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on bus at 4 -- Bed at 5 1/2 -- During my nights work I boiled a nice beef tongue, fresh & good -- A little more snow, fell this morning before daylight --
Sunday Dec 14
A little more pleasant, but still threatening -- Slept till most noon -- Pm about town and home -- Evening was down town short time -- wrote letter to A J Beals, Virginia City -- Bed at 12 -- Got letter from sister Lizzie forwarded to me from Reno --
Telegraphing to Jones Beals dead Mary J Moriarty dead
Monday Dec 15
Cloudy & cool & threatening -- Telegraphed to Jones: "Must leave before Christmas. Shall I hear from you -- Answer." Got no reply at all - Helped Ed Booth on Reveille, writing, making out telegraph, reading proof etc -- wrote up death of Miss Mary J Moriarty, in Waitsfield, Vermont, 2 yrs ago last August -- She was one of the leading lady member of the Toiyabe Dramatic Club, which gave a performance at International Hall, shortly after I came -- Evening down town -- Bed at 1
Snow Springlike
Tuesday Dec 16
Cloudy and warmer with evident signs of a snow storm coming -- Felt like a Spring weather day -- Was about town -- Evening ditto -- Home at 12 -- read, etc -- Bed at 6 -- snowing --
Wednesday Dec 17
The same -- About an inch of snow this morning -- melted of very rapidly -- Slept till 11 AM -- Was about town -- Evening ditto -- Bed at 2 --
Thursday Dec 18
Cloudy but springlike & bland -- with a light shower in the Am -- PM I was up to mill, rode up on the motor, walked up to the Frost shaft & words -- found John
Up to Mines Maddrill returns Ed Booth's play
Frost there -- He will get me some good ruby silver specimens from the Lander, to take to Reno with me, when I go. Came home by way of cabin and took along a bag full of kindling wood -- Evening down town -- At Reveille office -- Met Getchell there, and we walked up Cedar street together, talking -- Then I went down to John Luljens' Saloon awhile Maddrill returned last night -- Met him on the street this noon & had short chat -- Home at 12 -- slept in chair a little -- wrote 5 pages of a play Ed Booth is getting up -- Bed at 5 -- Ed Booths play is a moral and domestic tragedy entitled "Life and Death" --
Telegraphing Jones Nevada Bank Oysters J M Dormer
Friday Dec 19
Cloudy -- Am I telegraphed to Jones "Please speak to me. I am all in the dark" -- And he allowed me to stay in the dark, for I got no reply -- Evening down town awhile -- Home at 11 -- slept in chair awhile -- wrote answer to letters of Nevada Bank, and John M Dormer -- Bed at 4 1/2 -- At Abe Sower's today I brought a square tin can of fresh oysters for 6 bits & had them for my dinner, raw, with pepper
[Illegible] etc. They were the Eastern transplanted oyster from San Francisco, only put up as ordered by telegraph, so are fresh as right out of the shell - 1st introduction -- delicious --
Saturday Dec 20
Cloudy -- light snowstorm during the Am -- melted as it fell -- Got letter from Dondero -- telegraphed Charley W Crane San Francisco: "Where is Senator Jones, and when does he start East?" -- Evening an official response came as follows: "Chas W Crane, 330 Pine street says yours today signed Doten is not for him. Get some address. Barry. SF 20." Now I am nonplussed, Evening down town -- Home at 12 Bed at 3 -- Rained lightly during forepart of night and blew furiously all night -- Very threatening weather -- This evening Tony Gandolfo of the International presented me with a dozen fresh shell oysters direct from the East -- He received
A Genuine Oyster Treat Big Rain
a barrel full -- about 600 -- in prime order -- Gave me a lime to eat with them -- Took them home and ate them raw, squeezing the lime over them, with salt and pepper -- They were simply delicious and far ahead of any oysters I have eaten this side of America -- A glorious treat -- This barrel of oysters cost Tony about $20, laid down here
Sunday Dec 21
Decidely rainy -- Commenced raining at daylight, and rained lightly but very
steadily all day with strong wind from the West & North -- much rain fell -- Evening till midnight the rain poured still harder -- Last night the wind blew,
Strongest Wind Dondero Rain Rich rock Lizzie CW Crane
harder than I have known it since I have been here -- Perfectly fearful at times -- Was up to cabin awhile this PM -- Another letter from Donder this morning -- Evening down town awhile -- Wrote letter to Sister Lizzie, Charles Dondero and Chas W Crane -- Bed at 6 -- Storm apparently over, stars out, sky clear, etc -- At noon today John Frost, the general superintendent of the surface machinery of the Manhattan mines, left a nice bag of rich specimens of ruby silver for me, at the Post office & I took them home _ About 10 pounds, from the Lander, worth two or three dollars a pound --
Stormy Telegraph from Chubbuck Jones at the Palace
Monday Dec 22
Weather very blustering and threatening with strong wind -- Light rain for an hour or so about sunset -- Storming heavily to the westward, other side of Reese River Vally all the PM -- Wires working badly across the Sierra all day -- no press report -- PM was at telegraph office awhile & Chubbuck of Gold Hill asked Schiveley, our operator about me -- Wanted to know, when I was coming and invited me and wife to come to Gold Hill and stay with them during the school Institute of 2 days -- Then I asked him where J P Jones was & he told me at Palace Hotel & would be for a week yet -- Evening down town awhile -- Home at 11 -- read & wrote etc -- wrote
Christmas Goods J P Jones Mill Shuts Down 44 deg above
letter to Jones, and mailed it on 'bus at 4 -- Bed at 5 -- The stormy weather subsided after dark and cleared up fine before midnight -- Freezing cold -- Mill shut down for annual clean up this evening --
Tuesday Dec 23
AM clear & pleasant -- PM clouded up, cool & chilly -- I about town -- PM at home at odd jobs -- Evening down town awhile -- Home Sat up overhauling and destroying letter from my hook -- Bed at 2 -- Thermometer 44 above zero -- looks like rain -- The variety store Wright's, Sower's and Hopkins were crowded this evening with people buying toys and Christmas goods -- Churches being beautifully trimmed & prepared for Christmas --
Christmas Services & popcorn
Wednesday Dec 24
Generally pleasant and Springlike with streaks of warm sunshine and bold clouds -- Morning a light shower of rain -- On the lookout for something from J P Jones, but got nothing telegraphic or otherwise -- Evening all three churches held Christmas tree services, the Catholic at International Hall, the Methodist & Episcopal at their respective churches -- All three about the same -- tress full of presents, etc -- The Episcopal through first, I attended the other two & captured strings of popcorn from the trees, after the shower were over -- Was at John Luitjens' -- saloon awhile and then home & then after reading awhile -- bed at 1 1/2
