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"Richard Carvel" -- My Nevada Write up Republished in News
1900 -- Carvel Sent to Bessie -- Billy Hill and the Old Hill Murder
Mystery

Saturday Jan 6

Same -- Read considerable of "Richard Carvel" this evening and last, as wife asks me to send it to Bessie -- Bed 12 -- The Carson Evening News is publishing the whole of my Nevada write up in SL Tribune, by daily instalments of about a column giving me credit in the writer -- also the Tribune

Sunday Jan 7

Same -- Finished reading Richard Carvell and sent it by evening train to Bessie at home in Reno -- Bed 1 --

Monday Jan 8

Clear & pleasant -- Met Billy Hill, insurance agent from San Francisco today at the Arlington -- traveling on business -- used to beat Va when I was on GH News & before -- Brother to Hill, supt of Ophir mill on Carson River just above Dayton, who was waylaid and coldly butchered by robbers -- in an old abandoned laundry house in Spring Valley, on his way from Va with 3,000 in his buggy & 2 horses to pay off his employees at his mill -- This was way back in those early days and perpetrators never been found & brought to Justice since --

Sears Roebuck & Co -- Van Duzer -- TA Hofer
Old Matt Callahan -- Wm Nelson with Magazine for Dec
Sears, Roebuck & co & 50 cts --

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