Arizona republican., 1899-04-27

have been strange in those uays if poker game had Let peen proposed.
 There lives now only one of the seven men Who sat dClWn in that poker game The six others have died uf heart disease, so asserts the survivor. contracted in the three days in Dix City. Among the seven was Joe King. since famous as a boomer of Chicago suburban real estate. Among the oth- CTS were Albert W. Green, who died suddenly in a hotel in Helena, Mont; William D. Graham, who lost every thing in Oklahoma and committed sui eide; Deliver Crancer, Phillip Lewis and Colonel R. L. B. Gear. The one who told the story In a hotel lobby the other day was the seventh man. His face was type of the old cattleman's, seamy and permanently red from the wind. From beneath his great broad black hat were little streamers Of whitened hair. Warmed by the so0th- ing effect of certain liquids he grew reminiscent over a name he had seen in newspaper. He told about the building of Dix City and of it's pass ing. The subject Of poker seemed to arise as a matter of course
 It's fourteen years since I've played a game of the real thing he said, while he felt about his pockets for chewing tobacco. ''The games are so feeble and crippled now that they ain't worth risking a steer over Buck Graham and me rode into Dix together and we'd somehow fixed things up that we'd do the big towns together If one was a bit shy on his feet because O. overliquida-in, the ether, we figured, would be a good thing to have along. But when we met Lewis and the rest of 'sm and poker was mentioned we for got all about quitting the short grass. We started in the game real quiet ana sober like. We all had money. but some way thsy want no enthusiasm an the first night went through with out no change in the size O. wads to amount to anything. Reeves was sell ing at fve-eighty on the range that fall and calves was mighty nigh worth their weight in anything you might be moved to ask. So things had to loos- 6n up bit if the cards was to run q little more brisk. About dark the next afternoon, when the nigger had his trail from the bar room pretty we'll worn down, Lewis suggested we make it jack-pots till 10 o'clock by way of brightenin' things up. We'd used up about sixtsen decks 'tryin to get 'em to run right, but two small pair was takin' things right along.
 'The boards was shuffled around about five times and nary openers The pots was $50 with the roof off We sweetened up five each time. : think it was the colonel that finally opened the pot. Al Green was the only enc that stayed. Gear bettered on the draw and won, but Al was shovin' him close
 We all got to thinkin' Green was easy. He stayed in everything and lost. He somehow had a few. but he couldn't fill on the dead grass at last and was on good feedin' ground when we broke up about 4 in the morning We stuck to jack-pots without any body objectin'. Green distributed about S2,600 about his clothes and went to sleep on the platform with his back up against the station house.
 well, we got sorter stuck on the jackpot idea and we stayed true to 'em till we quit altogether. I guess it must have been about 4 o'clock that afternoon that Crancer said he'd had enough, and Billy Graham. he guessed he'd go too. They left pretty near $3,500 with Green and the rest of us, though Al had most of it.
 Tt was past midnight and we were dead on our feet when matters come to head. Green said he was goin' to quit that night if they was goin' to be some shootin' to get out of the game. We'd made the pot $50 crack I was deaiin' about ten times round after that, and I dealt a good mess to myself. The pot looked nice, as I was l0okin' at three aces and feelin' sat isf1ed. The pot was opened right un- der the gun, too and somebody raised it before the draw. Everybody came in and it was a mighty bright outlook with more'n S900 right before us. could already feel myself pullin' it in. forgot to say that wc'd quit playing with chips because of the trouble or figuring the value Of the pct.
 We all took a drink by way of ste2dyin our nerve before the draw. Well, my hopes were shattered right there, for Lewis said he was satisfied ard Green he. didn't want anything either. I gave myself tray and a seven-spot, so I could figure with them rat hanG5 in front of me that it was time to quit right there, an l did.
 Lewis. who'd been tryin' to look bored, spread his hands ovsr a couple Of piles of dollars after sizin' them up, and shuf1ed off the top boys on his stack of bills.
 T hate to have so much fuss made over my little bluff he says, hut l guess I got to stand by it, now that I've made this fool break
 "'How much you shCvin' in there so blamsd rash?' Green asked.
 '''Theys $500 there I'm figurin' i; perhaps a dollar or two more, or some :,,sE ot1 ri crI,F perhaps
 Green saw the $500 and says: I've been 'wanting to quit here fer ten hours, but you fe,lers don't like it, seein' as I've been a little lucl1ier than usual So I raise it thousand just to hurry things up.'
 "Of course the rest of us couldn't do nothin' in this game, though I'd have liked to have had a show for my three