Wednesday
155 Years Ago
The Capitol Building. — The walls are progressing finely, and the windows of the second story fast assuming shape and proportion. A large force is engaged. We noticed the workmen appearing at Contractor Cavanaugh’s office yesterday and complacently pocketing their coin.
140 Years Ago
On Sunday Sheriff Blakey came from Esmeralda with two prisoners, James Warren, alias “Fresh” who killed “Rattlesnake” Dick was sentenced some time ago served out nineteen months of his sentence, and got a new trial. He also got the same sentence, forty years, and loses the nineteen months of service. Antone Marshall, from the same county, was also brought into make a short call on Warden Bell of ten years.
120 Years Ago
Frank Banker, who owns a claim adjoining the Ophir-Brunswick