The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-02

it was the Indians deal Charley Daw
, was one of those poker dealers that make
men nervous by covering the whole deck
up with their hands while rifliing the
cards. The sergeant was in a pretty rat
tied frame of mind and the only thing
that relieved his nervousness while the
Indian thus shufled the cards was that
the latter seemed to be giving no atten-
ton to the job, but kept his gaze fixed
dreamly TO the top of the wickieup.
" Shuttle the cards on the blanket he
said, however, to the INDIAN finally.
" 'Huh?' inquired Charley Daw, but he
showed that he had heard the remafa
all right by giving the cards an osten-
tatious riffling on the blanket
with a pat ace full the sergeant, I
was told, looked as IL he felt a revival OF
interest in life, and, In order to entice the
Indian in. he opened the pot for only
IS. The Shoshone studied his hand for
long time, and finally heaved a s. gold
piece into the pot with the air OF a man
who believes he Is making a fool of him
self. lie looked quite concerned when the
soldier stood pat with a self-satisfed grin
and threw one of his cards into the dis
card with the hasty hopeless Jerk of
chap who hobs 20 a straight or flush For
the first time since the two had been
playing the Indians countenance assum-
ed look of disgust when he saw the card
he had dealt himself, and the soldier look
ed as If he feared he couldn't make much
out of his ace full.
Fifty dollars said he, In a bluffy tone
of voice.
''The Shoshone gazed at him with the
stolid, injured expression of a man of
whom gross advantage Is being taken,
and then his jaws set with an expression
that was probably meant TO convey and
did convey, the idea that he didn't intend
to be bluffed right along Carefully con-
ming his hand, he raised II a hundred
This was pie for the sergeant. He saw
plainly that the Indian was fustered and
ratified.
" Five hundred more said he, reach
ing inside his blouse and hauling out his
reserve bag of coin
Charley Daw now looked pltIful He
dropped his hand Of cards on the blanket
and gazed smack into the sergeant's eyes
for fully a minute Then he gave a long
whistle, and inside OF half minute an
other Indian. Big Ringdove, also a chief,
walked into the wickieup. Charley Daw
beckoned TO his tribesman, showed him
his hand, and the pair had a conference in
Shoshone which wound up by Big Ring
dove looking as II he felt ashamed of his
brother chief. The sergeant was the picture
nance sergeant who was present at the
game told me that the sure-thlng non-com-
missioned officer somehow lost the finer
edges Off his grin when Charley Daw
grunted out a raise OF 81 900. That raise
tapped the sergeant all but 500. But he
was still pretty confident, and SO he stood
the raise and threw in his last $500. GER
tain that 1t would drive the indian out.
But wicked smile now wreathed Char
ley DAVIS countenance.
. That all you got?' he inquired of the
soldier The latter, fear now gripping him,
nodded afiirmatively
Then / call you, said Charley Daw,
with his eyes now contracted like SER
penis, and he allowed the sergeant to
nervously spread out his ace full on the
blanket.
No good, said the Indian. fiicklng his
four queens onto the blanket one by one.
Look a-here, you cursed, red-hided,
short-card player the sergeant began.
scrambling to his feet, and then he stopped
suddenly. The Indian sat perfectly still.
holding a big army pistol In his blanketed
lap with both hands.
You go your barrack,' said Charley
Daw. Tattoo he go in minute you get
In bunk and sleep; I play you again some
time. You go now
and, persuaded by Charley DAVIS man
ner (Which was right chopped-off, / was
told and by the gun, my sergeant return
ed to his quarters which he had no right
ever to leave to play poker with Shos-
homes The devil of il was that when Il be-
came known around how he had been
cleaned out all the men made 1t a daily
practice for weeks TO ask him 81 he
wouldn't give them a job clerking In his
real estate office over in Spokane"