Show BUNCO MEN AT WORK silas sims an illinois sheep herder falls an easy victim silas sims a young man whose home is in illinois but bit who for the past three y years a lias been herding sheep in the wilds of idaho and arid is now bound fo for homo home yesterday afternoon made the acquaintance of an obliging stranger and as a result came ou out t tao 20 loser it is the tile same old story of the gay bunco man mail and the verdant bumpkin who was only too willin willing to take a liand hand in what to him seemed a good game but what in reality was the stock in trade of the poker sharks and euro sure thing men the place was the same as that in which a estranger et ranger was touched to the tune of 80 a short time timo ago foxs kansas city exchange on twenty fifth street near lincoln avenue sims arrived from the north on th the e morning train and as he had bad some time to wait wok too kastroll a stroll u up T twenty wenty fifth street when W lien almost F in n f front rant of the exchange lie be stopped to watch the pairing paying men at work and while standing near the curb was approached by a well dressed stranger who rep represented resented him self to be a californian on his way to the tile worlds fair after some talk the tile obliging stranger et ranger suggested that athey enter the tile exchange for the purpose of seeing a man who had a ticket to chicago for sale upon entering the rear compartment compart compartment meni 01 ol the building they found ft a gambling table at which sat three men in the act of playing 1 ng As the men ente redone of the three 1 who is identified by the young man a as fox himself left the room and the tile obliging stranger et st fanger ganger took his place and within a few minutes had won a considerable sum of money represented by chips chip s a stack of which lie pushed across the table to sims with the tile request that he play them for fun sims was not in the right mood to play but after some per suasion on the part of his new frien friendie dhe was prevailed upon to take a hand the tile young oung man was allowed to deal the tile cards himself but says that daring during the tile cutting the deck was changed and although he lie received three aces and a pair of jacks upon which he lie bet all of his CIA chips ps tao 20 uron chis of his own money and nd 2 20 0 more loaned him by the obliging stranger one of the players flashed a hand maje made up of four threes and the missing aceaid ace and gathered tt 1 ered in the tile pot realizing that he fald had been skinned sims went at once to police headquarters and made coiela complaint in t but as ho lie was unable to identify th the 0 anen nothing was done marshal D da a will take a hand band in the ga game me however in the very near future sims is left strapped trapped a |