Daun Bohall Collection/Nevada State Museum
Saturday
150 Years Ago
At 4 o’clock on Sunday morning, Oct. 19 after long paralytic in his bed for about forty-four hours, Col. Abraham Curry departed this life. He died calmly and painlessly and in the midst of his family and friends. He paid the principal of having a life which never knew ill health by thus passing away suddenly and unwarned. The procession to the cemetery was attended by all and about a mile in length.
140 Years Ago
The Chinese people are again selling liquor to Indians.
120 Years Ago
There are vague rumors, confirmation of which cannot be secured from the Southern Pacific engineering department in Reno, but which have been so often repeated that there is plausibility attached to them. The rumors are to the effect that the railroad company has definitely determined to bore the Sierras and thus avoid the heavy grades and snow sheds, as well as decrease the distance over the mountains a number of miles. — Journal
60 Years Ago
Photo caption. A fire started by two Carson City children playing with matches destroyed 10 acres of foothill vegetation on ‘C’ hill southwest of Carson City yesterday. The fire began near a home on the bottom of the hill and quickly spread.
40 Years Ago
President Reagan expressed doubts about honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with a national holiday overwhelming approved by Congress but said he would sign it into law anyways.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
We ventured to probe the inner recesses of Judd’s Hardware Depot yesterday, bent upon learning the true meaning of a pot-bellied specimen of a stove, dubbed “Sweet Meat” which stands gaping in inexplicable silence on the walk along with certain ranges and intelligible stoves and just and upright funnels there. But Judd was off somewhere, and the noise of his busy tinkers drowned the inquisitor genius of us, and we adjourned subject to a call of the house.
140 Years Ago
Trout are beginning to bite again in the Carson and at Lake Tahoe.
120 Years Ago
The Montana-Tonopah company is employing almost every team that can be obtained in the transportation of ore from the mine to the railroad at Sodaville. Up to date and since the first of the month, the company has shipped 4,000 sacks of ore, and before the end of the month a total of 6,000 sacks. The north crosscut on the 512 level is now in 410 feet and is making at the rate of four or five feet per day.
60 Years Ago
The Nevada Gaming Commission today revoked all of Frank Sinatra’s gaming licenses and moved to relieve him of the first parcel of his $3.5 million Nevada gaming empire. The action cancelled Sinatra’s 9 percent interest in the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas and his 50 percent interest in the Cal-Neva Lodge.
40 Years Ago
Investigation of allegations that a state women’s prison maintenance man furnished liquor to inmates in exchange for sexual favors has concluded there is “nothing substantial” to implicate the man or the maintenance department, warden Bert Koon said Friday.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
A live Empire City citizen came to us yesterday and made an earnest complaint that a horse which had been killed by getting run over at the place where the railroad crosses the county road between here and Empire had lain there until he was stronger than a ten-mule team; and he wants to know why the county authorities, or some other authorities don’t give that horsey corpse a decent interment. We joint him in propounding that very pertinent query.
140 Years Ago
The duck shooting is “bang up” at Washoe Lake, and wild geese are also pretty plenty in that vicinity.
120 Years Ago
Strike at Cherry Creek. Last week while upraising from the 250 to the 150-foot level in the Last Century gold mine in Cherry Creek district, one of the properties of the Old Imperial Mining company, a 12-inch vein of $700 gold-silver ore was encountered, and the company is now taking out tons of this rich ore.
60 Years Ago
Three Boise, Idaho businessmen applied to the Nevada Gaming Commission today for authority to buy a controlling 55 percent interest in the Carson City Nugget. The Adams brothers, who have been licensed in the Nugget for the past five years, would retain 15 percent.
40 Years Ago
Safety pays, five Ormsby house employees found this to be true when they collected a total of $2,000 in cash Oct. 10. Their good fortune is part of a new Ormsby House on-job safety program with a drawing at the end of each quarter.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.