The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-24
SERGEANT GAMBLER MEETS A
blanket SHARPER AT
POKER.
THE SERGEANT WAS GAMY
UNTIL THE sHosHoNE MAN CON-
FERHED WITH BIG RING
DOVE,
WHO HAD JUST sTRoLLED IN.
Then the Shoshone CaIIed-Besides
Cards He Held Two Army
Pistols.

An army officer who was stationed at
Boise barracks told this Of his gam
bling sergeant, says the Washington
Star:
by the time taps was sounded the
sergeant was out $3.50 on his chuck-a-
luck game, and it was given to me that
he was about as miserable a looking
n4an as ever wore a stripe on his leg,
when the recruit, stufffng his last rake
off into his bullying pocket, announced
with grin that he had had enough
for that night The recruit said Cert
My when the serg cant pathetically
asked him If he wouldn't give him a
show to get back on him on the fol-
lowing night, and walked out in the
direction Of the quarters, but he never
got there. Instead he took the mid
Light train on the Oregon Short Line
for the East, and they haven't got him
yet either. When he failed to turn up
for reveille the next morning the SER
geant was torn by sudden agoniz-
ing thought, and he raked out his mus
tang dice in a hurry. He found that
they weren't his own dice at ALL but
fiTst-class limitations Of them, and two
of them were just almost bewitched to
roll over so that a club on one and a
heart on the other would turn up. The
grief that consumed him when he made
hoarse hooting he got at the hands of
the men who had financial dealings
with him
This thing, as I said, started the
wheels in my sergeant's head to Whir-
ring, and he got haggard with anxiety
to get even. He wanted to win that
$450 back the worst way. and it was
for this reason that he fell into the
habit of playing draw poker with some
Of the Shoshone Indians who used to
hang around the post at times. Some
Of those ShoShones always had good
sum of government money slowed
about their clothes for a while after
their quarterage days, when the agent
would make them their payments, and
the sergeant took it into his head to
have try for some Of it. He had
pretty good success at first, for he
knew good deal about the game of
draw, and got $50 or $50 each from four
or five of the Shoshones without much
trouble.
'"Then he fell in with Charley Daw, a
chief with face as hard as an Easter
Island lava statue. Although the SER
geant didn't know it at the time, this
Charley Daw had mastered the game
of draw poker right here in Washing
ton, on visit that he had made with
some other Indians for the adjustment
Of some Shoshone claims-and when a
Wooden-faced man becomes really
good player of draw poker it is a wise
thing to steer clear Of him. The ser
geant was too much ratified, however,
over the way he had been looted by the
recruit to weigh considerations of this
sort, and he also forgot to remember
until 1t was too late that Charley Daw.
since his return to the reservation from
Washington, had become known to the
men of his own tribe as the most mag
ical dealer of poker hands that ever
chucked one of his papooses under the
chin
Charley permitted the sergeant to win
nearly $500 from him the first night the
two sat down together, and on the next might
sergeant ON coin for nearly week in fact,
and exhibited such opaque stupidity at the
game that the sergeant must have had his