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Georgia Minstrels at the Opera House this eveing -- good troupe -- 16 of them, various shades of nigger people -- all blacks -- good house --
Saturday Feb 2
Same -- About town -- Bed 12 --
Sunday Feb 3
Same -- About town -- Bed 12 --
Monday Feb 4
Clear & very pleasant -- Down to Carson -- Evening train to Reno -- Wife bad cold -- all others well -- Bed 10 --
Tuesday Feb 5
Same -- Up to Carson -- Evening train to Va -- Reported Legislature for both Carson & both Va papers today -- Very busy -- Bed 2 --
Double Reporting Treble Reporting
Wednesday Feb 6
Same -- Carson & back -- reported for both Enterprise and Chronicle -- Bed 1 --
Thursday Feb 7
Same as yesterday -- got both reports off by the train & went to Reno -- Was going to take wife to Camilla Urso concert there, but found her in bed from cold & headache -- Bed at 9
Friday Feb 8
Same as yesterday -- came up with both reports -- Got the Enterprise in all right and
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will the Chronicle in the morning -- About town awhile -- Bed 12 --
Saturday Feb 9
Same -- About town -- Got in Carson Assembly forenoon report on Enterprise -- No Sen. to Report, as it adjourned yesterday PM till Tuesday next -- about town most of
Camilla Urso
the PM -- Evening at Opera House short time -- Camilla Urso -- 25 years ago -- Big musical festival of one week, in S.F. -- I was there -- Had 5,000 audience there, but not 500 now -- Bed 1 --
Exempts Lottery Election Al Mills, Wife & Mother
Sunday Feb 10
Same -- Wrote resolutions on death of Chas Rawson and James Livingston, and at 2 PM went to meeting of Exempts -- President, with 1st Vice Prest, besides me -- Out at 4 -- Evening about town -- Bed at 1
Monday Feb 11
Clear & pleasant -- Special election day called for to get up a State Lottery -- I got up the returns for Enterprise -- had to go to Gold Hill, & walk back at 12 with the returns, & then get the VA wards -- 8 in all -- Hard job but made it -- Bed at 2 -- very tired --
George Allen Insurance I got left
Tuesday Feb 12
Clear & very pleasant -- Springlike -- Slept till 8:30 AM -- too late for Carson --
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Got left -- Express changed time last Saturday -- Leaves Va at 2:30 PM -- I went down to Carson -- got my report & got back on evening train -- Got to Enterprise report -- Bed at 1 -- Billy Emerson & troupe played at Opera House last night to big house -good house also tonight -- going to give 2d & last entertainment tonight -- took application yesterday, of George Allen for 6000 insurance, for his two sons John and Joseph Allen $3000 each -- Gave it to Dr Manson --
Smallpox in Carson "Old Curiosity Shop"
Wednesday Feb 13
AM clear & Springlike -- PM blustering & cooler, with gathering clouds -- Got left again this morning -- Took the 2:30 PM passenger train & reported same as yesterday --Ormsby House Carson dosed with 1/2 dozen cases small pox, in family of the proprietor -- Borders, Legislative etc all got out in a hurry after discovery last evening -- Two daughters one 21 and the other 16 died this PM & evening -- Great excitement -- Evening I attended Billy Emerson between acts in his specialties -- Fair house -- Got in Enterprise report -- Wrote up the Chronicle, and bed at 3 -- Cloudy & cold with a few snow flakes in the air
Smalpox Big Snow cold
Thursday Feb 14
Light snow storm most of the day -- Probably an inch fell -- cold -- Carson & back -- This clip from the Va Chronicle is about right -- The first part is from my
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yesterdays letter -- Not much change to make from it -- no more cases -- Only the one fatal -- Miss Annie Keyser -- Rest liable to recover -- Bed at 2 -- snowing -- cold
Friday Feb 15
Same -- 7 or 8 inches this morning -- cold -- Carson as usual -- Only about 2 inches of snow there -- No increase of smallpox -- scare subsiding -- Reported both Va papers as usual -- Thermometer showed 10 above z at daylight here -- about as cold as we have had in this winter -- Bed 11 -- Splendid sleighing on Va & GH --
Fine Sleighing cold snap Letter in Enterprise from my wife
Saturday Feb 16
Clear but cold -- Thermometer at 12 above z this morning -- cold day -- About room most of day -- Evening at Enterprise office -- Read proof of communication written by M.S.D. (My wife) from Reno, commenting on some legislative points -- I also got in an item or two -- Bed at 1 -- Sleighing on the Comstock splendid, and very extensively & popularly utilized -- Lots of parties out --
Sunday Feb 17
Same -- Staid in Va -- Fixed up 60 of my Pioneer legislative pamphlets of 2 yrs ago for distribution among members -- Evening about town -- Bed 12 --
"The Kings Fool" Fatal Smallpox
Monday Feb 18
Clear & pleasant -- snow melted off rapidly -- On return from Carson this evening had two cars crowded, special excursion to Pipers Opera House to see the great
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Conried English Opera Company -- They returned after show was over -- Opera was "The Kings Fool" -- Very fine -- big house -- Bed 2
Tuesday Feb 19
Same -- Carson & back --Bed 12 --
Wednesday Feb 20
Same -- Bed 1
Thursday Feb 21
Same -- George Keyser, the 13 yr old son of D Keyser of the Ormsby House, Carson died at noon today of smallpox, being the 2nd death in that family, at the Ormsby House, Carson -- Bed 12 --
Holiday At Reno My Pioneer Pamphlet Bill $250 introduced
Friday Feb 22
Same -- Washington's Birthday -- No legislature -- no celebration -- Slept late -- was about town PM & evening -- Bed at 12 --
Saturday Feb 23
Cloudy & cooler -- Carson, etc -- Bed 12--
Sunday Feb 24
Same -- Evening & night a few light sprinkles of rain -- Morning train to Reno -- Found all right -- staid at home -- Bed at 10
Monday Feb 25
