The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-02
INDIAN BEAT THE PAT HAND.
sERGEA VT GAMBLER, U. 5. A.,
MEETS A BLANKET SHARPER.

The Soldier Was Gamc-Until the
shoshOne Man Conferred with Big
Ring Dove the Sergeant Kept His
Nerve-Then He Began TO Get Rat
tIed-When the Indian Called Be
sides Four Queens He Held Two
Army Pistols.
From the Washington Star.
An army officer who was stationed at
Boise barracks told this of his gambling
sergeant.
'NBy the time taps was sounded the ser
geant was out $3.50 on his chuck-a-luck
game, and it was given to me that he was
about as miserable a looking man as EVER
wore a stripe on his leg. when the re-
cruit stuffing his last rake-off into his
bullying pockets, announced with a grin
that he had had enough for that night.
The recruit said 'Cert'nly,' when the SER
geant pathetcally asked him If he
wouldn't give him show to get back on
him on the following night, and walked out
in the direction of his quarters, but he
never got there. Instead he took the mid
night train on the Oregon Short Line for
tba t.ast and thew haven't got him vet
-, r,,,,,, 10 fauad 70 turp nm for
elther' Whsh' nc ia'4su ~ '' -
reveille the next morning the sergeant was
torn by sudden agonizing thought, and
he raked out his mustang dice In a hurry.
He found that they weren't his own dice
ar all but flrst-class limitations of them,
and that two of them were just almost
bewitched TO roll over so that a club on
one and a heart on the other would turn
IN The grief that consumed him when
he made the discovery was not assuaged
by the hoarse hooting he got at the HANDS
of the men who had had financial dealings
with him.
This thing, as ! said, started the wheels
in nv sepgeants head to whirring, and
he got h4ggard with anxiety to get even.
TJa wanted to win that $3.50 back the
worst way. and 1t was for this reason that
he fell into the habit of playing draw pc
ker with some of the shoshone Indians
who used to hang around the post at
times some OF those Shoshones always
had a good sum of government money
slowed about their clothes for while art
er their quarterage days, when the agent
would make them their payments ana
the sergeant took it into his head to have
a trv for some of 1t. He had pretty good
success AT first. for he knew a good deal
about the game of draw. and got $50 or
seo each from four or five of the Sho-
shones without much trouble.
"Fhen he fell in with Charley DaW,
chief with a face as hard as an EosNei
island lava statue. Although the sergeant
didn't know IL at the time this Charley
Daw had mastered The game of draw polk
er right here in Washington, on VISIT
that he had made with some other Indians
for the adjustment of some Shoshone
olaims-and when a wooden-faced man be-
comes a really good player of draw poker
n Is a wise thing to steer clear OF him.
The sergeant was too much ratified, how
ever over the way he had been looted by
the recruit TO weigh considerations Of this
SORT and he also forgot 10 remember until
II was TOO late that Charley Daw, since
bis return TO the reservation from Wash
Ington had become known 10 the men of
HE own tribe as the most magical dealer
NJ nolxer hands that ever chucked one of
HE nanooses under the chin.
"C,barlev permitted the sergeant to win
nearly S900 from him on the first night the
tu,o sat down together, and on the next
niobt he donated him 500 more Tie fed
NE sergeant on coin for nearly a week Ia
fact and exhibited such OPAQUE stupidity
81 Inc game that the sergeant must have
hsd his real estate Office furnished pretty