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Clear & pleasant -- Dusty -- Rose at 7 -- completed 4 page letter to Gardnerville Record, including my legislative synopsis in summary and mailed it just in time -- little after 10, by Gardnerville stage -- PM and evening did some more synopsis -- Bed at 12, tired -- clear & bright moonlight -- All the County Assessors from all the 14 various Counties of the State came in the morning attending a ten days convention commencing today, to work some concerted plan whereby taxation shall be made more equalized, etc -- Convention met at Governor's office -- H R Mighels paid me $5 today and I paid it to Mrs Kelly for my room rent to Friday last -- This is "Holy Week," but I had a bit of a spat with Mighels because he wanted to jew me out of $3 in settlement for my 3 weeks reportorial service in Legislature --
Wintry -- Wife with $15 -- Judge Webster of Journal Snow -- Wm Nelson of Tribune -- Miners' Inch of Water Aguinalda Sworn in as an American citizen -- Reno Gazette Enlargement
Tuesday April 2
Stormy -- Wintry disagreeable day -- Fierce SW wind, with light rain and snowsqualls -- Snowed good all day in the high mountains -- Rec'd brief letter from wife with $15 -- Bed at 12 -- principally clear & freezing and everything white with about an inch of snow --
Wednesday April 3
Same -- Sunshine enough to melt off all the snow by noon -- plenty of west wind but no snow except in the mountains -- PM wrote & sent letter to Judge
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Webster of Reno Journal inclosing my summary of bills passed or vetoed by Legislature -- 3 pages -- Rec'd letter from managing editor Wm Nelson of the SL Tribune returning my letter of last Thursday mostly on the Insurance problem, it being anticipated by Associated Press telegram telling of the discovered invalidation of Hardesty's insurance bill -- I sent page letter in reply -- Bed 12 -- clear & cold -- Latest telegrams from Manila say Aguinaldo took the oath of allegiance yesterday to the United States -- The Reno Gazette comes enlarged Apr 1, and improved, and set with Mergenthaler linotype machine -- 7 columns per page as before, but columns two inches longer and widened about 3/16 of an inch -- or about 1 inch per page --
Cold Morning -- Assessors Adjourn Sine Die -- 1901 Supreme Court -- I not in Record -- Tonopah SL Tribune Telegraph job -- Franklin Leonard's Book
Thursday April 4
Clear & pleasant, but freezing in the shade all day -- Ice 1/2 inch thick all about town this morning & heavy white frost -- PM I attended Assessors Convention -- It got through and adjourned sine die at 3:30 -- Then I visited Supreme Court -- The insurance bill invalidation argued and submitted at 4 PM when court adjourned till Monday next -- Rec'd Gardnerville Record and my letter of Monday not in it -- Bed at 12 -- clear & cold --
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Friday April 5
Variable, blustering -- cool -- About town, observing. At 7:50, just 10 minutes before closing time of the telegraph office, the messenger met me on the street, giving me following just rec'd here at 7:30 PM -- "Salt Lake 5 -- Alf Doten Carson Nev -- Rush three hundred words railway decision. Tribune" -- I soon studied out what was wanted -- clipped it from the evening News and sent it in 15 minutes after receiving the dispatch -- Mr Franklin Leonard, Supt of the Sutro Tunnel Co met me at the Arlington and I incidentally took him over to my room and showed him a copy of my gov't book -- The Production of Gold & Silver in the US for 1899 -- $20 for the Tunnel Co -- Bed 12 --
Wife -- I Weigh 196 lbs -- Easter Sunday The Knights Templar Visit Carson and Attend Church Icy Thickness -- Judge Webster
Saturday April 6
Cloudy, variable, cold -- A light snowstorm about 9 AM -- Sent short letter to wife by evening train -- Charley Kelly, the grocer, weighed me today -- 196 lbs -- Bed 12
Sunday April 7
Clear cold and pleasant -- Easter Sunday -- all churches well attended and everybody feeling religiously happy -- The Knights Templar from Virginia and Reno, came on morning trains and at about 11 AM marched down street
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from Armory Hall, north of the depot and went to the Episcopal Church, attending service as is their established custom once a year -- 45 or 50 of them in all -- Bearing three flags -- richest regalia of any Order -- richest of black silk velvet cloaks, military chapeaus with with white ostrich plumage -- cloaks loaded with silver ornaments and silver lace, etc -- and all carried swords. Those regalias cost from $100.00 to $700 each -- those from the Comstock being of course the richest -- being bought in bonanza times -- when silver was plenty and nobody cared a dam for expenses -- They had a fine lunch and refreshments at the hall on return from church and all went back home on the PM and evening trains -- Bed 12 -- Letter to Judge Webster this evening -- Sent short letter to Sears Roebuck & Co
More Tribune Telegraphing -- Snow -- Alfred -- 1901 Teachers' Institute Commences -- Wife with $5 Hardesty Insurance Bill Knocked Out
for one of their latest big calendar books -- About 4:30 PM rec'd at my room following telegram from the SL Tribune: "Keep close watch on land office and court officials for developments in fight for railroad grade in Lincoln County and keep us advised -- Tribune." My telegram I sent Friday evening came in all right in Saturday's Tribune, received today -- just 300 words --
Monday April 8
Variable, cold, wintry -- Everything white with about an inch of snow this
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morning -- several light snows during the day, keeping the dust well laid -- State Teachers' Institute commenced today for a week in the Senate chamber -- Nearly 100 teachers from all parts of the State, mostly young ladies -- Alfred came, from Wadsworth, but wife did not -- Met him on the street and he gave me a letter from her, inclosing $5 -- she said she had very sore inflamed eye, which was cause of her not coming -- didn't know for sure whether would come at all -- The Supreme Court decided against the Hardesty insurance bill becoming a law this AM -- PM I got hold of the type
Hardesty Insurance Bill Knocked Out Telegram to Tribune and the Record Another Letter Failure, to Geo I Lamy -- "Evil Eye" "The Evil Eye" -- "Merrimack" Blasted Out
written decision, condensed it into about 1/3 of a column in the evening News & after it went to press I clipped and telegraphed it to SL Tribune -- Sent also a ten word dispatch of it to the Gardnerville Record -- Rose early this morning and wrote a good page letter to Geo I Lamy, editor of the Record, directed envelope and stamped it all right, jerked on coat and hat and hurried to Post office with the envelope, neglecting to put the letter into it -- Miss Kaiser one of the clerks discovered the omission when she went to stamp the letter and sent word to me by Harry Day, but he found me too late -- I went to my room however got letter and mailed it to go tomorrow -- Evening at theater -- play was "The Evil Eye" a very lively vaudeville show by a travelling company from the East -- very good
