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Sunday Oct. 18
Same- Took 5:25 train for Reno- Found all right there- Bed 10- My eyes are now well from Catarrh- Nose very little plugged yet-
Notes to Bancroft & Co. 20 to Wife
Monday Oct. 19
Clear & very pleasant- Took morning train & was at Va at 10 AM- Went to Judge J W (Whitaker's) office- signed 4 notes to A L Bancroft & Co., each dated Oct. 19, 1885, for $41.92 each, payable respectively in 6, 9, 12, and 15 months, with interest at 10 cents per annum- aggregating $167.68- Took up my old notes, four of them, aggregating $101.70- The cents additional to them is the interest on them- Then I got $20 greenback and mailed it to my wife- PM a meeting of the Nevada Silver Association, at Pipers Opera House, and in evening Hon. Wm M Stewart, formerly US Senator from this State made an address at the same place on the
Wm M Stewart in Va Kinkead
Wife's letter returned from Bancroft
Silver question- good house- Col Shaw reported- 1 worked in office- Through at 2- Bed 3- On train coming up this morning, was Ex Gov. Ainkead of Nevada and Alaska, I being old chum of his, chatted with him most of way up from Carson where he got aboard- He has not been on Comstock before for nearly 2 yrs- Will go home tonight for Carson- In settling up with (Whiteker) atty for Bancroft & Co., he retunred to me the letter which was to my wife, & was missent that time to B& Co. by mistake-