Lamar Show Riot Ends as Sheriff Detains Shell Game Operators
A Lamar town riot erupted after gamblers in a traveling show fleeced locals with shell games. Sheriff McKenzie and Marshal Wilson intervened, seven showmen were arrested, one injured, and Judge Deeter fined them 102 dollars for assault. The parade and sideshow resumed with reduced crowds.
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Lamar
Lemon Bros
Sa’ Junta
Lemon
McKenzie
Marshal Wilson
Main Street
Merrill Markham
Mort Strain
Rajab
Deeter
Rajah
McKinley
Little Edna
Clarence M. Dow
Arkansas Valley Notes hail, floods and local lore
District court sits in Sheridan Lake this week as a hail storm in Finney and a destructive hail event in the Rocky Ford region devastate crops. La Junta reports many houses struck by lightning while Pueblo readies a three day Fourth of July festival. Local papers note Garden City’s fundraising prank for a monster fruit cake and admonish Bent Prowers Otero school boards against costly lightning rod schemes.
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George
Daly
Colorado
Jane
J. Scott Robertry
George T
saliPuote
Court House
Lamar
Prowers
State of Colorado
George of
Red
Rocky Ford
Bent
Otero County
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Resolutions of Respect for Charles Grant Lynch
At Lamar camp No 36 Woodmen of the World a committee drafted resolutions praising Charles Grant Lynch as a kind husband father and upright citizen. The camp charter will be draped for thirty days a copy will be given to his widow and the resolutions will be recorded and published in Lamar papers.
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Lamar Camp No 36
Charles Grant Lynch
Universal Forest
Lamar
J. T. Lawless
J. A. Waltmire
A. Vandeusen
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Queens Implements
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Dubries
Harne
Sarry
Wale
Co. C. Huddleston
Lamar, Colorado
ALT
S. F
Laser
Colorado Daily
Raerf Borxn
Denver
Carey
J Ss. Hasty, M. TD
Goodale
Tamas
Pewkes
J. A. Strong, M. D
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Haddleston
D. C. Goodale
Laman, Coronano
Goodale Building
J. E. Doughty
Laman, Cotorapo
Ldg
Cross
Colo
Conwell Bld’g
East Main Street
I. S. Bryant
Depot
Billingslea & Fahey
Ening
Garden City
Canada
Granada
J. L. Mayfield
Frank Milburn
Snodgrass
Citizeos of
N. H. Gale
Alderson
May Valley
Sylvester Swadley
Ira Swadley
Pueblo
Milford Tidball
Jim Goodale
Oregon
Arkansas Valley Notes
Sheridan Lake
Finney County
la Junta
Las Animas Leader
Holly
Spain
Chicamanga
Garden City Herald
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