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130 YEARS AGO

A new Jehu: Senator Gibson of Gold Hill astonished people by driving the Lake Tahoe stage, full of passengers through the streets to the depot. He left the Lake after Hank Monk, but succeeded in beating him to Carson. Monk turned green with envy and has not yet resumed his usual florid complexion.

"Wild Bill": The frontiersmen who was as notorious as Kit Carson, was killed three years ago, has turned to stone from scalp to toe. His remains which were buried at Dead-wood, were taken from the grave the other day for interment. The features are as natural as life ... giving to the face the appearance of chiseled marble. "Bill" whose name was Hickok was one of the most graceful men ever met.

120 YEARS AGO

Advertisement: Carson Opera House, John Piper, Manager. Performance by Rose Coghlan in her new romantic drama, "Jocelyn." Miss Coghlan brings all the scenery, furniture etc., that the play may be mounted historically correct. Period of play, A.D. 1620. Reserved seats, $1.50; general admission, $1.00.

70 YEARS AGO

Paul Laxalt was Carson's only winner in tennis play at the state tournament in Reno defeating H. Bell.

50 YEARS AGO

Gov. Grant Sawyer will place his 1960 budget recommendations before the Legislature. He has in mind a relatively austere, "hold-the-line" executive budget.

20 YEARS AGO

Elko native Dorothy Sewell Gallagher is president of the University of Nevada System Board of Regents. Gallagher is a fourth generation Nevadan and attended the University of Nevada, Reno.

10 YEARS AGO

Government agencies, banks, electric utilities and companies around the United States will watch closely for Y2K computer troubles when the date 9-9-99 arrives ... computers may translate Sept. 9, 1999, as a "999" stop-program command.

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