The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-22
ARKANSAS CITY'S
HONOR RETRIEVED


! foot, he'd better keep it nailed onto his
person with a good, strong string. An
| if he's got a special gift o. seem
through firm the back of a card TO the
/ front, or dedicated fingers FIR dealin', he
wants to let red liquor alone till after
the game. faint no use to have SIGH
| talents, 'thouten you keep 'em ready FIR
use
The old mans gaze was fixed steadily
| on the window pane in front of him.
Nevertheless, it might have been OBJ
served that Sam Pearsall was fidgeting
on his chair.
At length he took his pipe out of his
mouth and, after knocking the ashes
| out Of it with unnecessary vIgor, put
it in his pocket. Then he said. with
great emphasis: "That'll be about all.
'Tain't no use rubin 1t in If a man
does fall down when he's took advan-
tage Of
IF any ones to blame it's them as
| hadn't wit enough to sect I'd had
few"
The OR man looked aroung as IL
| greatly surprised, and was about TO
| speak. but Pearsall was not yet
through. Dashing his hat violently on
the floor. he continued: 1--WE spoke,
an / en- lick any man t goes for to
hector me any furdcF"
SAM said old man Greenhut, your
| feelin's does you credit. but there amt
nothin' been said 10 hector. What's
been advanced is more i'm grief, nor it
/ is In wrath. We all seen, when twas
too late. t you was some Slowed, but It
sure did hurt for to see Pete Peabody
| get away with $500 of Arkansas City
money, him bein' knoeed TO have spoke
| disrespectfu lof Arkansas City poker"
| He haint got away with it yet"
said Joe Bassett, quietly. Il reckon hs'il
! be round again tonight"
Then all is not lost" said old man
Greenhut. Not even honor, as the Good
| Book says. l reckon If the Arkansas
City talent is in good work;n' order
there hain't no crossroads tin horn FIN
Tennessee goin' to make mock of the
fair fame O. this c'munity"
The atmosphere of the room seemed
suddenly changed. There was little
more conversation, but the consumption
Of tobacco went on steadily till Pea
| body entered half an hour later
He invited all hands to drink. doing
it as heartily as became a substantial
winner, and meeting with an equally
| hearty response to his invitation.
I was resk' MIN I meDbe you uDs'
d like some of a ehanst O. winnin' yo'
wads back" he said. after the glasses
had been emptied, an / sure would Ike
| some more o. yO' money. We cd have
! tthOAAlCl StNSlA L W oil 10 d~M lStltu
/ Inside of another ten minutes the
game had been resumed, table stdokes
being agreed upon, and each man TAX
/ ing si00 in chips. 1t seemed moderate,
| considering that $500 of lost money had
to be recovered before any profits were
/ possible, but four men out of the five
We're there to make the play rapid, and
the fifth had no objection.
The deal fell to BlaIsdeii. and Bas-
I Sdff the co
| happened that nobody got hand, so
! the first pot was a $50 jackpot, with
| Bassett dealing and the others ali
aware that he had no special skill i'll
manipulation.
Peabody found three sevens in his
hand and opened under the guns for
the size of the pot. Wlnterbottom sat
/ next and put up his entire stack say
/ ing, I'VE mought as well keep the pi-
kers out"
| 1t kept them out, and Peabody put
up the rest of mis- money unhesitating-
/ ly. On the draw, however he failed to
better, and Winterbottom showed three
| tens.
Quick work, said Peabody, as he
/ bought another stack and took the deck
| for the next deal. Again there was a
/ jackpot, though the dealer seemed
ready to play After a moments hest
/ tation, however, he threw down his
! cards, saying, ''Tain't worth while
| playin' ag'in one"
| Again there was $50 in the pot. and
WinterbottOm dealt. He gave nobody
| openers. and the deck went to Pear
sail. That artist riff1ed it twice with
| apparent careiessness and passed it to
Winterbottom for a cut. A close OBJ
server might have noticed that mid
way in the deck was a slightly project
! ing card, and as it happened, Winter
/ bottoms cut included that card, but
went no deeper. Possibly, however
| that had no significance.
What happened was that BIaisdeIl
| had, after the draw, small full, Pea
/ body a flush. queen high, and Winter
bottom a flush ace high. As Peabody's
! flush was pat, while the others each
drew one card, he forced the play to
the limit of his pile when Blaisdell
opened, and Winterbottom saw him
While Blaisdell stayed for what he had
| Blaisdell took the pot and Winterbot-
tom the side money, while Peabody
vert to the bone yard for $500.
! This 5000 went in the next two deals.
| and there was blood in his eye when
he began dealing in his turn, having
! bought $500 more. They all knew his
/ gifts, however, and were not tempted
/ to play by the excellent hands he gave
! them 1t should have been & warning
/ to him. but, as the others noted with
pleasure, it only served to rouse his
| temper, and gritting his teeth he threw
his $40 into the Jackpot with an evident
determination to make somebody suf-
| fer.
| Nobody opened on Winterbottom's
deal, and when Pearsall took the deck,
| Peabody leaned forward with an eager
| look. After Pearsall had finished
Tiffling, Peabody said: "Lemme shut
/ file them cards." He was clearly with
in his rights and no one disputed him.
Also nobody opened the pot on that
! zeal.
Neither was IL opened on the next
two deals, and when Peabody dealt ii
passed around till 1t came to him. He
opened and nobody came in, so he
showed down his openers-three aces
and started to scoop the pot.
But Pearsall interviewed Hold on"
he said. "One o. them aces is a dia-
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