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High Schools of Va and Reno visited them today -- None of my folks were along -- Bed at 12 -- feeling sad and lonely -- The great "Uncle Josh Spruceby" company -- "Dave B Levin's big production" "Grand Operatic Orchestra, carload Special Machinery, Novel Mechanical Effects -- The Great Sawmill Scene, 52 people, Big Band, etc showed at Opera House this evening to good audience -- I didn't go -- They had big street parade at noon, but Senate being in session we didn't see any of it --
Saturday March 2
Variable -- pleasant -- My busiest day -- Rose at 5:30 -- wrote 5 page letter to Gardnerville Record and mailed it at 10 -- reported Senate from 11 to 1 when it adjourned till Monday -- reported for the News and Appeal as well -- Assembly held PM session and adjourned also till Monday -- PM I wrote 5 long page letter to Salt Lake Tribune and mailed it on evening train -- Evening about town -- Bed 12 --
Wife -- Pan American Commissioners -- 1901 Busy Reportorial Day -- Tony Gandolfo Dead I in Reno Ledger -- Nora Webber
Sunday March 3
Same -- Sent 3 page letter to wife -- Bed 12
Monday March 4
Clear and springlike -- The grass grows greener on the Capitol lawns, et al -- Busiest day of my legislative reporting, incidentally having it to do,
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both Houses, for both Carson papers as well as the Reno Journal, and an extra amount at that, both Houses being unusually industrious -- I was all right in Saturday's Reno Ledger, on "Legislative Gossip," little over a column -- I find in the Ledger the following 2 items: Mrs Webber is widow of old Dr Webber whom everybody on the Comstock used to know so well -- And "Tony" Gandolfo was my old Austin friend of Crescenzo & Gandolfo, International Hotel proprietors, Austin -- Bed 12 -- clear & fine --
Good Spring Weather -- Wife $15 "The Telephone Girl" -- Dennis Canny Dead Our Syndicate Wins $5 -- I in SL Tribune
Tuesday March 5
Clear and very pleasant & springlike -- Hard days work at my double reporting -- Hal Mighels has returned from San Francisco, but leaves me to do his reporting as yet -- Letter from wife with $15 -- Paid my grub bills and squared up to March 1 for room rent $4 -- "The Telephone girl" was played at Opera House this evening, by a very good traveling company -- to a good house -- Dennis Canny, a good friend of mine died at his residence here last night of pneumonia -- Aged 53 yrs, native of Ireland -- leaves a wife here -- Been section boss on the V & T RR for some years past -- Everybody knew him -- Too good a man to lose -- But has gone -- Bed at 12 -- clear -- Carson Lottery Syndicate wins $5 approximation prize in Beneficencia lottery, list received today -- My Saturday's letter
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in SL Tribune of the 4th -- Monday -- quick work & time -- A few lines over a column, fine type, nonpareil, I think --
Syndicate Divident -- Legislative Banquet 1901 -- Simeon Wenban dead
Wednesday March 6
Same -- Hard days work in my multifarious reportorial capacity but did it successfully and well -- Found that the Syndicate won $2.50 instead of $5.00 -- so I collected it and paid each member his one third -- 83 1/3 cents -- or 80 cts each, retaining the 10 cts extra in making change, for my Secretary salary -- Second dividend of the Syndicate for the present year or century -- Evening by special invitation I attended banquet at the Arlington given by citizens of Carson to the members of the Legislature -- Commenced shortly after 9 and closed at 12 -- 2 big tables occupying the whole big dining room -- Fresh shell oyster, turkey, salad, white wine and claret -- coffee, beef tea, fruit, cake & all that sort of thing -- Nevada State Band did fine music, Plenty of good talkers, etc -- Bed 1 -- Simeon Wenban, owner of the famous Wenban silver mine, Cortez district in Eureka county, Nev, and a well known heavy capitalist died yesterday in San Francisco.
Reno Ledger -- Nevada State Band Parade & Fine Minstrel Show
Thursday March 7
Cloudy and moderate with slight sprinkle of rain about noon, and snow
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squally in the Sierra -- Senate met at 10 AM for 1st time -- Both Houses worked well & long hours -- Senate till 4:20 PM and Assembly past 5 -- I tried to get off a 2 page letter to Reno Ledger but couldn't quite make the mail train with it -- Evening about town some -- Bed 12 -- clearing up --
Friday March 8
Clear cold & pleasant -- Sent my letter to the Ledger by 10 AM local train -- May yet be available in Saturday's issue -- Hard day's work with my double reporting legislature -- Evening I attended Opera House -- Minstrel show and concert of the Nevada State Band -- Crowded house -- Very good performance -- 30 on stage in first part, including about a dozen women wives and sisters of the band -- First part was regular up to the date minstrel show -- all blackface -- Rest variety, vaudeville -- songs -- instrumental solos -- overtures etc -- trapeze -- "Cynthia" a young girl dancing contortionist, peculiarly slim and good -- show out at 11:40 -- Bed at 1 -- tired -- See programme, last page of this book -- Band grand street parade & concert at noon --
Hard Day's Work -- Gardnerville Record -- 1901 SL Tribune with $8.20 -- Testicle Swollen My Sick Day
Saturday March 9
Variable -- very windy from the SW -- Clouds of dust -- Very disagreeable day -- Hard day's work -- started in at 10:30 -- only had 1 hour nooning and then worked till 4:30 when Senate adjourned till 10:30 AM
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Monday -- Rose at 7 this morning, wrote three page letter to the Gardnerville Record, going without any breakfast to get it off in mail at 10:30 in time on the Gardnerville stage -- Got letter from SL Tribune inclosing draft on WF & Co for $8.20 for letters published Feb 4, 26 1/2 inches $3.05 -- Feb 25, 22 1/2 inches $2.60, and March 4, 22 inches, $2.50 -- Total $8.20 -- But they missed paying me for my letter of Feb 15, 1/2 column -- Bed at 12 -- Starlight cold and very blustering and dusty -- My right testicle is terribly swollen to ten times normal size from some cause or other from yesterday -- I don't know -- Very sore and has to be slung up --
Sunday March 10
Cloudy, cold, blustering and disagreeable -- Sick day for me -- Morning I worked making a sling for my testicle, which troubles me badly -- Got chilled from a cold already started, with a restless night last night -- Was at Arlington and got warmed up, also got a big hot dose of brandy,
My Sick Day -- Wife -- SL Tribune Receipt John S Hittell Dead -- Good Snowstorm Big Bowels Trouble -- 50th Day of Session -- Wintry
ginger, peppermint and other ingredients that Tim Dempsey the barkeeper knows how to fix up -- Then went and got some soup, hot coffee etc at Johnny Anderson's restaurant and went to my room, turned into bed and slept couple of hours good refreshing sleep -- got up feeling much better but still very stiff, lame and sore boned -- Evening at Arlington -- wrote and
