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130 YEARS AGO

Judge Cary visited Treadway's ranch and found a fossilized backbone. He showed it to Farmer Treadway who said it had been knocking around the ranch for 15 years. The joints of the backbone being only two and a half feet long looked as though they have never been movable ... and only a 10th of the original length. Professor Tenant suggested it belonged to a species of the crocodile family of pre-adamite period, but Prof. Rinckel thought it belonged to the amious humani generis. When Professor Clucher came in, he said that it was the fossil remains of the backbone of the Democratic party lost in 1858, during Buchanan's administration.

100 YEARS AGO

Lake Tahoe in danger: The San Francisco papers herald financing an enterprise to build a nine-mile tunnel at Lake Tahoe and that the Bay Cities Water Company has financed an electric power project on the south fork of the American River. The scheme to utilize the American River is all right, but to partially drain Lake Tahoe is something serious and doubtless the state of Nevada will exhaust all legal remedies to stop it.

70 YEARS AGO

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bandoni are the parents of a baby girl, born at Mrs. Mae Noonan's private hospital.

50 YEARS AGO

Photo caption: Sheriff Howard Hoffman watches as Chief Deputy Robert Humphrey clocks a car at

60 mph on the new radar set installed in Carson police cars.

20 YEARS AGO

Yucca Mountain is not suited to house the nuclear waste dump. According to Nuclear Regulator Commission scientists there is a potential of volcanic activity.

10 YEARS AGO

Births at Carson-Tahoe Hospital: Michelle and Walter Fanelli, a daughter, Sarah Michelle. Stacie and Phillip Brady, a daughter, Elise Michelle.

• Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.