Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Examination of the alleged highwaymen. The three men, Buck, Tracy, and Slattery, who are accused of having attacked and robbed Rodini on North Carson Street on Saturday night, were arraigned before Justice Witherell yesterday and underwent an examination the result of which was, they’re each and several holding in the sum of $5,000 to appear before the next grand jury. In default of that amount, they were committed.
140 Years Ago
A barkeeper and a railroad man had a fight night before last. The barkeeper hit his opponent over the head with a six shooter. The railroad man hit the other four times the same night. The injuries to the eye are such that the man will never be able to see out of it again. No arrests.
120 Years Ago
Manager Rae, of the Como-Eureka mine in Como, is up against it, in the matter of a water supply for his mining plant. The Como-Eureka is in the Como district, while the North Rapidian is in Palmyra district, the elevation of the former being several hundred feet higher than that of the latter. Before the North Rapidian drain tunnel had attained its present length of nearly 2,000 feet, there was an abundance of water in the Como-Eureka shaft for supplying the mill batteries. When the water gave out into the North Rapidian, Rae had to look for alternatives. — Report
60 Years Ago
Carson City golf course was the scene of sports enthusiasm last Sunday morning as 50 golfers representing Lake Tahoe, Carson City, Fallon, Hawthorne, and Yerington paired to tee off in Enrico’s golf tournament.
40 Years Ago
A car packed with explosives blew up while a U.S. Marine patrol was driving past in the south of Beirut, injuring two U.S. peacekeepers.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
No stiffs, no arrests, no frowning justice, no fees, no litigants, no items, no credit, no nothing in the police court, yesterday.
140 Years Ago
A party of battle mountaineers are about to start on an old-time duck hunt on the sink of the Humboldt river, sixty miles east of Reno. There are fifteen of them and they will charter a sleeping car, put in it all their traps, dogs, ice, etc., and stand it on the siding at Brown’s Station, where they will make it their sleeping headquarters, and camp at night. The lake is only one hundred yards from the track, where they will supply themselves with boards and Indians to row them about.
120 Years Ago
Sinking on North Rapidian to begin. Manager Boyle was an arrival from Como today. He says that manager Emmet Boyle and his bride are installed in their home at the North Rapidian and that the sinking of the shaft on that mine to the drain tunnel level — 300 feet or more below its present depth — will begin at an early date. — Report
60 Years Ago
Thomas Lee Bean had a birthday today. He was 19. The handsome Reno high school junior was convicted July 8 of the multinational murder of a former British Olympic Skier, 24-year-old Sonja McCaskie.
40 Years Ago
Cloud’s Cal-Neva Lodge at Crystal Bay could stay open if the state gaming commission allows a receiver to operate the hotel-casino until a suitable owner is found.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Yesterday morning about 8 o’clock colonel Abe Curry of this town was suddenly overcome by a paralytic stroke and became helpless and insensible. The fit came upon him while at his home and in his own bed chamber. As was his custom, he was an early riser, he dressed himself and went downtown. We hear of his being at the Ormsby House, at the Old Sazarac, and at the Magnolia before breakfast. He took his morning dram at Gus Lewis’ place and told the barkeeper he had a pain in his right eye. The doctor is confident that the colonel will get up again if there is no reoccurrence of his paralysis.
140 Years Ago
The curfew ordinance. An ordinance for the preservation of the peace, morals, comfort and health of the citizens of Carson City. The Board of Trustees of Carson City do ordain: Section 1 — It shall be unlawful for any boy under the age of sixteen years to be or remain upon the streets or sidewalks or in any public place in Carson City, after the hour of eight o’clock p.m….
120 Years Ago
The crop of honey east of the Sierra Nevada mountains for this amounted to 20 cars, valued at $3,000 each.
60 Years Ago
A 32-year-old Nevada Highway patrolman was named Wednesday to the position of fraud investigator in the State Welfare Division. Robert Canfield, who lives with his wife and two sons in Carson City, will start the $552 a month job Nov. 1.
40 Years Ago
Nevada has never had a case of fraudulent Industrial insurance claim, according to Laury Lewis, director of the State Industrial Insurance System. It is not that fraud doesn’t exist, but rather that no one has gone to court to prove it.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.