The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-26
Tribe of Greenhut is Overreached
Pzen Riley His Gime Eye Arkansas Citys Confusion

wad of it inside of q hour or two If
anybody feels like settin' in with him.
Poker he says. is my best holt, an
hain't met no galoot up an down
odd change in his pocket when l get
him into game. Playin' on the boats,
he says, is too doggoned easy, an 1
come here special to find out if you
uns RELY does play the game every
body says
''Well, Sam was gettin' red under his
collar at this, an he was goin' to say
somepin' hasty, but Jake Winterbot-
tom speaks up, quite an easy, like he
does when he's dangerous. an he says,
Pears like there amt no trouble in
findin' out if the gentleman dasts to
try
Then Pizen Riley laughs again, an
he says: 1 dast, all right, but I don't
play no baby game. / aPays begins a
table stake game with five hundred in
front O. me, an there don't nobody
set in with less. 'Tain't fun I'm lookin'
for, it's money"
so Jake seen his chance, an he
says: If that's what you call reel
money, 1 reckon BIaisdelPd play you
a few games O. backgammon. We don't
play poker for pennies, but if you've
got a actual wad an amt afraid to
risk it, we might get up a game. A
thousand apiece is our smallest
A thousand goes says Pizen
Riley, very short. I reckon you all
can buy again as frequent as you feel
like An Jake says, That's your priv
ilege, too So, bein' as they was good
an hostile for start they began a
game in the back room.
There was Winterbottom an Pear
sail an Jim Blaisdeli an Pete Kenney,
maxim five-handed game. Likely it'd
a been six handed. on'y FIR Joe Bas-
sett bein' out loOkin' FIR some niger I
done stole a mule
'Bein' some curious, an there bein'
nothin' doin at the bar, I looked on
at the game till my feelin's got to be
too much fr me, an / came out after
my bungstarter, bein' as it looked like
somebOdy'd find a weepin handy if
things was to go on long like they was
goin'
First I noticed of anythin' surprisin
was when Pizen Riley scooped in a
corkin' big jackpot on a bluff t a
boy ten year old would "a called, an
Jake Winterbottom laid down meek
There was $50 in the pot when Pete
Kenney opened it for the size of it.
an Pize1 Riley come in thouten raisin
of it.
"PearsaI dropped an Jake Winter
bottom boosted it a hundred. Then
Blaisdell folded, an Pete Kenney
looked at his openers some doubtful
but SEEM as Winterbottom was more'n
liable for to need some help in a tus-
sic with Pizen Riley, he come in, an
looked to See what Riley'd do.
We'll, Riley didn't DO nothin' more'n
make good, an when It came to the
draw he took three cards, same as Pete
did, an Jake stood pat.
'Ehers Pete throwed in a white chip
an Pizen Riley he bet a white chip an
five hundred. Then, o. course, every
body looked at Jake, an just nachully
Jake looked at Riley. Just what he
seen I don't know, on'y firm what
happened to me later, but he sort o.
shook hisself. like he was shiverin'
with the cold, an he throwed down
his hand. 1t were the worst bluff
ever seen, but L couldn't blame Ken
ney fr not calm, him shown his
openers, which was two jacks an he
hadn't bettered.
Next time it come Blaisdell's deal /
was lookin' f'r some sort of a sur
prise, KNOWN Jim's talents, but I'll
be horn-swoggled if he didn't look up,
an catch Pizen Riley's eye, an go to
shiverin' like Jake had. Then he fun
bled the deal like a clumsy niger.
that, but none on 'em I you cd 'xactly
put a bungstarter on, an call it GRIM
inal, but when l left the room l seen
t Pizen Riley was gettin' the best o.
tn boys one at a time. till the bung-
starter was liable for to be the on'y
means O. restorin' public confidence.
An Pizen Riley was nigh fifteen hun
dred ahead. There want no manner
o doubt but what somepin' had to be
did, torable sudden.
while l was out behind the bar,
thinkin' o. how it'd be best to begin,
the hull five on 'em come out I'm the
back room, with Pizen Riley leadin' of
'em like a old bell wether. He come
right up to the bar an called for drinks
all round, an when I'd served 'em he
puts two pOckstfuls O. chips on the
bar, an he R3ys: You en- take the
drinks osten that
well, he had more'n five thousand
dollars in chips. There want none O.
tn boys had more'n two or three hun
dred left, an Pearsall hadn't nary a
chip. I'm free to say as IT looked sort
of irreligious for to pay out all that
good money to a outsider, an 1 started
in to give him a game o talk while l
edged over toward the bungstarter,
case O. him argUin'.
But he just turned that gimblet eye
o. his'n on me, an I'm hornswoggled
Z 1 didn't feel 1t borin' clean into my
innards, an my knees begin to wab-
BILE, but alTs he said was, I reckon the
old house rule holds good here, don't
it? It's chips for money an money
for chips, amt it?'
We'll, I don't ptend to say what
the matter was, but I give him the
money, an after he had 1t in his kick
he says, very pleasant like, I don't see
what they find about your game here
It's hard to beat, not If he en- see the
crooked play It's goin' on as plain as
1 can. Fur as my friends is con-
cerned I'll make IL a pint to tell 'em,
but I reckon you'll keep on doin' the
other suckers right along!"
Then he biowed to another drink,
an went away, nobody KILN Of him
where ne stood. There didn't none of
us understand II, but there want one
of US didn't have wabbly knees till
after he'd gone.
1.-The on'y thing there was to do was
to give Joe Bassett a warrant when
he come in. an he took the next boat
down the river. He lowed we was all
drunk, but 'twa'nt So"
Sandy Hooper listened in silence to
this amazing tale, and shortly after the
finish he went back to the hotel. where
he confided to the landlord his private
opinion that "old man Greenhut an
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