Show ho he staked his herd many stories of big poker games among the western catt cattlemen leme a in the early days have bave been told but the story elory of tho the game with probably the great greatest stakes Is here printed for the first time two well known cattlemen of southwestern kansas start ed to move their herds hads to the pas tures lured ot bf wyoming kach herd ran on bained more than a thousand bead of cattle when they came to the crossing of 0 the arkansas river near coolidge they found a flood on they were unable to cross for two or three days to while away the time the two men engaged in a poker game when the flood finally subsided so the cattle could proceed oud of the cattlemen sald said to lils hie son who was helping to drive just turn my herd over to our neighbor and wo we will go back home lie he bad bet and lost not only all the money he ha had bad but all of the herd of cattle |