The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-02-14
Montana's New Senator Pays
Big Wine Bill.
$4,000 IN JOLLIFYING
A Glorious Night in the Montana Capital
Followed By Some Heavy
Faro Playing.

ed by an extraordinary celebration
IN Helena, says a correspondent of
lne New York Sun. A special train
lIom Butte was chartered to bring ais
4. .enus and the Boston and Montana
uand here, and Helena was thrown
wide open.
Clark's agents bought every bottle
of champagne in town and it was
dispensed free by from three to five
bartenders in every barroom. In adj
dition cigars and luncheon were pro-
vided. Word was passed that no one
could spend anything that night-it
was all on Clark
Hundreds of men who had never
before tasted champagne had it that
night. Clark's wine bill was nearly
100000, a sum equal to his senatorial
salary for his term of six years, or
about So for every man, woman and
child in the town. And he is said to
have remarked that it was worth
IuIlCc Ildl dluOuul.
The next night the Elks had So
cial session in honor of Frederick
Warde, the tragedlan. Clark was
present and was called upon for a
speech. He eulogized the order but
at it's conclusion he was, at the IN
stance of F. Augustus Heinze, form
erly of Brooklyn, fined 500 for being
too brief in his utterances. Clark
evened up matters by securing the
imposition of like penalty on Heinze
for having suggested the original fine.
Then politics Jagged and some of
the highest gambling ever seen in the
west is reported to have taken place.
A gambler tells the following story:
1.-TWO young plungers entered
Swede Sans rooms and inquired the
limit on faro. Being informed that
it was $1,000 on cases they started in
playing the limit. Fortune varied,
but when they quit they We're $4,000
to the good. Several times on the
last turn as high as $500 was bet
on a single card.
"A Butte plunger won $4,000 inside
of an hour at the same place. Strange
to say, he lost all through the deals,
but with the exception beat every
last turn, when four to one is paid ON
successful bets on the position of the
last three cards in the box
AN insurance solicitor won more
than $1,000 from Swede Sam, but lost
i, all in another house inside of an
hour, along with $500 more.
"One night young player bet so
many five-dollar checks on a last turn
that he had to hold them up with
both hands, while the dealer pushed
the cards from the box. The house
won the bet, some $1,100, but the
young man simply remarked: That's
the way to stack 'em up, amt it?"
"And poker games. Why, there's
poker game at one of the hotels
where the table stakes are never Tess
than $4,000 and go up to four times
that sum. In one sitting Kit Carson
lost nearly $4,000. Again, there was
a poker game at private residence
where the table stakes reached $685.
OOO
Its quite common occurrence to
see SIS bet on the single numbers at
roulette, which pays 35 for 1. A re-
markable instance occurred the other
day at roulette which came to my
notice. A travelling man made some
collections and bought cashiers
check payable to his firm. He then
started in to do the town, lost his
money, forged the firms name got
his draft cashed, bet $40 on No. i
which won, placed $40 on IL, which
again won, giving him $1,05O; re
deemed the check and when he quit
later on had $4,000 of the houses
money.
"Swede Sam will next month make
SAAAu oIICuupI " SSI W OWCuSu
visit his aged parents. Four year
ago he had $4,000 and started, Wis
New Orleans, but got to playing tn
races, went broke and had to borrow
enough to get back to Montana. The
next year he was $4,000 to the goot
and sold out his house, but in WAITING
around to attend to some business hi
got to bucking the tiger and agar
went broke; and for the second time
his trip was postponed.
But now he is $25O,OOO to the goo(
and will again make the effort. HI
will give $4,000 to his parents ant
then continue his journey around tn
world
Taken all in all it is extremely
doubtful if Helena or any other west
ern town ever experienced such an
other week of carnival and sport"