The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-06

coast. which accounts for his Ignorance
of the California brand of poker. When
turned up / found that he mad been
!abDing Corby pretty hard since the
beginning of the game: but the two
different brands of poker PLAYED bv the
men hadn't yet come into conflict. You
see, they don't play straights on the
SLOPE and the SlOper who has not trav-
eled or played poker with eastern men
doesn' know what the word straight
means as applied to draw. Corbv- Of
course knew all about straights, but
he never played EN- with ANYBODY. and
think ne had a right to assume thar
any man who DiaYed draw with him
IN his own territory ought TO know
the rules of the game in that territorv
There was big Jack pot in the center
of the table when I went upstairs TO
look on at the game Ii had been
sWeetened probably half a dozen times
and already contained something close
on 20 $1,000 in double eagles. But nei-
Their man seemed to be able To catch
OPENERS It went around a number OF
times. and every time II passed each
man sugared il for $50. The chief en-
gineer dealt a hand. COrby was one
Of those frappe chaps who pick up
their cards one by one, and when he
had picked up his first two cards he
calmly 1olted 5000 in gold into the pot,
remarling It's OPEN before looking at
the other cards
d" This fistfuH Of mines worth $500
more said the chief engineer, who was
a pretty self-cOntained chap himself.
showing the yellow stuff into the pot.
" Then you want TO play it for keeps
said COrby. standing for the raise and
discarding two of his cards
The chief engineer stood pat. closed
M his hand like a fan. and laid it face
down on the table in front of him.
" Do your bluffing,' said he 70 Corby
Trouble Over a Straight Flush.
"'-WeIl. say 81 900 worth, said Corby,
looking I'D at the ceiling.
" Thousand mOre'n you said the en-
gineer-
And another" mUrmUred COrby.
Nov, L had been standing behind
COrby when he drew cards. and when
1 saw him catch a pair of mines to his
three kings. / figured that it was all
over, especially as the other fellow had
been nipped in two or three standing
pat bluffs before But the way the
sailor man kept hitting back at COrby
finally got me to guessing, and by the
| time he had ScoODed out nearly all of
the coin from his sack 1 had almost be
gun to believe that he had caught pat
tours. When the thousand-dOllar raises
| had gone back and forth several times,
and there was nearly SO GEO in the pot.
the chief engineer, cool as a mountain
| trout in shady hole. emptied out his
coin sack and found out that he had
little more than $1,000 left. He showed
the money to the center.
Call YOU said he.
"Corby spread out his king full.
Won't do" said the chief engineer,
| spreading out a seven-high straight
flush Of diamonds and reaching for the
pot.
Hugh? What's uD? What won't
dO?' Sid COrby. with a queer express
sion on his face Hands off that pOti
What, the devil are you talking about?
Since when did a flush beat a full
hanG?'
A flush don't. but this thing of mine
is a straight flush. which is good enough
to beat a mass of Tours said the chief
engineer. Take your fiippers of that
! coin.
Straight flush be id. Not on this
side of the Sierras,' yelled COrby, jump
ing to his feet.
Corby Loses His Right Eye.
The words were hardly out Of his
mouth before the engineer, who was d
| big powerful man. had Corby by the
] throat. Then he did d cruel thing
I Holding the gamblers throat in a vice
/ like clutch with his left hand. h. DELHI
/ erateIy pOked his strong horny right
| fOTehnger with all his strength into
/ COrby's right eye putting it out Crazy
/ with pain and rage, COrby whipped out
a long knife. and in another minute the
! engineer laying dying on the floor, cut
/ to ribbons.
One-eyed Lou. as COrby was after
| ward dubbed, had TO skip out for Ari-
/ IONA after that business; and !, for
/ one. wouldn't like to have flashed any
/ kind Of a straight on him when he
/ opened his faro factory in Tombstone,
/ for he was tOuchy about the loss Of that
! eye. All Of which goes 10 show that If
/ a man is going To play anything more
! exciting than tag or beanbag when ne
! ranges away from the stretch Of cOun-
| try he was raised in he is liza bic 10 run
/ against some embdTraSSmentS If he
/ doesn't make some preliminary inqutr-
/ les