Carson City looking north from the top of the Capitol building in 1871.
Wednesday
145 years ago
The Fire on top of the Sierra was very bright last night. A great deal of waste stuff, old limbs, logs, etc., adds fuel to the blaze, and it is like to burn until a strong rain comes.
140 years ago
Last evening there was a meeting of representatives of the Masonic and Odd Fellows Associations at J. Kersey’s office to complete the arrangements for supplying the cemetery with water. It is proposed to lay seven thousand feet of iron pipe and eight thousand feet of wooden pipe with an inverted siphon 75 feet in depth.
120 years ago
The Relay Race. Sunday will witness a relay race at the track in this city. Although it will hardly be as fast and the big race in Reno a few weeks ago, it will be just as exciting and just as hotly contested. As the men are to ride two miles, one may expect some records.
80 years ago
Senator P.A. McCarran wired the Appeal last night that as chairman of the conference committee between senate and house members on the Nevadan’s cattle theft bill, 1261, making it a federal offense to transport stolen cattle in interstate commerce.
50 years ago
The Lancer, a familiar restaurant and lounge south of Reno on the Mt. Rose Highway was destroyed by fire, a dispatcher for the Nevada Division of Forestry said. A newsman at the scene said only two walls of the one-story brick structure remained.
20 years ago
Carson City’s water supply got a much needed break on Tuesday with a 24-hour city-enforced stop to all garden watering.
Thursday
145 years ago
Mr. Seymour Pixley, long of time and of reach and of gear and build, he came hither yesterday with an eye to the Pioneer Picnic, its movement, arrangements, and so on. Away back among the front pioneers, dates Seymour. Have known him, man and body these hundred year or more. Ask him about his services in the Russian Army. He is a “vet” in that ancient organization.
140 years ago
According to the Winnemucca Silver State the Indians of the Humboldt section report the pine nut crop as being the best for years. The nuts will be ready to harvest about the first of September, and they propose to have a big fandango here before they commence gathering the crop.
120 years ago
Strikes are as common as house flies these days. Even the sun seems to have gone into the business and is making things pretty hot for all parties concerned.
80 years ago
Attorney Homer Mooney wen to Lincoln Park, Lake Tahoe, this afternoon to clear up a mystery in connection with his summer home at the lake. Last evening on returning from Reno Mr. Picked up a young chap who had started to hitch hike to Tahoe. Mooney not only gave the young man a ride. When he decided to spend the night at his Tahoe home, he found a strange car in the driveway, which was occupied. He deemed it prudent to go home to Carson and go back today to investigate.
50 years ago
Registration at Western Community College in Carson City is going well, according to a local spokesman, but emphasized that those still interested in registered should do so as soon as possible.
20 years ago
The Carson River is low. Mexican Ditch, the artery that feeds Carson City’s Riverview Park wetlands is dry. Hundreds of fish are slowly dying in the mire that was once a pond. The clean up should be completed today.
Friday
145 years ago
Hot corn! — Clem Berry once more steaks the street crying “Hot Corn.” Clem’s voice fills the still evening air like unto the snore of an able-bodied sleeper sleeping his heaviest.
140 years ago
A Case of Mother-In-Law. Mr. Clem Berry stated yesterday to an Appeal reporter that the reports that he had heated his wife were all false. he was arrested at the instigation of his mother-in-law, who, ever since his marriage, has been interfering in his family affairs. He defies any living man to show that he ever struck a woman in his life.
120 years ago
Last summer the hotel at Woodfords burned to the ground and the many friends of Mrs. Merril wondered how she would manage to build another popular resort. The ground had hardly grown cold when she had lumber on the road, furniture ordered, and a force of men building a new hotel. The new hotel erected by this plucky woman is, if anything, an improvement over the old one.
80 years ago
Angelo Bernardino has purchased Larry Cavagnaugh’s interest in the Central Barber Shop and is now the sole owner of the business.
50 years ago
District Attorney Stanley Smart in Lyon County said he will seek a permanent injunction shutting down the county’s houses of prostitution. Five houses near Yerington have managed to avoid repeated attempts to have them closed as public nuisances.
20 years ago
Following tensions between the board of Piper’s Opera House and the Nevada Shakespeare Festival, the theater company is leaving.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.