Daun Bohall Collection/Nevada State Museum
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Wreck of a dump car. The 3:45 train from Virginia did not reach Carson last night until about 10:30 o’clock, whereas it should have been here at about 6 p.m. From a passenger we learn that the five or six “dumps” filled with silver ore immediately behind the engine, tender and wood cars passed a narrow curve in the road quite briskly. The conductor in the caboose put down the brakes when shortly afterward one of the dump cars, filled with Belcher ore for the Merrimack Mill, car No. 7 ran off the track, and proceeded some 300 yards, injuring the ties considerably.
140 Years Ago
A gentleman from Honolulu, at present visiting here, says that James Gettys, chief cook at the Ormsby House is the exact picture of King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands.
120 Years Ago
That there is a move to change the county seat of Nye County there is no longer any question. Yesterday in the assembly a bill changing the county seat from Belmont to Tonopah passed unanimously.
80 Years Ago
By a referendum vote the Carson City Lions have decided to switch from noon to evening meetings, and the first meeting under the new arrangement will be held in the Arlington banquet room on March 1.
70 Years Ago
Tonight’s the night for the Carson Senators. If they can beat the Reno Huskies for the second time this season and go into a tie for first place in the western Nevada A basketball conference.
60 Years Ago
Assemblyman Archie Pozzi, R-Carson City, yesterday told a joint hearing of the senate and assembly institutions committee that some of the residents at the Sunny Acres Children’s home were running the place “like Chicago gangster bosses.” He said the 15-and 16-year-olds are sending nine-year old’s downtown to steal such things as cigarettes.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
A bribe. We confess to the taking of a bribe in the shape of a roll of butter from Ben Foster. It is California butter of a new brand and looks like June butter; for it is the color of fresh beeswax; it tasted all the better for being a gift; and we shall never be offended whenever anybody offered to give us a big and handsome toothsome roll of butter like that. We know what side our bread is buttered!
140 Years Ago
The Ball Masque. The Carson Guard may justly claim the honor of having given the most successful masquerade ever given in the state. The hall was packed with masquers and spectators, and the affair from beginning of the grand march until the last couple glided out of the back door was as jolly and enjoyable as one could wish.
120 Years Ago
Supplies for Como have been packed in on horseback for the past ten days, the snow binge so deep that teams could not make the trip.
80 Years Ago
The war department announced today that troop units have been designated to assist in harvesting long staple cotton near Phoenix. This is the first order of the kind in line with the policy approved by President Roosevelt.
70 Years Ago
The assembly once again adopted a resolution today calling upon congress to repeal a law which forbids sale of liquor to Indians. The vote upon the measure was 39-5.
60 Years Ago
Nevada State Welfare officials in a statement to senator William A. Dial, R-Ormsby County, today defended the children’s home and superintendent John Aberasturi.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Calico party. This party took place last Friday night at the Turn Verin Hall, and came fully up to, if it did not exceed the high anticipation to which its announcement had given rise. Dancing began at 9 to the excellent music by Englebrect, Dick Mills, Ole Larson – and Bob Flanders who played the first fiddle and called early and without the first sign of tiring until it was nearly four in the morning when the last lingering ones having tripped the medley through, went to sleep or sit up to watch for the coming daylight.
140 Years Ago
Hank Monk who was reported to be dying several days since, is said to be getting better and will be about again very soon. Hank as the constitution of an elephant.
120 Years Ago
Yesterday in the senate, a bill was introduced in the assembly came before that body. The bill is intended to extend the latitude of the powers of the Board of Directors of the Orphan’s Home, so that they may admit children whose parents have deserted them, or to prevent the children from want when circumstances so show.
80 Years Ago
Army officials disclosed today that a four-motored planed dubbed the “Flying Dutchman of the Skies” crashed in Mexico on Feb. 9 after a crewless flight of about 2,000 miles. The crew bailed out. Six were saved. Two were lost. The plane righted itself after becoming unmanageable until it finally crashed.
70 Years Ago
The highway department officials are considering the idea of constructing a number of portable bunkhouses to be used for housing field personnel in remote areas.
60 Years Ago
Oliver Forsterer, superintendent of the Nevada Youth Training Center at Elko, said today more staff for treatment and rehabilitation at the institution would mean savings in the future for the state.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.