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
The Chronicle of last evening relates that Mr. Griffin is a miner employed in the Consolidated Virginia. He had just risen from bed and lighted the fire in the kitchen stove and went out to get more wood when the stove exploded, injuring Mrs. Griffin, who is about ready to give birth to a child. The explosion is thought to have occurred by the presence of a giant powder cartridge in a piece of firewood.
140 Years Ago
John Fountain, the clothing thief, while working in a gang in charge of William Riddler in the southern part of the city, yesterday made an attempt to escape, but he was soon recaptured and will now work on the street with a chain and ball ornament.
120 Years Ago
The Esmeralda County grand jury at their last meeting, authorized the employment of a surveyor to re-survey the boundary line between Esmeralda and Nye counties with the view of determining in which county Tonopah is located.
80 Years Ago
The initial ration of sugar next month will be one pound per person for a period of two weeks.
40 Years Ago
Their dreams last longer than quick jabs or the desire. Most never realize the dreams their retinas detach before they see big paychecks. Scar tissue cakes over their eyes, drops and forms blinders of knotted skin. Blinders hang for life. The good boxers reach the top, the lucky ones quit before they’re damaged permanently. The smart ones know when to quit.
20 Years Ago
The mushroom clouds that lit Nevada’s skies in the 1950s and 1960s will be seen once again, this time on a new license plate commemorating the test site.
Thursday
145 Years Ago
A cowardly and cold-blooded murder was committed at a wood camp a few miles from Truckee this morning. It seems that the teamsters at the camp had gone to the woods for their first load and were on their way back to camp when those in front were startled by the loud cries of “murder” from the hindmost man. Upon investigation it was thought he was thrown from the wagon, but on further investigation he was shot in the back.
140 Years Ago
“Needles,” the tragedian, has already been arrested at Virginia for drunkenness. Upon his promise to at once leave for Candelaria he was released from custody. It is more than an even bet that this poor devil will put in an appearance here in less than forty-eight hours.
120 Years Ago
The first batch of tagless dogs was taken in yesterday by the sheriff. If you are shy a dog, today go to the pound, where it will cost double the price of the tag to take him out. All tag-less dogs will be destroyed, says the sheriff.
80 Years Ago
The age of the Rocky Mountain quartzite of southern Alberta in Canada, long a subject of debate among geologists, has been determined by Dr. Harry Wheeler of the University of Nevada. The rocks are aged at 220 million years ago.
40 Years Ago
An earth satellite detected a slight decrease in sunshine between February 1980 and last August, possibly contributing to this past winter’s severe conditions, a space agency says.
20 Years Ago
After raising trout for nearly three months, science students released their classroom pets into the Carson River on Friday.
Friday
145 Years Ago
There is a camp of Gypsies near Virginia City. They pick up many a foolish one’s dollar. They are patronized by both sexes; and not along the simple or frail, but some who are wise in many things. They came across the plains in their own wagons. In short, they keep up all the traditional fashions of the Gypsy race.
140 Years Ago
Mike McGowan surnamed the “Man Eater,” put in an appearance here late on Tuesday night, pretty drunk. He was taken to jail where he remained until yesterday, when, upon promising to “swear off” was released. Mike has a case pending in Virginia and is now out on bail.
120 Years Ago
One of the Corey brothers who have the contract for the cut being made through Brown’s hill at Rockeby, has a portion of a mastodon’s tusk in his possession which was recently uncovered, in Humboldt County. The tusk, which is about eight inches long, was found twenty-eight feet below the surface.
80 Years Ago
American bomber squadrons have carried the war to Japan through surprise raids on Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagoya in the boldest United Nations air blows ever truck from France to the tropical islands of the southwest Pacific.
40 Years Ago
A special meeting of the Carson City School Board will be held tonight to review and possibly approve a new contract calling for a 7.9 percent raise.
20 Years Ago
Nevada Power has been warned by state utility regulators not to make any rash cost-cutting decisions following the loss of two big rate hikes.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
