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A Recalling Of Old-Time HistoryIE. A. Rhode* of Trinidad, rind his wifa, mother and sister, came over from Trinidad last week for a visit to old Baca,after an absence of thirty-fonryear?.Rart Rhodes, the father of E A., built one of the firsthnus-es m Vila?, and ran a saloon there until the town blowcd up. when he move 1 to Trinidad, where the family has continued to live to the present.! It was in the Rhodes talonn in the early pari of 1888 that Barney Wright, a citizn of Boston with gambling proclivities, was shot—in a quarrel over a game of cards.The probabilities are that all parties were c)rinkin:r, and all parties about equally to blame, and hence Barney cither didn't: know or didn’t ciro to tell who it was that plugged him,As we remember it. Barney hurg on for a month or so, when blood poison set in and he crossed over the great divide.Yes, there were warm oid days in those old-time towns.
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Springfield Democrat Herald
Springfield, Colorado, US
Fri, Jul 20, 1923
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