The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-28

sleeping, the sentinels keeping themselves and each
other awake at an endless game Of twenty-five cent
Thirteenth ward, which lasted all the night following
the close of the polls and the next day and the night
after that. There understood to be d dispute in
the Nineteenth ward also in regard to the admssi-
biity of certain votes. At o'clock the second
morning of the twenty-hve-cent ante a message ar
rived that the dispute in the Thirteenth settled
Barwood needed majority of 500 in the Nineteenth
him. and as the count stood he had a ma
Joty of but 200 odd The faces of the four about
the card table and sticky with fatigue, but
glance of understanding passed round each
turned his hand forward to make his last bet
There's nOthn' like count, blOkeS, is
thereE remarked Ruderick. with yawn-
When Mayor Renshaw came into his kingdom he
governed 1t his soul He had sworn
of the rules Of duty that man hodld get bmseif
damned of consideration other people. Mayor
gambling hells also, which is to say he scattered
gambling broadcast throughout the town.
Before his accession to Office there had been linn
spots in the town where a man who was determined
TO lose money might do without great risk of
lence or fraud; after his accession to Office
whether he was up against mathe-
mates against the game which is called the
thing therefore since the charm Of adventure was
new and strange one in Cornvie every one who gam
bled at all gambed more and oftener in Mayor Rem
shaws reign than before Drinking places he did not
close because ne could not though ne limited them
strictly to the of their license wherefore wiful
drank by the bottle after instead by
of police force that did not know how wink
fed all his remaining liabilities in Mayor Renshaws
eyes, who begged him sacrifice himself the altar
police Mayor Renshaw said that neither he his
subOrdinates should take tithes from the
sin and shame, and Edwin Covles sacrificed himself.
Both played their destined part in the realization Of
the Great Idea
Then was the city of CornviHe delivered into the
hands of the three bad men. who opened it their
oyster and that their destined part in the reaza
ton Of the Great Idea "Fritzie" Cannes, with his
sure thing" enterprises reaped a harvest which
had never supposed COTnvilIe could produce. He
learned that town is gUllibIe when
form attempts to tell it it ''shan't" "Soapy"
WadlOw and -Frenchy' Latane made similar agreea-
bic discoveries The new police force could
tell when a pocket was being picked; they couldn't
even tell when had been picked unless they
the "weeded leather the ground, "SOapy' and
'Frenchy dipped deep with impunity. 1t also
remarked that they not called on to pay per-
centage of their winnings TO the wise" Indeed,
three were pleased with their success that they
determined to combine interests. and make a run"
on Richard Englars bank 1t decided that
easiest to achieve the run approach
building through a sUbterranean passage, and the
three started to dig tunnel
When affairs in this posture and the tunnel
nearly complete Ruderick Me<lowd stepped one day
of train which had brought him of the beyond
The Great Idea had taken him away from COTnviI1e
soon after Herbert Renshaw elected mayor. and
it the Great Idea that brought him back He
went straight from the train 10 the front Office.
Il should like the chief he said. The chief
granted the desired interview.
Mr. Cowies," Ruderck began, I have been given