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2/ that C. D. Robinson arrived in Yosemite about a week ago. Probably he will inform you of what is doing. The ring? have
got a firmer clutch on affairs than ever before. They have got Barmard s hotel. Barnard s lease expires with this year, and
the house has been leased to one A. B. Glasscock, who has been in the stage company s employ, and who recently has run the
eating house at Raymond. The scheme was worked by Glasscock s wife, whose relations with A. H. Washburn, and certain of the
Yosemite Commission, has been a subject for general and open comment during a long time. How would it do to add a paragraph
like the following to the article on California s Interest in the Yosemite: The hotel hitherto leased by Mr. Barnard has been
known as the Yosemite Falls House. It has changed hands, and will here-after be known as the Yosemite Whore House . 06369