Shootout at Kennewick, Washington
Lewis and Clark Arrived One Hundred Years Earlier
On October 31, 1906, prior to the shootout, Kid Barker and partner robbed two Kennewick, Washington stores.
<p> <b>Kid Barker Mystery Man Then and Now</b> </p>
<p> It is uncertain where, on October 31, 1906, a young fellow, of seventeen or eighteen years and known as Kid Barker, hailed from or called home. Perhaps it was in Kennewick, Washington where a double robbery and shootout took place on that date. Just as easily home, or hideout, could have been one of the smaller villages coming into being in what, years later, would be known as the Tri-Cities area. Those three small towns, that made up the future Tri-Cities, nestled beside the vast Columbia River were, and are, Kennewick which even back then, as it is now, remains the largest of the three. The next in size was a railroad town quickly becoming an important agricultural center by the name of Pasco, in Franklin County, where in times past the Hudson’s Bay Company had had a trading post. </p>
<p> Pasco sits on the opposite side of the Columbia River from where Kennewick and Richland are located. Near the Pasco shore is, and was, a sort of island. That island brings the whole area into being in the early history of Washington State. </p>
<p> <b>Lewis, Clark, and Sacajawea</b></p>
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<p> <b>Kennewick Marshal Mike Glover</b></p>
<p> The major players in the shootout that followed the 1906 robbery in Kennewick, Washington are several, besides Kid Barker. There was Mike D. Glover who became Kennewick’s town marshal in 1905. Glover did his duty to the Kennewick folks to the grand sum of twenty dollars per month. He was well liked in the area and it’s been said that he did more for the town in a few months than had been accomplished since Kennewick had begun. </p>
<p> <b>Sheriff McNeill and Outlaw Dymond</b></p>
<p> Also to be involved was County Sheriff Alex C. McNeill who had put his name on the map earlier that year when he arrested outlaw George Dymond at Wallula, Washington. Dymond was said to be one of the most desperate criminals in the Northwest and was known to be the leader of a gang of horse thieves. A young man by the name of Joe Holzher was serving as McNeill’s deputy at the time. </p>
<p> <b>Robbery Before the Shootout</b></p>
<p> Depending on the reference referred to, either the morning or night before the Kennewick shootout, that resulted in more dead than during the famed
<p> <b>Witness to the Robbery</b></p>
<p> Just by chance, a Mrs. R. H. Anderson, living nearby the businesses, saw and heard the burglars. Her husband quickly called Marshal Glover. When Glover arrived on the scene he saw how the burglars had torn up the interiors of the stores. Show cases were broken and glass window fronts were smashed. </p>
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<a href=" http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/great_american_plains/78749"</a> Meriwether Lewis and William Clark</a, one-hundred-and-one years and a couple of weeks before the Kennewick Shootout, paddled their canoe down the Columbia River and camped a couple of days on that same island. Today that island is Sacajawea State Park, but in 1906 it would have been a dandy place for an outlaw to hide before or after a shootout. Bringing up the rear as the smallest of the three towns, and not much more than a wide space in the road in 1906, was Richland. </p> <a href="http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/great_american_plains/95854"</a> O. K. Corral gunfight in Tombstone,</a> Arizona that occurred also in the month of October but in the year 1881, two Kennewick stores were robbed. The two businesses were the Tull and Godwin’s General Merchandise and the Kennewick Hardware Company, the latter being still in business today and one of two oldest businesses in Kennewick. </p> http://americanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/shootout_at_kennewick_3"</a> Kennewick Robbers Hide in Hobo Jungle:</a></p>Lawmen Die in Washington Shootout.</p>
Snop: On October 31, 1906, prior to the shootout, Kid Barker and partner robbed two Kennewick, Washington stores.
<p> Immediately, Glover sent to Prosser, the county seat that lay some 26 miles away to the west, for Sheriff McNeill. Proving out that the robbery must have taken place early in the morning, it is noted that McNeill arrived by train at about 10 a.m. that same day. His deputy, Joe Holzhey, was already in Kennewick. </p>
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