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Show Taken In and Done For. A hardy miner, with a soft place in his head, made the easy' acquaintance of a smooth fakir last Saturday night, which cost the son of toil $230. It happened that the two unlike characters chanced to meet at the bar. A drink" followed, a short conversation, which was kept up until the money was produced on a wager, and the confidence man dropped the curtain arid closed the scene of a slick act. The polite thief is wanted, but no clue to his whereabouts has been ascertained. . It is the old, old story, and no counsel is given as experience is the dearest and most effectual teacher. |