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Commenced at 10 AM & closed at 4:30 PM, sine die -- I sent Enterprise short dispatch giving nominations -- Evening about town some -- cold and disagreeable -- Home & bed at 11 -- Still snowing lightly --

Thursday Oct 2

The same -- Snow 3 or 4 inches deep -- Snowed more or less all day till toward sunset when it began to clear up -- night clear -- Politically buzzing about town all day -- electioneering for the Assembly -- Received by mail my 2 doz No 4

-- Catheters received Electioneering Enterprise 64 Catarrh recovering Dondero

catheters I sent $6 for the other day -- Evening & night wrote Enterprise 64 -- My eyes are all right again & nose but little plugged -- Got bad cough -- Passing off down through my lungs as usual --

Friday Oct 3

Clouds & sunshine -- trying to clear up -- chilly -- I was about town electioneering all day -- Evening ditto -- Waited till midnight and interviewed the Battle Mountain and north end delegations when they arrived by train -- Bed at 3 --

-- Politically horsed Dondero AA Curtis leaves

Saturday Oct 4

Clear & pleasant -- Attended Republican county convention at court house today -- & sent off a short telegraphic report of it -- Took in at 10 AM and closed at 3 PM -- The big slate won, and I got defeated -- Got 14 votes, which was about all there