The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-18
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| ed cards all nlgnt-every night IN uneweek.
lobe jenkins, my partner, and myself
concluded we'd go over there one day and
! take whir, with the animals, so we start
ed out early to tramp it. the road was
! good and mostly through dried swamp
close grown with trees.
1T didn't take US long to get acquaint-
| ed in Horton Center. The glad hand was
! put out everywhere and there was a jug
Or a ticker back of every one. After
couple OF hours of this welcoming bust
ness somebody suggested little game OF
/ draw Just to pass the time, and tall,
| lanky man said that as it w,.s pretty warm
we might as well 60 to his house and play
| on his PLAYER, as he called it, After the
game had been going on half an hour or so
| lobe and just looked at each other. 1t
was the softest, easiest outfit we had ever
struck. The other four players just threw
their money away, making the biggest
fool bets anybody ever saw. Fact is they
couldn't have been worse poker players il
they hadn't seen a card before In their
lives. By O'Clock at night we had all
the money in sight, and lobe said we'd
better be starting out, as it was a long
walk home, and the moon would be get
ting low down before we could reach
there. The tall, lanky fellow begged us
to stay all night, but we had to refuse
We started home for Cutters Store through
the woods just loaded down with cash and
pretty near $3.50 winner, when all of q
sudden we heard dogs baying behind u.s.
We both recognized hounds. lobe said he
reckoned somebody was coon hunting, but
thought it was a mighty funny time Of
the year for 'em to do it, and he began to
tell about a coon hunt he had gone on
once, when he broke off.
% Pard, he hollered, got tree. Those
dogs are after us.
Il Skinned up one, and Tobo took an
other, and in two minutes tho meanest lot
of big mouthed, NANCY hounds you ever
saw were cavorting around under US howl
ing like hyenas. We both hoped somebody
would come, and pretty soon somebody
did. 1t was the tall, lanky man. He came
up and Quoted the dogs and thek leaned
On long barreled gun and proceeded to
address us. He said he was mighty panied
to do what he had to do, but the fact was
that Horizons Center had been yictimiZed
ever since the railroad came by poker play
ing strangers, who came in and cleaned up
all the ready money in the community.
He was sorry to say that we had returned
the cordial hospitality extended to US IN
the same cruel way. We had gone into
game with the mayor, the town marshal,
the leading merchant and the county treas
urer, which was himself.
The county treasurer had stalled the
other gentlemen with all the available
public funds, and we had skillfully-he
would not say dishonestly-wont them all.
1t was his duty, therefore, to require us
to hand the winnings and any other small
change we might have about us back. The
dogs were not hungry, but would get so
after awhile, and when we got tired OF
roosting and came down they might ap-
pease their appetites with us. Besides,
there were some other citizens of Horton
Center back in the woods who could pick
possum out of the highest tree in the
bottoms on the darkest night in the year.
Did we shell out? We did. We threw the
money we had down on the ground and
the tall, lanky man gathered it up. Then
he said good night and whistled to the
dogs.
You'll have a safe ROAD TO Cutters
ne remarked in a hearty tone as he moved
of, and mebbe il might he as well eff you
didn't mention this heer little eppyzode
when you gifts thar Tobe and l left Ar
kansas in three days, and reckon some
4 rkansas cotton planters are waiting fog
us to come for their crops yet. "-Tashing-
ton Post.