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Show WON FORTUNE AT PIN POOL. Games at Denver When the Stakes Really Were High. "I am reminded," remarked Col. Charles Dograftenrcld of Ourny to tho Hcrnld Square group, "by all this fuss about high piny at Canfleld's of tho tlmo when we boys used to play pin pool for 1100,000 n gamo In tho early days of Denver. I never shnll forget tho tlmo my friend, Colonel, afterward Senator, 'Tom llowon, won $500,000 ono afternoon. You would llko to hear tho story? All right. You seo 'Tom' enmo to Denver from Arkansas down nn his luck. 'Sieve' Dorscy had just defeated him for tho United States senate. "'Tom' didn't seem to catch on In Denver, though ho wus n good lawyer. Ha was run down at tho heel and he took to pin pool to kill tlmo. Tho strikes wcro usually a round of drinks and a bunch of mining Block, tho pnr value of tho stocks represented being entirely consistent with tho cost of paper nud tho price of printing. It wns nlways a real hardship on 'Tom' when ho lost. The drinks had to bo paid for in cash, you know. Hut ho seldom lost, nnd do you know tho llttlo llt-tlo woman nt homo used to go through his pockets every night for mining Blocks. "Well, ono day thcro was a high str j In a prospect not so very far from Denvor, nnd In telling his wlfo about It tho future Senator sighed that ho wished ho owned a few shares. 'I think you do, dear,' answered the llttlo woman, nnd then to mnko suro sho went nnd looked over her possessions. posses-sions. To mnko a long story short, 'Tom' llowon went down town thnt afternoon af-ternoon with securities worth half a million In his pocket, nnd ho remembered remem-bered thnt ho had won them all In a slngln half day not long before." Now York Evening Telegram. |