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Flags at half mast for Bob Marshall who died last evening at his residence in Crown Point Ravine, of miners' consumtion after illness of about a year -- Old time comstocker and mining foreman -- When I got back to Va met Joe B Marshall, his brother, and he gave me points for obituary on Bob, which I wrote this evening and gave to Enterprise -- Am getting to be an obituary sharp -- Wrote short letter to wife, went to the train, and saw Tommy Booth take his departure for Elko -- quite a number of his friends saw him off -- His family will follow in about a week -- Evening down town awhile -- Bed at 1 -- Weather breezy and a little cooler -- Has averaged about 86° or 86° for several days past --
Sunday Aug 14
Weather same as yesterday -- Evening & night cool & breezy -- About home most of day -- PM finished letter to Eunice -- 6 pages in all -- Was too late for the mail train, so will mail it tomorrow -- Evening down town -- Bed at 12 --
Monday Aug 15
Clear & warm -- 86° -- About town -- Major TB Storer, my immediate predecessor as President of the Pioneers returned from [Benicia] today, looking much improved
Duncan Cameron drunk
in health -- About 10 oclock this evening Duncan Cameron, employed as blacksmiths helper at the Chollar works or mill lay very dead drunk on the sidewalk just below McGurn's on C street -- Some of the police whom I was with, got a buckboard,
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& carted him up to the jail for the night -- perfectly helpless and dead gone -- Belongs to the Good Templars society here, but has been on a drunk for the last 3 or 4 days -- Myself & wife were at his wedding in GH a few years ago, in Fraser's house, next to ours -- Bed at 1 --
McLane & Clemmo affray
Tuesday Aug 16
Same -- About 4 AM, two miners, John McLane, and Robert Clemmo, a quarreled in a saloon on C street as to who could talk the best Spanish -- The whisky in them spoke the loudest and they fought on the sidewalk -- Clemmo got badly beaten, but McLane got a bad stab in the breast from Clemmo's pocket knife & is likely to die -- C is in jail -- Both unmarried -- I was about town as usual today -- Evening wrote up Evans' obituary all right for the Enterprise in case it should be required -- Bed at 1 --
Centennial
Wednesday Aug 17
Same -- Bed 1 --
Thursday Aug 18
Same -- PM rode to Gold Hill & back on bus -- Kinzle & myself, Trustees med with Bill James at the GH assay office which is office of Centennial company & went throuh the bills etc of the Co for the last month -- audited & entered paid -- Evening about
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town -- Bed 1 --
Friday Aug 19
Same -- As usual -- Bed 12 -- About 86° today -- Nights cool --
Saturday Aug 20
Same -- PM I walked up & took another look at the Lima shaft -- Bed at 12 --
Andrew Nicholls in Va Harrington's Variety Company
Sunday Aug 21
Same -- Nothing new -- Bed 12 --
Monday Aug 22
Clear & hot -- 84° -- Skirmished about considerably, financially, etc -- Evening at Opera House -- Edward Harrigan & his N York Theater Co -- Big Troupe & best orchestra, 14 pieces I have yet heard in that house -- Play, "Old Lavender" very good indeed -- Good house -- Bed, 2 -- Andrew Nicholls and wife came on morning train, from Los Angeles, and left in the evening for Austin, thier home --
Sam Jones cooler wife
Tuesday Aug 23
Same -- as usual -- Bed 12
Wednesday Aug 24
Clear, lovely day -- Bed 12 --
Thursday Aug 25
AM same -- PM windy & dusty & cooler -- Evening ditto with clouds -- Bed 12 --
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Friday Aug 26
Cloudy & cooler - 65° -- Evening sent letters to Sam Jones, Palace Hotel San F and to wife -- Bed at 1 -- clear & cool --
Saturday Aug 27
Clear warm & pleasant -- 76° -- Bed at 12 --
Pioneer Meeting Sudden Big Shower
Sunday Aug 28
Same -- Evening, regular monthly meeting of the Society of Pacific Coast Pioneers -- I presided -- Only six present besides myself -- Was about town afterward -- Bed at 12:30 --
Monday Aug 29
Clear & pleasant -- 75° -- toward evening strong blustering winds from SW -- clouds gathered suddenly about 10 and a heavy shower set in about an hour -- very copious rain, with floods down cross streets -- Bed at 1 -- still cloudy -- cool -- This was a sudden, unexpected, shower without much previous warning or preparation.
Cold snap Frost The Centennial gravel
Tuesday Aug 30
Clear & cool 65 to 70° -- Dust laid finely -- PM rode to Gold Hill on 'bus & at James' assay office, which is office of Centennial Co, saw some of the gravel which was sent over from the mine last Friday and wich pans out two bits to the pen --
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Rode back with Evan Williams -- Brought small sack of couple of pounds of the gravel -- Evening at home -- Bed at 12:30 -- Cold night, with frost --
Wednesday Aug 31
Same -- 65° -- About town -- BEd at 11:30 -- Frost last night nipped the tomato and potatoe vines, etc, down at Carson and Reno last night -- 1st frost of the season --
Bob Patterson [Grizzly] Cold nights
Wife $40
Thursday September 1, 1887
Clear, cool & very pleasant -- 65° in the schade -- Was about town most of the day, also in evening -- Bed at 12 --
Friday Sept 2
Same -- warmer -- wrote letter for Bob Patterson to manager of Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco for a taxidermist to stuff a grizzly bear which Bob has contracted to be killed by a hunter in Alpine county for the Pioneers cabinet -- Bed at 1 --
Saturaday Sept 3
Same -- PM borrowed $40 of Bob Patterson & sent it, greenbacks, in letter to wife by evening mail -- Evening about town -- Bed 2 -- cold frosty night --
Miners' Union Picnic cold
Sunday Sept 4
AM clear, cool & pleasant -- coolest of season thus far -- MIners Union Picnic at
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