Carson-Tahoe Hospital's first campus in 1955. A fire in 1968 destroyed the building, and the infirmary at Stewart was called into play. Construc tion for this building in 1949 topped out at $80,000.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Efforts are making in Storey County to organize a calvary company there.
140 Years Ago
Midshipman McDonald of Nevada, who graduates from Annapolis in June, will go on a cruise of two years ago to China and other parts of the globe.
120 Years Ago
Linderman’s confession. Within the shadow of the gallows one of the murderers confesses. He claims one of his associates has been guilty of 12 murders and would kill a man for a dollar. The crime was one of a series of crimes enacted along the line of the railroad (Winnemucca) and but for the theft of the diamonds, should hardly have been discovered.
60 Years Ago
Proposals for a highway tunnel through Dagget Pass between Lake Tahoe and the Carson Valley will be discussed at a meeting April 20. The Douglas County officials indicated a tunnel would be the best solution to the South Lake Tahoe traffic problem.
40 Years Ago
Loren Roach finished first in the 100-yard freestyle and 50-yard freestyle to highlight a Carson double dual victory over defending state champion Reno High and Sparks Friday at the Carson indoor pool.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
There is a nightly pow wow of Indians held in the southeast corner of that walled block where the Phillips children’s graves are — just north of Judge Whitman’s residence. A dozen, more or less of Washoe bucks congregate there, build a fire, haul out their poker cards and open a game which they keep up far into the night. Now and then the Indians get drunk and make a disturbance which greatly agitates the ladies living thereabouts.
140 Years Ago
The cattle dealers of Nevada propose to have a law passed regarding the advertising of cattle brands, as in Wyoming and Colorado, instead of having them merely registered at the Recorder’s office.
120 Years Ago
A dispatch received in this city last evening announces that Commissioner James A. Yerington, who is now at St. Louis, has received the election of president of the St. Louis Exposition. This is the greatest honor that can be bestowed upon a representative and that Nevada should receive the honor shows what is before her.
60 Years Ago
Reno Young Republicans refused to consider a resolution asking the House committee on un-American activities to investigate communist influence in the folk song and hootenanny movement.
40 Years Ago
The most drastic change to hit telephone users since the breakup of American telephone and telegraph will come in August for Carson City residents when they will be required to pick a long-distance telephone service.
Friday
150 Years Ago
The staging has been taken down from round the Episcopal Church spire. It looks as neat as the upper-pointed finger of a “queer” colored new kid glove on the jeweled hand of loveliness.
140 Years Ago
The vagarious weather now being experienced here is the most unlikely mess of cloud, hail, snow and rain seen here in many years.
120 Years Ago
Curtis Kendall, who was shot at Goldfield Tuesday morning, died this afternoon. “Doc” Sharp, who did the shooting, arrived in Tonopah shortly after Kendall died. He was in the custody of an officer, on their way to Hawthorne, where Sharp will stand trial for the killing. Kendall was a very quarrelsome sort of a fellow, and from what is said he got what he was looking for.
60 Years Ago
The Carson City Council is expected to set a date at its next regular meeting for a public hearing on a proposal to combine city and county government here.
40 Years Ago
Photo caption. David Crowell, 2, lends a helping hoe to Sierra Desert Garden Club, members who planted flowers in Mills Park Friday. The club planted phlox surrounding the park’s entrance sign.
Trent Dolan is the son Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.