The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-20

A S the Good Samaritan was solncina the di,il.
lnsIoned printer with II cigar and soothing pre-
scnption Mt the bar he became in conversation
with an entertaining person who introduced himself as
Jack Heath the proprietor. Quenching thirst berets
condolences, and Heath, the of chance, grew
reminiscent.
lie told of his early struggles as Il gambler: of his
successes and faires obstacles arising in his path
that to of less determined and Wilderness of
resolution had hundred times spelled ruin But from
youth he had determined to make n success as gam.
bier despite fate and the bitter nntagonsm of shers
and state s attorneys On both sides of the river
At length, it seemed, his energy WAS rewarded.
The re1oubled efforts Of his enemies came to naught
and after years OF effort and attention 10 the
percentage of the game he four years ago. found the
dreams of his boyhood realized in every detail; the
dense foliage of the woodland Oh the Vrgnin bank of
the Potomac couple of miles above Washin gton in
the very spot where his youthful had pic
tured it nestled gambling pIaee-and Jack Heath
was its sole proprietor
Heath S restless energy not vet content The
roadway from Washington long the river a pleas
ant waterway. And to assist the player 10 n
reader divorce from his coin Jack built the little Bar
thodi, which, plying between the city the uxui
GUS deaGfnh offered the tempting bait of free ride
on the picturesque river
Business grew apacc, but once ugain the mcddc
some mnions of the law Tipped hv in the ointment
of his success By strange chance they found Judge
who insisted enforcement of the antigambng law
The Rossyn joint, - it widely known wnS
closed up; solitude regncd where oace gaming had
thriven merrily and silence brooded oncc had
resounded the thunderous calls OF the man behind h.
goose.
But they didn't know Jack Heath lie Looked
upon thI ruin of his life S best efforts much AS cw
ton contemplated the wreck of years priceless labor
by playful pup. and like another Newton Jack
Heath, with II soul above disaster started in 20 rc
trieve his fortunes. He looked into law and Owe
and under it. lie planned something to get around it,
and having planned, he built it,
1t was the Ark, a craft hulking and clumsy to look
upon, but one that fits around the law with the dcx
terity of swallow, taking advantage of that legal
maxim, " when fall out nobody knows where
he IS at -
quired NIL the Potomac the south or Virginia
shore Later, she and Virginia granted the District
of Columbia to the union its boundary line cross
ing over the mud flats about mile below Alexandria.
About 1915 the United States conveyed the Virginia
portion back to that state,
Nov there has always been a serious legal doubt
as to whether this Inst conveyance valid. uud if
so, whether Virginia thereby reacqured domiIion to
the middle of the river channel in accordance
common law, merely TO its shore line in ac.
cordance with the terms of the Maryland charter.
There are two puzzles.
II is also another legal question the rcspec-
tive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts
Maryland and Virginia non-maritme matters aris-
inG the river That's third puzzle. Furthermore,
Virginia and the District of Columbia nre in continual
war over their respective lursdctiona rohts that
portion Of the river west Of the boundary south of
the channel. There's the fourth puzzle.