Daun Bohall Collection/Nevada State Museum
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Crown Point cave-in: A dozen or more men were injured by the cave-in at the Crown Point mine, according to the Enterprise. William Burris had his face and nose badly cut; Mr. Waters had a miner’s candlestick thrust into his neck. Many got ugly cuts in their heads from falling rocks and timbers and by running against the walls and timber in the pitchy darkness.
130 Years Ago
The parties who have taken the contract to run the morning Appeal out of Carson, seem to have bitten off more than they can chew. Before this fight is over, some other people may have to pack up and change their place of residence.
120 Years Ago
All sorts: A number of Carsonites will leave tonight for San Francisco to take in the Jeffries-Fitzsimmons fight.
100 Years Ago
Reno’s band concert heard by Carson radio: A Reno band concert was heard in Carson by means of a radio set brought here by F.O. Broili of Reno. A heavy static condition interfered with the reception of the wireless concert, but the band music could be clearly understood. A wire attached to a pole at the county courthouse served as an antenna.
70 Years Ago
Sagebrush Derby: The annual Sagebrush Derby sponsored for local boys by the Chamber of Commerce each year faces temporary abandonment unless steel wheels can be found. The steel strike has cut off the usual supply of wheels for the homemade autos. If boys from previous derby’s have wheels which they are no longer using, please turn them in to Bill Dunfield, chamber secretary in the courthouse.
30 Years Ago
Advertisement: “The New Cinema 50: ‘Beethoven,’ ‘Far and Away,’ ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘Alien.’ Tickets $1.25”
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Lively: The streets of Carson present a lively appearance at night, and the various menageries where the “tiger” is kept to a land business office. There is little that goes on during the day, and money seems tight.
140 Years Ago
The toy pistol: The toy pistol is creating fearful havoc. In Chicago, there were twenty cases of lockjaw resulting from the carelessness of that toy. It is the most infernal and dangerous plaything invented for children. We suggest to parents to prohibit their little ones from handling it.
120 Years Ago
All sorts: Among the freight destroyed on the local train were five barrels of whiskey. Great sorrow was expressed by several Comstockers at their inability to be present at the conflagration.
100 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Red Crown Gasoline, 26 1/2 cents a gallon, Red Arrow Garage & Auto Co., Phone 151, Carson City, Nevada…”
70 Years Ago
Heat wave: Las Vegas is having a heat wave. Today’s temperature is 107 degrees.
30 Years Ago
Lahontan: The reservoir has about 320,000 acre-feet of water with white bass, walleye, catfish, and others. It now holds only 4,000 acre-feet, and there are fewer plants there to create oxygen. To help mother nature, the Department of Wildlife is installing aeration equipment to provide fish and other wildlife with oxygen.
Monday
150 Years Ago
Free concerts: Every night persons may walk along Carson Street and enjoy a free concert produced by the music proceeding from the various Canadian saloons in town. The French Canadians are “heavy” on singing, and keep it up until the day dawns in the east…
140 Years Ago
In brief: Frank Bell is now exclusively devoting his time to the construction of telephone lines. O.P. Willis and family returned from Hope Valley. They caught 1,500 trout in one week.
120 Years Ago
Notice to architects: Architects are invited to submit plans for a state orphan’s home in Carson City, Nevada, on or before August 14, 1902. The building is to be of stone, two stories, size about 80 by 110 feet, cost $20,000. It will contain a dining room on the first floor for 120 children and separate dorms on the second floor for 60 boys and 60 girls. The first floor will have an office, reception room, dining room for 14 employees, pantry, kitchen, storeroom, tin closet, washroom, playroom for 60 children, two rooms for cooks with clothes closets, dressing room, bathroom, water closet, storeroom, bathroom water closet, storeroom, and session room.
On the second floor in addition to dormitories, two rooms, parlor, and clothes closets for teachers, four rooms for superintendent and matron, three rooms with clothes closets, two hospital rooms and medicine closet, storeroom for clothing, two rooms for assistant matron and nurse and a sewing room.
100 Years Ago
Clara Kimball young: When Clara, a former southern Nevada girl, was discovered the other day in a smock which resembled Joseph’s coat of many colors, the suspicion was aroused that she had fallen under the Greenwich Village influence.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater, ‘Singing in the Rain,’ with Gene Kelly, Donald O’Conner and Debbie Reynolds. Here’s the really BIG PICTURE of the year.
30 Years Ago
Ormsby House: A potential buyer for the Ormsby House Hotel Casino made an offer three days prior to a bank foreclosure sale. According to bankruptcy trustee Jeri Coppa, “We’re in the process of conferring with the bank to see if they will accept it to stop the foreclosure.” Coppa said they would not reveal the name of the person who made the offer or the amount.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Five cents: All ye thirsty souls who need something to revive your drooping spirits should pay a visit to Jake Klein’s brewery where beer can be bought for five cents a glass or one dollar per gallon.
140 Years Ago
A big spec: A gentlemen from New York said if someone were to write a good western lecture for Hank Monk, have him commit it to memory and take him East to lecture in the large cities, there would be a bonanza. There is scarcely a man, woman or child who has not heard of Hank Monk. New York City alone would be from $50,000 to $100,000. We candidly believe that Hank hasn’t enough energy to go to Lake Tahoe for $10,000.
120 Years Ago
All sorts: Catfish are biting at Washoe Lake and big catches are reported.
100 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theatre, ‘Over the Hill,’ a big super special. Tickets 25 and 50 cents.”
70 Years Ago
Building slow: There was no new building construction during June, roofing and siding being the principal form of work. Dr. Ontie Hovenden received a building permit to add a sun porch and barbecue to his home with Sture Svenson as contractor. The city received only $36 in fees from the permits.
20 Years Ago
Cost of living: The state of Nevada Employees Association is requesting a seven percent cost-of-living raise. Governor Miller says there are many unknowns now, but it is unlikely that a seven percent pay raise will be in the budget.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
