Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
145 Years Ago
About 9 o’clock yesterday morning the section boss east of Carlin had some trouble with his Chinese laborers and finally struck one of the gangs on the head with a piece of iron, inflicting injuries that will probably prove fatal. It appears that the men were sullen, and the boss deemed it necessary to go for them in the liveliest manner. One of the hands sustained injuries.
140 Years Ago
Fish Commissioner Parker yesterday deposited in the Carson River at McTarnahan and Cradebaugh bridges, 13,000 McCloud River salmon eggs.
120 Years Ago
Jack Marshall, the coyote-killer, came to town today and turned over to the County Clerk fifteen coyote scalps, the result of four days trapping. Mr. Marshall has cashed about 750 coyote scalps, thereby increasing his wealth by $1,500.
80 Years Ago
The patriotic prisoners at the Nevada state penitentiary have bought $1,345 worth of war bonds and stamps — $6.10 worth for each inmate — and twice the national average of war bonds and stamp purchases, Warden Richard Sheehan said today.
40 Years Ago
The investigation into the origin of a blaze that gutted part of the historic V&T Railroad roundhouse early Tuesday morning is continuing, a fire department spokesman said this morning.
20 Years Ago
A former tourism executive made a $5,000 payment Thursday on the $73,786 she admitted taking from the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority.
Thursday
145 Years Ago
Abe Richey came into this city yesterday from Hope Valley, bringing with him no less than two hundred and thirty-five dozen trout. That is 2,820 trout! How many were engaged in this tremendous killing, and how long it took to catch them all, we do not know — didn’t stop to ask, in fact. The average was seven inches in length.
140 Years Ago
Hank Monk on the box. Yesterday was the first time this season that Hank Monk took a stagecoach to the lake. We learn that he will henceforth drive regularly for the edification of tourists. Although Hank was quite sick during the whole of last winter, he has not lost his faculty of “stuffing” over-inquisitive travelers.
120 Years Ago
A new sidewalk has been laid in front of the Odd Fellows building, which greatly improves the property.
80 Years Ago
The Nevada state prison baseball team defeated Blondy’s Bar yesterday by the score of 4 to 3. This puts the prison boys in a tie for first place in the Sagebrush league.
40 Years Ago
Ten years ago, today, five men were arrested with electronic surveillance equipment. It was 2 a.m. and they were going to bug the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Hotel.
20 Years Ago
By Barry Smith. My nominees for the people with the most time on their hands would have to be PETA. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals latest efforts involve persuading baseball, football, and basketball leagues to quit using leather balls.
Friday
145 Years Ago
Assemblyman Howard of Humboldt diversifies his stoloniferous reminiscences by keeping his friends supplied with corn-cob pipes.
140 Years Ago
Miss Emma Laura Sutro, daughter of Adolph Sutro, a lady well-known in this city, graduated on Thursday last from Vassar College.
120 Years Ago
Governor Colcord spent yesterday on the Comstock.
80 Years Ago
Governor E.P. Carville is exploring the possibility of getting Mexican workers to relieve the labor shortage in Nevada, especially hay hands for which there is a great need in some parts of the state.
40 Years Ago
The Carson River can be exciting, it can be fun, and it can be extremely dangerous for those who enter it unaware of the respect it should be afforded.
20 Years Ago
History was made Friday on C Hill in a salute to the red, white, and blue. A mix of hale and hearty veterans, moms, grandparents, and children made the steep trek to a small knoll just southeast of the C Hill flag at mid-day.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
