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A LIVELY SCRAP.A Prize Fighter Trlea to Run the Town.1 00 1 00 1 001 00 L38* e,eBiD8 “bout 6 o’clock a lively1 00 scrap oocnrred in front of the Grand 1 00 Central Hotel. There were three strangers 1 00 W^° came 40 40,1,11 *®oeatly, and were spoil 1 00 1DB toT a ®8bt. They all claimed to be 1 00 '‘scrap pere” from the ward go. They got 1 00 just as mnoh of a load on as they soald 1 ^ carry—and three dr'nks more—and wanted 1 00 to run the town.1 no They gathered around the Grand Central 1 00 and made insulting remarks, and dared any* W one to come out and fight. One cf them 1 00 Iay ri8bt across the sidewalk, obstructing 1 00 the passage, much to the annoyance of 1 00 pasBersby.1 00 T'm 0 Kef'*®* wb° 58 in charge of the 1 00 ®r*nd Central, told the man to get off tbe 1 00 side walk. He refused and Mr. O’Koefe 1 00 then picked him up and placed him out on* ^ the road. This made the man angry and 1 qq he oalled O’Keefe every vile name he could 100 think of. O’Keefe, knowing be waa drank, 1 00 paid no attention to him until the fellow 1 22 jumped him, and then O'Keefe Btruckback.1 001 001 00 Fur the next ten or fifteen minutes things 1 00 were lively. O'Keefe had the best of the1 00 fiBbt tbr‘W hl,m“ dowB* The prize 1 00 fighter” then got Tim’s Sogers in his 1 oo mouth and almost bit them off. He also 1 00 closed his teeth on O’Koefe’s face. His»*1 00 tW° Pa,tners were wi4h lhe .‘‘P*Jze fighter and eccoart eed him in the foliowinc words:1 AA
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Weekly Nevada State Journal

Reno, Nevada, US

Sat, Jul 30, 1892

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