Show ma m A UK LUhNE i ME MEin l lII II in is Had End at et a Sant Har Luck Lace But aut ButOut ea Out ot 3 nJ President PreeM ut With I tIr Town Tows Wa W WA mat t A kr AAA Ak oHE state Nevada whose finance u rm I I Were ere to In shape lape several years yean y ago Ss that tit u tt with difficulty dU UK tile an aD annual nual 1 t c of f the administration could be by m mf r w II in fn I n a prosperous con condition and and t ii lidral oral resources r urcu ar are be being t ing bac t a i idly idi Y i t t d Ne N ada ida t r tEn teen noted for Cor Its 4 ami larding s i conducted under Hee issue 0 state sate and mid trot from this sour our c t ta J revenue is derived A Afew Afe Afew few fe art arm ar a tate Mate was tray in ich ud dire tal La l st K ti at there was consider I able abl talk aik ul k of o at ion to California but I DOW now that hat t pro pre pr has tl UJ again alq struck that t cUiL u n this si 1 i jn n Lt has haa ceased A few tew leWCO year ago CO u t f the mines an and the j I Iet state Mat et nit a t i w holly wholly upon the tile rain raining I It in ining ing t I j i s support were w re closed c down many i t tu Hm m going into bank nank ru tc but t v c ta la have e been en rich st strike of p ud at vat Val s places recently recent y and the tale state is i on OD nor sou Jt t ii g u of a boom With the ream i t j J n of oi activities in to the mining industry which had bad be become bec come c s almost a J i rug f ng ug in m tb t the market IDa U 11 again lively iely and nd u 1 e states Mates revenues revenue axe ate II In excess of It Its Ita i f i Probably one acme of or the grea great crEat t poker games of I recent mint nt history have bane ave been played in ID that I state and a nd one of only a few moot month age j probably will fo go 0 down downa into ins history as a amat the tM moat mat unique contest with the cards ever Over Overplay play Played in the west weal A M Aa the gambling I Stayed are 4 the player la Sa pro PIO protected PIOt protected t td by the law and if tf any an crooked work IB is I done in a house the proprietor is 18 held personally responsible and end upon I I conviction Oll must ut serve nerve a term in tales mates I prison not DOt being being belne given ven the option of a fine flue G A Dukes Duk of Likes Uke Cal Cal at wile wIlD was waa in the city last IaH week k stated that Nevada aU wa was the gamblers gambler El Et Dorado and that anything In the nature of crooked work was wu unknown there then While he never n ver plays playa any acy JI game of chance and is a real rei 1 dent of an aD adjoining state he does doe con COIl considerable consid sid in mines mine in Nevada and All when n one find fads a prosperous mining there then alao alo aI he finda finds gambling The TheIn game in Nevada i S is played pa ed without limit umit aid Jd naturally some come big games are the re remit reIN suit mit IN I t The biggest tap stage game of recent date said Mr Dukes at the St Charles during his hla stay atay here her he was w in I Reno some yean yea ago 0 when whan MIa the who country was waa enveloped in la a mantle of snow mow ow I bad to togo toP togo go P to Reno lien on bu business n and lid d waa w u at the hotel botel with with several ral other ot cattlemen and I In n probably half halt a o miners In They y were all a wealthy wealth Men aea and frequently Indulged in a game of draw raw poker as a pastime though always playing for big ble stakes While every eyel one eat was waa hovering over the fire fir trying to keep warm w a little thin consumptive looking look fellow came ame into the hotel sat t down stretched his h legs lags I for tor a abit aI I bit hit and invited the crowd to take a drink dJ lk Ha He If was waa u a stranger r in those e parts but a pleasant sort of chap and soon n had bad every ona ens laughing h a at his hia jests He related his experience ea of the past few days daya of how his hie h hone kase was waa fr n to death and he had bad been forced to foot it about s vent fie mil mile through the hills bin to reach rea b Reno White he be was waa u talking a bank ba president ester earn e into the house ordered drinks drink for forthe forthe the crowd and aDd proposed a gape game sa of poker Six of chi these them t eat down tOwn to play y with the rest test of the crowd wd a as spectators The con oon consumptive 1 looking flow fellow waa was as one of or the play players en Ha had bad a siege e f hard haId leek and andt lost t several veral thousand before he could pick a winning hand hanft This Tola tame started tart about M la 1 on onn onna ona 1 a Friday morning and the young fellow jokingly remarked that t be he never had any luck lock to ek on a s Friday Frida and hoped honed the galas gams would continue tiU till after 12 U that night and if it did be he would regain his Is losses lopes They Whey I were playing table stakes for 11 a stack which made it a pretty prett good GOd game gam Play continued throughout the day and aad at M t o Ik that night was waa still in progress pro progress gress Nearly all sli the party retired ex tX except 1 ce t those Interested in the game My room roo was directly over oEr the one in which the game pille was waa in progress pr e s but not nut a sewed OHM reached rea bed me tae and I was waa wa soon snug and warm wana In the arms of the god cod of reat rest Some hours houra later I was awakened aw ened by a as asca awakened ca commotion afao in the Ute card room but t turned turn turnover i over and lid tried to go 80 to sleep again While in a dose doze I dreamed that I was waa going Bolair across tile the mountains m and came cross across 4 a man la is the 1 Snow arrow barefooted r and in his shirt sleeves Just at that time I was waa aroused arm ed by b someone rapping on my door I sat Nt up in bed and grasping my re revolver revolver volver olver called out to the intruder to t know j what be he wasted wanted He asked me to open I ithe the door a u as he be wanted anted to talk taUt with me meI I got cot up lighted the lamp and opened the thedoor thedoor thedoor door sitting up in bed with my revolver J in to hand band and in walked the stranger The story was a s brief one oDe The bank benk president had cleaned up the gang gaag but wanted to continue the play None of the other players er could get any money as aa they had bad borrowed all the landlord had and were sitting around to see what the next move would be N beThe beThe The young fellow the stranger truer came into my room without hat bat shoes or coat went down Into an 11 inner recess of his hia clothes and pulled pull out a roll of United States bonds boDda He asked me to t let him have bae some me money as a he felt that his hI luck would chang c I save gave ve him in exchange ex exchange x change for that much of uncle Santa Sam s paper and aDd be he departed I 1 turned over went ent to seep and did not Dot again ain awake till the sun was waa peeping ever over the mountain moun mountain mountain tain top into my lilY face The first t thing that entered my mind was How did the game came corns come out for though thouc I did not play myself If I had bad become interested in is the Ute result remit t Hastily putting on my y clothes IoU I went downstairs but not a aBOul sound BOul l could I hear bear except my j down wn foot tails U UI I wet went through the bar but there was no sign of Ufe life there and then turned ned the handle of the door to the card room but it would not open I rapped on the door but got t no answer nor was waa there the stir BUr to indicate that there was anyone Inside de I came caine to the conclusion that the young fellow bad gone broke and was waa w steeping sleeping so I 1 went t out to t the kitchen to ens ee about shoat getting some breakfast but there tb e was waa not net a soul Il UI In I sI I then went to the tM landlords room expecting to arouse I him and learn what this silence meant but upon U poJ rapping at the door tailed failed to t get geta a response r I opened no the d tor dor or and Del looked I in but Ii ut there was waa no one in la sight s t neither 1 the t be landlord nor his wife By this hill time the situation began to pall paU upon me I I went downstairs and 04 threw the front door open expecting es l to see ee lee some one me on the street but there was as not a spul apul in the thee I e of ot ray my vision y and aad the hotel was waa in principal pal street reet of the town j t I went to the U telephone thinking to ail up a friend f d but could get t ao no answer I from central I hung bung up the tae phone and walked walk over ever to a restaurant a clock Block away awa as I was getting very nry hungry by this Urn Um the door and walked in but there lb was waa W not DOt a soul 1 in ia the Place I Ithen Ithen then began be an to wonder r if I 1 was wa the only I man in the town towa and it began n 10 to look so i when hen presently t I saw AW a man IDD costing coming up the tho t h street on a white horse hone b He dis dlO dismounted dismounted I mounted at the bank and went nt in I fol tol follow j low lowed d him Into that institution the front I door of which was guarded bv by an officer I whom I knew sad and went to the cashier cashler s 1 window but there ue was no au one once ne to t trans transact I It set act t any I could near BO tw sound I to in the building except Ke pt toe tilt monotonous ticking licking ick of the U alert and walling walking W back to I the th president Qt office Which b was shut hut oft oU 1 from view from the front font I had bad the t thes be I s situation explained ed to me for back of ji the he bank hank was waa collected th u the entire popa population l J lation of the city ctt m in snow eight eighteen j een n inches deep P PUSHY many of them peering through the window win ow Becoming Inter Interested interested 1 ested I Fastened back expecting to find finda M Ii corpse I 1 was waa Bed to find th UR the president president I dent of It the tb bank k and the young stranger r alRa I II pitting back badi in ift their shin ain sleeves eevea each h I pulling away sway at bis hi bi pipe pI playing freeze treue vet ut t The I he game had bad been beau transferred I i from trum In t hotel botel to the bank frank where re the U nt could get et money mone as aa fuel Duck had I Q haai t d with Ith the coming vf a sew new dayn day and n nd th stranger stra r was waa winning almost every p t ThE Th same fame had bed progressed till tm nearly 10 le 1 when ben lOben the OK skiff came I Iba in ba with hut a wan arresting treating t the Iho two players pla rs for tor cf er c a It pok poker r a game me u t Ii a lice Bee L nt fl u strange J 1 won nearly neal c every ery I in sight t s the entered r 1 tiers toen TV rasa a a l t i i pot ot in pi giess It I had been p 1 s veral vern t I roes mea and aad I amounted to 1000 Th This hiI was as so inter sting Ming to er e i that he ca e HI ll tid id d not I main malu the art ari it r was wa over ad the he er r woi pot s i three aces es ag against tt kings ayers era were ware tined fined Uie he 1 I t of r t ri and given the UIe op option I It tin tion t f payl payi tine tee ef of e eor or s t rug n f i i 1 Mi a in tail jail 11 nail and they theT Y paid That u ly the greatest poker gam gaea C of rev rep but no 10 one knows know kno to tl s day w stranger t ranger was la as he bt eared sa an i n t he left IEt he court roo and ind baa has rest t n r nn en or heard of a e ii It i iMi Mi Yoe LH kes is ia a II Ia agn who west went t tto to California C after the war New Orle Tint Tiros Democrat |