Past Pages for April 3-5, 2024

Wednesday

150 Years Ago

That tent on the plaza is part of the hunting outfit of the party with whom Andy Wright went a deer stalking last Fall. Wright pitched it in time to catch some April Fools with the bait that it was set up there to accommodate “Doctor Livingston’s Brother,” who was to lecture in it, so the joke went.

140 Years Ago

It is said that Senator Parker will have a sailboat on Washoe Lake next summer, with a capacity to hold 20 people.

120 Years Ago

Several mining properties in the Pine Nut range are apt to see a busy season. Brougher and McKane have taken a lease on the Schulz ground, and they will without doubt be doing something in a few days.

60 Years Ago

May 3-10 has been proclaimed National Music Week by Carson City Mayor James Y. Robertson. In proclaiming the week, Robertson urged citizens to take part in activities recognizing music.

40 Years Ago

U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne denied today that he ever met with brothel owner Joe Conforte or that he took any money in exchange for helping Conforte with some legal problems.

Thursday

150 Years Ago

Good Friday dawns upon us with this morning’s sun. This is the beginning of the end of the serious Lenten season, and next Sunday being Easter, the term of fasting will be over.

140 Years Ago

The Washoe Lake Boat Club now numbers 18 members. No commodore has yet been elected.

120 Years Ago

The public is notified that no more fishing will be permitted at the Cradlebaugh reservoir. This order will be enforced, as the proprietor has grown tired of closing gates and driving cattle from the fields. All trespassers will be prosecuted.

60 Years Ago

A $200,000 fire which destroyed an apartment house, and surrounding buildings had its bright moment for Fred Taylor. When firemen allowed people back into the building, Taylor ran into the charred apartment and came out smiling. His false teeth, left on the bathroom sink, were unharmed.

40 Years Ago

Casino regulators said Tuesday a $40,000 electronic cheating system used by two Californians to bilk an unknown number of Nevada clubs is the most sophisticated they’ve seen.

Friday

140 Years Ago

The game law. The game law went into operation at midnight last night and will remain in force until September next. The penalty for violations of this enactment is very severe, therefore pot hunters are counseled to beware.

120 Years Ago

Ernest Sweetland, who has returned from Goldfield, where he went on a tour of inspection, has been asked a thousand questions regarding the place and its future by all of the folks who look longingly at the camp. Sweetland is of the opinion that there is a great future ahead of the camp, but at the present time its overdone.

60 Years Ago

Embattled Douglas County homesteaders have won support from Nevada’s junior senator Howard Cannon, as a result of recent stores and an editorial in the Nevada Appeal concerning the woes of the homesteaders.

40 Years Ago

The state has issued another permit for open burning and exploding of old ammunition at a dump near Hawthorne, but officials say it’s the last permit. Instead, the state says an army contractor should use a munitions recycling plant the army wants to mothball at a cost of $75 million.

Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.