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130 YEARS AGO

Says the Stock Report: Hank Monk drove General Grant from Lake Tahoe to Carson. The famous stage driver has had the greatest men of the country on the box beside him. It is reported that he once told Horace Greely, "keep your seat Horace, I'll git you thar on time." Hank is a character, of course. He has drove stage since the beginning and as yet has not killed a passenger. This is partly owing to the excessive care always exercised by Mr. Monk in driving, but principally to his strict temperance principles. Yes?

100 YEARS AGO

The deadly western pistol claimed another victim when "Slim" Grimmett, a well-known Mina character, shot and killed Edward Baker, proprietor of the games in the Mina hotel. It is known that Baker at one time accused Grimmett, an employee, of fleecing him of money by "working" the cards. Grimmett hunted up Baker Saturday night, found him at 1:30 in the morning and without a word, eye-witnesses declare he fired two shots, one which hit Baker in the eye.

70 YEARS AGO

The Pyramid Lake Indians staged an impressive pageant, the "Stone Motor" acting out an ancient tradition about the huge rock formations at Pyramid Lake yesterday. Some 6,000 persons ringed the field where Indian games were staged, a rough and tumble football/soccer game, Indian style. Jerry Dick, Washoe from Gardnerville won the men's bow and arrow contest against competitors from the West Coast.

50 YEARS AGO

The great water bag fight: Thirty or more Carson High School boys were called to police headquarters today to explain their participation in a running "battle" on city streets with water balloons. It was not the water battle that was objected to by police, but the use of automobiles, said chief deputy city marshal Robert Humphrey and sheriff Howard Hoffman. One of the boys called on said that half the male student body of Carson High School took part at one time or another.

20 YEARS AGO

The area's three Republican lawmakers expressed their anger last week in opening a special session to repeal a 300 percent pension increase legislators approved for themselves in June.

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