Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-25
SAM JONES HEARD FROM.
He Loses $40 at q Sacramento o Fare
Game.

He Loses $40 at q Sacramento Fare
Game.
Sam Jones and his recent sensational
evangelistic labors in this town will be
readily remembered by all church-goers,
and, in fact, by good many who do not
come under that denomination, and the
following story, told yesterday morning
in the lobby of the Nadeau by a member
of the Senate Committee on Public
Grounds and Buildings, now in the city
from Sacramento, will be perused with
interest.
Sam made bis appearance in Sacra-
mento few days ago, and proceeded to
thunder forth to the residents of that
place that they were living in hot
bed of vice, in much the Same
manner that he Grated to the
dwellers of the City Of the Angels. Now,
as is well-known in sporting circles, King
Faro holds one of his many courts in tho,
Capital City, the lookout" Can individ-
ual who knows everybody was aston
ished the other evening, when, on peer
ing through the pigeon-hole, be
saw the well-known figure Of
Sam mounting the stairs. He let
him in, however, and Whispered
to one of the boys who was in the room,
30 the Reverend Samivel was, therefore,
watched with some interest as he walked
up to one of the tables and, leaning over
the case-keeper's shoulder, called for
1910 worth of reds" They were handed
to him and he proceeded to
play single out and other s'certain
systems" according to the superstition
of able players, but coppering and every
minutes his last chip had been swept in
Gimme another stack" said Sam, and
the ace, but luck was against him and he
was soon broke again. He had some more
money left, however, and other shining
eagles passed into the dealers hands,
but shared like fate, whereupon Sam
purchased one more stack with look Of
despair on his face that showed that he
was beginning to lose heart. Whether
it was a stroke of vengeance on the
part Of the goddess Fortune cannot,
of course, be said, but cerlain 1t is
that she laid Sam cut il What is Is knc~.
as the cold, and he descended the stairs
a $40 loser, though probably consoling
himself with the reflection that he would
get ten times that amount at the morrow's
church collection. Now it so happened
that one of the gamblers took q
notion the next night to drop mp
to Sans revival service and see how he
conducted the affair, the sport being
somewhat interested in the Evangelist
on account of bis bold buck
ing of the tiger the night be-
fore. His astonishment can only be
imagined when Sam opened the even
ing's sermon with the announcement
that he would speak on gambling, and 10
and behold the divine went into the
whole thing, explained how q bet was
coppered, and how money was lost and
won. He wound up by saving that he
had visited, what he characterised as
Zone of the dens" the night before, and
had there made himself thoroughly &C.
quainted with the usodus operand;, SO
that he might speak ON his
subject with the language of .
man who knew all about it. He
omitted 10 say, however, anything Of the
$40 he had left behind him, and tho
gamblers affirm that the only reason that
he burnt them up" was because he
lost instead of beating them out Of q
few hundred dollars.