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The same -- Bed at 4 1/2 & slept till nearly 11 AM -- PM about town -- Evening wrote & mailed letters to Joe E Eckley, Va City, and Chas Dondero San Francisco -- Bed at 12 --
Saturday Nov 1, 1884
The same -- About town electioneering more or less -- Evening I attended a variety arrangement in the shape of a man & wife & 2 daughters at International Hall, called "Taylor's Tourists" -- They are from the East -- Some good singing, a cornet solo, and some very excellent banjo playing, & a good jig -- good house -- ran about town awhile -- Bed at 2 -- lots of politics -- Things is a bilin' -- The new standard time for the Pacific coast section of the Central Pacific was adopted and put into effect today for the first time -- About ten minutes faster than old time -- Wright change his regulator clock accordingly, and most everybody changed their watches and clocks to correspondent -- I changed mine --
Sunday Nov 2
The same -- About town & house -- Evening the same -- Bed at 12 -- freezing --
Monday Nove 3
Clear & pleasant -- cool -- About town -- lots of politics & preparation for tomorrow -- Met Warner Hillyer -- Is in town with his wife -- She is knocked up big & will stay till the trouble is over -- Evening busy fixing up poll lists, tally sheets etc -- Bed at 4, in my clothes --
Presidential Election -- I Poll clerk
Tuesday Nov 4
The same -- General Election day -- Rose at 7 1/2 -- Went to Post Office & then took all my documents, tally lists etc down to the First Ward Polls in Eagle Hose house -- Sworn in & all in hand & soon started in -- Got along smoothly all day --Started in at 8 AM -- Recess at noon for an hour for lunch --Took lunch at Louis' I did -- At 6 PM polls closed & Sheriff would not allow us to leave, but had dinner brought to us from Louis' -- At 7:15 we commenced counting votes -- Polled 281 votes, but lost one somehow -- Had to give it up after counting 3 times -- Then we went to tallying -- Through one half at 2 oclock, when we quit for lunch which Schwin brought in -- Big crowd of lookers on all night -- Got along faster after lunch by adopting better system, counting the straights, as was right to have done in the commencement -- Lots of whisky and cigars all the time --
Wednesday Nov 5
The same -- Got through counting at daylight & crowd all left -- took till 9 to finish up sign seal & deliver box & all into hands of the County Treasurer, at the bank -- Then we visited the upper ward polls -- not through counting -- & didn't finish up till noon -- Found that $10 that Warner Hillyer owed me, left at the International bar -- Was about town most of the day -- lots of fighting among the drunks but nobody killed -- Telegrams coming in from the East -- Much excitement --
Thursday Nov 6
The same -- Slept till 5 -- had to bounce out, owing to looseness of bowels -- Bed at 6 & slept till nearly 9 -- About town most of day -- Eastern & western dispatches coming in lively, & those from East very contradictory -- Lots of money up about town, argued result & on New York -- Screws too close for comfort in New York -- Home at 9 -- sat down & went to writing letter to Enterprise No 69 -- Took me usual time -- No sleep -- Bed at 5, after mailing it -- writing up this journal, etc -- I paid my taxes today, for the first time in some years -- It was for the
Paid my taxes $2.66 -- Hon JP Jones -- Bad cold
year 1884, on the following described real estate and property: Real estate $40, improvements $25-$65 -- at [$3.90???] per $100, $2.53 with school tax 20 per ct -- 13 cts; total $2.66 -- Lots 1, 8, 9, 10 Block 16, Austin North $40 -- Improvements, cabin stockade, $25 --
Friday Nov 7
The same -- Slept till 9 AM from 5 -- About town more or less -- Have a bad cold & feel bad -- Have worked too hard lately -- with too little rest or sleep -- AM was at cabin & cooked (boiled) a lot of eggs, & ate my breakfast there -- Election returns very conflicting and unsatisfactory -- Bed at 10 -- feeling miserable -- Rose at 2 & wrote letter to J P Jones, Gold Hill, & sent it off at 4 --
S D Baker
Saturday Nov 8
The same -- Rose at 9 -- PM I was about town some -- Evening wrote & mailed letter to
S D Baker Va City -- Did up some of my sewing & darning this PM & evening -- Bed at 12 --
Sunday Nov 9
The same -- PM about town and home -- Bed at 10 --
Grand Democratic Ratification
Monday Nov 10
Cloudy & chilly -- About town -- Democracy preparing for a grand Cleveland ratification blowout this evening -- putting up flags etc all along Main street and vicinity -- Evening at 7 the band was out and with procession marched to Upper Austin, came back on train of half a dozen flats with torches, beacons, etc. All got off at International -- AT Creswell and James Egan addressed the crowd from the International balcony -- Cannon firing on south hillside & a big sagebrush bonfire, up there -- 3 bonfires along Main st -- one in front of International one by Court House & one up at Joe Moss' -- Houses illuminated in windows, & lots of Chinese lanterns strung out in front -- gay -- reminded me of Gold Hill and
Eunice -- More writing -- paper
Virginia in times past, on such occasions -- Home -- commenced letter to Eunice but got sleepy, & went to bed at 12 --
Tuesday Nov 11
The same -- PM I wrote a 6 page lead pencil letter to Eunice and mailed it -- Evening down town -- Bed at 11 -- My supply of lead pencil writing paper I brought from
Gold Hill being exhausted I went to the Reveille office yesterday and bought 3 [quires???] for 2 bits a [quire???], and cut it to the right dimensions on the cutting machine --
J S Kaneen -- Maddrill's baby dead -- Telegram from Jones
Wednesday Nov 12
Cloudy & cooler -- Indications of a coming snowstorm -- About town -- Evening wrote letter to J S Kaneen, Va City, to mail tomorrow, asking about Centennial prospects and hopes -- Bed at 12 --
Thursday Nov 13
The same -- PM a light shower or 2 -- Maddrill's baby Sadie Carol, died yesterday PM, aged 18 months & 18 days -- born here -- Maddrill much worried -- Her mother old lady Cross came here a couple of weeks ago, & is now with her, -- so she takes it more calmly -- About 4 1/2 PM I got telegram from Jones in San F as follows: "Letter received -- Will try and do something within fifteen days". Evening
Enterprise 70 -- SD Baker -- Chas E Laughton -- On Reveille
down town short time -- Home -- at 10 I commenced Enterprise 70 at 4 took it down to hotel & saw it off -- Bed at 5 -- Got letter from SD Baker Va city -- and Lieut Gov. Laughton, Carson this morning --
Friday Nov 14
Clear cool & pleasant -- Rose at 9 1/2 -- At noon went to the REveille office & helped out as Maddrill was off, attending the funeral of his little one -- Wrote
