Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-12
BEATEN BY TWO DEUoEs.
Dakota's Biggest Game of Poker

From the Chicago Herald.l
 Back in the fifties, when the northern DOT tion of the territory of Dakota was hardly more than a bleak waste of uncultivated lands, the town of Pembina was founded by Enos Stutsman. Some readers of the Her. ald may remember him. He was a man as remarkable for his eccentricit1es as he was for his physical deformities. Enos migrated to Dakota from the huckleberry districts of Connecticut and located in the upper Red River valley, where he filed and proved up on three hundred and twenty acres of gov ernment land, which was the ground on which Pembina now stands. Enos was a prodigy. He had the head and body of giant, but his legs were hardly more than 8 foot long, and he was unable to travel with out the aid of two short and powerful crutches He was shrewd, calculating fel- low, and soon became the recognized leader among the handful of emigrants who had taken up their residence in his neighborhood. As political diplomat he has never had an equal in the territory, and for four consecu- tive sessions he was chairman of the council, the upper branch of the territorial legisla- ture and the old war horses who weathered the political battles of early days in the ter- rltorY when the old story and-a half shanty in Yankton that did humble duty as a capi- to1 building rang as often with the report of 8 revolver as with the voice of a lawmaker, to-day testify in glowing terms to the won der1Ql &D1IlIy or ELuOS OLuISnau aS a pRTlla- mentarian. Eight years ago he was taken suddenly i'll and died. He was buried in the lonely cemetery on the hillside half a mile
 north of Pembina. The only monument that stands to his memory is the county of Stutsman, which is now one of the most prosperous districts in the northern half of Dakota.
 Among his other accomplishments Enos had acquired thorough Knowledge of the game of draw poker for which he had an un- controllable passion, and many are the stories told by his old acquaintances of his reckless ness at the card table. He numbered among | his most intimate friends Judd La Moure, a pioneer who owned line of stage coaches plying between Grand Forks and Pembina. The advent of the railroads killed Judd's 1 coach line finally, and he settled down into profitable grocery business in Pembina, which he now manages, giving share of his | time to local politics and keeping sharp eye | on territorial affairs generally. Probably the | stitfest game of poker ever played in the ter | ritory was the one contested by these men in
 '62. The game was played in the old Levee
 Hotel in Yankton, and lasted from ten o'clock Friday evening till three o'clock Sum | day morning, and at the close of the game Judd La Moure had won thirty-eight hun | dred dollars and the town site of Pembina,
 the greater part of which he owns to-day. The game created public interest, and
 during it's progress the people of the town visited the room and watched the two men as they fought like bulldogs ever the piles of red, white and blue chips. The legislature was man of the council, refused to leave the
 game, that branch of the legislature ad-
 journed until the following Monday, and the members watched the game to the finish. l When the game started Alexander MeKen- zie, sheriff of Burleigh county, and Major