The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-23

tween his pal an sucker when it
come to gettin' away with a wad.
You'd "a thought he'd "a been
killed. but he had a real talent FIR get
tin away 'thouten a fight. But there
want nobody in Little Rock. S fur s
know, cared to take it up fr them t
bed did up, but I took notice there
want none o. the sports there t
peared to care about cottonin' TO him
FIR a ide-partner.
so 1t went along FIR quite some
There was a heap O. poker played in
Little Rock that winter, count q the
legislator bein in session, an BashfOrd,
havin' money an bein' slick an good
lookin', got consid able many. chances
to play. He want never caught play
in crooked, not till the time this Jim
Titherington butted in, what I was tell
in you, an was some looked up to,
long O. bein' prosperous.
Long toward the end O. the session
the poker playin' got faster an furi-
ouser. There hadn't been no great pick
ms in the. lobby that year an some O
the members was gettin' desprit, havin'
spent too much an needin' for TO take
money home. Just nachully there
want no other way to get II On'y
playin' poker, an some on 'em didn't
get il.
There was a hack room in the place
where / was tendin' bar. some like my
back room here, an there was d game
on most every night. Feared like as
fast as one member o the legislator "a
go broke there d be another lookin' FIR
q game. Bashford played topable fire.
uuent. an Jim Warner ( was my boss,
played in his own house, an there was
another pfessional name O. Fisher t
lived in Little Rock an was a friend O.
Warmers. Then there was a senator
name o Griggs t had money to burn
an didn't mind startin' g fire any old
time, an a young Teller. member O. the
house. t was named SardeTs t was
reckoned in considerable straits an was
tryin' hard to win out.
"They was all crackerjack players,
an the same five ulster play two or
three times a week FIR month or more
till the game broke up sudden one
night. Curious enough. I amt never
heer'd a word o. BashfOrd I'm that
night till now.
They set in that night to play for
blood. They flashed a thousand apiece
at the start. I know that, FIR sold 'em
chips, an ] knowed, too. that some on
'em had a good bit more that In their
jeans.
90 course Warner knowed, but 1
reckon the others didn't, as I had a
ldIQy OPSlliil III TIE WALL UlSn lnS cnQ
O. the bar, where cd see tolable nigh
all t happened. There want no great
privacy about it at that, bein' as the
door stood half open, an anybody cd
walk in fin the front room if he liked.
81 was watchin' Bashford, special, an
reckon there was others, but / could
MT see nothin' crooked, an knowed
o. course no one else did, 'thouten
there sure bein' a disturbance, but he
-
heavy an Warner got bit twice for
consid'a able, but the others was doin'
fair when there come a hand when he
was liable for TO do 'em all, p'vidin' he
filled again.
1T was Sanders deal an Bashford's
age. Fisher come in, Griggs trailed,
Warner raised, Sanders stayed an
Bashford made good. Then Fisher
raised an Griggs trailed. Warner
raised agin, Sanders stayed, an so did
Bashford. Then Fisher an Warner
both raised once more an everybody
stayed, so there must "a been $1,000 or
81 800 on the table afore the draw. An
then Bashford called for one card
Just afore that this here Sim Tither-
ington t / was tellin' about come into
the barroom. kind o. snoopin' round,
lookin' FIR chores to do, an o. course,
| lookin' FIR a drink FIR doin' of 'em
warner q arrays KIND o p1tled MIN, an
told me to be easy with him, so when
he asst me if there was anythin' he cd
do, l told him to fetch the empty
| glasses outen the back room, which
they'd had a drink served a few min
Ctes afOre.
well he went into the room just as
Bashford was calm FIR his card, an he
seen what 1 seen, t Bashford dropped
a card on the floor. but he didn't know,
what did, t twan't no accident, an he
dives down as quick as flash an picks
the card up, and offers it to Bashford.
90 course, they all see that, an
Warner says, What are you doin'?' So
Titherington, he says, The gentle
man done dropped a card So Bash
ford says, You're drunk. I didn't drop
no card an that put it up to me. 1
speaks up. through the wall, an says,