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Clear & pleasant -- As usual -- "April Fools Day" -- Not much observed -- Evening at home -- Bed 2 --
Saturday April 2
Same -- Busied myself at copying the membershio register of the Society of the Pacific Coast Pioneers this PM & evening -- Big job -- got it well started -- Worked at it most of the night -- Bed at daylight --
Sunday April 3
Same -- Bed at 6 AM -- Up at 11 -- About town etc -- Worked all night on Pioneer membership roll -- Over 500 names -- Big job to straighten out --
The McGibeny Family
Monday April 4
Clear but very blustery and fearfully dusty -- Finished my transcript of the Pioneers' register today -- Avoided the big dust storm in so doing -- 14 pages large legal cap -- Bed at 2 --
Tuesday April 5
Clear & pleasant -- as usual -- Dr Delavan, returned from Carson last evening, called on me this morning telling me the Pioneer cabinet was all completely rehabilitated & in place in State Capitol under his supervision -- He got $150 out of the removal etc -- Evening I was at Opera House short time & saw part of the performance of the McGibeny Family -- 10 of them -- musical etc -- Bed at 2 --
The Pioneer Roll -- 502 names
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Wednesday April 6
Cloudy, blustery, very dusty and disagreeable -- PM Dr Delavan came to my room & helped me complete my list of Pioneers by comparing the old register, etc with what I have prepared to print -- Corrected spelling, etc, and found several missing names -- The list may now be considered fully completed and contain 502 names -- Evening I attended the second performance of the McGibeny family -- Small attendance -- Fine performance -- Home -- Wrote letter for my next door neighbor, George Allen, ("old Pike") to his sister Rachel Johnson, Dawn, Livingston County
Wrote letter for Pike Stormy Baird's Minstrels
Missouri -- Bed at 2 --
Thursday April 7
Cloudy & blustery -- A squall of snow with some rain fell about 6 AM or earlier -- Was about town -- Evening at first performance of Baird's Minstrels at Opera House -- Good house -- best performance of its kind I have seen for years -- Everybody enjoyed it -- Home at 11 -- Bed at 2 -- This troupe is from the East, on way to California -- About 20 in it -- Play two nights here --
Snow Harvey Blood Minstrel Band
Friday April 8
Same -- PM & evening light spite of rain and snow -- Wrote letter to Harvey Blood (Ben Valley,) Murphy's Calaveras Co, Cal for Bob Patterson, asking him to get a
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medium sized grizzly for the Pioneer cabinet -- Send it to S.F. & get it shipped, etc, all at Pattersons expense -- Sent letter off by mail -- Also wrote to wife -- Bed at 2 -- About an inch of snow on ground -- Baird's Minstrel troupe brass band paraded at noon today as well as yesterday -- 14 pieces up C & down D -- also rest of troupe -- over 20 in all -- fine band -- Had another good house tonight -- close tomorrow night -- Matinee tomorrow -- PM --
JP Jones Arrives Patching my ceiling Frankel
Saturday April 9
Stormy -- Light snow squalls in AM -- About an inch of snow on ground in the morning -- melted off -- dust laid, and somewhat muddy -- Hon, Senator J P Jones and family arrived at Gold Hill this morning from the East -- I was about town during PM & evening -- Bed 2 -- Fred Klempfer an old Comstock contracter, builder, plasterer etc came this PM & did several jobs of patching of ceilings etc, in Douglass building -- Among rest he patched the place in ceiling of my room where it fell last Fall -- Gave me more trouble attending to it, cleaning up, etc -- Frankel's second trial on the charge embezzlement, went to the jury at 3:30 PM yesterday -- They were out
Frankel "not guilty" Secy Cal Pioneers Hon C E Laughton Snow Wintry Busted
all night -- and at 10:30 AM today brought in verdict of "not guilty" -- He is till held to answer on three or four other similar indictments --
Sunday April 10
Same -- country white with about an inch of snow that fell before daylight -- several
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light snow squalls during the day -- cold and disagreeable -- I busy at odd jobs about home -- Down town some -- Evening wrote letters to Hon C E Laughton Ex Lieut Gov Carson and to Secy Cal Pioneers SF for a list of his Society -- Bed at 1:30 -- cold & blustery -- freezing hard -- Spent my lst two bits this evening -- Busted --
Monday April 11
Clear & pleasant -- but cold in the shade -- The street sprinkling cart started into operation for the 1st time this season -- I was busy most of the day fixing up and getting printed for Bob Patterson a list of the group of Pioneers taken at Carson at the capitol steps next morning after the banquet , given us y the Legislature -- Several inserted since to make picture more complete -- 52 in all -- Done at Evening Report office -- under my supervision at Bob's expense -- Wrote letter to Col U E Allen, Waterbury Conn -- Bed at 1 -- cold & freezing --
Carlton Opera Troupe
Tuesday April 12
Same -- Evening cloudy, with a light drizzling rain -- I negotiating for sale of some of my Centennial stock -- Bed at 2 --
Wednesday April 13
Variable -- A few light snow & rain squalls just enough to keep the dust laid -- Evening the Carlton Opera Company -- About 40 of them, women and all -- Very good performance & good house -- I was there -- They run two more nights and Saturday
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Matinee -- They played the comic opera of "Manon" -- tomorrow night "Ermine" -- Wrote a [ ] for Joe Mallon, grocer, this PM, to insert in the Enterprise -- He paid me $5 for it -- When I was the Opera House this evening while I was in Pipers box office, getting a deadhead pass, Ed Swift of Gold Hill got at me and gave me $10 not to "give him hell" on the street sprinkling in view of the present stormy weather -- I won't do it -- After the theater I was about town awhile -- Bed at 1:30 -- Weather still threatening --
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