John Meder Collection
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Some good-for-nothing scoundrel has been guilty of a robbery here, lately, that ranks only second in the schedule of crime, to the sacking of a church. The Curry Engine Company has been robbed of their belts and their silver plate which ornamented the side of the engine. The place is a heavy one, made of pure silver.
140 Years Ago
A small boy was about town yesterday trying to sell a $20 gold specimen for a quarter. The youngster very likely purloined it from some bureau drawer.
120 Years Ago
Wm. Admins, a desert character, better known as “Wild Bill,” was murdered at Indian Spring Ranch, 30 miles north of Los (sic) Vegas last Wednesday by a half breed Indian boy hanged Cochi. Cochi has been found in Vegas, where he was captured by Latimer.
60 Years Ago
Gov. Grant Sawyer’s office announced today plans to invite 55 legislators, state and federal officials on a Jeep caravan into the Lake Tahoe area proposed for a state park site. The state has been offered 13,580 acres in the area — along the eastern shore of the lake in Washoe and Ormsby counties — for $15 million.
40 Years Ago
The government, ending a summer trend of increases, is reducing interest rates for federally backed Veteran’s Administration and Federal Housing Administration mortgages a half point to 13 percent.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
A case of peace breaking comes up in the Justice Court, to-day, which involves what is a very rare offense in Carson — wife beating. The wife retired to a neighbor’s house and when came to get her back, a struggle ensued between him and the male occupants of the house, resulting in his ejectment.
140 Years Ago
A tough fish. Deputy Warden coulter says that a month ago he caught a two-pound catfish in Washoe Lake. Upon arriving at the prison, he absent minded lay threw him into a bureau drawer and forgot about him. Yesterday, while getting out a clean shirt, he accidentally stumbled upon the fish, whereupon he placed him in the water that surrounds the fountain in the prison court, merely as a matter of experiment, and in less than 5 minutes the fish was as frisky as ever.
120 Years Ago
Mayor Mackey is progressive and believes that Carson is somewhat behind the times. He has been agitating the plan of placarding the streets so that the people and visitors may know “where they are at.” At present time there is hardly a man in this city that can tell his neighbor where he lives or even where he lives himself.
60 Years Ago
A public meeting has been called for Friday night to discuss proposed incorporation of a sprawling South Lake Tahoe resort communities into one city.
40 Years Ago
A zoning change which may eventually lead to the construction of a 350-unit mobile home park between Roop Street and Lompa Lane was approved Tuesday by the Carson City Regional Planning Commission.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Fred Dangberg is brought up to hunt up the old cradle or think of bargaining for a new one by the presence of a girl in his family, aged 3 days.
140 Years Ago
Dan De Quille, who has been out on the C.&C. Railroad, says the sacred bird of Hawthorne is the pelican. The hunter who carries a dead pelican into that town might as well march into a Dutch village with a stork on his shoulder or turn his gun loose on the buzzards of Panama.
120 Years Ago
The high wind for the past few days has interfered with the hay makers. They are compelled to work early in the day and late at night in order to place the hay in stack.
60 Years Ago
Joseph A. Walker squeaked to a new x-15 altitude record today of 351,000 feet but fell short two miles of the intended mark.
40 Years Ago
A state prison inmate who walked away from the honor camp at the medium security prison Tuesday is still at large. The 20-year-old inmate was tracked toward Lake Tahoe.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.