Photo provided Tallac pier is advertised in this undated historical photo.
Saturday
145 Years Ago
At the meeting of the board of city trustees on Monday evening, a petition signed by leading citizens was read to compel the ranchers west of the city to allow a portion of the water to flow through the city limits. It is to be hoped that this will be accomplished, if for nothing else than to cleanse the sewers.
140 Years Ago
An Indian named Bob was so drunk yesterday that he tore the short off from his person, presenting as beautifully a tattooed bust as a South Sea islander.
120 Years Ago
The Wells Fargo stage from Candelaria was held up last night. The robbery occurred when the stage had reached a point about a mile from Tonopah. The deed was done by one man who succeeded in getting away with the treasure box. The amount stolen was not stated. The sheriff and constable were notified and followed the trail into Tonopah. The robber is somewhere in the town, and they apprehend not much difficulty in detecting him and placing him under arrest.
80 Years Ago
Sheriff Cecil R. Thorington, captain Cal Brumbaugh of the highway patrol and W.B. Evans spent the greater part of last Friday night in the Twin Lakes area and in the country around Summers Meadows searching for parachutists which were seen to come floating down out of the sky around dusk. Campers also reported seeing flares and hearing a shot or shots that same evening around Twin Lakes.
40 Years Ago
Some 1,400 firefighters representing 70 fire departments from Nevada, California, Oregon, and Washington competed recently in the 3rd annual Comstock Muster/West Coast Championships.
20 Years Ago
The super Wal-Mart opens at 3770 Highway 395 South of Carson City.
Sunday
145 Years Ago
The pernicious, deleterious and much condemned habit of opium smoking is again making itself manifest among a low order of a doubtful stratum of society. Sunday afternoon, several women who were not like Caesar’s wife, could have been seen ending their way leisurely towards Chinatown, where it was their fixed purpose to intoxicate themselves with the fumes of that poisonous drug.
140 Years Ago
Preparations were being made yesterday to put gas into the streetlamps. The escaped state prison trusty has not yet been captured. Let him slide.
120 Years Ago
Friday night a moonlight picnic will be given at Cooks ranch, which should be one of the most enjoyable affairs office the season. The time has about passed this season when a moonlight picnic can be held, and this is the first and last of the season the pleasure lovers will be there in full force. For an all-around good time, a moonlight picnic leads the earth.
80 Years Ago
August Berning Jr. left Carson early this morning for Elko. According to the last reports from the Elko hospital, the condition of his brother, a Carlin constable shot while performing his duties as a peace officer, was very serious, and doctors held little hope for his recovery. Berning was shot after stopping two youths who stole a vehicle in Elko.
40 Years Ago
In what was described as “a bizarre combination of happenings” four Douglas County residents died in the past few days from traffic accidents and murders. Another person was injured in a rape/stabbing incident. In a large city this would be normal, but for tranquil Douglas County, the crimes and sudden deaths are a source of bewilderment.
20 Years Ago
Fallon — Unusually high levels of arsenic and tungsten were found in residents of a small agricultural and military town hit by an epidemic of childhood leukemia, federal scientists reported Tuesday.
Tuesday
145 Years Ago
A moonlight stroll brought us face to face with the new ward schoolhouse on Warm Springs Road. There is already a decided academic air about it. Mr. Donahue, the energetic contractor, is evidently devoting his most vigorous energies to the work.
140 Years Ago
Dangerous. There should be an ordinance passed prohibiting Indians from carrying weapons while within city limits. It is not an unusual thing to see a drunken Washoe with a revolver or huge dirk strapped to his side.
120 Years Ago
On Friday evening, the 29th inst., a farewell dance will be given to the departing school marms of Empire. The boys down at the seaport have ranged to make it an occasion of note, and they wish the rest of the valley to know that if they expect to be counted in, they had better be on hand. The young ladies will leave for their various schools before Monday.
80 Years Ago
Mathias C. Rinckel passed away at 10:45 a.m. its forenoon in the family home in which he was born 65 years ago the 15th of last April. Mr. Rinckel dropped into a sleep and the end thus came with unexpected suddenness, despite the fact that of his illness over a period of a year or longer and realization that survival beyond a few more days was unlikely.
40 Years Ago
Carson City officials hopes and plans for a city hall are changing direction, due to two factors. The first is a federal increase in contributions for improvement and expansion of the sewer treatment plant and the second is serious consideration to purchase a four-story building on West King Street.
20 Years Ago
Flying motorcycles will twist and turn 40 feet in the air this week during one of the new attractions at the Nevada State Fair.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
