The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-14

{ anybody could ask, an the least Wes-
| ton ed do an be half way decent was
to give him a square deal. but, as
! was sayin', he never was half way
decent
1T want in him, I reckon. He
couldn't ha' been anything else but a
/ yaller dog if he'd tried. an 'twa mt
no ways likely he'd ever tried.
Weston Was Dealing.
Come a hand when the stranger had
three SPADES shown an one card TO
come. Weston was dealin' an he had
| an ace an two trays shown
! 90 course, nobody but the players
| themselves knowed what the buried
/ card was. but Weston had bet $40 on
his pair shown. an the stranger had
/ seen him without raiSin', 50 1t looked
| like he hadn't any pair an was stayin'
| for a flush. o. course, Weston might
| ha' had two pairs. or three treys. There
| want no teIlin'.
We'll. on the last turn Weston give
the stranger another spade an give
/ htSSef a ace. I was lOOkin' close, an
| 1 couldn't see nOthin' out O. the way in
/ the deal. but mebbe want to be ex-
pected that 1 would, for he were
| counted one o the Slickest on the
| river.
But the stranger, he spoke up in
! that queer way he had O. talkin', and
he said:
/ 81 so that is your way to play the
| stud poker, is it, my friend? But you
are clumsy. If you will deal the cards
like that I will show you how to do it
An quick as lightning he grabbed
the cards an spread EN- all over the
/ table with one sweep of the hand. Then,
! with another sweep, as quick as that,
! with both hands, he punched 'em an
| riffied EN- once an dealt out two
hands ike lightning. An he gave
Weston four kings an hisself four
! aces.
1T was all over in flash, an Yves
| ton sat gapin' at him, not exactly
i KNOWN what to do. The stranger
hadn't said that he cheated in so many
| words, an he didn't seem to be mad,
! none, an Weston were plumb puzzled.
! Then the stranger grinned He
didn't seem to care nOthin' about the
money he'd lost, but he was as tickled
as tWo-year-old. to see how fIabber-
| gasted Weston was
Feared like he thought Weston
/ would take 1t as a matter O. course
! that he'd been caught, an the on'y
! thing that was gOin' to trouble him
/ was to see that the stranger could do
/ his own stunts so much better'n he
! cd do EN- his own self.
I don't know but what Weston
might ha' took it that way if them two
/ had been alone, but there was three or
! en- sort O. laughed. felt like Iaugin'
myself, but knOwed good deal about
/ weston, an I KEEP straight face
But the stranger he looked round
and laughed like a boy. an he says:
Would Win All the Time.
g The gentleman does not do the
| trick so we'll IF he would play that
| way, an he would tell me that was the
/ game / would win all the time. 1 am
| the professor of the card magic"
| That was a leetle too much. an the
| others laughed out loud 1t was up to
| weston good an hard then, an as I
| said, he was a fighter sure enough.
/ he ripped out some pretty tall talk
at the stranger, but while he was talk
| In he pulled his gun. swearin' that no
/ man could charge him with Cheatin'
an live.
We'll. he want quick enough. They
used to say there want nobody could
! get the drop on Jim Watson. but I
reckon this here stranger could ha'
| did it if he'd been a gun fighter But
he wa mt He had a way of his own
tnat was the funniest thing I ever seen
an it knocked Weston out
"Jumpin' up from his chair at the
same time Weston did, the fat man
! brought the table up with him an
! just pushed It over on Weston. knOckin'
/ him fiat. WestOn's gun went off as he
! IeH but II went wild, an he struggled
I up to his feet sWearin' harder than
1 ever It looked to me like the stran-
/ gers time had come.
1t hadn't though he was watchin'
/ Weston like a cat, an rushed at him
| when he got up, like a cannon ball.
/ He didn't raise his hand. nor pull a
! gun, nor nOthin'. Just ran into Weston
an knocked him down again. An
then he laughed
Well he did that three or four times.
/ Feared like Weston didn't think about
/ lyin still an shOOtin till he'd been
/ Knocked down three or four times. an
! We was all laUghin'. 1t was too funny
l for anything.
Then he lay still an tried to shoot
] an the stranger just kicked the gun
/ out Of his hand. He never raised his
/ own hands at all Just stood round
/ an laughed. an kicked that once. an
] KEEP a-runnin' into Weston as fast as
J he'd get on his feet An every time
! he hit him Weston went down like a
/ locomotive had struck him
Stranger Quit Laughing.
After a few more times knockin'
! him down. the stranger he quit laugh
/ in Weston was gettin' madder an
| madden, just naturally, an he was
/ swearin' somethin' shameful. an
/ threatnin' to cut the fat man into
J inch pieces when he got at him. An
| after a little the fat man seemed to
\ realize that il was sOmethin' serious
( and. as I said. he quit laughin'
He KEEP on fightin' the same way,
1 though. an every time he knocked
/ Weston down he knocked him toward
\ the saloon door till he got him out on
/ the deck Then he knocked him over
/ toward the rail till he got him close
/ to it.
/ "'Tain't likely that anybody would
/ have interfered anyhow, for II were a
/ fight between them two and 'twant
/ nObody'S business but the cap'n's to
/ stop it. But we was all laughin' so we
I couldn't ha' done nothin' if we wanted
\ to- An the cap'n was laughin' as hard
/ as anybody else when he come Up and
/ seen what was dOin so the stranger
1 had il all his own way.
"All this time he hadn't said nOthin
4 but when he got Weston up against
! the rail. he said:
You say you viii XIII me. Ell!
I Well, 7 viii put you where you will
/ kin nobody
An the next time Weston struggled
I up the fat man threw himself down
/ an, grabbin Weston by the feet,
! threw him square I'D in the air an over
I the rail
He fell in the water an sank like a
/ rock Anyway. we never seen him no
more. The eap'n stopped the boat an