Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-25
SHE GAMBLED WITH A MAG Jet.
How Sacramento Kate Turned a ZOO
Trick in Baker City.

The old days out in the We1tern
country We're brought back to me the
other day when / read that dis atch
from Houston, Tex, about two ia sAion-
able young women tourists who had
tripped into Houston's toppiest NIB
ling layout and spread eagled the out
fit at every game from craps to Wheel
and bank. and put the plant out of bus
mess to the tune of thousands at ter
few hours play" said an ex-gan bier.
now settled in Washington, who il his
unregenerate days dealt faro in me st of
the swift cities of the West.
1T was in b41her City, Ore. in 1881.
/ was dealing for jeff HopeWell VINO
was then running the best bank IL the
town. One night l was slipping them
out for lot of cinch people, break asst
money erabbers-it was generally
scrambled in about 10 or II o'clock
when something pretty choice swept
into the room and flied it with fra
GRANGE that made a fellow think q the
DAYS when he had the time and al in
clination to gather trailing arbut,is in
the carly snrine. She was a tall black
haired. black-eyeu, ivory skinned queen
IN a sweeping black lace dress and
plumed Gainsborough hat. If { leo
patra were to get off an F street car at
the corner of Ninth at high noon, she
wouldn't get the bunch around that
corner more agape than this sWao ger
looking woman got the men who were
sitting around the faro room. She
stood in the doorway for a moment with
smile on her face that showed her
dimpleS-I never saw such Winaome
dents on a human map-and every one
OF US struggled to a standing pO.ture
and stared at her.
i" Resume your seats. gentlemen
the apparition said, as we stood like
yaps gazing at her; and guess maybe
her voice didn't sound like those deep
croony strings on the harp I am sorry
to interrupt 1 am only here between
trains and should like to sit in. May
~
Might she? Perhaps all of us Were
not feeling for our neckties to find out
if they We're on straight when she gra-
ciously accepted chair at one siCe OF
the table and pulled alongside the game.
" What are the yelloWs? she asked
me.
" Twenty-Five, maLam,' said |.
" Stack. please said she, placing two
handfuls of double eagles on the table.
passed twenty yellows over to her,
licked $500 into the drawer out of the
gold she had pushed over my way,
handed her back the 800 or so change
and shufied the deck. Just then
flock of the big players, who had heard
down the street of what was coming off,
strolled in. and the plkers at the table
gave way to them. We had a rule out
there that the chicken-feed people had
to make room for the cloudriders when
they came along. and mighty good
rule it was at that. The new arrivals
bought in. and they all bought ye4oWs
too. otter observing that the perfectly
calm and collected woman at the table
had chosen chios Of that color.
THE woman's manners We're gra-
ciousness itself. She wouldn't let the
men around the able put themselves
out of the way in the least for her, and
5efore 1 began to deal she produced
cold bound tab book of celluloid and a
little gOld-mounted pencil, and thus in
Heated that she was going to keep her
asses on the game, which she did.
There We're seven players seated
around the table. and four or five MAX
ing bets from behind the chairs. Most
# them were fellows who had been
playing bank ever since they learned
low to white. and yet not a man of
them observed what was coming off at
he wcmans end of the table. any more
han ! did myself. She played until
nearly O'Clock in the morning, and yet
AS say. nary q one of US got next to
her | noticed that frequently, when L
had half slid the cards out of the box
when all was set, the woman had hab-
if Of reaching over the table and sort of
1fumLling the set stacks on the various
cards, but 1 attributed this to a wo-
mans popularity and said nothing
/ about it. / was dealing without look
ont that night. the lookout who served
on my watch being sick.
THE woman in the game played on
j as say for nearly three hours. scarcely
ever saying a word. keeping her own
H tab and winning constantly. She played
Il singles exclusively. coppering most o.
the time When she pushed her char
L back she had my table trimmed to more
than $4,000.
The Portland train is due, she SAID,
4 looking at her watch, and, l must De
leaving. 1 have been very lucky, nave
L / not
Remarkably lucky madam, sald l.
ana | was wondering what Jeff Hope
| well my employer, would say-he was
out of town-when he got back ana
found out that a woman in picture hat
had shredded his game for that NIFTY
hundle of money.
Il cashed her in, and, with gracious
smile all around, she gathered up her
lace train and maze her royal swish ana
frou-frou out of the room, all of the
bows gazing blankly after her as il she
had been from another planet.
1.-TWO days later the conductor of me
Overland dropped in to play lew
turns before going out again.
Say he said to me before buying
lchins. Il dropped Mrs. Kathryn cum
ningham into town the other evening
from my train, and 1 hear she got into
YOU for few and the conductor passed
me the grin.
Little matter of six thousand OF
so told him. Is that her name-Mrs