Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Saturday
155 Years Ago
The Board of State Capitol Commissioners met yesterday for the purpose of examining plans and specifications for the contemplated state house. It represents a building 200 feet in length with a handsome dome in the center, and the assembly and senate chambers on the second floor and at the different ends.
140 Years Ago
(Loggers continued) The saw had severed his head from his shoulders, which could be seen in the hollow of the log; procuring wedges they split the log open and drew the headless body out upon the snow. In the pocket of the dead man was found $800 in money, a pair of revolvers and a number of burglar tools. As to what caused his death, there is no way of determining.
120 Years Ago
Plenty of hunters were at the lake yesterday but a scarcity of ducks is reported, and the sports put in most of their time fishing for catfish.
60 Years Ago
Chief Justice Frank McNamee of the Nevada Supreme Court spent a “comfortable night,” a supervisor at Washoe Medical Center said today. The 60-year-old justice remains on the critical list but has shown signs of consciousness. Philippe Denning, 21, of Reno and Stateline is scheduled to appear today at a formal hearing before U.S. District Judge John K. Regan in St. Louis. He is to be returned to Nevada.
40 Years Ago
A search is on today for a 15-year-old youth who escaped, along with another 15-year-old boy, from the China Springs Youth Camp south of Gardnerville. The youths took a truck from the camp and abandoned the vehicle near Johnson Lane. One was recaptured in Sparks while visiting a girlfriend. The other is at large.
Sunday
155 Years Ago
A light snow, to the depth of about three inches, fell in this valley night before last. It soon disappeared under the rays of yesterday’s sun, and the snow line rapidly receded up the mountain slope. Recently about five feet of snow has fallen on the summit of the Sierras.
140 Years Ago
A new paper, the Free Lance, was issued yesterday. It is by all odds the best appearing paper typographically published in Carson, and full of varied and interesting matter. It will be a paper for general circulation throughout the state, and treats of politics, mining and agriculture. There is an excellent field for such a paper in Nevada, and the Appeal extends the right hand of congratulation to the new venture.
120 Years Ago
Lynching at Hazen. Mob takes up law to stop work of thugs. Goaded to desperation by the outlawed of the criminals that infest this section a mob visited the Hazen jail at 2 o’clock this morning and breaking down the door took out “Red” Wood, a notorious Derby thug and all around bad man, and hanged him to the nearest telephone pole. (Continued)
70 Years Ago
Sidewalks near state buildings in Carson City would be repaired under terms of a bill introduced in the assembly which would appropriate $8,000 for the purpose.
60 Years Ago
The Sawyer administration’s proposal to allow state prison inmates to be paroled before their minimum terms was introduced today in the state senate. The measure would permit prisoners serving more than one year to be paroled after they serve one-third of a term for less than life. The measure has support from the board of governors of the State Bar Association.
Tuesday
155 Years Ago
Yesterday morning Mr. Rollin Varnham, a middle aged man, while engaged manufacturing pickets in a sawmill Clear Creek, in this county, some seven miles from this place, had his sand severed from his arm, by circular saw, just below the wrist joint. The patient is doing as well as could be hoped for.
140 Years Ago
A few of those architectural monstrosities in the shape of plans and specifications for the Reno State Prison are being removed from the halls of the senate chamber and lugged back to Reno. The authors ought immediately to introduce relief bills for the work performed.
120 Years Ago
(Lynching at Hazen, continued) The mob worked quietly, and it was not until the sun lighted up the country that the people of this place discovered the stiffened body swinging at the end of rope in the heart of the city. Today the little town goes quietly about its business as if nothing had happened and the investigation of the Coroner this morning has thrown no light on the case. The officials of the county say there probably be no further inquiry and it looks like the matter would be dropped. (Continued)
70 Years Ago
Last place Nugget bowlers pulled the upset of the week at Carson Bowl when they defeated league leading Dutch Mill 3-1 in Su-Zee-Q women’s play. Led by Jackie Munn’s 148-4-6, the Nugget pulled itself into a season mark of 32 won to 48 lost.
60 Years Ago
Larry Werner, 16, Carson High School Junior, will be a delegate to a science symposium being held in Salt Lake City, Utah, according to his chemistry instructor, John Hunter.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.