Students at Stewart Indian School Leaning sewing in about 1900.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Fellow craftsmen, Andy Graham, foreman of the Gold Hill News, and Mr. Flint, reporter for that paper, made a flying visit to Carson on Saturday night and put in an appearance at the Appeal office. We are glad to reach out the right hand of welcome to these gentlemen of the art preservative.
140 Years Ago
M. Sharkey the shoemaker was sentenced to 15 days in the county jail for raising a household disturbance. Persons wishing to get their shoes will find the key under the mat.
120 Years Ago
The Carson Opera House is to be equipped with electric lights, a good move on the part of the directors. The contract for the wiring has been let to Jas. G. Meder and Horace Meder, who will commence work immediately. In all there will be 150 lights in place.
60 Years Ago
Two Lake Tahoe park bills were still in the wings of the Nevada Legislature today, awaiting action on the top-priority issue of special aid to education.
40 Years Ago
Nevada is at the crossroads of the national push for educational reform and could be a leader in improving schools, secretary of education Terrel Bell told a conference of Nevada educators on Thursday.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Diamond cut diamond. Charles Lane vs. the Devil’s Gate Toll Road Company for the attempt to swallow up the said Lane, people don’t care a continental for Charlemagne Washington Lane nor the Devil’s Gate Toll Road Co.; but the trial will bring out the intellectual giants of the legal profession in Nevada — Dick Mesick and Billy Wood for the defense and Mac Bonnifield and T.W.W. Davies for Lane. It will be a case of diamond cut diamond.
140 Years Ago
There was a runaway on Nevada Street on Sunday afternoon in which a sleigh was kicked to flinders. No one hurt.
120 Years Ago
Probably one of the heaviest industries that benefits this city is the teaming that goes on between this city and points south. There are a number of parties that are steadily in the business and the amount of animal flesh that is employed would figure into a tidy sum, when the present price of horses and mules is considered. The largest individual freighting outfit belongs to the Dangberg Land and Cattle Company. Henry pulled out for the farm yesterday morning with an outfit that would be hard to equal anywhere else in the state. Every horse is the best that can be raised while the wagons are like new.
60 Years Ago
When an Assembly bill was introduced to the upper house which would allow Douglas County to transport sewage effluent from South Lake Tahoe, Sen. William E. Dial, R-Ormsby, “I think this bill has a little odor to it.”
40 Years Ago
Photo caption: Despite the spring weather conditions in Carson City, participants in a snow sculpture contest enjoyed playing in the white stuff as they created snow art. The Nevada Appeal team from left is David Sharp, Robin Young, Bonnie Bertocchi, Karen Gulash, Chris Hathaway and Robin Yates.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Death of Annie Monk. The worst apprehensions regarding Annie Monk were realized yesterday. She died at 1 o’clock. Her disease was inflammation of the stomach, we believe. Poor Hank is greatly touched and sadly bereaved. Annie will be buried today.
140 Years Ago
The man who said that the sunny opening of winter would be recompensed by a cussedly wet spell with storms, was correct. The past 48 hours has been one of the foggiest, slushiest and snowiest ever witnessed here. The clouds which hand over the city must be several miles thick.
120 Years Ago
As a result of a shooting scrape which occurred in the Vicksburg district Saturday morning Jerry Dailey is in the county hospital with his hide perforated with No. 6 shot, while Mrs. W.W. Wilson, who was in no way interested in the affair or the difficulties leading up to it, is on her way to Winnemucca to have dressed the wounds she received during the fusillade. Dailey and Rodger Daugherty had some trouble Saturday afternoon which started with shot guns and ended with six shooters. Seventeen shot — nearly all that found lodgment in his body — were removed. Winnemucca Silver State.
60 Years Ago
Carson City council has hired Eleanor Bartels as dog catcher and pound master for Carson City. Mrs. Bartels served as Carson City’s first dog catcher, several years ago until she resigned.
40 Years Ago
Gov. Richard Bryan said today he did not think he or the state legislators should get involved in the deadlocked negotiations of the bill-state Tahoe Regional Planning agency.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.