Diary 62-5/6: August/September, 1887 - preliminary transcript

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Virginia City and Reno Nevada; August and September, 1887. A typewritten transcript of Doten's handwritten diary by Marianne Jaffe.

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Rebecca H Talbot 1887 Keno

Monday Aug 1, 1887

Clear & very pleasant -- 75 deg -- About town -- Evening at home -- At 10 I commenced letter to Sister REbecca H Talbot Plymouth Mass -- Wrote 12 pages very closely -- Took all night -- Bed at 5:30 next morning --

Tuesday Aug 2

Same -- Bed at 5:30 AM -- Slept till 11 -- PM about town as usual -- Evening, struck the keno game at International saloon -- Won six kenos in all - came out $10 ahead, and 4 tickets in big $25 pool of next Sunday night -- Bed at 1 -- Sent my big letter enclosed in letter to wife this evening, she to read, add to and mail it from Reno --

Catheters Charley Kimball Old Pike Leaves

Wednesday Aug 3

Same -- Sent order to HP Wakelee & Co, druggists, San Francisco for one dozen best nglish flexible catheters [No 4] Number fours -- $300 enclosed -- Eveninging met CB Kimball -- old timer -- Charley Kimball, who used to be at Monton's old cider factory when I was there, with Charley Rawson, Ben Higby, et al -- Ran awhile together -- Bed at 1 -- He is now a saloon keeper out at Hawthorne -- Been to San F, & on his way back there --

Thursday Aug 4

Same -- About town as usual -- Bed at 1 -- Geo W Allen, ["Old Pike"] my next room

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neighbor left for SF tonight for surgical attention to his leg, which is not doing well

Friday Aug 5

Same -- Hot -- 85 deg -- Evening attended the Finlayson-Jose musicale at Pipers Opera House -- Thoroughly crowded as long as a live soul could get in -- Very good indeed -- Bed at 2 -- Miss Flora Finlayson and Dickie Jose were both brought up in Reno, and now come from there to their field of triumph -- Kickie has a peculiarly beautiful [tenor?] and alto voice -- a mezzp tenor, as it were, ad she is rich contralto "sympathetic," etc -- Both are young. She about 19 or 20 & he a little older -- Good team --

Catheters Rec'd $3 Bro Sam

Saturday Aug 6

Cooler, with slightly blustering winds -- PM wrote letter to wife, but too late for mail -- Evening down town -- Home at 11 -- read, wrote, etc, Bed at 2 -- Received dozen asst English flexible catheters from P Wakelee & Co, druggists, San Francisco this morning by mail -- They cost $3 -- Number fours [No 4] --

Sunday Aug 7

Clear & hot -- 84 deg -- About home all day -- Evening down town -- Looked in at keno, etc -- Home at 11 -- wrote nice, 2 page letter to Bro Sam, relative to annexed clipping from the Memorial of July 28 -- Bed at -- [2] --

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Virginia Minstrel Cheap Watermelons

Monday Aug 8

Clear & pleasant -- About 84 deg -- PM rode to the Hill & back on 'bus -- Couldnt trade with Jones Jr for 500 shares centennial -- Evening was at Opera House -- First performance of the Virginia Minstrels -- some of the boys about town, with the Adams Bros from outside -- Pretty fair house and performance -- Bed at 1 --

Tuesday Aug 9

Same -- Lively watermelon war in town -- Plenty of them -- McGurn knocked the price down to one cent a pound -- Everybody bus 'em -- About town and home -- Bed at 10 -- Rose at 2:30 and wrote three pages of a letter to Eunice -- Bed again at 5 -- Euenice Sam Jones and Chollar

Wednesday Aug 10

Same -- PM down to Gold Hill & back on 'bus -- Found Sam Jones at the Crown Point office & had good interview relative to my [chollar?] proposition -- Evening about town -- Bed 1 --

Our Lima Shaft Proposition

Thursday Aug 11

Same -- a little cooler -- About 78 -- PM met Lawson, & we had consultation relative to our [chollar?] proposition -- Told him about my Sam Jones interview etc -- He was in with a buckboard & 1 horse -- rode with him out to the Divide -- We left

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the team, & walked up to the Lima shaft -- found it all caved in at the surface for about 15 feet down to the cribbing -- Shaft 216 ft deep, single [compartment] -- about 4 or 5 ft square -- drift -- south at bootom 75 feet in $20 or -- [Croncut] -- east from bottom of shaft 20 feet, cut rich vein, Had to quit because the

The Lima Shaft Sam Jone & I

Chollar company made them do so -- It was the Lima Co, 1/2 dozen men, trying to make a location back of the Chollar and steal Chollar ore -- About 450 ft north of the Sharon shaft and 200 ft west or about 600 ft northwest -- on the line -- Evening at home -- Bed 12 -- The Lima shaft was -- [so ]-- nearly or quite 12 years ago -- 3 or 4 years before I left for Austin --

Friday Aug 12

Same -- At noon met Sam Jones and Leon Hamilton at Wheeler, Hall & Cos hardwar store and we had private consultation relative to Chollar -- I rode with Sam Jones up to the Lima shaft in his buggy, & he took a look at the situation -- [will?] reopen

Lima Shaft Dr EB Harris Babcock & Co

the shaft and investigate the ledge at bottom -- Got letter from Dr EB Harris, former President Pacific Coast Pioneers. He is at San F. Acknowledged receipt of my pamphlet & letter -- Wrote letter to Babcock & Co, Centerbrook, Conn, enclosing 25 cts in stamps, for two of their "Wonderful Kazoos," a new and queer musical instrument -- Evening was up to Opera House awhile at parting reception of TW Booth & wife -- The elite were there & filled the house in dancing -- Godd music etc -- Extra fine

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party -- selct & invited -- Tom was presented with a fine, gold headed cane by the

Tommy Boothe Senoff "Long Brown" suicides

telegraph employees, here -- He has been manager of the tenegraph here for some years past and is now promoted to the management of the office at Ogden, leaving for there tomorrow evening -- Bed 2 -- James A Brown, an old sport generally known as "Long Brown," committed suicide today -- He was a tall, slim, gentlemanly man sandy complectioned*, quiet -- [next few lines erased] -- getting painfully around on cruteches -- could do nothing and had no money, and was going from bad to worse -- so he thought he had better die, so he took morphine successfully.

Oramel evans' ante-mortem obituary

Saturday Aug 13

Same -- Morning at 10 met Oramel evans, a well known old resident Comstocker and complied with his oft repeated request during the last 2 or 3 wks to take items, for his obituary as he was liable to die at most any time -- Suffering from paralysis, old age & general debility, etc -- Wants to be buried in the Pioneers' cemetary -- I agreed to it as President of the Pioneers and he seemed to feel relieved -- First time I ever wrote a genuine ante mortem obituary dictated by the subject thereof, personally -- PM rode to Gold Hill on the 'bus & back -- Went to Crown Point office & had short interview with Sam Jones about our Chollar proposition --

Bob Marshall's Obituary Tommy Booth's departure

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