Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-23
POKER ON THE PLAINS.
Tho Clever Trick by which Two carl
sharps Made Money In Mexico.
New York sun

invited nue. TO breakfast In his poker.
rooms, in one of the shipping-tow1 of
the Tar Western range, 1t was bright
cold November morning. We sat at Inc
breakfast table, which had been drawn i'm
front of fire that had burnt brightly ON
the hearth, picking the bones of a brace of
blue grouse and drinking good coffee
breakfast over and our cigars llt we sat
IN easy chairs, with our feet resting ON
another in good Comradcship. The talk
drltted from cattle and mules TO cards
aud gamblers, as ii always did when Al
cNandcr aud met
After a long, silent look into the past
my friend asked "Do you remember
Johnny Shang:" Then, seeing that
did not recall Sh0ng ne suggested TO loo
my memory "lic Killed Subway In
Fargo on the Red river Of the North, aud
afterwards shot the telegraph ropairer off
the telegraph pole that. stood n'front of
his saloon in Bismarck" yves, now
remember him. | said Gle was a tall.
thin, cOnsunptiyc-looking man, with an
aquilmC nose and high cheek bones and
steel-blue eyes. He used to travel with
the seveu-up sharp who carried the
loaded cane eyes, that is the man.
Well, he and the scycn-up sharp PLAYED,
tho Now Mcyicon and Argoua sh AN o'i
players that have evcr heard ~ Shan,,
as Won lno,v nod yool lnngs ana ,I,'''7,'
vcrr winter ~ tho nnncr NItssonri col
lev was moro tbon no could safcI,, o,,a,,r,
S9 bc and his mi tho snvcn.nr .hor,' AZ
cidcd 10 oo 10 Colifnr,in ,n H. 49,,
sncnding thc ,virtcr In Nc,, MI, ,o, ,,S
Arizona pr.roratni,, to ,bnir ;,,,,., "i,"
tbry sont "a Nav yori, Snr
fc,v gross of s,or,ncd n,ras
rnmmor .t,r.bocl,oJ stca,nhoo, c a,,s'
onJ rho o,t,isrotnr, chor,s ,,'Lt,h oo,us'
nrny thor, IItor ba,,no W"s" In ,h'
rboy, amd tho r,orl.e SnejcintI,, ,l,, '' ~,
Lr al,lc to taII tLc .pit and ,'aiyo W." ~ o ~
tho c,,ds b, ,,lonc,,,, nj ,Loi,. bn,,r.S ~,
nacl"I ,bc c5 ',s ~, t,air p"U1'' ,ncl
rtartod fn, Sonto Ia Thar, ,hn,, u''V
orotcd tatinc Jieoron, rontos ~, a.,
n,inin% Camne md co,tln town. ,rbn,
ronrcScntcI thomocl,cg o. H., lr,,u
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",nry town o,' caron t6oy ', str,ni,
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+ thcjr co,Js n tb,y c,,,ld nd soIl tian,
tbo, ,,o,o tban, tn ibo .aIoor-t.o,,,,,., inst
~ ssmn1e ~ tho ,roods ,hni,. bo,,so MN
if,ctprcd Eocb Iycnt ~ iisf ~ t,,n ,a,,'n.
/ NJ Tho soIoons ana thc towns tho rnro
/ in tbot thov sold 70 whc, ~ ,aris
y,aro OH ,lscoJ tbo,. rotnrnod ,n Sa,ta
Ia and o,rhnngod Iists shan, t,ot th,
r,,,t tbn s",'',I7 ~, ,,Io,o. SnJ etp,,.,,I
and no Sbong,s ronta Tbey would sfroIi
NO tbn Jnsi5not,I eoioons md sit it,,
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tho tohio tbav ,roniG c,,rso the,r iu c,
and toor mn cSras os ts t5c Wont nt cam.
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was sooel'i t','slNlE W. i"" n'',l 'lu,
knew VINO uau uI'i Inlnou ~ " 0u'l',illn-
tloil OF PoNGI au'' MulsNy; anu nvN lJEn,
lalI! lue lou Il"nu % su''ue' "i'I NiV'Vi ~,
aeath appeared among 'uGin. Utmost al
the men my !iichH sPohe ~ ne uucou'
sciousll laentluea anu rg'aucu 20 ii,y
memory ny lit memory Va sun ,ioouS
mufueF J was becoming ucc'ue,ul set''
Gus "hch nc IhtctluptG" NY ,louRn,s
WIN merry 'auIn' 'lu ~ l. .ii.', w. ny
loon OF inquiry saiu' was 'n'''N'"E %
shorty game ol Poner' a..
instantly lneTG aro5c pciPre me ~ W.