Carson-Tahoe Hospital's first campus in 1955. A fire in 1968 destroyed the building, and the infirmary at Stewart was called into play. Construc tion for this building in 1949 topped out at $80,000.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Nearly a week ago, two Chinese people who are considered as outsiders by their countrymen that live in Chinatown, made disclosure in Winnie & David’s stable that a white man had been murdered in those quarters. They stated that the man murdered was from the mountains and had a sum on him of $700 or $800. Officers of the law presumed it was Layton Childers, who had disappeared from Lake Tahoe about a month ago. Sheriff Swift entered the brothel and found loose dirt near the chicken coop, but nothing was found. It is thought he was quartered and buried out of town.
140 Years Ago
The Appeal of late has been very guarded in printing unsubstantiated fish stories. At times our blind confidence in human nature has led us to accept wild statements from the unprincipled liars of the Walton Manchausen school, the printing of which has shocked our conservative readers.
120 Years Ago
The convicts are to have been in Carson Valley last Saturday night at the D.B. Park ranch. At 12 o’clock an Indian heard his dog barking, and getting up, say three men running past the park home. The next morning, tracks were found passing the house and were lost in the field. Sunday, they entered the front room of Hana Johnson, only a minute or two from where they were heard the prior evening. Mr. Johnson had a rifle, which he fired at random. The last they were seen was in Waterloo, 3 miles from Minden.
60 Years Ago
After only a two-block long ride in an allegedly stolen car, three juveniles from the state children’s home were arrested yesterday trying to leave the car.
40 Years Ago
Railroad fans and history buffs can get an idea next month what rail travel through Nevada in its heyday was like. The Hazen Preservation Society and Amtrak have finally won permission from Southern Pacific to have Amtrak’s California Zephyr stop at the former railroad center.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
The Chinatown affair. We have been asked several times if there is anything in the suspicious of a murder committed on a white man in Chinatown. Strong suspicious were certainly reasonable and have not been removed by the unsuccessful investigation on Thursday, nor by the fruitless efforts that were made again yesterday, to get some clue to the quartered corpse presumed to be hidden away in Chinatown or the neighborhood.
140 Years Ago
The latest find at the state prison is a petrified rabbit with a snake coiled about it. The find was made at a depth of 10 feet in the sandstone foundation.
120 Years Ago
A peculiar fact has attracted the attention of the people of this section for many years, and that is that all the electric storms that visit this section either start or wind up in the direction of the Como range. While this particular valley may go without a sign of moisture for a whole summer, yet in the Como range there is bound to be more or less storm, and generally of the thunder or electric storm.
60 Years Ago
Photo caption. This tombstone at the far west end of fifth street probably records the oldest war veteran from Ormsby County. The inscription tells the name of William S. Allen, who was born in 1828 in Missouri and died at 32 years of age fighting Indians while acting as a scout protecting Nevada settlers.
40 Years Ago
Arson is suspected in a 3,000-plus acre blaze, which destroyed several mobile homes Saturday in the Mound House Estates area, forced evacuation of more than 100 residents and injured three firefighters, one critically.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Chinese fight. Three John Chinese people, Ah Chung, Ah Chung and Ah Fang, were arrested, Thursday night, and jailed on the complaint of Ah Foo for assault and battery. Dr. Ah Kee interposed on behalf of the defendants, and they were acquitted on the payment of costs of $15 each by the district attorney.
140 Years Ago
The man who was shot out of the catapult in Robinson’s circus when here, was fatally injured while undergoing a similar performance at Shasta, Cal., on Wednesday last. He is perfectly conscious but cannot speak or move.
120 Years Ago
There is to be something of a revival along the Carson river this winter, or just as soon as the water is released from the valley above. The Brunswick Mill is being thoroughly overhauled and placed in running order. Twenty stamps have been renewed with new shoes and dies, while the old concentrators have been gone over and six new ones installed.
60 Years Ago
Members of the state park commission have criticized officials for wasting time on negotiations for a Nevada State Park at Lake Tahoe.
40 Years Ago
After 13 years of trying to win final approval, the city of South Lake Tahoe has persuaded the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to allow it to build the final 440 feet of a controversial Loop Road.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.