The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-27
ARKANSAS CITY LOST ITS FIARBOR
ONE OF THOSE oRnaY FOOLS WHO THINK THEY KNOW

Though, for to pay good generous
price for to have it did.
| Il cd see ( Jim Foster was kind o.
preyin' on his mind, an 1 knOwed the
good O. the community was dependin'
largely on him keepin' good natured, so
1 mentioned to him that the boys was
goin' TO have a poker game that night,
/ an mebbe if he was TO set in it mought
cheer him up some.
HE was toPable keen FIR the game,
times. an he'd helt his own toTable
well afore that, him bein' some swilful
but not no pfessional. Likely he
wouldn't "a lasted the way he did, on'y
FIR me tellin' the boys 'twa'nt FIR the
good o. the community TO do him UP
prematoor. Just wait 1 says, til this
here harbor appropriation. has been
made. You remember, don't you, J4c,
how l said that?"
ME? Oh, yes, I remember" said Joe
Bassett gravely.
well. he'd melt his own up to then,
as 1 was sayin', an he was wilIin'
enough, so there was a game started
soon as the boys come in, an every
thing looked promisin' FIR a pleasant
night even if 'twa'n't likely to be none
too profitable. But long about o'clock
this here Jim Foster he comes in.
There want nobody liable for to
speak hash TO him, bein' as he'd sort
o riz UP I'm the grave SO recent, an
1 give him credit FIR a drink O. liquor,
bein' as he said he'd be to work soon
an was good for the money. That part
didn't hurt no great, but when he'd set
| round out here a spell he went in the
back room an begin lcokin' on at the
poker game.
Il thought it was some likely t he'd
ask me for to stake him in the game,
but he didn't. Feared like he was hav-
in his fun outen keepin' tabs on the
way the others was playin' An be
was Watchin' the leftenant mostly, him
bein' some careless in holdin' his cards.
Come a hand when the leftenant
opened jackpot on two little pair, an
seen two raises afore the draw, maxim
it cost him somepin' like SIS to draw
cards. Then he took one an Clipped
white chip. blind.
"Then Pearsall, l believe twas, T
had raised it first, he trailed, 'thouten
liften' his draw. havin' took one card
to aces an kings. an wishin' to see
what Winterbottom ID do, him havin'
took two cards.
Jake hadn't bettered his three treys,
an feelin' t he'd overplayed EN- al
ready raisin' the second time an not
feelin' like goin' no fUrder ag'in two
enc card draws he just calls, but there
hadn't nobody bettered, so he scoops
the pot.
Then Jim Foster he butted in.
Feared like he'd been most Dustin to
say somepin' afore that, but had wait
ed to see what d be did. He says:
'Leftenant. you'd oughter dropped
them openers when you was raised, or
else f you'd wanted to play 'em you'd
oughter stood pat an made a big bet.
Likely that'd a. win
THE leftenant he looks at him sort
o. disguised like an he says: You
think so, do yep An Jim Fister he
gives a grin an he says: Well, faint
so much what l think as what 1 know.
Any foord know that was the play I
ought for to be made on that hand
Then the ieftenant took the deck
an begin to deal an 'thouten lookin'
up he says: I don't just know how tits
with all the fools there be. but pears
there's one fool thinks he knows
Foster he looked toPable stirred up
over this. but bein' one o. them t does
all their fightin' with their mouths, he
didn't feel like tacklin' the leftenant
an he kept quiet spell
-Four or five hands alter that un
there came a play I was a leetle on
usual. The leftenant had first say an
he come in. Then. when it come to
Jake he raised, an the next player
reckon it must "a been Pete Parker. he
'useter play here then-hes raised it
again, an when the 1eftenant got his
turn he raised again his ownself
Then it looked like it was goin' to
be some of a struggle. FIR Jake raised
again. an so did Pete. an the others
bein out, it was the leftenants say.
He picked up a stack o. chips an
was just goin' TO shove 'em in when
Jim Foster had another fit of insanity
Don't do that, leftenant,' he says,
they're too strong FIR you to bluff 'em
out
1.-THE leftenant put his chips back in
his own pile, an he throwed his hand
in the discard, an he got up, an he
reached round, an he caught Jim Fos-
ter by the collar, an he says Tell me