Diary 77-05: May, 1901

in prize fight San Francisco last night -- Bed 12 -- cloudy --

Thursday May 2

Cloudy, same -- Sent dunning letter to Bert Crawford -- Also postal card to Sears, Roebuck & Co for tailoring samples booklet -- Bed 12 -- About a foot of snow accumulated in the mountains during this last storm --

Friday May 3

Clear & fine -- White frost this morning -- no harm -- Met Geo I Lamy of the Gardnerville Record this AM at Arlington at 10 AM, by appointment from yesterday PM when he arrived from Gardnerville -- He paid me $25 on account so he only owes me $5 balance -- I pd Mrs K, my landlady, $4, my room rent for last month -- making square with her to last Friday -- Recd nice little 4 page note letter from Mrs CN Stoddard, Reno -- Had rec'd my Memorial Tribute, thankfully & expecting to publish in the Reno Journal probably tomorrow -- Wrote & mailed short letter to Sheriff Jas Quirk Va City this evening for placard & photo J F McDonell -- Evening about town -- Bed 12 --

Carson Fruit Shade Trees & Shrubbery Blooming & Greening Out -- "Robert Greathouse" Concluded Jacksonville, Florida Burned Out

Saturday May 4

Clear & very springlike -- The shade trees all over town are opening their leaves -- greening out as it were and apple, pears & all other fruits are in full blossom & promise -- especially apples which come out last of all

& very prudently for fruit killing frosts have often got in their nefarious work past the middle of May and even into 1st of June -- Fruit all right now but -- Got through reading "Robert Greathouse" and returned it to Harry Day this PM. Dont like it -- Not well written or constructed -- Semblance of truth & historical in some instances, but too prosy in love story, incidentals, legal dialogues, etc, too wildly imaginative and Munchausenish, incongruous, inconsistent etc -- Good material poorly worked up -- Attained considerabe degree of notoriety as a early Comstock story or novel, founded upon some facts in noted legal contests of conflicting mining claims, unprincipled proceedings mining rascalities etc -- bringing in the semblance of sundry leading mine manipulaters, legal lights, etc -- Bed 12 --

Base Ball, Va Beats Carson 22 to 6 -- Wife $5.00 -- 1901 Mrs Cora N Stoddard Quits -- Melinda Beer Tiegler -- 70º Wife Says "Pears All Spoiled as Usual" -- Nevada Spuds Wife -- Evan Williams Dying

Sunday May 5

Clear warm & very pleasant -- The event of the day was base ball game down at the track between Virginia and Carson niners -- Va beat Carson by 22 to 6 -- Rec'd another letter from Mrs Cora N Stoddard Reno dated May 3 stating that in view of too much delay of Journal in publishing my memorial tribute she had concluded to drop it altogether -- give it up -- She apologizes for the trouble she gave me and her humiliating failure, etc --

Monday May 6

Same -- 70º -- Letter from wife, with $5 -- Tom Beer got me to write an item, stating that his daughter Meleta was going to be married on Wednesday in San Francisco to Conrad Teigeler, electrical manager of the telephone there -- I wrote it very carefully, took it to the News office and they printed it spelling both names wrong, hers "Melinda" and his "Tiegler" -- Wife in her letter says: "Pears all spoiled as usual."

Tuesday May 7

Same -- PM wrote & sent page letter to wife -- Evan Williams reported dying in San Francisco this evening -- His wife & daughter left here on special train about 9 o'clock to go to him, connecting at Reno with the west bound flyer from the east -- Bed 12 --

Evan Williams Dead -- Charley Fish Mrs Cross Memorial Tribute -- Con Va Dividend!!! Warm Weather 80º-- High School Excursion Norris & Rowe's Animal Show

Wednesday May 8

Same -- Flags in the bank & also on State House 1/2 mast in token of the death of Evan Williams, about 9 last evening in San Francisco -- Born in Tioga county Pa Jan 13, 1844, so was 57 yrs old, past -- Bed 12 --

Thursday May 9

Same -- warmer -- 77º -- Met Charlie H Fish at late morning train going up to Va -- Prest Con Va Co -- Declared 10 ct dividend 1st for some years --

Commenced letter to Bro Sam -- Evening was at Appeal office & read proof of Memorial Tribute to Mrs SJ Cross to be in paper tomorrow morning -- Bed 12 --

Friday May 10

Same -- Hottest 80º -- High school classes from Va and here went to University field day with the Reno High School -- 3 coach car loads left here mostly young girls and women -- Norris & Rowe's big show performing ponies, dogs, monkeys, small elephant "Fargo", came from Va where showed last night -- gave grand street parade & PM & evening shows -- Everybody went but me -- Same lot where it showed last year, near State House -- Bed 12 --

82º -- Memorial Tribute Disposed of -- 1901 President McKinley in California -- SL Trib $4.73 Dine at Harry Day's -- Seattle Comstock Report Notice Con Va Dividend -- The Seattle Times

Saturday May 11

Same -- 82 degrees -- Wrote & sent full 1 page letter to Mrs Cora N Stoddard with 8 copies Carson Appeal, containing my Memorial Tribute on her mother's death , etc -- 3/4 column. Bed 12 -- President McKinley & party, via southern route through New Mexico, Arizona, etc, are in Los Angeles Wednesday, reached the Hotel Del Monte, Monterey today and will rest there tomorrow -- Been grand ovation at all places and now California is doing the honors in unprecedented style as she only can do it -

Sunday May 12

Same -- Statement acc't from SL Tribune business dept with check for $4.73 on WF & Co -- Dined with Harry Day & family at their residence -- 3 of us -- by special invitation & passed pleasant evening till 9:30 was at Arlington awhile -- home at 11 -- Bed 12 -- tired -- Recd from wife yesterday copy of Seattle Daily Times, big paper like SL Tribune -- containing big column editorial notice, complimentary, etc of my Comstock report in Mint Director's or Treasury Dept's report 1899 which I wrote a year ago. Best editorial notice I ever had --

Evan Williams' Funeral -- 84 -- Fred Boyce Strikes Out Sears Roebuck & Co catalogue etc -- My Tribune Statement of Acct for April $4.73 -- Crisler Bad -- Norrie Funeral Wife-- Mrs Cora N Stoddard -- Flies

Monday May 13

Clear & very pleasant -- 78 [degrees] -- Recd from Sears, Roebuck & Co not only the tailoring sample booklet I sent for May 2, but another of their big 4 lb catalogues -- postage prepaid, 28 cts -- think I'll give it to Andy Robert, for I certainly dont need it -- In my SL Tribune yesterday's statement of acct for April I was credited with telegrams: 5th, 65 lines; 8th 50 l, and 27th 101; total 125 l a 2 c pr l -- $2.50; stamps, 03 total $2.53 -- correspondence 19th, 19 inches @ $2.50 pr column -- $2.20 -- total check $4.73 --