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Show JIA1A1IE DURLAND IS BOUND FOR 'FRISCO Jimmie Durland is In Salt Lake. This announcement Is not made a,t Jlmmle's request for he much prefers no newspaper publicity. Jimmie hails from Pittsburg where he is a familiar character around the policy shops aid cheap gambling houses. There he makes, his living by begging dimes and nickels from winners win-ners and then trying his luck. Once Jimmie got a Quarter fj-om a victim and won. He won $50 before he quit and then Just as he turned to leave the place with his winnings the police raided it and JImmle's fine came to $48.60. Jimmie never refers to that time without a shudder.' "I Just got in die burg T'ursday." he said Saturday, "an' say, dig is de cheapest cheap-est hole hat ever wus set down in de desert. Me stay here? Well, not fer Jimmie. De only rezun I got off wuz dat I had to have a drink an' it wuz to fur to 'Frisco. No Salt Lake fer Jimmie. Been plkin' 'round here fer free days and I've scraped up Jus' enuf to eat on twice a day. Not even a' stake to a crap table. Me fer de Poodle Dog w'ere dey t'row away dollars." dol-lars." And Jimmie walked sadly down Second Sec-ond South and was lost to view in the swirling snow. |