Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Prison escape: (continued). Two men dropped by the wigwam of Jake Winter’s, employed on his ranch in Jacks Valley. They ransacked the premises of flour, bacon and edibles on hand and decamped without remunerating the proprietor for his goods. Jake is quite sure they were escaped prisoners, but decided he did not care to take any chances.
130 Years Ago
Bigelow & Hall: If you want to laugh, go see Bigelow & Hall’s Refined Comedy Co. at the Opera House—a black faced comedian Geo W. Moore, everybody’s favorite; Miss Dottie Dimple, champion lady gig dancer of the world; New York’s favorite comedian, Mr. Lawrence Murphy; Mr. Lew Tower, our dear female impersonator on operatic selections; Mr. Burt Durand, the King of neat song artists and Mr. Harry Hall our popular Dutch comedian.
120 Years Ago
Advertisements: “Geo. E. Kitzmeyer, Undertaking Parlors. My Method of Undertaking is UpToDate. Parlors—at Furniture Store, Opposite Post office.”
100 Years Ago
Circus coming: Palmer Brothers three-ringed animal circus is being billed for October. This show comes highly recommended, and it is certain that the town will be filled with strangers, for a circus gets them all.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theatre, ‘Corky of Gasoline Alley,’ also Rex Allen in ‘Thunder in God’s Country.’”
20 Years Ago
Piper’s Opera House: A federal grant of $400,000 was received from ‘Save Americas Treasures. “We were one of 55 chosen out of a total of 368 grant applications nationally,” according to board member Don Bush.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Prison escape: Two convicts were taken, Prisoners Squires and Williams. They were found near the head of six-mile canyon in a tunnel. Prisoners Morton, Black and Roberts (badly wounded) were captured. They acknowledged killing of the pony express rider, Wm. Poor of Aurora.
Four more escaped convicts were seen at Moore’s station, twenty miles from Placerville. Dick Yarrold suspecting the character of the men, rushed in and caught one of them by the neck, but failed to ascertain his name.
130 Years Ago
The first day of the Fair. Every inch of the pavilion is filled with exhibitors. Some of the displays were showing native raw and crude gold that were pure enough to send to the Mint without refining.
120 Years Ago
All sorts: The Indians are beginning to return from Pine Nut. They report the crop big and the nuts of unusual size.
100 Years Ago
Jarring up the livers: The city trustees have the street crew busy gathering up the rocks on the road on the north end of Carson street. Several truckloads of rock that have been jarring up the livers of the autoists [sic] are being taken to some other point of vantage.
70 Years Ago
Photo caption: Backs crusade—Ralph Thomas, secretary to Governor Charles H. Russell, signs his name to the scroll in the Crusade for Freedom.
20 Years Ago
Lean times: Economic fallout from the World Trade Center attacks is spreading across the country. Manufacturers, airlines, restaurants and hotels have announced layoffs with involuntary vacations and salary cuts. The first thing financial planners recommend is to build up as much emergency savings as possible.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Prison escape: F. M. Isaacs, the State Prison guard who fought so bravely in the break and was desperately wounded, had his right leg amputated. It was badly shattered and gangrene had set in. (He died three weeks later.)
Robert Dedman, the brave prisoner who fought to stop the break at the State Prison on the 17
th of September, was pardoned and restored to citizenship by the Board of Pardons.
By the middle of November, 18 of the 29 convicts were captured, two hung and nine still at large.
130 Years Ago
Exhibits: The most interesting exhibits are in the Agricultural Experimentation, under the charge of R. H. McDonald with 200 varieties of grain and grasses grown in Nevada. He has 14 varieties—7 oats, 7 barley, brown corn, sorghum, millet, flax and hemp and a novelty in the way of “vegetable peaches.” Others exhibits include Leslie Bell with groceries, liquors and teas, E. B. Rail with a hardware exhibit, Abe Cohn with shorts and gentlemen’s furnishing goods, Hofer Bros. with neatly arranged display of ladies’ dress goods, Miss Lohman with a beautiful millinery exhibit and A. E. Harris with a display of toilet articles and perfumery.
120 Years Ago
Tuscarora: A man has made it his business to terrorize women and children alone in their homes. A subscription paper has been circulated and $70 raised as a reward for his arrest and conviction.
100 Years Ago
Born: In Reno, Nev., September 29, 1921, to the wife of P. A. McCarran, a son.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theatre—‘Goodbye My Fancy,’ with Joan Crawford, Frank Lovejoy, Robert Young, Eve Arden. A highly diverting sophisticated comedy from the Broadway stage success. Cartoon-News.”
20 Years Ago
Advertisement: “The Biggest Event in Nevada! Nevada Day 2001! “Where the Past meets the Future.” The official Nevada Day weekend starts on Saturday, October 27
th, and ends on Monday, October 29
th.”
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
