Daun Bohall Collection/Nevada State Museum
145 years ago
The School Building of the Sisters. — We are informed that so soon as the brick shall be burnt, the contemplated buildings of the Catholic Sisters will be commenced. We learn that one will be a large edifice and will be constructed of stone and brick. It must be confessed that the lot of ground selected for the purpose, that recently purchased of M.Y. Stewart, is as eligible a location as could have been found in the State.
140 years ago
There are now ten or twelve cases of typhoid fever in the city but none are regarded by the physicians as of a dangerous type. The disease is not contagious as is generally supposed, but is sometime epidemic and caused by defective drainage. A pool of stagnant water is more apt to cause typhoid fever than other cases in which people are brought in contact.
130 years ago
Fruit trees all over Carson are in bloom, and if the frosts will hold off a while longer, a big fruit crop is assured.
120 years ago
The Indian Acquitted. Mike, the Indian charged with the murder of Wm. Moore, was acquitted b the jury that tried him in Genoa. The case went to the jury Thursday and the verdict returned. The Courier says: Indian Charlie George swore positively that he saw Mike shoot Wm. Moore, but evidently the jury did not believe the witness. It is probable that if Charley George testified falsely the Indians will take care of him.
100 years ago
Tonight the Grand theater presents a classic play from a classic story, “The Last of the Mohicans,” J. Fenimore Cooper’s everlasting story, staged and filmed with all of the realities that boys and girls of the past generation dreamed over.
Thursday
145 years ago
Universal Regret. — The news received here yesterday that the House of Representatives had refused to make the usual appropriation for our Mint was received throughout our town with expressions of universal regret.
140 years ago
While the race track is being built at Treadway’s the Carson Guard rifle team will practice at the old range, near the planing mill on the railroad track.
130 years ago
A Grand Turk. On the overland train this morning was a grand Turk, in traditional fez and costumer, and all the dignity of oriental grandeur. He didn’t have much of a harem with him, and was leisurely eating his breakfast in company with an officer in a gorgeous costume. The grand Turk shoveled his hash with a fork. — Gazette.
120 years ago
Next Sunday the Carson baseball nine will cross bats with the “Crystals” of Virginia City. This should be a very interesting game as both nines are well selected.
100 years ago
Cutting First Crop. The first crop of trimmings from the Capitol lawn is under process of cutting. The cool weather of the month kept the haying operations back several days, but from this time on it is expected that there will be a continuous performance.
Friday
145 years ago
A Boraxian, now in this city, is confident that the projected road from here to Columbus is superior to all other routes.
140 years ago
For sometime past the Paiutes have been bitterly complaining of the treatment they have received at the hands of the government. The Silver State has the following: Naches is here, in a quandary. At the close of the Bannock war, a number of Paiutes, who were peaceable and saved the lives of white settlers, were, by a blunder of the Interior Department, sent to Yakima Reservation, in Washington Territory, with the hostiles, and treated the same as the Indians that were on the war path. Naches, Old Winnemucca and Sarah Winnemucca went to Washington to intercede for the peaceable Indians.
130 years ago
A Would-be Jack the Ripper. Wednesday morning Sheriff Botsford found a young Virginia City dime novel fiend in Carson, who had on his person two large knives. He had been in town two or three days, and the Sheriff sent home to his parents immediately, thus probably averting several terrible murders, and is very fortunate that he was gotten rid of before he decided to kill a few people.
120 years ago
John T. Walker of Winnemucca, who was supposed to have been fatally wounded by parties who attempted to drive home from an oil claim near McKittreck, Cal., is on the road to recovery.
100 years ago
Sixty-five thousand girls disappeared last year in the United States without leaving a trace, it was declared in a story brought to the National Congress of Mothers’ and Parents’ and Teachers’ associations in convention in Washington D.C. today.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.