The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-12

| NO, I'm burned II L Go, says CATO.
| Might as well lose it all now devil
take it. and he gnawed ON his finger
nails, thinking about what kind of
story he'd put up to his partner |
guess, when he got back to Yankton
| broke.
| well, Cato did lose it all, or close on
| to all of it. He foregathered with
man that got aboard at Omaha, and
said he was civil engineer for the
| Union Pacific Railroad The civil engi-
neer got $1,000 Of Catos greenbacks,
and then got off. Twenty miles below
Omaha, at little landing, a gappy
| looking hog raiser that Cato had met
before climbed over the rail, and Cato
thought he saw a chance to recoup his
dropping fortunes. The hog raiser re-
LEVIED Cato of $1,000, and had an i'm
portant engagement to look at some
fancy hogs at the next stop. This left
Cato with 5000.
| Convinced that you're damphool
yet, Cato?' says I.
| DANCED if don't begin to b'lieve
am he owns up.
How about those goods you were
going to buy in st. LOUISE? asked him.
I Dunno he said, mournful like.
| well, when we got to Leavenworth,
Kan, the wheezy old Sherman tied up
for twenty four hours for repairs to
the machinery. Cato was pretty
gloomy. We went ashore and put up at
the old Planters House. On the night
we struck Leavenworth I walked Cato
around to sort O. relieve his mind. We
We're strolling down Chawnee street
| when we both saw pretty much
| lighted up place into which a lot of
well gotten up men were going. When
we came up to the place we heard the
rattle of the chips and click of the mar
BILE and the choppy talk of the keno
men, and then we saw that 1t was Col.
Jennison's famous Bon Ton gambling
joint, running wide open and full blast.
Cato made for the door. l grabbed him
by the sleeve.
Come on out O. that says I.
You've only got 5000, which won't
more'n get you back to Yankton.
Haven't you been enough Of an idiot
already?
I got a hunch,' says Cato, releas-
ing himself from me and starting again
for the door.
'Hunch!' says I, but he was al
ready inside.
"Well, Cato goes up to the faro table
where the big men Of the town seem to
be playing bank and says to myself,
Joe, you'll have to dig up to send this
crazy man back to his pardner in
Yankton.'
.'Cato bought 5000 worth of chips,
tapping himself, and began. Gentle
men, he couldn't lose. He scattered
| =; I'd on fable
and he couldn't lose. He won eight
bets out of ten. He let his money lie
on cards four times over, and won ev-
cry time. He didn't use a copper, but
played every card wide open. There
didn't seem to be a split in the box for
Cato. In less than twenty minutes he
had won over $4,000 There was $500
limit on the game. alto asked to have
it removed. When the limit was taken
off, Cato made three $1,000 bets run
ming, and won every one of them. Then
he came off of his perch and got down
to 5000 bets again, playing EN- like a
veteran, and just simply unable to lose,
gentlemen. The rest of the men at the
table quit playing just to catch Cato.
Once in a while Cato'd play the high
card, just to see If his luck was hold
ing The high card came out every
time he did it. They switched the deal
err three times. They switched the
lookout half dozen times. They tried
different boxes. They changed tables.
They did everything But, gentlemen,
Cato pullman was playing faro, and he
couldn't lose. I was proud of the big
duffer In an hour he was $4,000
ahead of Col. Jennison's bank. They
sent across the way to get Col. Jenni-
son who was playing quiet little
game of poker in the Star of the West
saloon, Col. Jennison came over to the
4 Bon Ton and sat down to handle the
box for Cato himself. Cato soaked Col.
Jennison every bit as hard as he had
soaked all of Col. Jennison's dealers.
Col Jennison was game but, when at
the end of three hours, Cato. was still
going right ahead winning like cy
clone, he turned the box over with this
little remark: Gentlemen, the game is
closed for the night
when Cato cashed in he had just
$4,000 I took him by the arm and
walked him down to the hotel and got
him into his room. Cato went to the
basin to wash his hands. When he
turned around to me again he looked
into the barrels of both my guns.
Cato says I, I'm sorry, but I'll
just trouble you to hand over every
cent of that s35,2O0 you've got right
away now darned quick, or I'll blow
the whole top of your head Off
"Cato didn't demur little bit. He
plunked the money down-most of 1t
was in $1,000 and $500 bills-on the
table.
T don't suppose I've got enough
sense to pack 1T around, fur fac','
said he.
when we got to st. Louis handed
Cato $4,000 to buy his goods with, and
expressed the $4,000 to his address in
| Yankton.
" Well said his little pardner, Still
water, when Cato got back to Yankton,
| 's'long os you won, you big clodhopper,
I don't s'pose I need to mangle you up
none But If you had lost!' New
| York Sun.
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