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Washington's Birthday Hugh Lamb dies
Down to [Osbiston?] shaft

Monday Feb 22

Clear warm & pleasant -- Washingtons Birthday -- Rose at 11 -- flags up everywhere -- & fluttering from the balconies -- National & [???] Guards paraded finely with full ranks & National Guard Band -- Lots of people in town enjoying holiday -- work as usual -- Hugh Lamb, foreman of all the bonanza mines for several years died at 6:10 this evening of "acute bronchitis" after 4 wks in bed -- 51 yrs old -- Lots of work in office for me -- Through at 2 -- Bed 3

Tuesday Feb 23

Morning cloudy -- blustering winds & a few snowflakes in the air -- cleared off fine as ever in the PM -- Rode with Supt Lyman down to the [Osbiston?] shaft & took look at the works -- Rode back with him -- Bed 3:30

Hugh Lamb's Funeral Snow
Frank Currier Dead

Wednesday Feb 24

Clear -- Hugh Lamb's funeral today -- 74 carriages -- Escorted by over 400 miners -- Work as usual -- Bed 3 --

Thursday Feb 25

Same -- A little blustery -- Work as usual -- Through in office at 2 & on way home heard through Gold Hill carrier boys that Frank Currier, the Railroad station agt in G H had just died from pneumonia -- Bed at 3 --