The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-03
GOLD CURE OUT OF A GUN.
ALAsENAN MINER HAS a NUGGET
&SHoT INTO HIS ARM.

Sequel to Poker Game Where 500
600 Is the Size of the Pot-"Nlon-
dixie Charley" Intends the Prec-
iOus Missile for Chinamnn wing.
Best Fellow In the Camp Loses
Both His Thirst ana Dust
From the Chicago Chronicle.
Dyea, Alaska, Sept. Back in the
states they tell of some big poker games
in mining camps and senate committee
rooms or Chamberlains. 1t is a good bet
that none Of the men who played in these
games ever saw as big pile of dust
change hands on one deaf or saw one of
the players cured of the liquor habit at
the same time as was seen here last
Thursday. The majority Of the men who
have come to this place for the winter
are hardy prospectors who have turned
over every foot of ground on the continent
where II was probable a pan of dust might
be cleaned UP. Like all of their kind. they
divide their time between panning. sir
rigatin' and the seductive, notifying in
huence of poker, the genueman's game
About two weeks ago l. Sam Curtis
late of Illinois, and Pete Norton. known
as Forty Mile Pete" also from that por-
ton Of the states, came here from the
north to wait until spring would enable
us to ship our ceanings to the Frisco
mint before going back to our claims on
Forty-Mile creek. Pete and / were pards.
and if l do say ii, had Cleaned up a very
nice pile in the few weeks we Dlacered
on the divide. We had picked up a few
good nuggets and felt that even if we left
the gold fields for good we could buy plen-
~ 90 eat and drink for the rest of our
lives. That was before we met up with
Joe Henderson, known as Jersey" and
Charlie OBrien, who is usually hailed as
'Kiondike Charlie"
When we got here we hired shack and
prepared for the long winter We cast
about for some one to help keep house,
and one night over in the Nugget we ran
into Klondlke and Jersey, Just back from
the fields, and on the same errand as
ourselves. Well to make a long story
short we pooled and then hired a China
man 10 do our cooking. Forty Mile found
the celestial and was the means of intro
ducing the moon-eyed- heather to our
camp Forty Mile quit broke of his dust
and thirst as the result
We had not been established long when
Jersey one evening proposed a quiet
same, just 70 pass the time, you know
Here is where Klondil1e showed great
head. He shifted his pipe 10 the other
side Of his face, took il out of his mouth,
blew few rings into the air and then
toook a long, hearty pull at the btters.
Then he said with his head on one side
Which l holds it ain't no good way TO
do. Yere is four gents and a heather
a-livin into the same shack. We all plays
into a game and we all gets riled and
mixes into a fight eff we loses our dust.
Which mean TO say. low we all better
play over TO Bins place"
This seemed good advice and it was
adopted as the rule Of the shack No man
was permitted TO propose a game in the
shack as long as we went pardners. SO
Jersey lifted his hat and stroled over ID
the Nugget and we all followed him. He
sat IN, and for a time we just sal around
and watched the play. But whoever saw
a miner with Il stack who could keep out
OF a nice game when he has a chance?
The gambling spirit is stronger than the
habit of irrigating. SO We three bought
a stack about third-drlnk lime. and soon
afterward the four pards had the table
10 themselves. 1t is no good thing to do