Wednesday
145 Years Ago
A large-sized bear trap was received at the store of E.B. Rail yesterday evening for some of our amateur bear hunters.
140 Years Ago
Yesterday afternoon, Dorsey Noteware went to the pantry to get some grape jelly and on reaching out for a glass jumped back a couple of yards on discovering a big snake already in possession. The reptile was coiled around three of the glasses and having broken the paper cover on one of them was enjoying the stolen sweets. His banquet was brought to an end by a blow by a club. The carmine was a garter snake and measured two feet, nine inches.
120 Years Ago
Flagged the train. Last night about midnight a westbound freight train in charge of conductor Rogers was flagged near Comus siding, about eight miles east of Golconda by a man who gives the name of George H. Hadlow. On stopping his train, conductor Rogers found that Hadlow, who was dressed only in a cotton shirt and one shoe, had removed a switch light from the Comus switch and was continuing westward in his nearly nude condition carrying the switch lamp (continued).
80 Years Ago
Constable A.H. Berning of Carlin, who was shot by a 15-year-old Indian youth attempting to escape with a stolen automobile, died in the hospital this morning.
40 Years Ago
Pages from the past, by Bill Dolan. 100 years ago. The prehistoric footprints at the state prison are really beginning to attract attention. The papers in the Atlantic states as well as in Europe are taking up the subject for serious and learned discussion.
20 Years Ago
The rescue of a 10-year-old California girl in Hawthorne after she was allegedly abducted from her Riverside, California home was the latest success story for the Amber Alert.
Thursday
145 Years Ago
The Indians dance now in progress on Swift’s ranch will be continued five nights. A large number of white people comprising both sexes went to witness the peculiar gyrations of the noble red men and their spouses last evening. Some of the pluckier ones when asked what all this spreeing means reply that “it’s no white man’s business.”
140 Years Ago
It is about time that the Carson brass band started into practice so that they may give us some good campaign music this fall.
120 Years Ago
(Flagged the train, continued) as he seemed unable to give any intelligible account to himself, he was placed in a boxcar and brought to Winnemucca where a pair of misfit trousers were procured for him, and he was placed in the local bastille. Today he seemed sufficiently rational and gives a peculiar account of his recent movements. He is a large, fat man and is afflicted to a remarkable degree by the stuttering habit. He declares he has never taken a drink in his life (continued).
80 Years Ago
Alcoholism took the lives of 21 persons in Nevada during the year 1940 the bureau of census of the U.S. Department of Commerce reported today, giving the state death rate at 19 per 100,000 people.
40 Years Ago
The mother of a slain Jacks Valley teenager says she learned the identity of the suspected killer from the radio and the manner of death and fact that her daughter had been sexually assaulted from the newspaper.
20 Years Ago
Salmon prices flounder.
Friday
145 Years Ago
Night before last there was a high, fallish wind. It blew many a back street clean of its accumulated papers and ash heaps and dust piles. “The Melan” – but that’ll do for the present.
140 Years Ago
Row at Empire. The usually quiet village of Empire is getting to be quite disreputable in the matter of street brawls and bar room fights. On Wednesday, an old man named Laws was severely beaten by another with whom he had been playing cards all night. The under man in the fight is seriously injured and may lose his life.
120 Years Ago
(Flagged the train, continued) and has never been inside a saloon in his life until last night, when he was compelled to enter a bar to get a piece of string to fortify his belt for a newly acquired pair of pants. His promise to never go into a bar was made to his mother. He says he was working for a short time for a grading outfit near Carlin, but that his movements, hampered by his excess of avoirdupois (continued).
80 Years Ago
Before the United States and its allies are victorious in the war now raging in all parts of the world, one out of every three male Nevadans between the ages of 20 and 45 will be in the armed services.
40 Years Ago
State general fund agencies have been ordered to prepare plans to trim this year’s budget by 15 percent to deal with the state’s deepening financial crisis, Gov. Robert List said today.
20 Years Ago
About 15 huge horses shuddered and snorted in their trailers like thoroughbreds at the starting gate, and when the doors opened, they bolted into freedom after three years near Pyramid Lake. The horses were kept by the BLM that feared starvation.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
