Past Pages for March 8 to 10, 2023

Wednesday

150 Years Ago

Empire shooting: Postmaster Deichman from Empire was in town and gave a story of a late shooting in his quiet little town by the riverside. Jack Kyle was drunk and came into Dutch Nick’s saloon cursing and began to hammer Schneider in the face with a big whiskey tumbler. Schneider drew his pistol, and it went off striking S.E. Jones making a slight flesh wound. The second shot struck Kyle in the breast. The bullet was extracted, but Kyle remains in a critical condition.

140 Years Ago

Big flood: The Carson Indians predict a big flood. Captain Joe believes that the water will come from the direction of Lake Tahoe.

130 Years Ago

Funeral of Natelaa Southworth at St. Peters: The funeral of little Natelaa Southworth, the daughter of Dr. Southworth, was filled with a large crowd of school children. A beautiful ritual of the church was performed by Rev. Hyslop. The coffin was borne down the aisle to the strains of solemn music by eight children. The young ladies were dressed in white, and the choir sang a beautiful hymn called, “It Is Well.”

110 Years Ago

Smoke and work: In the assembly the rule preventing smoking in the house was suspended. The boys got down to work and the result was that thirty bills were considered, and the file cleaned which allowed an adjournment until Monday. If smoking up will help, the rule should be suspended for the entire season.

70 Years Ago

Ferris wheel: The 100th anniversary of the Ferris Wheel is the focus for the third annual Nevada State Fair poster art fair in Reno. George Washington Ferris invented the Ferris wheel based on his idea of a Carson Valley water wheel.

30 Years Ago

Dayton artists: Steven Saylor, a Dayton artist, has completed a commission to help restore the V&T Railroad. The painting depicts Saylor’s “Heavyweights” with six living governors in period costume.

Thursday

150 Years Ago

Platformed: George Flyer of the Ormsby House has platformed the mud in front of his hotel. Flyer is a philanthropist, and one who loves to see people comfortable about him, and to promote the interests of a first-class hotel.

140 Years Ago

Sam Wagner, town crier: The old pioneer town crier has decided to locate in Carson from Virginia City. In a few days Sam’s voice will be heard harmonizing with his bell, and it will be nip and tuck to see whether Clem Berry or Sam Wagner will make the most noise. Carson is getting big enough and live enough to have two town criers.

130 Years Ago

All sorts: There is a tribe in central Africa among whom speakers in public debates are required to stand on one leg while speaking and to speak only as long as they can so stand.

110 Years Ago

Nevada legislature: Whatever may have been said about the Nevada legislature, there is an element of progress, patriotic, industrious, members who are working hard to put Nevada in the foreground to progress. May this spirit continue through the session and not be married by bickering’s or peanut politics.

70 Years Ago

Fish planting: The first quota allotment of fish are being put into Ormsby county streams. The county’s total share is 2,400 – 960 brook trout and the rest are browns.

30 Years Ago

Photo caption: A television cameraman records Dave Hart and Frank Gerhke, hydrologists for California Department of Water Resources as they measure the Sierra Nevada snowpack near Echo Summit. The state’s drought was declared over.

Friday

150 Years Ago

Legislature over: The vacated chambers of legislature present a scene of confusion with stationery, old bills, bits of manuscript scattered about on the floor. The fire in the furnaces have gone out, and members and attaches linger over and visit their old stamping ground. They find the air chilly and crawl off again downstairs endeavoring to cast off the attraction of the place still has.

140 Years Ago

Habit: The slobbering habit of indiscriminate kissing indulged in by school children and women is stated by an experienced physician to be a prime cause of the spread of diphtheria and kindred diseases.

130 Years Ago

The telephone patent: The principal patent of the Bell Telephone Company has expired, and it is probable that within the next few days a host of competing concerns will spring up. The patent is based upon the transmission of sound by the undulating current and is the famous fifth claim of the Bell monopoly. The independent companies will be able to operate small exchanges without using the Bell patents and pay the extortionate royalty charged for them.

100 Years Ago

Old papers donated: Thirty-three rare old Nevada newspapers have been given to the Nevada State Historical Society as the gift of Graham Sanford of Reno. The Churchill County Eagle 1906, Fairview News, March 3; the Wonder Mining News, Aug. 11; the Gold Center News on Sept. 29; the Tonopah Daily Bonanza on Oct. 24; the Silver Pearl Post on June 6…

70 Years Ago

Nevada newsmen: Members and guests of the Nevada State Press Association plan to come to the capital. They plan to visit their legislators. They will be guests of Gov. and Mrs. Charles Russell. John Sanford is president and A.L. Higginbotham is a journalism professor at the University of Nevada, secretary of the press association.

30 Years Ago

Photo caption: Girl Scouts frolic around the statue of Comstock miner Adolph Sutro on the Capitol Complex grounds… The outing to the legislature, capitol and other Carson City sites was part of the Girl Scouts government day and was attended by Scouts cross the state. The statue was sculpted by Greg Melton, who lives at Sutro, two miles east of Dayton. The four-mile Sutro tunnel, built by Sutro, was used after the 1870s to transport ore from the Comstock Lode to Virginia City.

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