Daun Bohall Collection/Nevada State Museum
Saturday
155 Years Ago
The Empire rioters will be examined before Justice Wait on Saturday next. We have reverence to those seven or eight men who are of the 11 that were arrested by the sheriff.
140 Years Ago
The governor has signed the bill making one judicial district of Nevada.
120 Years Ago
Over 200 members of the Eagles will take the town by storm today, for the purpose of installing an Aerie here.
70 Years Ago
Eggs, 57 cents a dozen at Stone Market, 513 N. Carson St.
60 Years Ago
Someone had a hot idea for the South Lake Tahoe area firemen’s training program. So, the fireman gathered, got out their matches and burned down Oliver’s Club Sunday. Oliver Kahle, one of the club’s owners, didn’t mind. In fact, it was his idea. The old casino, built in 1945, will make way for a proposed nine story hotel and casino.
Sunday
155 Years Ago
Fire alarm. The Indian Campoodle south of town was set in a blaze night before last and the light caused an alarm of fire. The engine companies turned out with their machines but turned back home when they saw the cause of the alarm. It looked from a distance like a burning house.
140 Years Ago
“Doc” Benton’s bullet. How it came to penetrate Duffy. “I was leaning against the wall, and he stood in the door with a lamp. The first thing I knew I was shot in the left side. He then beat me with the gun, and I tried to get it away but could not.” (Continued)
120 Years Ago
The matter of the governor’s reception at the Alamo Ranch was left by the governor and his wife to the members of the legislature. It was thought that the session could not close in time to have a Saturday reception.
70 Years Ago
Uranium in paying quantity and quality has been discovered in the hills southeast of Carson, according to Robert Stermer. Stermer said that according to the assay report from Reno, same ore tested out to contain 0.147 uranium and will run about $16.50 to the ton in value, fob here.
60 Years Ago
The City Council voted unanimously to support a resolution passed by the County Commissioners to delay by 60 days the establishment of a job corps camp at Clear Creek; and to start condemnation proceedings on the Arlington Hotel and to have it demolished by Jan. 1, 1966.
Tuesday
155 Years Ago
We learn from Jim Gatewood that Toll’s dry good store, at Franktown, was robbed last Saturday night of a wagon load of goods; and that on the night following the Bowers mansion was burglarized of a thousand dollars’ worth of silverware.
140 Years Ago
At Glenbrook the season has already opened with a vigor that gives promise of a prosperous year. It is generally known that the lumber metropolis possesses a secret society, the initiatory ceremonies of which are as much more lively than a West Point hazing as is possible. (Continued)
120 Years Ago
It is rumored that a scheme is on foot to pass over the heads of Carson contractors and builders in constructing a new schoolhouse. This would certainly be a grave mistake. Carson contractors should erect the building.
70 Years Ago
A bill prohibiting wiretapping and surreptitious use of listening devices was introduced in the assembly yesterday by the judiciary committee. The bill would make it a felony to intercept telephone or telegraph messages without the consent of both the sender and receiver.
60 Years Ago
Ormsby County District Court Judges and the District Attorney’s office have announced their intention to crack down on people attempting to furnish false information to public officers.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.