John Meder Collection
Saturday
150 Years Ago
We took a look at the state minerologists office yesterday. Mr. White hill has been very industrious in putting his cabinets in order. There are no less than 1,639 specimens and minerals, all neatly labeled. This is by far the largest and most valuable collection of minerals on the Pacific Coast.
140 Years Ago
According to the state papers ex-officio Adjutant Gen. Laughton has issued the roster of the Nevada National Guard. Trot out the bird Charley and put on the gaffs.
120 Years Ago
Parties who have visited Donner Lake recently state that the big cross, which marked the spot where the Donner Party perished, is down, having been razed during one of the heavy storms. The cross had spread its gaunt arms over the spot for many years and has been intended to replace it with a monument, the movement being in contemplation by the order of native sons. — Truckee Republican
60 Years Ago
Wages paid Nevada farm and ranch workers on April 1 averaged $10.30 a day without room and board, up slightly from the same time last year, the U.S. Department reported today.
40 Years Ago
Photo caption. She’s not yet a candidate for the Guinness Book of World Records, but “Sleaze” has been up a tree for six days and refuses to come down. She was chased up by a dog Wednesday and has ignored the pleading of her anxious owner, Marie Monyak, ever since. If you can get her cat down, please call her.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
The lynching of a murderer near Markleeville. Rouch shot and killed Erickson some 15 months since while sitting in his own saloon at Silver Mountain, playing cards. He was arraigned, but the court failed to get a jury. While on the way from Silver Mountain to Bridgeport, a band of 25 men called halt to the driver and took Rouch into their possession and gave him 10 minutes to prepare for his death. They then took him to a bridge that spans the main Carson, put a rope around his neck and swung him off. There is little sympathy among the citizens of Alpine County for the murderer.
140 Years Ago
The editor of the Appeal acknowledges the receipt of a letter from some Coeur d’Alene capitalists to come up and put in the summer season lying about those mines with the idea of inducing a rush. Dan De Quill and Prof. Anderson of the Gazette have also been invited to take a hand.
120 Years Ago
Archbishop Riordan has forbidden picnics being held on Memorial Day for the benefit of Catholic churches or organizations.
60 Years Ago
Approximately 40 seventh and eighth grade science students at Carson City Junior High School will exhibit projects Thursday at a Science Fair in the junior high gymnasium. There is no admission charge, and the public is invited said Mike Pintar, junior high school instructor.
40 Years Ago
Executives fired for no apparent reason “ought to get mad” and do something about it, says Carson City attorney Gerald Madison. The attorney and 25 plaintiffs aren’t getting mad, they are getting even. The executives were fired after a group of managers took over Harvey’s Wagon Wheel after owner Harvey Gross died Nov. 2, 1983.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
One of the most complete and extensive stores, in its list of hardware and house furnishing goods, yet established in this locality, is that of E.D. Judd & Company, at the corner of King and Ormsby Streets. Their stock of shovels was really immense.
140 Years Ago
The new lake steamer. The new Lake Tahoe steamer “Todd Goodwin,” will be launched sometime this week. The steamer is iron framed, the planking of Oregon pine, and was constructed by shipbuilders from San Francisco. It is over 100 feet long and 12 feet wide and cost $15,000. The craft was named after the young son of Judge Goodwin and if it takes after the boy, it is liable to need nine pilots to steer it and explode at any moment.
120 Years Ago
Nevada Gypsum. The new company was organized in this city last fall, and who own a quarry of gypsum near the Mound House, is already doing a good business. At present time the company ships two cars a day to the factory in California, where it is made into finished plaster.
60 Years Ago
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson took a nine-hour motorcade ride in her borrowed Cadillac home in heavy rain rather than risk another ride in a United Airlines Viscount. The first lady experienced a rather explosive-like lightening discharge on the plane and decided to take a car home. She stopped at a Howard Johnson’s with her secret service escorts, had dinner and telephoned the president from the manager’s office. While on the way home, the borrowed Cadillac broke down. The first lady received the fastest roadside service available and was on her way.
40 Years Ago
Photographer Ansel Adams dies at Carmel Highlands, Calif., at 82.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.