Show he staked his herd many stories of big poker games among the western cattlemen in the th early days have been told but th story of the game with probably the greatest stakes Is here printed for the first time two well known cat tiemen of southwestern kansas ed to j tures of wy 0 in n M each herd d coil i tallied more than a thousand housand beai ot beaff cattle hen they came to the be crossing of the arkansas river near coolidge they found a flood 0 on they were unable to cross for two or three days to while away the time the two men engaged in a poker game 1 when ben the flood finally subsided so that the cattle could proceed one of the castl men said to his big son who was ms helping to drive just turn my herd over to our neighbor and wa will go il back home he ile had bet and lost net not f only all the money he be had bad but all of 0 the herd of cattle L |