Past Pages 10-26

BY Trent Dolan

130 years ago

An Apathetic Party: The Republican party in Nevada is practically making fight without leaders, ammunition or supplies. The rank and file are in the field full of confidence and enthusiasm, while the leaders are skulking in the rear, neither directing operations by their advice nor encouraging it with their assistance. Two millionaire Senators, Senator J. P. Jones and William Sharon, are allowing the State to drift away from old political moorings.

100 years ago

Southern Pacific has entered the fight to control the state. Thousands of railroad employees are being put into the field to secure Governor Dickerson's defeat. A winning fight made in the Railroad Commission has made the railroad sack the last ditch effort to dominate the people of Nevada by corporate rule.

70 years ago

The Yakima Sage Riders, one of the outstanding cowboy bands on the Pacific coast will start this week's engagement at the Carson Hot Springs. Yakima Bill and his tap dancing bull fiddle, acclaimed the fastest slap bass man on the coast with Nance Scottie and his talking violin, Missouri Bill, master of the electric guitar and Little Eva, yodeling cowgirl from the Valley of the Moon, assure there is not one dead head in the group.

50 years ago

Playing baseball while riding unicycles is one of the feats attributed to the Concord Unicyclists. The 40-member group ages 6 to 15 will participate in the Nevada Day activities this week.

20 years ago

The discovery of Bubonic Plague has closed Grover Hot Springs Park in Marleeville to the public.

10 years ago

A helicopter was key to carrying supplies up to workers trying to put the "C" in C-hill.

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