Looking west from William Street at the Dutch Mill restaurant, corner of William and Carson streets in the 1950s or '60s.
Wednesday
145 years ago
Eighty-three thousand dollars received at the State Treasury from the Virginia mines yesterday. The State Treasury was empty. It can now pay all liabilities.
120 years ago
Twenty-five new residences have been erected in Wadsworth during the past year and other improvements made which will show a large increase in the town’s taxable property for 1901.
100 years ago
During the day Julian E. Guinean, steward of the state prison for the past several years, tendered his resignation to the prison board. In resigning Guinean made a sensational statement, filled with charges against the board of management and also against some of the prison officials. The charges were filed with the secretary of the board, Homer Mooney.
80 years ago
Patrolling the Sierra Pacific Power Co. lines by airplane is the newest and, in addition, the quickest method yet devised, reports the Lovelock Review-Miner.
50 years ago
About 50 inmates at the Nevada Prison’s maximum security facility today were allowed to return to their duties, but the remainder of the general population is still being confined to their cells, the Warden said today. The confinement has been in effect since last Friday when a riot between about 60 black and white inmates broke out in the dining hall.
20 years ago
The Stewart Indian School Museum is allegedly closed for asbestos abatement and inventory. But the museum’s artifacts have been removed from the building at the behest of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The building has stood vacant for several weeks.
Thursday
145 years ago
Blind Tom, the great musical wonder, will appear at the Carson Theater to-morrow night. Blind Tom’s playing has been pronounced by the greatest musicians as marvelous, and the manner in which he interprets the works of the great masters sets criticism at defiance.
120 years ago
A Noisy Banner. Yesterday the big banner for the headquarters of the Carnival Committee was strung. It extends clear across the street and is about eight feet wide. It is certainly “noisy” and those who cannot see it can hear it blocks away. The streamer reads: “Headquarters Carson City Carnival and Street Fair Committee.” It is a good piece of work, being painted in the Carnival colors.
100 years ago
Following the filing of charges against the prison directorate yesterday by Julian Guinean, one of the employees, both members of the board ordered a hearing fo the matter and set June 23rd as the date. The charges are of such a nature that a full investigation is to be held.
80 years ago
Thomas J.D. Salter, department commander of the Nevada American Legion, today indicated that the Legion is giving serious consideration to combating “saboteurs” who desecrated cemeteries in Nevada on Memorial Day. He referred to a series of acts which occurred almost simultaneously in wide-separated parts of Nevada, and apparently directed against war veterans.
50 years ago
Three Carson City area girls this morning were elected to city office during the Annual Girls State which began Monday at Stead. Named to the office of mayor of the fictional city of Armagosa was Lisa Landing of Carson City. Another Carson city delegate, Sandy Flanary, was elected city councilman of Humboldt. Joyce Marshall of Minden has been named city attorney.
20 years ago
After three days of coaxing, Leighanne Shirley finally got 6-year-old Dylan to climb the 28 steps leading to the top of Carson Aquatic Facility’s new water slide.
Friday
145 years ago
Grain Blow up by the Roots. — Carson Valley News is informed of the Valley ranchers that the wind has done the crops more damage than the storms and frost, particularly on sandy soil. The wind shakes the stalks, which loosens the earth around the roots and is blown away, until finally the grain is either entirely uprooted and scattered broadcast or its roots so exposed to the weather that it soon dies.
120 years ago
The offer of a fifty dollar prize for champion riders and a percentage of the gate receipts, has caused a great excitement among the various bronco busters of the State. The riders in Douglas claim to be the champions of the earth, but this claim is disputed by the riders who work round Topaz for Tom Rickey. The Mason Valley cowboys insist they will get to the front. They say that when they ride into a Pizen Switch saloon and throw a lariat over a red hot stove and snake it up the street and then snake it back again and throw it square on its legs and never spill a coal out, and all while the bar keeper is drawing a glass of beer.
100 years ago
A Passing Review. By The Notator. (Editorial) The beds of the warden and superintendent of the state police of Nevada have never been quilted with flowers. Go over the list and see what has happened at various times — Considine, Baker, Day, Maxwell, Cowing Dickerson, — all fired, or pressed to resign — one cause or another that did not suit the appointive board, rendering their services undesired less. Some one has always put a chili-capons in the soup and it grew too hot for comfort.
80 years ago
The Times-Bonanza reports that Death Valley Scotty when in Tonopah last week to confer with Governor Carville regarding an improved highway from the Tonopah-Las Vegas route to the mouth of Grapevine Canyon, boasted, “I sure foxed those wise guys.” Scotty, attired in his famous red necktie and white shirt, western hat and blue serge trousers, was referring to the recent Los Angeles court suit in which Julian Gerard, attempted to gain a portion of the desert character’s wealth.
50 years ago
The legend of Susan’s Bluff, located about two miles east of Dayton along the Carson River, is a familiar story to old-timers — but unfamiliar to most of the newer arrivals in the area.
20 years ago
Seattle-based Starbucks Coffee Co. has signed a purchase and sale agreement with the owners of Carson Valley Business Park to build a 300,000 square-foot coffee roasting band packaging plant in Douglas County.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.