The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-13
Anaconda Neos.

In the car. getting away just as fast
as possible, leaving me with three men
In fight that was not my own / felt
lonesome
The other fellows came back and for
a few minutes / worked against a
three handed bunko game that was
carried on at a merry gait. The con-
ductor came in and / saw at once he
was in with the play and was mad at
the row I had made. / wanted him to
telegraph to Lawrence and have oftS-
GERS take the men off, but he wouldn't
do 1t and suggested i had better attend
10 my business. Then the fellow / hal
thrown down tried to draw a gun and
/ saw had to bluff the whole gang or
get the worst of It, Twas new at
bluffing. but made it go.
Put up that gun and keep yoslr
hands off Of IT, I said, you're a big
rob him and then get mad when called
down. You can't make your bluffs go
here ! continued, and then turning to
the conductor. / said: You wire to
Lawrence and have officers there TO
take these men or you'll never make
a run on the Sante Fe again. You
can't stand in with the gang and hold
your job, too
THE bluff went. They Quit and
and bunko men joined in a request to
let the matter drop and they would
give the money back to the old man. 1
held out for arrest and swore / would
never relent, but finally when they
gave back the coin let up. The men
left the train at Argentine.
shortly afterward / heard the gang
was in Kansas City and was laying for
me. / don't run around nights and so
II falf Il laa 9
O'Brien's gang and that the man I
had the fight with was O'Brien. a bun
ko man known on two continents.
was quite uneasy over the affair and
kept lookout when away from home.
"A year later / was again on the
Santa Fe and saw O'Brien. I supposed
he was fixed for a row. For a moment
I hardly knew what to do and then 1
walked over and sat down beside him.
We'll. we meet again. I said.
ct guess you're off we nevsr met
before he growled in a surly tone.
oh, yes, O'Brien, we met and had
a fight a year ago. Don't you remem-
Der? We settled and let 1t all drop. I
heard you were looking for me and so
came over to see whether you were
dissatisfied with the settlement
AT this he smiled and said he was
not looking for me; the affair was over
chatted for a. time and then he asked
me why / interfered in their game 1
told him / thought II shame to lure
an old man into a game and rob him.
He said they did not lure him in. One
of his gang went into the car and pre-
tended to be drunk and was showing
how he had seen a three-card monte
trick turned. He acted as an ignorant,
drunken man would and the old man
bit and went to win his money. He
tried to rob a drunken man but squeal-
ed when he himself was robbed.
O'Brien declared that every man
caught in a bunko game was a greedy
man who was trying to rob another.
When caught they always squeal.
After that he told me never to inter
fere again, for the people who were
robbed at cards were at heart robbers.
We parted in good humor, and yet 1
distrusted him and was really glad
to hear of his death at Paris and know
that he would run across me no more.
1t wasn't a pleasant thing to know
that sort of a gang was on your track.
That's the first, last and only fight
i ever had in Kansas, and / am salts
fed to let my record stand. / shall
hunt up no more fights unless ] chance
to meet the cowboy who promised to
stay with me and then crawled out of
the carr