The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-31
A GAMBLERS LUCK.
chips Tossed to Him Ont of Pity Put Him
or the Road to Fortune.

or the Road to Fortune.
A party of horse racing followers
xero standing in Wizards lobby when
tall, soldierly looking man with white
aair and snowy mustache and imperial
strobe in aud advanced to the clerks
iesk
"See that feller?" said one of the
elderly men in the group. That's
Lucky Jack Doty. Never hear of him?
Well, he's got story that is worth
KNOWN. Thirty years ago there wasn't
higher roller in the south. His people
had died out one by one till only sis
ter was left, and Jack and her had
loads of money and lots of negroes. She
got religion the worst way and all of a
sudden went into convent.
GAS | said, Jack was a high roller,
but he'd kept within bounds up to that
time. When the girl had left the
world, as they call it, Jack was crazy.
He was devoted to her, in spite Of his
runnin around, and he just cut loose
and raised fog He played the limit,
and it wasn't long before the brace
players had layouts fixed for him in
every town he struck. His money went
and his negroes, too and the time came
when he didn't have the price OF
shoestring He drifted up to Memphis
one night broke and desperate. He
went into a farrer bank and watched
the game for awhile, but he didn t get
nod where not long before the negroes
used to break their neckS to shove
chair right in front of the layout for
him.
cold man Galloway had farrer
streak on him that night and was playin
blues at hundred q stack. Jack sat
down near him and seemed to Illustrate
the old man, because he bet 10 chips
Oh double seven and got split. He
was madder'n hornet. but he laughed
Just the same and said to Jack as he
handed over the split check to him:
81 reckon you want a stake and
made me bet odd chips See what you
can do with that.
"Jack grabbed the So so like a hun
cry man catchin bun and shot it into
the square. The king won on the turn.
Then the deuce won twice. Jack let the
$40 lay. The deuce won again. Then
the king won twice, and then the deuce
won again. Neither the queen or ace
had showed, but the $500 in blue chips
were still untouched The dealer
thought he had cinch and never
spoke about the 5000 limit The queen
won Oh the turn.
Draw down to $500, said the
dealer, and Jack took $40 away. Well,
the last king and all the queens and
aces won, and Jack had 5000 on every
one He kept On playin and turned the
box down and carried Off the $1,000
bank roll with him about daybreak. He
got the blue split he had started OH and
had hole bored in it and put it Oh the
chain of the watch he bought next day.
He went to New Orleans and won $780,
900 in five weeks. Then he went Oh a
bank breakin trip up the river, and he
reached st. Louis in the spring of 1869
worth 5000, 900 i'll solid cash. He was
comm out Of farrer bank the day
after he got there when a little woman
dressed like sister came up to him.
Jack, she said, gimme that thing
you've got on your watch chain and
hang this there instead, and she held
out little medal. He broke the blue
split Off and took the medal and put it
Oh. There We're 20 crooked games fixed
for him in st. Louis, but he never
played against farrer again. He wears
that little medal yet!'
When Doty came out few minutes
later, half dozen pair of eyes searched
his vest. Dangling from the heavy gold
chain that crossed it was the little
medal. Washington Star.