Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20

| Sfe'N No Dem n ID fool. witch IN
same. barrin' yo' fee,in's an askin yo
pardon, thinks yo' is
Made Him Marshal.
Three days later Luke Short VA. ma5o
night marshal OF Dodge. and the WAY lao
eventually succeeded In tanning that bad
camp so that most of the bad 'uns would All
| but eat out OF his hand is a matter al ,,e,
erai history and recollection with those
VINO remember the bad camps of this conn
try Va '''S eoui-
Now l set 10 how myssIf made Luke
Luke va asIu, 'n This happened when
| was attached to the SURVEYING, ,,,,,,,
by u,a Ian. railroad that was being pushed
| =! "a POM above Dodge, One night TOOK
| n ,iito my heao to mingle In the hot ne ~
pouse Tor few hours-you arc tn ra,,,,, ~
uer mat 1 was middlng Young felInn, -,
an shA bo time Just hankered to Take look
| az Douses bunch of hard propnsitInpS u.I,T
that's what did '''s'es' ana
ss nu, I, when got into Dodge they didn't
mo il 81 me TO be bad at all. and they took
thought in my foolish. unseasoned ~ ;.
| liah,hs me drink a whole lot NOR, had
wnisky than l had ever drank before mr.
| royalty. was treating me
Along toward midnight I got into n
phes game with four heavy-artiiieried
pm ,"ps al iooie klngsley's famous Hell and
n
bank One Of my tablemates-but I an,
| ind this out till later-was one of the r,nst
infamous 19 bad men of the Indian Territory
BUD kimba who was lynched a few vsaTs
aiterward for the murder OF = S,Gaia
family in southern Arkansas
, had no business playing ca,ds with
s s,,at punch IN the first place. but as long
as was In the game l sure-enough had ne
slsnt 10 win the way l did. But | did win
from the beginning. My luck in draw wing
papers was something startling and an
| 40 haa
-FOUR of the men / was PLAYING with w.
| regarding me with suspicion
considering the almost miraculous luck
1 mad, couldn't really blame them. either
II made no difference what / drew f. nn;
lle Top hand nearly every time Pat hands
were slipped to me almost as often as pairs
were served out to the other fellows.
| AFTER couple of hours the luck tnok
| another switch. While | seemed 10 pc,
nothing at all on the deals of the o,Ser
| Ieiio~s' l dealt myself hands that positively
tend to soften lie glares that they all be.
slowed upon me. Every time | showed nm
one of these remarkable seif-deaIt hands
ana scooped in a pot felt my back hair
- FINALLY 1t was my deal on a iacknot
me man on my left cracked It, and II was
POO boosted Ted all around TIL it got up to me.
had TOUR eights, and Of course | lust nntur
ally had to hist 1t the limit.
was pretty shaky over doing this. but
| vas conscious OF my own entire Innocence
nAu peen drinking heap OF bad whisky
| ana was determined to play the string
| out. anyhow "' "''hs
| Ihey looked at me pretty hard when T
raised 1t the limit before the draw. and
They all slid their beans to the center bn,
| ever standing the raise, and when n GOT
around to Bud KimbaIi he slammed s,js
bundle OF gold-he was shy of chips and
| refused to buy any more-into the bean
with great oath.
Buds Ultimatum.
Bud he said to me. looking at me
hard out of his little red eyes, some o. your
work here tnight has been so cut-an' dried
iookin' as t excite a hull lot O. doubt about
your bein' on TIL square. If you happen I.
| nave anythin' In that fist O. your'n this
| time that'N top tn good ones I'm cIinein.
| onto right now. then you havin' dished out
THIS mess yourself. there won't be no man.
ner O. question about your bein' proper
| crook
There were few little flowers OF speech
| In that address that / won't elaborate.
WAS I scared? Well the cards iust
cropped out Of my hand. face up. on the
table, was SO scared. 1 was so paralyzed
with fear that 1 simply couldn't move or
| say a word, and what's more I'm not n
| particle ashamed to own up to it. When the
| cards fell out Of my hand that way Kim
ball reached over and picked them up.
| Well. you are a crook. amt you? he
| said when he saw the value of the hand
that topped his three aces. and as he spoke
/, he whipped out the big gun In the right side
OF his belt. | was pretty middling blind
with the realization of what this move
| meant, and of my own defenselessness and
| when l heard loud report / gave 1t all up
| and figured 1t out that / was already about
| three-quarters of the distance over the big
divide.
When l opened my eyes a second later |
saw ktmball staring at the door. His right
arm was hanging limp at his side. His gun
| had fol Hon fot1
! discharged. and his left arm was In the
air So were the arms of the other three
| men. and they also had their eyes glued on
| the door.
| Il twisted around to look that way my
| self. Standing quietly in the doorway with
his two guns covering the five Of us. was
an understood. red-bearded. blue-eyed man
4 with an aggressive Jaw.
He was Luke Short, Dodge's night mar
1 shall had observed him cycling me earlier
| In the evening when l first got mixed up at
| the bar with the fellows who had invited me
! into the poker game. didn't know who he
was then. and wondered why he was sz-
| ing me up so sharply. l knew later. of
course. that he saw 1 was tenderfoot who
| on In the evening. The shot / had heard
| when I'd given the whole thing up was
| from one OF Luke Shorts guns. II had
caught Bud Kimball in the right shoulder
| just in the nick of time. causing the gun
| with which the killer meant to kill me to
| fall from his hand.
Slope for your camp, SON. said the 1T
tie night marshal to me. in his quiet way
and / was out of that room like cat.
I'm later years l got on friendly terms
with Short. and he told me that two of the
men who had been at that poker table with
me in Dodge had laid for him for his in
reference that night and that he had been
compelled to kill them both in self-de-
Tense" CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.
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