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Tuesday July 26

Same -- Bed 1 --

Wednesday July 27

Same -- cooler-- Very pleasant weather -- Frank M Newlands arrived this evening from the East, via Carson. I met him for a moment or so in the Crystal Saloon -- Bed at 1 -- Newlands is candidate for Congress this time.

Hot Weather East -- Jake Becker dead
Mrs Stevenson's Will -- Funeral -- Milly Harris' Marriage

Thursday July 28

Same -- 88[degrees] -- Very hot weather in the East -- 50 people or more dying daily in Chicago from the extreme heat & sunstroke, etc -- 95[degrees] or 96[degrees] -- Jake Becker ("Jake the baker") died at the Hospital yesterday morning & was buried this PM -- Dropsy -- 56 yrs old -- German -- One of my old time Gold Hill friends -- Evening about town -- Bed 12 --

Friday July 29

Same -- about 87[degrees] -- same as last 2 days. Pretty hot weather, but we have cool mornings, evenings & nights, which is something Chicago and the heated East has not. Their 90 to 95 degrees is a close damp, smothering, dead heat -- Ours is a lively, clear, dry heat therefore has no sunstroke or [?] fatal effects as there; totally unknown here. Evening about town -- Bed 1 -- Jake Becker's funeral this PM well attended -- 30 carriages --

At Carson -- 90 degrees in the shade
Bessie Caldwell's Baby