Nevada State Library and Archives photo Carson City Fire Station No. 1 was built in 1954 to house the all-volunteer Warren Engine Company.
Saturday
145 Years Ago
Hank Monk reports that Lake Tahoe was so rough yesterday that it prevented many tourists on both sides from crossing.
140 Years Ago
Fond of domestic life. It is said that Clem Berry is about to fit on the matrimonial yoke. We cannot say how often Clem has been married, but he has buried quite a number of wives. He has a rare fondness for felicity of domestic life.
120 Years Ago
(Flagged the train, continued) were so slow that he was discharged, and he started west afoot and became so hungry that he lost consciousness and when he came to his senses, he was in the undress uniform in which the trainmen found him. He will probably be liberated today as there appears to be no evidence as of his being insane. – Silver State
80 Years Ago
The execution of John A. Kramer has been set for 5:30 o’clock in the morning of Aug. 28, according to the invitations sent out by Warden Richard H. Sheehan of the Nevada state prison. Kramer is now under death watch in a cell close to the gas chamber.
40 Years Ago
If Tahoe Regional Planning Agency board members can’t reach agreement on environmental thresholds this week, the chairman of the Nevada TRPA said Nevada may pull out of the bistate agency.
20 Years Ago
To preserve jobs, Kmart stores are slashing schedules for individual workers, including those in Carson City.
Sunday
145 Years Ago
The excitement in Virginia City. The streets of Virginia City were filled last night with an exciting crowd. A riot being deemed imminent, the military were called out, and two companies were under arms.
140 Years Ago
It is a fact not generally known that the Washoe and Paiute Indians always kill one off a pair of twins a day or two after birth. A Washoe Indian stated to the Appeal reporter that a short time after birth of twins, the weaker one is put to death because the surviving one will inherit all the physical strength of the slain one, besides his own.
120 Years Ago
Yesterday proved one of suspense in this city to the politicians, both in the ranks of the Fusionists and the Republicans; in fact, many of them seemed to take more interest in what news came than the real interested parties.
80 Years Ago
An automobile in which Jim McGrath and five other persons were returning to Reno from Lake Tahoe at 2:30 a.m. struck and killed a cow on the road about a couple yards south of Carson southern boundary. The car was badly damaged, but the occupants escaped serious injury.
40 Years Ago
A California resource chief said Saturday environmentalists one a “monumental victory” with the adoption of a bistate agreement restricting development in the fragile Lake Tahoe basin.
20 Years Ago
A new policy this year requires all school employees to wear photo identification badges to improve security.
Tuesday
145 Years Ago
Mollie Forsbay, long an inmate of the state prison and the cause of a good deal of scandal there, has been pardoned out. We cannot but regard this action of the board with favor. Her incarceration was conductive of no-good result that we can think of her reputation for violence and murderous propensities more than her crime inflicted the jury in their verdict against her, and she is better out than in. Probably she will take a reef in her sails from this on.
140 Years Ago
Lots of game. Residents of Washoe and Carson Valley say that there is an unusual large quantity of game this year. Ducks and quail are so thick that they can be killed with clubs. A week from now this story can be verified or contradicted.
120 Years Ago
Will Seamon, the driver of the stage on the road south of this city had a lively runaway yesterday. As he was coming into Genoa, one of the horses managed to get the bridle off and the pair started for the stable pell nell. They ran into the stable and took off part of the front. While the stage was badly wrecked, no one was hurt.
80 Years Ago
Ronald Coleman and Lynn Bari, outstanding movie stars, appear in Carson City on Thursday for the purpose of launching a “Stars over America” war bond rally, chairman R.L. Waters announced.
40 Years Ago
Carson City Realtor Gene F. Empty has been named to the Nevada Tax Commission to represent real property interests, Gov. Robert List said Friday.
20 Years Ago
A late-model Ford Bronco marooned among the rocks and sage in Carson City’s Prison Hill Recreation Area is slowly moving toward town. The owner of the vehicle was given seven days to move it by the Bureau of Land Management. Today is the seventh day. Removing the vehicle by helicopter is being considered.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
