The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-28

begged along from night to night, ana made about enough to buy his arlnks 1 and cigars, Soon his reputation as a poker player, which is known to every one in Arizona that knows the differ- | ence between greaser Mexican ana | Apache talk, reached Chicago, and Johns game was up. For three weeks | he pined and whined on Clark street, begging for a hand, but his importuni- ties met With chilly stares and go | chase yourself, you shark" So it got ! monotonous for him, and yesterday | morning he bought a straight ticket for Tucson, He said before leaving that | if anybody ever caught him east of the | Rockies" again he hoped he would be Killed and sold to a taXidermist.
 Throughout the west Dougherty IS known as the best card player that ever | drew to flush, missed 1t, and then said nothing. In 1889 he sat down With man named Ike Jackson, wealthy | cattle owner and great poker player or Colorado City, Tex, to determine the | poker championship of the wild and | Woolly west. It was in Bowen's saloon in Santa Fe, N M. There was no limit to the game, and both had gone to San- ta Fe with several thousand dollars in | gold and greenbacks. They played along in a desultory sort of way for hours, when finally both got good hands at the same time. The betting then be- came furious. More than one hundred gamblers and other citizens of Santa Fe had gathered about to watch the pro- gress of the game. Among them was | Governor Prince, who knew and liked Dougherty. After about one hundred | thousand dollars had been piled upon the green cloth. the Texas man said to Dougherty that he was running a little short of money. but that he had a ranch and one hundred thousand head of cattle in Texas that he would like to make a deed to for another one ham dred thousand dollars to bet. Dougher- l ty said it was perfectly agreeable to him, but asked that the same privilege be granted to him if it became necessa- ry to put up real estate, etc, as collat- eral in order to play his hand for what it was worth. Jackson assented, of course.
 After the Texan had put up all of his ready cash and Dougherty came back with another raise Jackson concluded to bring things to finish. So he raised the Arizona man one hundred thousand dollars throwing his deed to his Texas property in the pot. Dougherty called for pen and paper He wrote hurriedly for a few moments, and then, catching the governors eye, beckoned him to one side. Then, before the governor knew what had happened, he was looking down the barrel of forty-five Colts revolver.
 Now, Governor, you sign this," as he handed him the piece of paper that con- tained about dozen lines. Sign it, say, else I will kill you. I like you, and would fight for you, but I love my repu- tation as a poker player more than dc you or any one else"
 The governor, without looking at the contents of the document nervously at tached his signature. Then, walking back to the table, Dougherty coolly threw the paper in the pot, quietly re- marking as he did 50, T raise you the territory of New Mexico There's the deed"
 The Texan, of course, had to Hay down." but as he did so he uttered ar oath that was heard in Lower Califor- mia. Then, as he saw Dougherty rakt in the big pot, Jackson gave a nervou: twitch at his moustache and said
 That's all right John, Scoop 1t in but it's d-n good thing for you that Jim Hogg, the governor of Texas, ism here"
 In those days Dougherty wouldn't gt in a game unless his fellow player: could show ten thousand dollars Ht wasn't 'tin horn,' When he ordered a drink he threw a "fiver" on the coun ter, and if any change was offered 1T return he was insulted. But hard times struck the west and poker became { scarce article. When he got down tc his last fifty thousand dollars he went to New York. While there he learned that in Persia the young men played poker fairly we'll and that when they got hand that amounted to anythins they would bet on it till the cows came home. So to Persia Dougherty sailed He had no trouble in being introduced and down there he was soon popular fellow among the young princes, even | he couldn't talk Persian. They play DO ker somewhat differently there to what we do in this country. A little dog will beat a sequence and four deuces beat four aces Again, there is never any money in sight A man sits nea, the table and records the bets, and c : settlement is made after the game k over. This bookkeeper, or whatever they call him. is also linguist, anG whenever foreigners play with these princes, as in Dougherty's case, he tells of the raises
 We'll, one night Dougherty had beer trailing in on nearly every hand, only fn hr hNpt tN,, tY, l.. t41I.a I.a,rrt yN nally he caught a pair of sizes about the time one of the princes caught foul of a kind. There had been a deal ot 'jollying" and horse play" going on al
 the night. Dougherty, of course couldn't understand the words that