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Show GAMBLERS NEARLY NAKED Indian Finish Exciting Gambling Tournament. A dispatch from Tacoma, Wash., says: After a wock'n exciting sport tho first big gamblo that tho Indian trlbc3 of this locality havo had for years camo to a CI030 Tuesday. The tribes participating woro tho NIs- quallys, Puyallups, tho Mud Hays, tho Squnxon Islanders, tho Skohomlshs and tho Indians from Hood's canal. ln winning tho gamo tho Nlsquallys havo como Into much proporty of tho othor tribes, nnd Aloxamlor Soughlct, n Nlsqually buck, who came lu from tho enmp, pays that many of the loners had scarcely enough blankets left to keep them warm. They wagered wag-ered ponies, dogs, blankets, w eating apparel, coon skins, firearms and gewgaws gew-gaws of all sorts. Tho gambling was ln n largo shnck on tho Nlsqually river, about four miles abovo the Northorn Paclllc brldgo on tho Olym-pla Olym-pla branch. |