The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-28

| ana IL tOOk MIN exactly the SetHle Iiulii-
Der of hours to get the Arions nightly
limit of 100000 After the box had been
turned and Joe had got his money
took him out into the night air and told
him that if he put another nickel on a
card as long as he lived I'd have him
put into lunatie asylum.
Easy, my boy said he. I know
when I've got enough, and I'm no hog.
Watch me-
"Well, Gilbert went up to the Puget
Sound country, bought a first-rate ex-
cursion steamboat with his $4,000 and
began to make more money than he
could count. He owns three steam
boats on the sound now, has corking
big bank account, and when the boys
try to get him into a little poker game
he simply smiles in their teeth.
:" Not any, thank you,' says joe I
don't make any bets on cards as long
as I live. It's too wearing. Besides,
there's nothing in it.
ITO get back to the Occur d Alene' in
Spokane, I've seen some queer plays
and players in that institution during
the eight years it has been running.
Four years ago United States army
soldier came down to Spokane from
Fort Sherman. He was an IriShman,
Denny Hannegan. He had been a SER
geant in his outfit and had just been
paid off at the end of a three-year en-
liStment. His pay amounted to 5000
and he brougt the roll along with him
to Spokane. He walked straight to the
Occur dAlene' from the station and
asked for the boss. Jake Goetz came
out of his office and asked the soldier
what he wanted.
+" want an even show to double the
5000 that I've got on me- said the Irish
sergeant in his brogue. If I can't
double it I want to go broke and do it
on one play. I don't want to hit up
your tiger, nor your red and black, nor
your wheel, nor anything else; but if
you want to give your bank percentage
the go-by for once, I'll flip up, or you
can flip up quarter, to see whether
you take my $500 or I get $500 of your
money. 1 want to take trip to the old
country to see the old folks, and want
to do it in style. Six hundreds not
enough to do it, but $1,000 would be. Is
it go?
Now Jake Goetz would bet on the
speed of tumblebug climbing Mount
Hood. He replied by pulling half dol
lar out of his pocket.
4" Heads or tails said he, and the
coin was in the air.
" Tails, said Hannegan.
{ Tails loses, said Jake, as the half
rolled heads up on the green cloth, and
Hannegan handed over his $500 bundle
without gulp. The Irishman went
back to Fort Sherman, re-enlisted, saw
ed another 5000, and a year ago he turn
ed up at the Occur d'Alene' again with
the same proposition. Jake tipped up
with him again, and lost.
Want to make it doubles or quits?'
said Jake to the Irish sergeant.
Yes said flanagan, and he took
$2,400 along with him on his voyage to
the old sod.
"A female relative of one of my herd
ers, Jack Truelove, died back east here
few years ago and left the young fell
low $4,000 in cash. When Truelove got
his draft he turned it all into gold and
then came to me.
I guess I'll run up to Spokane and
double the size of this bag, boss said
he to me.
:. Not while there's a half-inch lasso
loose around this ranch, you WON'T
said I. But he went all the same, and
Jake Goetz told me later what happen
ed
tTruelove was addicted to the stud
poker habit, and that was the game he
edged up to when he got to the Occur
d Alene. There were four other men
in the game besides this herder of mine,
and none Of them had ever rounded up
sheep for living, either, so that the
boy was 5000 out of pocket at the end
of two hours. Then a queer deal came
along. Not man of the five made a
bet until all the cards were dished by
the dealer. 1t was to be case of bet
ting on the cards in the hole. Only two
of the men had anything promising
showing. One of them was a Spokane
real estate man named HUMPHREYS, who
has since ruined himself at cards.
HUMPHREYS had a trap, four, five and
six of clubs face up. Truelove had in
sight a four, five, six and seven of dia-
monds. The other three men, with
small pairs or nothing, dropped out
when they saw the possibilities of these
hands. Then it was between Hunph-
ries and my herder.
Two thousand said this fool boy
herder of mine. The $4,000 bet tapped
him.
Two thousand more said Humph-
ries.
Say watch this layout for me Just
minute, will you? said Truelove to
bystander. Wait until 1 find Jake
Goetz.'
He found Goetz, and calmly asked
him for loan of $1,000 for three min
utes. Jake told me the gall of the re-
quest almost knocked him down.
What have you got in the hoIe?,
Jake asked him.
The eight of diamonds, and it's a
straight fiush,' replied Truelove There
can't be two of those in one deal. Won
know
let the boy have the S5,OOO' said
Jake to me, because didn't think such
everlasting damned nerve as he had
ought to be suppressed in the state of
Washington
Two thousand more than YOU said
Truelove to HUMPHREYS when he got
back to the game.
See you and five hundred more
said HUMPHREYS