Looking west from William Street at the Dutch Mill restaurant, corner of William and Carson streets in the 1950s or '60s.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Indians disappearing. The decrease in the number of Indians about town lately has been noticed and commented upon. Their season of nut gathering is near at hand and having communicated with each other from all parts of the country over which they live scattered, the Paiutes and Washoes are now coming together in small bands at various rendezvous preparatory to a general withdrawal to the region of ripe pine nuts — their primeval food in the woods of Pine Nut and Pine Grove.
140 Years Ago
The editor of the Appeal with his family left the city yesterday for a week’s jaunt through the mountains. During his absence W.S. Burned and Otto Greenhood will run the political and fish yarn columns of the paper.
120 Years Ago
There has been considerable talk in police circles about the delivery of Woods and Murphy to the Folsom guards now in Nevada, and as a whole, the sheriff’s office, constable’s department and chiefs of police office were not in favor of giving up the men before word was received from Governor Pardee of California.
60 Years Ago
Approximately 2,400 students — an increase of about 10 percent — or more are expected to pour into Ormsby County classrooms next Tuesday according to Al Seeliger superintendent of Ormsby County schools.
40 Years Ago
Robert Butler of Butler Meat Co., was among the more than 2,000 people in attendance at the 44th American Convention of Meat Processors, held recently in Portland. Butler represented Nevada, California, Arizona, and Hawaii on the board of directors.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Buckaroos. Two young fellows from California were in town, yesterday, making a lively display of a fine white mustang which they offered to sell for sixty, but would have sold for $50. A cheap horse, but nobody wanted him. The market is gutted with mustangs; and man would find it difficult to get two bits for one, here.
140 Years Ago
When a man once gets a passion for rearing a valuable hunting dog he may be set down as a lost man. He generally prefers to take him when a pup and train him up as a fond father would rear a boy whom he expected to be president of the United States.
60 Years Ago
Federal Judge William C. Mathes today turned down a motion to reduce Joe Conforte’s 3-year federal tax evasion sentence. Conforte was sentenced to 3-5 years in the state prison in January of 1962 on charges of attempted extortion.
40 Years Ago
Sheriff Hal Dunn said today he is convinced arson was the cause of a 3,000-acre brushfire Saturday which took the life of one firefighter, injured two others and destroyed four trailer homes. The man killed was Keith L. Lemons, 27, of Portland, who was assigned to a firefighting crew from Alaska.
Friday
150 Years Ago
The poor blind organ grinder still pumps forth his broken notes and forms now an almost unnoticed and unheard part of the distressingly monotonous Carson Street scene.
140 Years Ago
The theory that nature always furnishes an indemnity for losses sustained through its destructiveness is being well exemplified by a disaster which about four years ago almost destroyed Franktown. Most readers remember the time when an avalanche of sand and rocks, accompanied by a flood of water came down from the mountains on Franktown. The flood was occasioned by the bursting of a dam which backed up several million gallons of water. The break was duly predicted by Mrs. Bowers, the seeress.
120 Years Ago
Tuesday afternoon a lone highwayman held up the stage running from Whitney to Canyon City, Or., and carried off $10,000. One third of this amount was in the express package and the remainder was in the registered letter mail.
60 Years Ago
A new method of dealing with drunken drivers and maintaining public equipment at the same time may have been found in Douglas County. Two men are washing patrol cars belonging to the sheriff’s substation in Zephyr Cove as they served a one-day jail sentence for intoxicated driving.
40 Years Ago
Three Carson City teenagers were treated and released a Carson-Tahoe Hospital Saturday after their car left State Route 341 and rolled over.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.