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Show Chicken Raiser Pays a High Price for Sight Seeing. San Francisco, Dec. 0. It cost Henry Johnson, erstwhile chicken raiser near this city, $2,0S5 eslcrday to "see the ruins" of the fire in mOfi. Johnson, who had just sold his chick-on chick-on rnnchrcame to this city to go into business and while sightseeing met an affable stranger who volunteered to show him the ''ruins," The two wero Joined by a third man and a coin matching game was started. start-ed. Johnson won $1,000, but before his friends would pay him he was asked to show a llk.6 sum. He went to his hotel and rejoined his acquaintances, acquain-tances, showing them $3,100. They started another game of matching and Johnson lost the $2,100, together with So that hcrluud in-t.heflrL place. T,hc men returned S100 to him and advised him to kcop silent, threatening to cut his throat If ho soun led an alarm Johnson told his troubles to the police. po-lice. on I |