Carson City looking north from the top of the Capitol building in 1871.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Dog eat dog. A couple of “hoodlums” were “bucking” the other night when one accused the other of stealing a couple of checks from him. The usual pet names followed, and they were going to end the quarrel over the faro table by the mutual application of elbow grease, when receiving the intimation that they had better settle the matter outside, where there was more room, they repaired to the sidewalk and there “went for” each other, much to the edification of a crowd of lookers on, until the cry was heard “Hold, enough!”
140 Years Ago
For some months past the rear building of the Appeal office has offered special facilities to wood thieves, the broken-down woodshed was as open as the hand of charity, and any man with a cold desolate hearth stove was welcome in. Then we kept the poor warm, and occasionally when a man wanted to come in and jam a piece of iron in the machinery of the steam press to hamper the publication of this live daily, he came in by the same inviting orifice. Yesterday this was changed. The building has been overhauled and repaired. Aside from this the office bulldog sleeps in the back room and is kept on low fighting diet.
120 Years Ago
Intense excitement prevails in Tonopah over the developments of the past forty-eight hours. Three of the riches strikes in the history of the camp have been made.
80 Years Ago
County commissioner John L. Savage said today that the board in the future will exercise the members’ judgment in providing wheat at county expense for the feeding of quail in Carson City.
40 Years Ago
An escapee from a Missouri prison was shot to death Monday in Reno when he wounded a police officer during a routine traffic stop.
20 Years Ago
The first in a series of keepsake ornaments depicting historical landmarks in Carson City went on sale this holiday season beginning with the new Laxalt Building.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
There is beautiful skating on the ice pond at Empire. An area of five acres or more, near the Mexican Mill, is frozen thick and smooth. The ice is covered with boys playing “hooky” all day. At night a bonfire is built and the whole town turns out and lively skating and sledding go on until 10 or 11. The ice at the Mexican Dam is frozen thicker than was ever known before. Blocks have been taken out near Bland’s house; six inches thick.
140 Years Ago
Since the Appeal office put a lock on its woodshed the man to depended upon our pile for his fire has been compelled to purchase his own wood. To see that man’s face when he found the new lock on the door caused our sympathetic “devil” to weep unrestrictedly.
120 Years Ago
Lost - A watch fob, consisting of a ribbon with locket attached. The locket is gold and has the initials of “W.C” engraved there on. A liberal reward will be paid to the finder by leaving the same at the Carson Exchange.
80 Years Ago
Women are being absorbed into industry so thoroughly that 19 percent of those now employed are in occupations which were not open to them in July, according to the women’s bureau of the department of labor.
40 Years Ago
Paul Larquier, owner of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad shops on Stewart Street, and historic preservation consultant Ed Astone are drawing up a joint venture proposal to rehabilitate the historic structure.
20 Years Ago
The Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a strict limit approved by voters in November on new development in Douglas County.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Make your preparations for the festivities of Christmas night. There is no ball anywhere in the neighborhood on that occasion, except in Empire. Carson people are cordially invited to attend. We hear many say that they are going because they never yet went to Empire City on a spree without having a “huge time.”
140 Years Ago
John Richey has opened the Old Sazarac saloon in the Ormsby House block, with Glancey behind the bar.
120 Years Ago
A carload of rails, lumber and mining supplies arrived yesterday and were delivered at the mouth of the old Daney tunnel where the Silver City Mining and Drainage Company has commenced the work of draining the Devil’s Gate’s and Silver City mining districts. The old tunnel is already in a distance of 800 feet.
80 Years Ago
While assisting in the operation of a wood sawing machine at his place in Minden last Thursday afternoon, Hans Jepson narrowly escaped serious injury or possible death, when his clothing caught in a pulley key on the flywheel. Most of his clothing was ripped off his body and he sustained a rather painful gash on his hip and was treated by Dr. Hand. — Record Courier
40 Years Ago
The engagement of Lynne Millman to Don Weidinger Jr. Has been announced by the bride-elect’s parents, Mr. And Mrs. Henry Millman of Carson City.
20 Years Ago
Electricity was restored to east downtown Dayton shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday after 60 hours without power, resident Lee Sommers said. It was too late to save her Christmas dinner. The contents of her freezer were thawed and coated in bread dough, which had exploded. Power was down after wind knocked down more than 75 poles.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.