The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-20
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In my town." said the man from Gin
cinnati, there's a prosperous German
saloon keeper who was never meant
to be skinned He's taken care of by
some Providence that the skinners don't
know anything about it. Heaven new
er meant that that German should
stand for a trimming.
of course, he's an Elk and an Eagle
and singbunder and all similar. He's
a spender, too, and he's there with it
to spend. So, a long time ago, the
cheerful workers doped him out as
something almost too soft to shred. Up
to date he has a whole lot of their
money.
NCOuple of months ago four of these
tEimmers got hold of the German at
one of the river clubs around Cincin-
natl, These four that got his into IA
table stakes poker game at the river
club are a pretty smooth quartet of the
'doing-t he-best-they-can kind. They've
done a lot of frisking, and they know
how to fTisk.
Jake, the German-I'll call him Jake
was some beered up when they got
him to sit in. but he's often that way,
and yet he alWeys takes care of HIM
self. He had bundle of yellow money
on him the size of roll of North Car
Dina natural leaf. and it didn't look
right to the four that he should be
burdened with the keeping of a package
like that on him. Any one of the four
could deal EN- from any part of the
ream and know what was coming out
with every flick But they wanted to
be sure that Jake, the Teuton was well
baited before they started to pell him
good.
$50 they allowed the early luck to
take its course, and it was all Jake 5
way He was so matted up that he
had to peek at his papers out of one
eye in order not to see to many of 'em
at once, but the right ones came his
way, and he bet 'em, and he took down
the change with persistent regularity.
When he was about $500 out in front
the four who had him there to pull the
pelt off of him began to shuttle their
feet around at one another out of the
tails of their eyes. Then the man whose
deal it was coughed the prearranged
signal that it was about to happen.
HE was the star dealer of the
bunch, but by this time Jake was SO
picked that it wasn't necessary to do
any fancy dealing. The dealer just
rang in a cold deck, and it looked like
Jake's hour was nigh, or approaching
fast
THE game was all jackpots, and for
this, the meant deal. Jake was under
the gun. He squeezed his assortment
out, one by one, and then, placing his
left hand over his left orb so as tC
make sure, he took a long peek and
saw that he had not been mistaken.
Jake was there with the goods
three mines and pair of queens.
He remarked maltously, that he
considered it punk poker for man
under the gun TO crack it in any cir
cumstances, but that as the hour was
getting late he'd take S. opening
chance with his pair of knaves.
Then the man next to Jake looked
refectively at the rafters of the river
club room for quite a spell. After that
he boosted it $50.
THE next trimmer placed his cards
on the table in front of him, pared his
nails thoughtfuily for about half q
minute, and then observed that he con-
sidered his papers to be worth about
500 more.
The next man didn't do any of that
preliminary upstaee business at all, bu'