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Show FINED FOR GAMBLING A. G. Burnham .was arrested a few days since upon the charge of gambling, gamb-ling, Guy Nickle appearing as the complainant. Burnham was arraigned ar-raigned last Monday before Justice J. A. Ingols. Sam Cline appeared as' attorney for the defendant. The State was not represented in court. Burnham plead guilty to the charge and he was fined $20, which he paid. We are informed that the charge grew out of the "bad check" case wherein Guy Nickle was last week fined $150 by Justice Nichols and notice of appeal to the Superior court was given. It seems that the "bad check" was given to Burnham by Nickle to pay a gambling debt and Burnham in turn endorsed the check and gave it to a third party to pay a bill. When the third party presented the check at the bank for payment the paper was "turned down" by the cashier as mere was not, sumcient iunas in the account against . which it was drawn to payt. The two court actions ac-tions then followed as stated. There were two or three other men in the same celebrated poker game whose names are known but as yet have escaped being hauled into court. It is not the first time that some of the party have "sat in" poker games and it is not the first time that a bad check has turned up in the county as the result of the long night session ses-sion of hard, useful, community-building community-building manual labor poker. A sharp ax and a woodpile for the husky players would probably be of greater benefit to themselves and to the community than poker. |