The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-19

no DON after the civil war" re-
y marked a downtown lawyer,
who, before he settled down 60
practice, had knocked around for sew
eraI years in the northwest. II was
counsel to the mayor of q newly or
gauiZed town in Minnesota. The
mayor. the chief of police, one of the
aldermen and myself used to play TO
ker three OF four times week, all
winter, and there would always he one,
and usually two, more TO join IN the
game.
TT was a pretty stiff game too. We
played table stakes, and always began
with a hundred dollars worth IF CHIPS
i'm front of each man.
There was one man who used TO sit
I'm with US occasionally that must have
cleared up several thousand dollars
at that particular table i'm the course Of
the winter That was big sam CaTyey
who ran the house were we played. 1t
was a gambling house, pure and SIM
pie
"Garvey did not play at the poker
table often, but when he did ne was al
most invariably a winner. 1t piqued
me considerably at the time, Tor I
would not admit to myself that he was
any better player than the rest Of us
and he had the reputation some pro-
fessiOnal gamblers enjOy-Of being alb
sOlutely square.
Won and Lost.
AS q matter of course. what ne won
had to be lost by somebody else. There
was one man WEo lost So perslstently,
and go heavily, that L found myself
wondering whether he was not likely
20 bee crippled if he kept on.
This was a young man named lib
bets, who had opened up d general
store in the village when IL was only
small place, and who was at the time
i went there, the leading merchant in
. town. He was extremely popular ana
had come within a few votes of being
elected mayor. There were those, in
deed who believed ne had been cheated
i'm the count, and it was known that he
. intended running again at the next
election, lE which case he would be
strong candidate In consequence, my
client the mayor, hated ana feared
Tibbetss though oUtWardly they We're
friends.
Spent Money in Campaign.
Ell knew that Tibbets had embar-
raised himself financially In the cam
paisu, and was living up to, if not
fore, looked larger 10 me than they
might have seemed otherwise.
There was no Indication of all this
IN his manner, however. and he was all
ways we'll supplied with money when
he played; SO that when the disaster
befeu him. which finally did come, IL
came 1l "a manner unexpected
we were playing i've handed one
night, having sent out for Garvey TO
take the ufJl seat as we objected to
fOur-handed, and there was no out
slider iu the house who cared TO play.
The game proved 10 De not one, as
the cards ran remarkably Well almost
.fF
ting early Iu the evening set the pace.
Garyey himself got caught two or thrce
times with good hands that were over
topped, 90 that ne had bought twice.
and as the rest of as had all done the
same there was nearly two thousand
on the table VIXEN Tibbets came IN.
Was in No Hurry.
"EIe. seemed to be in no hurry about
joining in the game but stood Cor qGite
a long time looking ON, and indeed
there was enough going on 10 interest
an outsider even if he hadn't been
much OF "a player himself We were
playing the Old-fashioned game. before
iackpOts had attained the vogue they
have now, and we only made a Jackpot
iu default Of play on the regular
ante; but the ante was two dollars,
cali five and there was seldom 4 pct
that didn't have al least fifteen dollars
in it before the draw.
Another thing should be mentioned.
We didn't play stTaights.
wei a game iu which There Is from
SD up 10 q hundred or more I'D the
Dot before the draw is sufficient t5 in
terest anybody SO Tibbets stood lCok-
ing on, uI the mayor said, chafingly.
" Too stiff "a same for J0u, tonight,
hey2
.His tone was perfectly good Hatu:rd,
and as between friends The 7Fo DIS
might have passed for a bit of arm
less joshiug. but every man at the "a
bic knew the relations between the two
and realized that there WAS sting IN
the taunt, though no opening was pre-
scented for any bitter retort I. Cor enc.
however, would have been pleased 20
see Iibbets ignore the slur and remain
ouL of the game
THAT Was just what he would not
~. however. lie auehed q LtEle. bat