The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-07
On the "War Path" at Jamestown
BY FRANKLIN FYlEs.

| letters from a heap of cards and did
arithmetrical sums with similarly
! picked out numerals, and for the life
of me 1 couldn't divine how she did
her stunt without more than horse
sense. 1 did observe, however, that
Jumps OF sugar were a factor. Trixie's
4, trainer gave them to her when she
was obedient, and withheld them when
she wasn't. Yet she was a mere in
| cident of my first evenings stroll. like
Venus and Comanche Dan; and why
do 1 give a paragraph to her? Wait
till the dramatic climax Am I rails
ing your curiosity? II not, then the
scheme of this letter will fall fat.
1t seems to me, too, that a bit of
comic relief Will be a good thing for
this piece, which is In the nature OF
tragedy. Did you ever see a gambling
joint that, scorning the indirect meth
DDS of tipsters and stool pigeons, bold
1y placed a barker at the entrance to
glibly, explicitly, persuasively invite
people to come in and lose their
money? OF course, he didn't put it Just
that way.
Here's chance to multiply your
money. he said, fixing his basilisk eye
on me. Did YOU bring only a hum
dred dollars to the fair and have you
found that you need more? Why not
make I'D the difference in, a few pleas
urable minutes? You don't have to
risk more than single dollar if YOU
don't want to. Our chips are only a
dime 4 piece-our roulette wheel is on
the levcl-our faro is dealt on the
square. This is branch of the Ma
ttonal club of New York-an institu-
ton as sound as a bank. Walk in and
try your luck"
A gaming zen as 2 side show vas
an Oddity. indeed. and il gave promise
that Pine Beach. al an adjunct to the
jamestown Fair possessed Singularity
not TO be found within the gates And
1t was next door to my hotel, the Ar
cade, 4 house with accommodations
for thousand guests. / was pleased
to find material for my purpose so
Handy. Little did l suspect that-but
let me not make an ante-climax.
Kindly permit that uncompleted SEN
tence to sharpen your curiosity.
l entered the ramshackled structure
crew OF stony faced rascals were
operating two roulette wheels and
faro layout. There were cowboys,
army soldiers and indians among the
three or four dozen men there: also
several types of the fine old southern
gentleman and some representatives
of Norfolk town. The predominence of
westernism, though, made me feel like
tenderfOot in some nook of the Rock
les that is still wild. Nor was this
a make-belieVe side show Visitors
could lose real money. Whether they
could win any is doubtful. A few
days earlier a marine from q varship
had told his messmates of having been
plundered, and they had made re-
taiiatory raid smashing roulette
wheel and carrying away all the faro
boxes TO see if they were tricky My
dollar lasted about three minutes. and
1 charged it in my expense account
By midnight. tired with a days jour-
ney from New York, and an evening
sight seeing, / was abed. As ] drowsed
to sleep the cries of the COW punchers
and brOncho busters still came to my
ears. And when l awoke, although it
was after dawn, cries of those cow
boys were sounding. As I grew wide
awake, and realized that l wasn't
dreaming of the shows, 1 became aware
that the yells were not from Comanche
Dams quarters, but from the street
Looking out from a window, l saw the
whole force of bOrdermen driving the
horses aud cattle of their outfit away
in haste. THE show is BANKRUPTCY I
said to myself, and they are escaping
from q sheriff" I watched them as
they headed off the beasts that want
GU ~ 90 dSlldNs idSSOOCu several ISUeiS,
and finally passed out of sight
Along came TTixie. skittish in be-
havior and not implicitly obedient TO
her master. who had to give sugar to
her much Oftener than had been neces-
sary in her stage performance to make
her follow him. Were they, too, run
aways from a sheriff? 1t was rather
strange. but 1 hadn't had my sleep out:
so, with a glance at my watch to learn
that it wasn't much past 6, I went
back to bed.
But ] was no more than sound asleep
when there came several hard whacks
at my door. Go away" l said, test
lily; Il left no call" There was no
reply; and hearing another door
pounded I drowisly pitied the fellow
who had to get up so early. But l