The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-04-24
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
How Mrs. Dewey's First Hus-
band Won a Town ait Poker.
A DISPUTE As TO TITLES NOW.

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-Four Kings Won From Hsperofa's
Jack Fail - The Geasefess social
Roupd-seBasor BeyerfdEe In Lii
erasure.
Deeds for town lots were used ~
poker chips Ia the boom" days Of
Wichita, Kan, IL was then thai Gen.
eral IIazen, the first husband Of Ad-
niral Deweys present wife. Won 30
or more lots, fully "a third Of the town
as IL then existed. Mrs. Dewey now
wants 10 sell the lots, but Nv having
trouble to prove title. Harvey FleH1.
ing, now editor Of the Kansas CITY
Journal, and Charles a, Edwards, cor.
respondent Of the Houston Post, were
In Wichita ia The early eighties and
knew about the town lot game, MI
Fleming said recently 10 the New forb
Worlds Washington correspondent;
General IIazeD was la Wichita TAX
Ing observations, The town WAS DIIpd
with real estate agents, boomers and
spectators, General IiazeD was y
lucky poker player ana was regarded
rs u dangerous opponent ~ the weekly
sittings, the game IN which the toWD
lots were won was u wonder IL WAS
Ave handed. the players being General
HazeD, Dave Payne, ioklabonG linPpy
Hill Captain Crouch aud Dave Ban
croft, Payne, Hin and Crouch were
all Interested Ia ihe opening for sei.
Element Of Oklab0pl0
oGasb WIS played for when the game
began, rs General UazeD was ayeyse
10 putting w rem money against ile
fictitious values Of town lots, After
General IiaHen had secured most ~ the
cash IN sight the other plDyarS ~ con
tinue lbe game reoeled ~ agreement
Of M upset price % al Town lots, tbs
was satisfactory 70 General Ii1zel
"Ibe game went Oh l'lrst one man
would Own an entire section " tie
city, and theu another would bod lllln
A stack " blues would often repre-
sppt Ap entire subdivision, GennfQl
IIuzeR waB . greQt band NJ 'blulDng5
A jackpot came around, Wild oDlg
General IlnZen, 'OldqhonH lllppF lilU
and Uaye Bancroft pI0ying, Bancroft
opened tlnHeD drew three cards, IliI
unH, Hiu hlHiEBIl HlfDi wv
"HaDeroft BET y fpW oilg lots, md
HiIl dropped our, General linHop mis-
ed The bGt, md HDuep0fl, believing le
WINS ,bludtDR,' tIIted II aglip, GHpewl
IIlZen slW The raise ana Weul BIN y
few lois better Aftpr another palse
Blperofl chilled, ppg GppeEQl llaHQp
hid down four kings or queens, ! dOp'l
remember which Bancroft Ind d jaot
full IN this way General IlDzoD bn
olDle tla owner ~ The 80 town lots,
"NeQrly every one who participated
IN His gpplo II dpld Captain Crouch
was SHOT ~ 0klahoma shortly nfier
tho territory Wls opened, 'DklnhOmn
HAIRY iii WIS klGked IN The bend By
o mulo IN VpAns and died, md Gen
eral Ha2ap is deld, don't know bow
Payne dlpd and 10 not know lhnl llnyp
Bancroft Is IN The land of tlp llyIng
When the bottom dropped OH of lhR
Wiqhlln boom, lbp values Of property |
rapidly d~pornasod, Property ~ now ~,
Ing np, and " Airs, Dewey can prove
tlllo she Inns \ fortune there
When somebody nsknd Secretary
Hitchcock He other morning bow 10
folL he replied, Hprntly wei for n mnn
who dldu'l gel 10 bod unlll q, M
II was the morning nflar Tho hlll AZ Tho
Gnrmnn embassy, The soarplnry had
attended 4 dinner ~ the oprly pnri 0f
the night md had gone from lllnt 10
lbp embassy, Seqial pSnollpps upon
public llfn me becoming u grnNi Alrllnl
says The ~, Louis Globo. Democrats
W0shlngl0n correspondent, When IN
yld H. Frnnels Wns w Washington ~.
Gently, hn SOL ON N inHppHy with !
WILLIAM II, Thompson Tho hpnkpr, 10
And Secretary Vllphpopk, I'VE Wnsl
got him before o'plonk,N spld Alli
Trnnols, re Wn DOM, hn VIII hn oil
10 some dinner presume 10 hAs Ind
~ dine ont somewhere every nlRht
since Tho lst OF dQnlWry,N Tho Former
secretary know how WAR from hls
own experience, L0oklUg hapk oYnr
the winter soaaan, Secretary HIlRllnNek
enll llNl since The BonBNH hpglH hn
remembered hnl tWo evenings which
lp panll aHll his own mud Ih0sa Wnpp
evenings for which pnHagennnlR bud
boon mAdn, hul Tor Which Invitations
had been WlthdlWWn because NJ lln0sH
on some Nther pnllRh, 4 feW ENArH Ngn
the great function N washington so
nioiy Wns lhn evening ~rfpeniiAn la
plapp has been lNkpn by lhe dlnnQr
Which iaa NVlelor Af'Nlf, hVt moip lro.
nnpnt'
Senator HeyppIlgp IhaUgIl one ~ lAp
gnlnRpsl mnmAerA Of lhn body enjoys
The distinction of NNyINR received 4
lnrgef sum N money fNr small
amount NJ literary W0rk linn any 9th
fr RpnnIor, haya Tho hll louis alnhpa
nonnoqpnll n donhllnl II ~ much
Nna oyer pNid W my nlllpr WolnhW N
either hnnep nr SENATE l0r lhp aalln
amount n lnhor RlnglN lgYavldee