The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-28

-H H, she's corker. Saw her do half
a dozen wonderful coppers on the
last four cards in the box last
E@ III night. Jake tells me that she's
IA rich already" said one voice.
=. "You bet that senorita girl can
S----- play faro" came from fat sheep
rancher he blew the foam off glass of beer.
sWhy. see her down in Benson along in jan
uary win $500 out of old Jim Higgins's layout
one night"
They were talking of the Senorita Conception
de Hara in the sheep and lumber and cattle
town of Williams in northern Arizona-a COM
munity Of some 1900 people. the Bill Will
hams and San Francisco mountains Everybody
in the southwest has heard of Williams as a
surviving type of the old-time wide open"
towns of Arizona. All the gamblers in the West
knew Williams from experience
The barn-like room was lit by great sputter-
ing lamps overhead. Billows of tobacco smoke
close to the ceiling rolled lazily back and forth
at every gust of air through the open doors. A
confused murmur of voices in a score of keys.
laughter. jesting and the sound of shutting
feet arose on all sides. There We're cowboys.
railroad laborers. Iumbermen, Chinese men
about-town, sheep -herders miners, rich cattle
men, rancherS and professional gamblers from
all over the territory. Here and there were a
few tourists. in town for a few hours await
ing connecting trains to or from the Grand can
yon of the Rio Colorado Along the front Of
the great gaudy bar, which extended along one
side of the room. several groups of men were
Joking and talking, while bartenders in white
and handed up bottles.
In the rear OF the great room some fifty men
crowded about low green table Not word
was spoken; there was only the clicking of
metal chips and the clanking of gold and sill
YER coin.
Five ten, fifteen minutes passed. The crowd
about the faro table squeezed a little tighter
and craned their heads the more. Then tall
cowpuncher i'll blue flannel shirt and SLOUGH
nat whispered to comrade: my, Hank see
that! She's cOppered the deuce of spades three
tunes. when all them other players has bet it
10 WIN There, now; look! She's got it her
way ag in. Golly, but that pretty woman
greaser knows her biz about faro ali right all
right"
Senorita Conception Avilla de Hara had been
in town nearly a week. each evening engaging in
the game with the professional gamblers cow
boys. ranchmen and mining men whenever the
fancy took her and when she believed she saw
that luck was with her. This evening she had
been playing since o'clock and it was now
nearly midnight The chances We're that the
game would continue until dawn, as it often
does when the spirit is on and the gamblers are
out for someone's coin. The news that Senorita
Hara in town had gone far and wide. The
reputation she made in Ell PasO, Phoenix, Tue
son and Albuquerque lucky and sagacious
better at faro had preceded her. Every man
who could had come into town from miles away
to watch her game. Not for months had there
been such excitement around the green tables
in Williams.
pueblo of Sayula in the state of Jalisca, Mexico.
She is of eight children Her father Mar
iano de Hara, acaIde in the old town for
years and at one time wealthy. When she
was about twelve years old the family moved
to the city of Guanajuata, where Mariana be-
came manager Of the elaborate gambling house
of the Martel syndicate. Several years ago the
Mexican congress revoked all licenses for gamb-
ling houses. MartePs establishments were
ClOsedl and Mariana de Hara got employment
about the customs house at Jaurez formerly Ell
PasO del NOrte-just across the Rio Grande
from the American Ell PasO.
What sort of young woman is Conception de
Hara? Imagine a beautiful girl of twenty-five
with a serious face large black eyes and
wealth of fine black hair Her rosy cheeks,
dimpled chin and long black eye lashes add
much to her attractivenesS. Almost anywhere
in society she would be remarked upon for her
beauty, ease and dignity. Her chin and mouth
denote intense earnestneSS, eyes, beneath deli
cate searching eyebrows, betoxen thoughtful
inches. Her complexion is the soft brown of
ing her vocation at a faro table she is abstrac-
ton and pensiveness personified. If she speaks
at all it is in mOnosylables only, and to the
dealer She gives no heed to what occurs about
her, and is everywhere respected. Her great
bulking brother is her invarable companion,
accompanying her to and from the gambling
rooms she asks no extra consideration of her.
self as a faro player because of her SEX What
ever her views are concerning the fierce, hard
misshapen environment in which she lives she
never speaks Of them. N
Eve been knocking around the territories for