The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1895-12-17
A WESTERN PokEk STORY.
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SALT LAKE Crry. Dea M-It wa
yet an hour before the train was due
here today when. having read the las,
page Of the latest magazine and extract
ed all the news from the morning paper.
ssrolled into the smoking car In search
Of amusement There L found typical
westerner Of the earlier days RECALLING
another with = story and sat down be-
hind the pair and listened
"Waal. as I was saying" the speaker
continued, the wust sold lot of gains
! ever knowed was out in Eureka White
Pine county, New. some four or five
years ago Eureka was lively mining
camp them days and Of course there
was a poker game running wide open in
the one his saloon thera had some
business out there that year that kept
me in Eureka for four or Eve days. and
when l hadn't anything else to do l
useter watch the game Sometimes it
was real amusing
''One day in particular they was a
SIN game On. and o tall sort Of Teller,
wearing billed shirt and long coat
and stovepipe hat, come In BE was so
tall and thin he was Just natohully
eawky. and he had q chin beard that
made him look worse than he would Of
looked without il He stood around
awhile. with his hands in his ccattails.
and finally the boss, who was playing
in the game. sung out:
Say, You. 6ontcher wanter play n
Ettle:'
"'waal. prehaps do says the fell
ler. What's the limit:'
There ain: no limit says the
gambler.
"'Eow much are your chipsY says
sawky.
Twenty-Five cents the gamblerre-
plies
Wsal. says the stranger. 'lemrle
have hundred dollars worth
WAL, they give the Teller the chips,
and he stacked EN- up in front Of him
very slow and delibsratelike Then i
noticed tina: his hands was thin and his
fingers was loag-just right for poker.
BE pulled $ big roll out OF his pants
pocket, and the fun began Pretty soon
sha, roll was gone. and then he took one
from his hip pocket and then one from
his inside coat pocket, and every one Of
than was Is big Is your am muscle
Ee seemed 70 have no end Of money.
Birehy he began TO win his rolls back.
and then the Other felle-s' money began
20 give ont. and then they all dropped
oct but one, Then the fellers that hsd
dropped out looked Sc their friends
hand and pat up their rolls till they was
al gone. which wasn't long. for the
raises was sometimes s2so Q clip Then
the money drawer Of the hank was
Cleaned OFT and then gawky leaned
hack sid pulled his chin whisker with
one hand and sid 10 his opponent, real
Sew and eJ.syiike:
what have VOC eotT
I've got a full house, replied the
gambler sarcass,c.,i,y. then. initiating
tie s;-ancs-. sSked- What have you got,
yOC O-ka-i. ministerial looking son OF
Eeo1hC-u. may ssk:'
e hive fer ore spots. said gawky.
c-lI-:rS. wkiEs his lo-c fingers reached
or toward re Pile li,tle mite. Might
th=- he good:
sly. I Cevs- saw felle- b-oke up
Ike that gambler was Is he showed over |
;Ae money. We 81 telt so--y for hin,
when We found out that |
-avky vas I Mississippi rive- steam
boat gambler and stood sway up in the |
blSIe-S Re cleaned OFT lot Of camps
,aTs- IAa- sane year. and ne done il 81 |
ways II TIE sane way-by having rolls |
enough I'D big enough 20 outlast every
bod! else n the game. Say, ne was Z
o0-ker, ina. fe-ler He told me in Salt |
Lke afre-wa-d that he made good deal |
mere DOcsy OFT Of the miners the year |
be went OFT 70 Eureka than he ever did |
anywhere before in the same time Bu:
be never hit the Eureka fellers again |
Yoo cA1 put that IN your pipe and |
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