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130 years ago

Deputy Sheriff E.J. Powers yesterday returned from Woodbridge after having safely delivered Timothy Corpy to the care of Drs. Landon & Clark of the insane asylum. Mr. Powers says that the institution is in all respects a model one, the inmates well cared for, and everything about the asylum indicates that the men that manage it are gentlemen.

100 years

State Detective White Wolf has been in Reno several days and has relieved the mystery surrounding the killing of R.J. Little by making the statement that within three weeks he will have the guilty persons behind prison bars. Yesterday White Wolf visited the scene of the crime and received inspiration from which the promise came.

70 years

Found at last: a left-handed monkey wrench at Conneaut, Ohio. When young Bill Tinker first started working at the docks the dock men sent him after a left-handed monkey wrench - but he fooled them, he found one! (The only difference is in the stem which regulates the jaws has a

left-handed thread.)

50 years

A plan is to be adopted to mark 500 miles of trails with eight foot steel posts, one quarter of a mile apart from Friday's station near Stateline, Lake Tahoe to the old station of 8-mile on the Utah border for the Pony Express Trail. About 2,000 posts will be obtained for the purpose.

20 years

In Virginia City there's a new high school, new middle school, new superintendent of schools and a new principal. All that is needed is a basketball coach.

10 years

History is our franchise: Editor Barry Smith tours the Sutro Tunnel, laments the V&T and comments on the loss of the V&T Roundhouse. "Northern Nevada doesn't need to reinvent itself. We're Carson City and Virginia City and Lake Tahoe and Reno - the history of the Old West like nowhere else."

• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.