Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-08-13
Washin9tpu Standard
UNCONSCIOUS RAISE.
HOW AN AMERICAN STARTLED A
PERSIAN PRINCE.

Did Not lnderstand Local Poker
Pa.lanCc ana Jabbercd Back an
Unconscious Ratse-R Raised HIS
Majesty Out Of HIS Boots.
Since Mayor Harrison seems deter
mined /" run the gamblers out of Chi
cage, ar rather t. prevent them plying
their vacations in the city, numbers of
them are moving westward, where the
green cloth is busted every morning
and the ace is coppered every night.
There isn't any gambling going on in
New York. Cincinnati is now a dead
card" and as for Washington, Phila-
delphia, Boston and the other Eastern
cities, they are not deuce high in
dirty poker deck. When it was told
in the newspapers last spring, immedi-
atelv after the election of Harrison,
that everything was to be run "wide
OPEN in Chicago, gamblers went there
from all parts of the country. Some
have eaten, Others have subsisted,
mostly on wind buildings.
Along with the rest of the boys that
wear broad-hOttomed trousers, felt
hats and who carry their cigars ele-
waited at an angle of about so degrees
in nf
inquired at the depot where Clark
street was, was John Dougherty, who,
in the palmy days around Tombstone,
when Uncle Jimmy Sullivan was
Sheriff, could stand pat" on seven
spot high and raise back as high as a
cats back. Dougherty tried all of the
houses in town, and occasionally
found game of poker, but they were
mostly limit games and small ones at
that. He pegged along from night to
night and made about enough to buy
his drinks and cigars. Soon his repu-
tation as a poker player, which is
known to every one in Arizona, that
knows the difference between greaser
Mexican and Apache talk, reached
Chicago, and Johns game was up.
For three weeks he pinned and whined
on Clark street begging for hand,
but his opportunities met with chilly
stares and ago chase yourself, you
shark" So it got monotonous for
him, and he bought 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 taxider-
mist.
Throughout the west Dougherty is
known as the best card player that
ever drew to q flush, missed it and
then said nothing. In 1889 he sat
down with man named Ike Jackson,
q wealthy cattle owner and great
poker player of Colorado City, Texas,
to determine the poker championship
of the wild and woolly west. 1t was
in Bowen's saloon in Santa Fe, New
Mexico. There was no limit to the
game, and both had gone to Santa Fe
with several thousand dollars in gold
and greenbacks. They played along
in a desultory way for hours, when
finally both got good hands at the
same time. The betting then became
furious. More than one hundred
gamblers and other citizens had gath
cred about to watch the progress of
the game. Among them was Governor
Prince, who knew and liked Dough-
erty. After about 100000 had been
piled up on the green cloth the Texas
man said to Dougherty that he was
running little short of money, but
that he had ranch and 10000 head
of cattle in Texas that he would like
to make a deed to for another $780,
600 bet. Dougherty said it was per-
fectly agreeable to him, but asked that
the same privilege be granted him if it
became necessary to put up real estate,
ETC., as collateral 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 at him with another raise, Jack
son concluded to bring things to fin
ish. So he raised the Arizona man
100000, throwing his deed to the
Texas property in the pot. Dougher-
ty called for pen and paper. He wrote
hurriedly for few moments, and
then, catching the Governors eye,
beckoned him to one side. Then be-
fore the Governor knew what had hap.
pened, he was looking down the barrel
of o 45-caliber Colts revolver.
"Now, Governor, you sign this" as
he handed him the piece of paper that
contained about a dozen lines. "Sign
it, say, else will kill you. I like
you and would fight for you, but I
love my reputation as poker player
more than I do you or any one else."
The Governor, without looking at
the contents of the document, ner-
vously attached his signature. Then
walking back to the table Dougherty
coolly threw the paper in the pot, qui.
city remarking as he did so, II raise
you the Territory of New Mexico.
There's the deed"
The Texan, of course, had to clay
down." nut as he did so he uttered an
oath that was heard in Lower Califor-
L.