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“A Big Fight at Weiser City,” read the Idaho Statesman’s headline on July 22, 1882. “Gray Brothers’ Saloon Captured.”
Sheriff J.P. Gray & Brother are the proprietors of a large saloon in Weiser City, and the sheriff has been in Boise City on business for several days past.
He informs us that he has just received news from Weiser City that a big fight came off in his saloon on the 17th instant in which seven (not seven hundred) men were engaged, and that all the furniture, bar fixtures, liquor, cigars, etc. were demolished.
The tumblers, bottles, and decanters suffered the most, but both parties, the fighting whisky and the fighting men were badly punished.”
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