From the June 20, 1891 edition of the Silverton Standard:
A HOLD-UP ON 12TH STREET.
As Gus Balquist was passing along Twelfth street, by James and Lonergan’s saloon, about nine o’clock Wednesday evening, a man stopped him and asked him for a quarter. Gus had only been in the country about a month and his knowledge of the United States is very limited. He told the man he had no money and he received …
