The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-05-12

~Tain't matter of record, said oli man Greenhus with reminiscent
 .., ,ss ,ua, sns stranger na. ever come Co Arkansas City with any notion O doin' up the town whot go' away wiih the proposition an any con. sidable remnant 0 the w1d he hae vith him when be arrOye. The citizen' o this town Is mostly capable men what IS well quahhed Co drink red hquor straight ap' set into most any sort oi a game without dfawin weep ons. less there Is some provoeations' am when it comes Co draw poker 't $ universally acknowledged up an down thc river that there amt no superior game played anywhere. There was one teller. though. that showed up here about six years ago that come mon strous near brealin' the record lha' Is Co say. ii he'd have understood the 6rst principles O poker he'd ha busted the town wide open. an the mortiiy' in thing about it was twas poker he was playin. That Is, twas called poker. an he sure did win. bui the wal he played was one O the seven won ders O the world
 The way of it was this. He just landed from the boat one day an walked the levec a bit. lookin round, am sain nothin' Co nobody. There didn't seem Go be no reason for any body Co pay attention Co hinl, an con sequent nobody did for he wasn't a man that looked like a sport, nor yet a business man Just 'peared tO have got out i'm somewheres an didn't know his way back. Long about the third bay he began talin' short walks an byemby be got SO lar as Co come m here an look round Seein' the bal he called for some red hquor an drank it. n' then Seein' the chor he sat down There hadn't been much doin for a week or two. an says Co Jake Win terboi,om that |, mought be good idea Co start a game o' poker. This here stranger l says. 'd0n't look as ii he knowcd one card from another, but 'tain't likely he's quite as simple as he looks. an mebbe. says. you might get him into the game.
 Well. Jake. he didn't think there was nothin' doiu He looked che stranger over an sort Q turned up hi' nose. but things was quiet an finally he says: T don't recond he's got fifty dollars in the world. an ii we win that we'll only have to chip m an send him away. But we might take a shy at it. just to pass the time
 So him an Sam Biaisdeil an Geo. Bascom kind O got together an played a few hands. thinking the stranger might show some interest an propose Go ioin the game but he never stirred Just sot still an chawed his tobacco like he didn't give a damn for nothin So finally Bascom he spoke up an sais This Is pretty slow playin handed We oughter have some body else in the game an they waited a minute to see z that would catch him. but he never looked round So Wintcrbouom says: 'WOuld't you like Go playF an the stranger he says: Yes. just the same abSent-minded way he'd spoke to the hotel proprietor. an he went over an sot in sold him SIo worth O chips. an they dealt him cards. lt were a table-Stakes game. an each man put up ten.
 The stranger hc talked like a Van kee an looked like a Frenchman, but his name on the hotel register was Dennis McCariy an for all the inter est he showed tn the cards after he got 'em he might have been a Chinee He just put up when it came Co his turn am drawed cards every time. but he never made a bet till his ten was an gone. an collected a knothole m a board fence.
 "Wen he played along. if you can call it playing poker. just like that un. til his third ten spot was gone. an he bought ten more worth O chips Then he caught a hand that seemed to in- terest him sum. for he studied it a long time after Bascom had bet ten on his cards. before he said anything. Then he said. T call an showed a SIo bin into the pot They showed down an the stranger had a pair O queens. Boscom. be had three sevens. SO he raked the pot. O course, for Winter bottom an Biasdell had passed out
 We'll. that there Mccarthy, ii his name was Mccarthy just sat there an called every bet that was made after that tor thrce-quarters of an hour. never see such a thing before nor since Feared like he'd on'y just found oui that he could call an he'd been play in along aiorc that O the ideee tha Ji the other teller had to do to win the pot was Co make a bet. an as q he'd got into his head that callin' was all he lowed to do under the rules. Whatever his fool notion was. I don't p'tend to say. but that's just what he did. Just called every time it came Co him.
 Just naturally that looked easy. an Will say for the boys that they didn't try Co play it low down on him for a good while. All they did was to waii for a pretty strong hand an then bet it for what 1t was worth an wait for a call As there was three O them to one O him. shey naturally ousheid him as a rule. but somehow or other he managed Co scoop a pot just aboui cf- ten enough to keep him even. He'd bought S2s after he lost his first fifty SO there was over hundred on the table, The boys wasn't pushin' him