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landed 25 miles from Havana -- Reno Gazette telegrams gave this news -- more tomorrow -- Bed at 1 -- clear, cold, windy --

82 -- Mean Weather -- Eunice -- War News
Libbey & Seagraves -- The Cat Came Back!!!
South Dakota Troops Pass to San F

Wednesday June 1, 1898

Variable, blustering, dusty & disagreeable -- Storming in the mountains all day -- Jason Libbey and Curtis Seagraves, two of our University Cadets left about 8 AM on bicycles for the Keswick mine, northern part of California, about 300 miles from here, where they seek employment for the vacation, or longer -- a pretty arduous trip -- I got my letter off to Eunice this morning mail -- Sunday working in the Comstock mines was entirely suspended on Sunday last for the first time in the history of the great lode -- Sign of the times -- My two stories, "The Golden Cryptogram" and "Wildcat Joe", returned from the Black Cat competition today, with printed list of the successful ones -- So I wasn't in it -- and have lost $1500 that I didn't win -- War news contradictory & very unsatisfactory -- Regiment from South Dakota of 1,000 men, in 3 train sections, expected to pass through here for San F tonight -- Bed 11 -- cold, blustering, & disagreeable same as all day -- Frosty --

The Passing Troops -- Schley's Victory at Santiago
1898 -- Black Cat for Bessie -- White Frost and Ice

Thursday June 2

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