Saturday
145 Years Ago
A disgraceful encounter between two railroad men took place last evening about 6 o’ clock in a saloon opposite the railroad depot. Both men were powerfully built, and the manner in which they hammered each other was a warning. They were eventually separated by lookers on, and their facial appearances were anything but pleasant to behold. No arrests.
140 Years Ago
The atmosphere yesterday was nearly as close as the day before, and it had not been for the clouds overhead the heat would have been almost unbearable.
120 Years Ago
Insurance warning. Insurance commissioner Davis has received numerous complaints recently of the doings of a man named Muier, who is soliciting for insurance companies who have no right to do business in Nevada, by reason of not having paid their annual license. He took money from people in Douglas County for the Washington Life, and they claim they have never received their policies. Muier is not reported as soliciting for the Germania. He has been two or three times in jail and his methods are such that it makes it almost impossible for other insurance solicitors to transact business.
80 Years Ago
On exhibition at the Red Cross production rooms in the civic auditorium is a beautiful woolen quilt. The blocks for the quilt were cut from wooden scraps and were put together by the members of the L.D.S. Relief Society.
40 Years Ago
The board of supervisors will hold a public hearing Thursday on a proposal to establish a spaying and neutering clinic at the east end of Mills Park.
20 Years Ago
Volunteers are needed to make candy for the 82nd Candy Dance and Crafts Fair. Preparation starts on Monday at the town hall kitchen.
Sunday
145 Years Ago
More about drainage. The drainage situation is assuming a more serious aspect day by day. How soon are measures to be contrived for the abatement of this mephitic nuisance? How much longer are the people of Carson to be subjected to having their nostrils nightly filled with the nauseating vapors which arise from the overflowing cesspools and deficient drainage? The lethargy on the part of the authorities in relation to this matter is wonderfully incomprehensible, we may say inexcusable.
140 Years Ago
A strange drunken man drew a revolver on another in front of the St. Charles Hotel on Sunday. No arrests.
120 Years Ago
A second tragedy has followed the celebrated Modoc lynching case. Edward Kennedy some weeks ago was murdered as he passed along an unfrequented road, presumably because of testimony he had given at Modoc that Robert Courtwright, who was one of the witnesses at the trial, had been poisoned to death.
80 Years Ago
The war and the navy and the post office departments have agreed upon Nov. 1 as the deadline for mailing Christmas packages to men in service overseas.
40 Years Ago
Carson City’s Industrial Wastewater board of appeals was dissolved this summer because it had never met, and it seemed useless to make appointments to a group that wasn’t needed.
20 Years Ago
Battered by the economic slump and the effects of Sept. 11, Nevada casinos posted their worst year in a decade, finishing the fiscal year 3.7 percent behind the total winnings of 2001.
Tuesday
145 Years Ago
At a very early hour yesterday morning, at a time when all good people should be clasped in the soothing embraces of Morpheus, two members of the Demi-monde were engaged in a war of words in the neighborhood of the Ormsby House. It was all smoke and no fire.
140 Years Ago
The Good Templar lodge of this city has surrendered its charter. It was organized in 1865, but King Alcohol got the better of it.
120 Years Ago
Sheriff Kinney was telling last night of a surprising fish experience he had up in Strawberry Valley a few weeks ago. He was taking fish out of the stream pretty lively when suddenly the clouds began to gather, and he saw he was up against a thunderstorm. The lightnings began to play and he was about to give up angling for the day when he thought he would make one more cast. His effort was rewarded, and he pulled a two-pound trout out of the pool. As it was being swung over his head, a tremendous clap of thunder rent in the air (continued).
80 Years Ago
When detective Miles E. Ledbetter and Don Houghton went to sleep on the Reno to Los Angeles train, they had two prisoners securely handcuffed to their bunks. When they awoke, they had one prisoner, one set of empty handcuffs, one empty holster and two sets of empty pockets.
40 Years Ago
Carson City’s representative in the national Bobby Sox tournament faces elimination if it loses today.
20 Years Ago
Tuesday’s helicopter roundup of horses form the Virginia range needed 78 horses, lots of which will be sent to a sanctuary in California, said the director the Nevada Department of Agriculture.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
