Arizona republican., 1904-01-07
TIGER SUCKED LONG AND HARD
Two Attempts to Break the Bank at
 Helena, Montona.

| f1eIend mas WllIln the past lWO
 weeks been the scene of gaming for
 high stakes such as characterized its
 early days and, incidentally gave it a : reputation says the New York Sun.
 The gaming was done by Swede Sam
 the Butte plunger and a millionaire
 copper miner of Butte Both attempt ed to break the bank of an upper Main
 street gaming house.
 Swede Sam tried to win the roll of
 the faro game, while the mining man
 went after the roulette stake with n
 vengeance. Both plays lasted long but
 in the end the house rolls were of about the same size as before. At one time
 Swede Sam was $4,000 behind, which, considering the limit allo we'd, indicated
 bad streak of luck.
 1 One Friday night shortly after mid
 night Swede Sam strolled into the 1 gambling house. and evincing a de- , sire to try his luck, bought hundred
 dollars worth of chips. These he soon lost.
 Buying another stack he gave a blue chip to the case keeper thus indicating
 that he was willing to give $25O for the privilage of keeping cases on the cards as they were turned from the box. Gradually the other players cash ed their chips and departed, not de- string to compare their bets with those of Sam.
 For more than twenty -four hours the Butte nlunger sat at the table. AL most constantly during that period he smoked lighting a fresh cigar about each thirty minutes.
 Sam once told United States Senator Clark that he would not give the snap of his finger for the senator's millions unless he could gamble with them. and he demonstrated his love for the game of chance by not once arising from the table for refreshments during the pro- gress of the play; he did, however, drink one cup of coffee.
 He kept losing quite steadily until by o'clock on Saturday morning he was about $2,500 to the bad at a $12.50 and S25 limit. that is s12.50 on single cards and S25 on cards where there were two or more of them in the deal CTS box.
 The day manager arrived shortly after o'clock and in compliance with Sam's request raised the limit to $2o on singles and $50 on doubles. A new dealer also relieved the night man and with this came d change in Sam's luck.
 The chips began to move from inside the rack toward the case keeper until
 Sam was nearly even. By calling the i last turn for $250 he would have been slight winner but he missid his guess. Then with a disparaging remark about i'll luck. he changed his system, and if luck had been bad before it grew even worse. In fact he began to de- scend again and by the time darkness set in he was $4,00O loser. | Again he began to win gaining $1,OOo on a single deal only to drop back, but about II o'clock or within a few
 minutes of twenty-four hours from the | time he started a winning streak was ! encountered, which by the time it end | ed. shortly after o'clock on Sunday morning. left him just $15 l1ser. Apologizing to the proprietor for quitting with the explanation that he
 had been up all day Friday G,id was in ! consequence a bit exhausted, sam cashed his chips and left the house just i s15 poorer than when he entered.
 The Butte mining man. who was in
 attendance upon the United States
 court in connection with a contempt
 proceeding, visited the same house shortly after dinner one evening last
 week and decided to take a flyer at roulette. He began playing half dol iars on the numbers that appealed to | his fancy. Losing steadily for an hour or more he wrote out a check
 for $500 and began playing silver dol
 lars on the numbers.
 He vas apparently out of'luck, how
 ever. as he seldom picked a winning
 number and soon grew desperate and
 began betting as high as s and $10 oil favorite selections. One of the latter won which recouDed his fortune to
 the extent of 1850, and then began the high rolling.
 Not unlike Swede Sam he was at
 times a loser by several thousand dol lars, and would with a streak of luck run his capital up to onearly the origin al amount at times. only to drop back again. At the end of about twelve hours play he became a winner for the
 first time and fearing that he would
 again encounter a bad run. decided to
 cash minis chips. This he did quitting
 the game about $250 to the good. An