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evening train -- Blew furiously all day from long before daylight -- heaviest gale for last 16 years -- Did considerable damage at Va, smashing windown etc & prostratin small houses -- Blew in a window or two in State Capitol -- Bed at 3 -- The wind today was from the SW & a genuine "Washoe Zephyr"

Wednesday Feb 2

Clear and less blustering but a big strong wind all the same -- Morning train to carson -- Went to Dr Southworth and he filled or capped three more defective teeth -- Work as usual -- Returned to Va on evening train -- Got my copy in -- around

3 more teeth filled Wife The "Evening Report"
First Issue

town some -- Bed at 2 -- Sent a letter to wife from Mound House, which I wrote as I came up, giving it to the down express & passenger train which passes at that point -- The new paper, daily, the Evening Report made its first issue this evening -- By Alf [Chartz] and D L Brown -- I visited their office this evening 24 page column paper -- democratic --

Heavy Storm Indications
Jerry Schooling Dead

AM pleasant -- PM more gale, with heavy clouds along the Sierra and a few spits of snow -- Work as usual -- Back to Va on evening train -- Jerry Schooling prominent old resident of the State, formerly State Treasurer for 8 yrs, died in Carson at 4 PM from apoplexy -- I wrote him up tonight in the local besides my regular Carson re-

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