Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-04

Just Left School.
 Living with her daughter in coz, cottage, handsomely furnished, on . quiet stre ct of Superior, Wis, is . woman W, nose life history reads like { romance. Not yet 45 years of age, thi, woman hf s seen more of life than mosl men do in century Her hair is white as driven mow, but her face preserve: her wonder ful beauty, which has beer her main lock in trade Her voice is soft and 10 ", and every action betokens the utmost refinement, but in spite of all this the re is not more skillful card sharp in tn @ country than she.
 Mrs Kat 0 c. Ogden is tho woman's $ name, or ut least that is the name she is l1nowngby to the people of Superior, for farther, west she is better known as Faro Kate om account of her having for many years conducted faro games in many of the smaller cities and towns. Until within the last year her daughter, charming girl of about 16, has been in convent and until recently did not know that her mother was one of the most dangerous card swindlers of the continent.
 Mrs. Ogden is now wealthy woman, and every cent of her money came from the pockets of her numerous victims, who range in the social scale all the way from lumber jacks" to well dress ed men about town.
 The woman is the widow of gam bier who died in the west some years ago, leaving as legacy only tho knowl edge of how to win at cards and few braces of faro dealing cards. How well Mrs Ogden has made use of the lnowl- edge and the boxes may be judged when it is stated that she Is worth anywhere from $25O, 900 to $500, 900, all of it made in gambling with cards.
 Up to the time Miss Ogden returned from the convent Mrs Ogden's home was fayorite resort for young men with more money than brains, for the woman was an excellent entertainer, aud would open faro game any hour of the day or night for the aecommoda- tion of her visitors.
 For the past year not card has been turned in Mrs. Ogden's home, and it is understood that she has abandoned the life of gambler forever on account of her daughter. So far as known, Mrs Ogden 8 private life has been strictly moral one, and never has she been known to touch drop of liquor. She made gambling a business, the same as other women make stenography or dress making business
 Her first stand was at Deadwood sev- eral years ago, soon after the death of her husband, which left her without penny ill tho world. Then she opened private gambling house and made mon- ey rapidly. From Deadwood she went to Pierre, s. D., where she remained for some time, running openly on Missouri avenue, the tough street of the city.
 Her patrons were largely real estate dealers and cattlemen, and she would probably have been there yet had not desperate quarrel taken place in her house one night, during which cattle man was shot in the shoulder This ended her career there, and she came to the northwest, where she has been ever since
 A few years ago Mrs. Ogden owned the finest private gambling house ill Bismarck, N. D., and strange stories are told of the games played there dur ing the sessions of the legislature when every one had money to burn. Many of the men who have achieved political greatness in North Dakota know the woman well, and many of them know her to their sorrow, for much of theix good gold went to increase her savings Not only did Mrs. Ogden conduct faro game, but poker games, in which the white chips were $1 and the blues any where from $25 to $100, were of night ly and daily occurrence at her home.
 The charge was made at one time just after one of the best known men in the northwest had dropped something like $40, 900 in poker game one night, that a prominent state official stood i'll with Mrs. Ogden and that they had been using marked cards and cheating i'll other ways. The charge was never pressed, but shortly after it was made Mrs. Ogden disappeared one day and was next heard of ill Superior, where she has ever since made her home, liv- ing very quietly for the past few months.
 Soon after Mrs. Ogden located in Su- perior she opened a game, but it was run only short time on account of a complaint made by banker, who was swindled out of large sum by means of marked cards. He in company with several other prominent men sat in at a big poker game at the woman s house one night, and when he arose he was loser to the tune of many thousands of dollars ill cash and paper bearing his name. The checks were never presented, however, for an examination of the cards after the game was finished show ed that they could be read from the back by person having the key as we'll as they could from the face.