The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-04

Extracting the Tigers Teeth.
If each of the countrymen whe travel
on railway had as much "sand about
him. as the individual herein mentioned.
there would be fewer stories told of
monte sharps. The incident is taken
from the Lincoln (Neb.) Star.
Among the thousand and one Incidents
that 60 70 make up the variety and ad.
venture Of railway travel, SAYS the Star.
nothing e more exciting or more likely to
be remembered than witnessing the turn
ing Of three-card monte trick. and tho
invariable fleeing of greenhcrns that fol-
lows. The passengers on the B. and N.
this morning had the pleasure of Witness
ing the introduction Of IN unusual feat
ure into the little game.
A monte man with . capper took the
train At Kearney, and kept an eve out
for business. The train filled up, as it
passed the various stations, with village
merchants and farmers, aud if there had
not been any conductor the monte sharp
or would have reaped rich harvest. At
last, however, the temptation grew too
strong to be resisted. and he spread out
his little game. A brawny granger sat
near him, and monte obligingly explained
to him the mysteries of. the aforesaid
game. The granger concluded that he
saw through ii. End was easily induced to
bet SO, which he won. In handling his
pocke:.book he displayed a roll Of green
backs that made monte's eyes glisten.
The game went on. and several turns
were made, granger winning two out of
three-the stakes being laid on the sill of
the ca1-window. The granger became
excited and wanted to bet 500. Monte
didn't want to bet very much, but he
finally got mad and told granger he could
scoop him to the amount of $500, but
maybe granger was just BLOWN
he hadn't as much nerve as he let on.
Granger lowed he didn't know much
about nerve, but what he knowed he
knowed; and he knowed whar that card
was just five hundred dollars worth. A
thousand dollars was placed on the win.
dow sill amid the breathless 81.
lence of the spectators who
crowded around. The granger unbotton-
ed his vest, Strengthened in his seat and
turned up--the wrong card. Monte reach
ed for that thousand dollars very vieor-
ously, but just as his hand rested on the
money the granger's hand rested on his,
and ten inch bowie knife appeared SIM
ultaneously from some mysterious COM
partment Of the granger's wardrobe.
Monte suddenly paused in his money
making career, and the remaining two
cards were turned over with the point of
the knife, and neither of them was the
card granger had bet upon,
"That looks like swindlin'," remarked
the son of toll, 'and never allow no man
to play a game on me unfair" and the
knife descended slowly toward the wrist
of the gambler, but when it reached the
precise locality where blood might be ex.
pected to flow, the offending hand was
was withdrawn, and the granger quietly
rolled up the grcenbacks and deposited
them in his trousers pocket. When the
train stopped at Lincoln for dinner, a Sta
reporter was lettering about the depot,
and recognized an old acquaintance among
the crowd that stepped off the cars. When
they had separated the reporter was
asked: "Who was that man you were
talking toy ''Why, that is Gil Hawkins,
an old cattle drover, from San Antonio,
Texas" A long whistle from the inter-
rogato: led to the narration of the true
story as given above.
Hawkins is on his way to Chicago. but
it is thought that he knows enough to
take care of himself.