130 YEARS AGO
A group of Chinese gardeners are digging a tunnel into a hill a little south of Major Gardner's residence. The hole is large enough to permit a man standing erect in it, and some 25 feet in depth. The Celestials are very reticent as to their motives or object in running this tunnel. A number of them are standing guard over the hole every night. They will furnish no information.
100 YEARS AGO
What for a moment startled the Reno authorities into the belief that a secondary clue to the perpetrator of the Little murder has been found, when an Indian squaw known as Topsy was found dead yesterday within a half mile of the recent tragedy. She had been missing a month. Topsy was the mother of Lizzie Astor, the Indian mahala who was sent to Carson last year for stabbing a companion under the V&T Bridge. The Little mystery is still under development.
70 YEARS AGO
The highway bridge near Verdi, abandoned when replaced by another and more suitable structure, was blown up this morning. Thirteen hundred sticks of dynamite were loaded into 1,600 holes. The blast was determined to be a success. Traffic was held up long enough on the highway to let the dust clear away.
50 YEARS AGO
Providing exact copies of information which appears in newspapers now on microfilm at the State Library will no longer be a problem. Arrival of a microfilm printer machine to the existing machine will make it possible to print a copy of a paper in 15 seconds.
20 YEARS AGO
Gov. Bob Miller and his wife Sandy will have their third child, and only the second child to be born "in" the governor's mansion since first occupied in 1909. June Dickerson was the first child born in the mansion in 1909.
10 YEARS AGO
Parking on East Fifth Street will be allowed for two more weeks until the state completes repaving and stripes the street for bike lanes. After that, parking will be banned.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.