North Carson Street looking northeast in the 1950s.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Return of the hunters. The hunting party, Andy Wright, Wm. A. Hawthorne and Hank Phillips, returned from their expedition yesterday. Twenty-two stalwart bucks and nary a doe or fawn. This was sportsmanlike and commendable. The area was Silver Creek beyond the Rubicon.
140 Years Ago
Carson street looked very quiet yesterday with the stores of all the Hebrew businessmen closed.
120 Years Ago
A terrible head-on collision occurred in Beowawe last evening. One passenger was killed outright, and many others seriously injured. Later advice states the name of the passenger killed was Harper. It is fortunate that the wreckage did not take fire, or the loss of life would have been great. Eighteen persons were injured and four may die.
60 Years Ago
Attorney Harry Claiborne will quiz the chairman of the control board and two of his men Thursday in a discovery hearing to bolster his defense of singer Frank Sinatra’s license revocation.
40 Years Ago
Nevada’s counties are looking toward new funding ideas to cope with old service problems. During a three-day conference of the Nevada Association of Counties held in Tonopah, local governments decided to attack the problem through committee work and hopefully from the governor and the legislature.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Another stage robbery. The Knights of the road have been at it again and, as usual, it was the upstage that they tackled. On Saturday night, about half past 10 o’clock, while coming through the canyon leading up from Vick’s Station, Eugene Burnett, the driver, was awakened from a reverie by the command to “halt” and the discovery of the muzzle of a Henry rifle in the proximity to his dexter optic.
140 Years Ago
The Reno papers record the death of C.B. McClellan, an artist, who has probably been more thoroughly identified with Nevada than any painter who ever lived here.
120 Years ago
The boss pumpkin of the season weighing 80 pounds and a lot of big red apples arrived yesterday at the Chamber of Commerce in Reno, the gift of editor Fairbanks of the Lyon County Times. Mrs. T.L. Reid of this city contributed the largest sunflower eve grown west of Kansas. It measures over a yard in circumference — Journal.
60 Years Ago
Tire slashing vandals started their dirty work again in Carson City Monday night when they cut 23 tires on cars parked on Telegraph, Robinson, and Plaza Streets and in the parking lot of a downtown casino.
40 Years Ago
The Bureau of Land Management spokesman says the agency will check on a report that motorcyclists have been riding on the north and west faces of Prison Hill in violation of restrictions against motorized travel.
Friday
150 Years Ago
The meteorological phenomenon of Sunday afternoon were such as a rarely experienced in this altitude. The easterly wind brought a balminess and a softness of tone that felt like the playful zephyrs known to be boyhood’ and what is also quite a rarity, we had a shower born upon us by this easterly wind.
140 Years Ago
“Grizzly Dan, the ex-convict, will be tried to-day for petty larceny. Those who know the poor wretch believe that he is a fitter subject for the Insane Asylum than a prisoner.
120 Years Ago
The Appeal is in receipt of a piece of Nevada salt that shows what the state can do. It is in the form of a cube and same from a piece that weighs about a hundred pounds. A small piece a couple of inches thick was handed in and it is so clear that it is possible to read the finest of print through it. The specimen came from Lincoln County.
60 Years Ago
Former Krupp Ranch foreman Harold Brotherson was scheduled to give his version today in federal court of how three men forced their way into the ranch four years ago and stole the $275,000 Krupp diamond from its owner’s finger.
40 Years Ago
Today’s planned auction of Dug’s Windjammer has been postponed to Oct. 11 while the holder on the mortgage continues negotiations on the sale of the property.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.