusetts.	12	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 56 - Volume 58	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	John Booth, a strong Republican, owned the Reveille. In August 1882, during the political campaigns, his son William founded the Democrat. It would have several variations of that name during its short life. Based on the headline typeface in this...	13	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 56 - Volume 58	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	Coryville, sometimes Coreyville, was a new (1883) mining camp a few miles south of Hawthorne	22	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 56 - Volume 58	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	Also called the Tuscarora Times-Review, this paper was published in the northern Elko County mining camp of Tuscarora.	24	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 56 - Volume 58	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	In 1880 Manuel Caton purchased, through the General Land Office, a strip of land an eighth of a mile wide, and a half mile long, paralleling the Reese River and the Austin to Battle Mountain road in Reese River Valley.	18	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 56 - Volume 58	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	John m. Campbell had established the Walker Lake Bulletin in Hawthorne in 1883. A weekly, it became a semi-weekly during the 1883 election season. Doten did receive the post of Senate Enrolling Clerk for the 1885 Session of the Nevada Legislature.	25	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 56 - Volume 58	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	The Star Route scandal involved a lucrative 19th-century scheme whereby United States postal officials received bribes in exchange for awarding postal delivery contracts in southern and western areas. Public disgust over the Star Routes graft serv...	3	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 56 - Volume 58	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	Does the transcriber get to have a bit of fun, too: I'm not sure but he may have written this in December, 2019....	5	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 56 - Volume 58	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	Salmi Morse, a native of Prussia, was a playwriter whose controversial "Passion Play" became popular after his death, drowned in the Hudson River in New York City on February 22, 1884. He had been at Miss Blackburn's apartment the evening before h...	20	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 56 - Volume 58	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	In the 1800s, editors often faced physical attacks for words they published. In October, a year earlier, Anderson was clubbed about the head by a man named Penrose. Anderson dropped the charges against Penrose in March of 1882. (Grass Valley Union...	36	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 55	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	Named "The Great Comet of 1882," it is thoroughly discussed on the Internet. It did, indeed, break into several parts.	35	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 55	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	There is no listing of Mr. Pidge as a member of the Nevada State Legislature between 1863 and 1882 in the various editions on Political History of Nevada. Thompson & West's History of Nevada, 1881, lists him as a past president on the Virginia Cit...	34	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 55	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	No marriage notice has been located in California newspapers. However, the Sacramento Daily Union of April 12, 1882 carries a notice under "Births," that "the wife of M.M. Gillespie" gave birth to a son on April 4. (Page 4, Col.3)	30	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 55	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	The standard glee is a three- or four-voice a cappella song, although many examples also exist with from five to eight voices. (Google).	24	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 55	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	The Centennial Year banquet was held on January 27, as indicated in a separate shorter article Alf Doten wrote for the News. The type faces of the two articles are different, and	6	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 47, Volume 49, Volume 54	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	This clipping is undated. However, Patrick Buckley died in the Yellow Jacket fire of April 7, 1869, as reported in one of the earlier Doten clippings, and in the Sacramento Daily Union reports on the Yellow Jacket fire.	16	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 47, Volume 49, Volume 54	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	John Sullivan of this match, born in Australia, was not the later more famous John L. Sullivan of Boston. The fight took place on March 21, 1876. In April, Sullivan told the Virginia City Chronicle that he thought he had somehow been given a drug ...	8	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 47, Volume 49, Volume 54	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	A pencil note to the right of this clipping reads "Mother McIntyre Editorial." In the 1870 U.S. Census, "M. McIntyre, widow, age 53, is a hotel keeper in Gold Hill. In the 1875 Nevada State Census, which is not broken out by towns, M. McIntyre, fe...	13	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 47, Volume 49, Volume 54	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	Will Campbell, elected Storey County District Attorney in November, 1874, died in Santa Barbara, California, two weeks before the dinner. Before coming to Nevada Territory he was Probate Judge of Sierra County, Calif.	7	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 47, Volume 49, Volume 54	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	An original print of Mining on the Comstock" drawn by T.L. Dawes; engraved and printed by Le Count Bro's., San Francisco is held by the Library of Congress and the downloadable file is online [November 1, 2020] at https://www.loc.gov/item/93506798...	18	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 47, Volume 49, Volume 54	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	Joseph Marks was born in Chatham, Canada in about 1845. He died April 18, 1874, and is buried in the Gold Hill Cemetery.	3	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 47, Volume 49, Volume 54	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	rstew160	According to General Land Office records, Aaron D. Treadway had established his land holding in northeastern Eagle Valley by the summer of 1861, and received patent ("title") to the land from the GLO in May, 1866.	8	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 48 - Volume 50	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	about 4 years ago
	Special Collections	Thanks, we didn't have the newspaper or date in our spreadsheet.	4	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 44 - Volume 45	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	Special Collections	Thanks for making note! We've added it into the transcript in brackets.	1	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 37 - Volume 43	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	rstew160	Doten has noted in pencil beside the clipping that the new firm is named the Barmir Bros.	1	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 37 - Volume 43	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	rstew160	Pauline Cushman (born Harriet Wood; June 10, 1833 – December 2, 1893) was an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. She is considered one of the most successful Civil War spies.	10	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 44 - Volume 45	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	rstew160	This article was copied by the Grass Valley Union in its issue of 13 September 1871, page 3, col. 4, citing the source as the Gold Hill News of September 8th.	4	Newspaper Clippings - Volume 44 - Volume 45	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	Special Collections	In the original diary it does appear to be "flirting." He was being poetic, it seems!	2	Diary 77-02: February, 1901 - preliminary transcript	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	catslover	Should "flirting" be "flitting"?	2	Diary 77-02: February, 1901 - preliminary transcript	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	Special Collections	should be sent on 8 AM train.	19	Diary 74-09: September, 1898 - preliminary transcript	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	Special Collections	Doten spelled Sergeant correctly, Sargent was a typo, both times. of 13 of 13 is probably an error, but it was in the original, and may mean something, so let's not change it.	17	Diary 74-09: September, 1898 - preliminary transcript	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	Special Collections	yes, it's Blanche Lamont.	6	Diary 73-11: November, 1897 - preliminary transcript	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	dweiss59	sent on [9?] AM	19	Diary 74-09: September, 1898 - preliminary transcript	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	Special Collections	George J Reck Johnny Ludwig --	2	Diary 73-10: October, 1897 - preliminary transcript	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	dweiss59	Sergeant-at-Arms -- $10 Fixed second misspelled Sargeant	17	Diary 74-09: September, 1898 - preliminary transcript	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago
	dweiss59	County Central Comm of 13 [of 13?] Why two [of 13]? Delete [of 13?]	17	Diary 74-09: September, 1898 - preliminary transcript	Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903	over 4 years ago