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From the March 24, 1883 edition of the (Rico) Dolores News: SILVERTON MAYOR WINS SUIT OVER GAMBLED MONEY. Dempsey Reese, mayor of Silverton, sometime since gave the clerk of the Brevoort house, Chicago, $3,380 to put in the hotel safe, and keep for him over night. The clerk risked the amount on faro, and lost. Hoffman, the landlord, refused to make the sum good and Reese sued him. Last week he…