The John Larson Saloon was located at 214 Third Street from about 1910 to 1914. It was mentioned frequently in the Dumas trial as a meeting place for the perpetrators of several crimes in northern Minnesota including a post office robbery at Puposky.
The Larson Saloon and the Brinkman were both mentioned in testimony taken in regard to the Dumas trial in 1911.
“No, I was down to McCarthy’s saloon on Minnesota avenue,” said Behan. “I spent about thirty minutes there. Before that I was just knocking around town. I got dinner at Daltons at noon. I had drank three or four glasses of beer—I don’t know just how many—I didn’t mark them down. I left Dalton’s between three and four o’clock for Larson’s place, next to the Brinkman theater on Third street, toward the lake. “I first saw Smyth in the Larson wine room and I never had seen him before. We went into Larson’s saloon in the front door and went up to the bar. I had a whisky, the first since the noon hour. Then we were told that a couple of fellows in the wine room wanted to see us and we went back and found Dumas and Smyth. I saw no one in the saloon that I knew, except the ones I have named.”