Iditarod pioneer., 1916-08-26
MANY OLD-TIME GAMBLERS
 CAME TO lGNOBLE ENDS
(The Great Divide, Denver


 You asked me some time ago to tell you Guthrie and Oklahoma City. l will now comply as well as my memory will permit me after lapse of twenty seven years and will tell you what l can of few of that class of men who are always present in new country or a mining camp, and with whom We were all acquainted, or at least knew by sight in the year of the opening of Oklahoma to white settlement in 1889 This little sketch relates to a class of men whom Oklahoma knows no more, as there is no place for them in our highly moral and industrious community, They have gone the way of all drunkards, gamblers and gunmen Please note the percentage of violent deaths.
 Frank Hetfey was a faro bank dealer at the old Sa7azac gambling house on Grand avenue in '69, Good ol1 Frank; everybody remem bers him H. died last year pauper and was buried by his friends. He was known as square gambler, and he had many friends among the good men of our community.
 Bill Shenault, the son of Missouri con gressman, was once asked, "Who are you?' and he rerlied: T am social outcast. All decent places are closed to me. The red,light district is my home. l am a gambler" He died pauper a drunkard and a dope fend in Oklahoma City, and was buried in a pauper's grave.
 Bud Cox was killed by Mexican in Abilene. Texas His brother Booze died a dope fiend in San Antonio. Another brother, Ferris, killed gambler in the Turf saloon in Oklahoma City and disappeared Bud Flag was killed by French Jake, dope fend Dick Hawkins was shot and killed in Wyoming. Luke Short died in Hot Springs, Ark Bill Spar, whom Wild Bill Hickok called his kid" is still in Wichita, 9 broken-down race-track fend Whitey Rupp died in Oklahoma City and was bur jed in the pauper's graveyard. Arkansas Kid went to the pen for life. Kid Bannister was killed in the Turf saloon at Oklahoma City Butterfly Kid was killed by his brother-in-aw, Bob DarnelI, in Tecumseh, Okla. Both were morphine fends
 EImwood Kid went to the hlondike and was never heard from again Coyote Kid went to the pen for forty years for murder. Obe Hathaway was sent up from Oklahoma City for selling whisky to the Indians. Jim Wright was killed in Guthrie by Kinney Campbell. Campbell disappeared and was never heard of afterwards. Pug Smith died of deErium tremens Skinny Brown is in Goldfeld, Nev Cincinnati Red was killed in Colorado while working a shell game, Ed Ellis who was shot through the neck at Guthrie with 45, got well and dlsap- peared. Buster Howard is at Miami, Okla, working in a mine. Ral Howard was shot to death in Sapulpa, Okla. Jim Fuller was killed at the opening of the klowa country. Conk Jones died at Excelsior Springs Mo. Jake Pecora went up for life for killing Jim Cline at Kingfsher. Montana Kid Is tin horn gambler in Courtland, Ariz Hop Gas sidy went to Alaska and has never been heard of since Emmett Truelove killed man at Pauls Valley, Okla, and dropped out of sight Burt Hurst, a smooth dice artist, is being cared for on farm in Kansas. He lost his mind through dope. Uncle Jim Miller lives at Sulphur, Okla, and is a regular attendant at church. George English lost his head by dope, and is tramp. Blackjack Meyers was killed by Bill Spar in Elm Armstrong's resort in Wichita. Bill Morgan was killed at Lawton by Bob Barnett, who was later killed in Noble county Oklahoma Boots and Humpy both died from morphine, Bud Mitchell drew twenty years for handling wet horses. John Clark killed Ed Reed and was last heard of in mining camp at Pearce, Arlz. Ed Owen, who killed man in Colorado and another in Wagoner, Okla, was tried at Fort Smith, was acquitted and dropped out of sight.
 Dutch Jake went up for fifty years for murder. Sam Showcross died in an insane asylum in Illinois. His brother, Bill, was