Carson City looking north from the top of the Capitol building in 1871.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
It seems that the hog ordinance went into force yesterday. Our young friend, Willie Clarke, caught one and despite its squealing turned it over to the sheriff and got a dollar for his trouble. Pitch in boys! Give us a big spree with the hogs and dogs to-day. One hog, one dollar. Dog, half price.
140 Years Ago
Keyser and Elrod’s stage upset last night coming down the grade. It was on a sand bank, and no one was hurt, and the delay was not over five minutes.
120 Years Ago
Word was received in this city yesterday that the contact vein on Boulder Hill, back of Markleeville, has been found and that the ore is exceedingly rich. For years miners have chased float over this mountain in hopes of finding the ledge from which the rich rock comes. Hundreds of specimens have been found, and a number of boulders have been discovered from time to time.
60 Years Ago
A 48-year-old Reno man was killed today when his car rammed a parked truck and trailer in a motel driveway in Reno, bringing the Nevada road death toll to 102.
40 Years Ago
It’s a long shot in hitting a $1 million jackpot on slot machines but State Gaming Control board member Richard Hyte estimates it could be as high as 4.2 billion to 1 in some cases. Hyte says under the worst conditions a video slot machine could be played 24 hours a day for 2,041 years before the jackpot would ever show up. Members of the industry took exception to bytes figures saying company machines payback 95-96 percent of the time.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Competition. Our colored friends of the polishing profession are having a lively competition from a number of reckless itinerant “shines” who black your boots for half the money. These little scrubs seem to be traveling, and in their meanderings altogether independent. The batch that are here to-day will be next week — God knows where.
140 Years Ago
Benton’s stage line. For quick trips to the lake our new canopied, open-sided stage, is unrivaled. It will carry twelve passengers and is taken lighting speed over the grade with six spirited horses. Seats can be secured at the stable or Ormsby House.
120 Years Ago
There have been many singers appearing with minstrel companies, but the volcanism of Richard J. Jose, the famous contra-tenor of the Richard J. Jose Minstrels, is by far the finest that has been heard for many a day.
60 Years Ago
Highway patrolmen in Marin County say they have come up with a new weapon against drivers to drink and later tell a judge they’re innocent: The tape recorder.
40 Years Ago
A rash of nine lightning-sparked fires scorched more than 2,500 acres Saturday between Pyramid Lake and Carson Valley.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Gumbo. The restauranteurs of Carson, or some of them, have added to their list of soups that very palatable on which okra is the principal ingredient.
140 Years Ago
Excitement in Eureka. There is considerable fat in the fire in Eureka over a rumpus in the board of county commissioners. The board is now being sued for something over $6,000 for the alleged improper expenditures of money.
120 Years Ago
Corbett has again gone down to defeat. This time it only took ten rounds to settle the question. Last evening in San Francisco he and Jeffries met at the Mechanics Pavilion and the place was fairly crowded.
60 Years Ago
A Pony Express centennial plaque dedication will take place on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Nevada State Museum to honor the rough and tough Pony Express riders of Nevada history.
40 Years Ago
A multi-county approach to attracting industry to the area is being explored by the Northern Nevada Development Authority, according to NNDA president Jack Davis.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.