Arizona republican., 1903-09-07
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have ;)een elected mayor or anything elre within the gift of the people of Cheyenne.
 T am not in 2 position 70 say with accuracy how many dollars Murray had when he joined in with Charley Pierce at Denver fifteen years ago, but I'll venture a guess at a figure looking like $1 ,0G0C00. which was in cash. The house in Denver was known as Murray X Pierce's and undoubtedly there never was such gambling establishment since the time gold was discovered in. the Sacramento valley in '49. There were crap games, faro. stud poker. chuchalucll. keno. roulette, seven-up. fan-tan and any other sort of q game a white man ever had any knowledge of
 Murray made more coin than tho Union Pacific railroad. He bought horses. carriages good clothes, dia- mOnds, stocks in wild eat mining com panies. gave to churches and, generally. spent his stuff as il he were handling stage money
 Yes said lack Devine. former pro prietor of the biggest saloon west of tho Missouri river. and he wouldn't let the little miners wager ali they had.
 "One time I saw q fellow come in and buy stack of whites. which in those days cost $i0. In minute they had been wiped of the board. As the player started away Bob called him back and handed him back his money. Then he turned to the dealers and told them that they never should accept bet from him in the future. Ii seems that this player had been going to Murray's place every Saturday night for months and losing his salary-neVer winning q single time.
 A month later I was in the house when the same fellow walks in and there being a new man behind the box f,c succeeded in negotiating a Y for q half stack of whites. Murray was out at dinner. Presently Murray returned.
 He walked over to the table and in q second saw what was taking place. There was smith, whom he had bar red, having all the checks. the blues, reds. rellGWs and green in front Of him. Murray sized up affairs and good ns-
 turedly walked away with the remark that he wouldn't interfere as !C--. IS smith was winning.
 But about o'clock in the morning
 he had q different tune to whistle. smith had S:;5. 300 coming to him and while Murray was in another part of lhe house, Pierce his partner. shut Smith off Just about the time the money was being counted out to the winner Murray showed up. He stop l ped the proceedinSs. saying to Smith i that he could have $500 that time and no more; that the moment he would i appear. sober. and with friend that was known to the house, the balance of
 the money would be paid to him.
 "One. two. three. fcur; five days elapsed without his appearance. Then
 Murray reported the case to the police.
 In d few hours Smith. was discovered l by a detective, taken to q bathroom. sweated and scrubbed. until he was l sober. Then he presented himself to | Murray. who counted him $55,000 in big
 bills.
 AS Smith started to leave the place | he remarked that if Murray would give him a deal with the yellow chipe 1 at $100 a piece there would be some | thing doing. He was oI in a minute. i In less than an hour he was all in. Mur- ray handed him a century note and told him never to let him see his face again
 in a gambling house.
 While l don't take much stock in 1 Christian science and truck like that, resumed Masterson, "I must say that | Francis Schlatter. who for years posed | as the only divine healer this side of | Jericho, had lot to do with prolonging poor Bob's life
 l Along in the spring months of 1898