Students at Stewart Indian School Leaning sewing in about 1900.
Wednesday
155 Years Ago
(Stage robbery continued) The constable “worked up” the case by following certain peculiar horse tracks, which were visible about the place of the alleged robbery. The driver had stated that he was robbed by three men in disguise. The offer found only one horse which had one shoe missing, leading to and from that place. (Continued)
140 Years Ago
An eastern writer shows up his bad cigars. A correspondent of the Detroit Free Press thus pen and inks Mackay: “You would be surprised to see how common and slouchy Mackay looked when he is in Virginia. I have worked for and know his as well as I know my own brother. I have seen him on the street with one trouser leg inside his boot, the other outside. He always wore a gray slouch hat and a dark coat, and when he drove out in state a white horse hitched to a buckboard was good enough for him.”
120 Years Ago
Adolph Webber has been found guilty of the murder of his mother and will be sentenced to be hanged.
60 Years Ago
A new family activity has been formed in the Carson area, called the Nevada Four-Wheel Warriors, designed as a sightseeing and exploring organization. The club, formed two weeks ago by Robert M. Smith, and meets once each month, on the second Monday at 7:30 p.m. at Capitol Motors. This Sunday, the club of about 20 members, will visit the Hootin’ Wells historic Pony Express remount station, south of Lahontan Dam. The club’s motto is “No Litterbugging.”
40 Years Ago
A rapidly growing prison population, the highest rate of incarceration in the nation and a widely differing sentences for similar crimes were cited as grounds for changes to Nevada’s parole system today as the Senate Judiciary Committee started what will be a series of hearings on parole reform bills.
Thursday
155 Years Ago
(Stage robbery continued) He followed these horse tracks to a place where the treasure box had been burned and then traced the said tracks for about a mile and a half to the place where the earth had recently been turned; and digging in that place he found the money. (Continued)
140 Years Ago
County consolidation. Senator Williams bill to enlarge the boundaries of Ormsby County will consolidate Storey and Douglas with us and also take in a portion of Washoe. This bill is in accordance with the plan proposed in the campaign all over the state to consolidate county governments and cut expenses. It will lift a heavy burden of taxation from the people of the three counties.
120 Years Ago
A chronic kicker. Ed Appeal: I want to kick a little about those unsightly wires that are stuck along the trees in the Capitol grounds and also, I feel that we all have a kick coming because the clock on the U.S. Post Office has not run a lick in nearly a year. Why don’t somebody wind it up? A chronic kicker.
60 Years Ago
Carson City’s Sertoma Club this morning discussed the possibility of assuming the responsibility of the city swimming pool. Bill Bostwick, club chairman, conducted the meeting.
40 Years Ago
Another volley has been fired over the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s master plan with the filing of a petition seeking to halt further action by a federal court judge in a suit challenging the plan.
Friday
155 Years Ago
(Stage robbery continued) It is stated that the driver had a horse with one shoe missing; and all circumstances combined lead to his being suspected. We are further informed that Rickey, the driver, has been arrested. If what we have repeated is true, circumstances do certainly point to his guilt.
140 Years Ago
The Walker Lake Bulletin publishes the following: The residents of Markleeville have a topic of absorbing interests for neighborhood discussion, in the discover made by a couple of wood-sawyers. The men were converting a hollow tree to firewood, and were horrified to find a man’s head roll out. (Continued)
120 Years Ago
Catfish are biting fine at Washoe Lake.
60 Years Ago
Three Carson City men were among 32 Nevadans who were initiated into the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus at a day-long ceremony Sunday in Reno. Leon Postawko, John C. Rebel and Vernon Boserman, Appeal auto editor, all of the Sierras Madre Council.
40 Years Ago
At the Luxury Theaters: Beverly Hills Cop, The Falcon & The Snowman, A Passage to India and The Breakfast Club.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.