The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-12
STRANGER LOST HIS PILE
And the Dealer Lost His Hand
some 1915 Overcoat.
A WHIRL WITH THE TIGER
For Time the Stranger Had a Great
Run OF Luck-Then He Dropped
His Gold-Then He Swiped
E tie Overcoat.

Andrew Thoring is minus a SIS over
coat and has asked the police to assist
him in recovering it, and thereby hangs
tale of what sometimes comes of beard
ing the tiger in his lair.
Thorfng is a dealer at King & Lowry's
gambling house. The cold wave of the
last few days reminded him of what was
to be expected of the cold winter just
ahead, and, being mindful of the fact
that the professional gamblers life is
full of vicissitudes and precarious at best,
he decided to take time by the forelock
anc provide against any emergency that
might arise by providing himself with
top coat that would protect him from the
wintry blasts; and while he was about it
and had the cash to spare. he concluded
he might as well get a good one that
would serve several winters if need be,
for there was no telling what might hap
pen, and besides the money might go
where it would do him good deal less
good.
So Thoring invested SIS in garment,
and it was his pride and the envy of the
other "gams." 1t was a beauty, there was
no mistake about it, but unfortunately
for him it was not ordained that he
should swell around in it for long. Last
evening Thoring appeared at the gamb
ling house to 60 to work at the usual
hour. He took off his overcoat and hung
it up. Just then pilgrim strolled in
who had money to burn and was looking
for some one to help burn it. He was in
time to observe that the individual who
a moment later mounted King Faro's
throne was the one who hung the fine
overcoat on the wall as he entered.
Thoring shutfled the cards and the pill
grim laid down $40 gold piece and re-
ceived chips in return for it. For a time
his luck made him the envy of the tin
horns, who became convinced that the
stranger had the only system as they
watched him plank down whole stack
of blues and would see 1t doubled. If the
stranger coppered a card to lose that
card lost and the stranger won. If he
played a card to win that card appeared
on top of the box.
The strangers luck stayed with him till
he had pretty nearly enough money in
front of him to make trip around the
world before the turn came. 1t came
though, as it generally does, but in the
meantime the stranger felt so good over
his luck that he kept a corps of walters
busy bringing the drinks he ordered He
had all the tin-horns in the house so mel
low that they voted him the best fellow
that ever lived, and hoped his luck would
never change When the strangers luck
did change his winnings vanished as
quickly as they had accumulated AS
the stacks went back into the bank the
player grew less gay and when he got
down to the cloth his face was a study.
Still he was game and he commenced to
produce. 1t took him very short while
to blow his pile. He arose from the table
with a curious expression on his face
and glanced from the dealer to the coat
hanging on the well. A crowd Of new
corners gathered around the table, cutting
off the view Of the dealer, and slipping
into the coat he had seen the man who
won his money hang on the wall, the
stranger disappeared. Those who no.
ticed the action did not Know the coat was
not his till some time afterwards, when
Thoring discovered his loss.