Show ROBBED IN A DIVE chas touched while betting on the high card A game or draw in which a Is fleeced um of about in gold t it was a most distressing tale which charles a sheep man fram wyoming told at ane police it atlon lon at an early hour this morning it coat liliu heavy to get ilia eve teeth cat but the les eon will be printed indelibly upon hi experience it Is the old story of an unsophisticated youth with a pocket full of abid a breast chuck full ot confidence who bets a gay streak and forthwith hies himself to the dive to do up the tinhorn but who emerges in alie morning twilight minus hi united stacee specie and his comb cut close to hia head charles christenson Christe naon is a young man about 25 years of age and resides in salt lake for aonie time he ha been foreman of chas sheep herd near wyoming in company with whose money by the way was tor safe keeping he struck ogden yesterday afternoon on war to bait luke to attend at the bedside of sick wile the pair desired to spruce up a little before striking the capital and to lay one train while they made their purchases of clothing they a clothing house on washington avenue and were so absorbed abe orbed in flashy deuits loud percale shirts blooming tie and nic walto stetson bats that they missed the train and were compelled to lay as they thought till the U P 1 train pulled out but the tinhorn tin horn had marked them for hia own and the 1 of sheep men were enticed into a gambling dive on twenty street where the wool was smoothly palled ivr their and they were everlastingly fleeced out of the product of their clip the play began by putting a half dollar on the red and the half won a dollar on the black and it doubled itself yon are a sure winner you are remarked ft familiar bystander to christenson as be wal clied the incoy bets made by the neophyte abka this stuff and clean out this game nt the same time handing out 2 and urging the unsuspicious sheep man to take a band at the game of draw at the next table little more urging and the trench game wa abandoned for the great national pain of america only one hand was dealt christenson had regaled himself on hi golden doable eagles got to burning bis pocket and be drew bis buckskin sack from his pocket determined to bust the bank one more look at his liandi yes there were kings and a pair of aceti bet bet urged the guerilla gambler youve got em beat on the dead out came the bag of gold and in a moment in 20 gold pieces lay shining on the table no bete were made one of the gang grabbed christenson Chris lenson while the others scooped in bis money the unsophisticated sheep man was hustled about the room for a 1110 ment while the men who bad hia gold got out of eight and he was then released and told to make himself scarce he reported the robbery at once to the police station and the officers succeeded in nailing two of the gang who are booked as JI sergeant and frank E roe the main man lied has not been apprehended but it Is probable he will be located all right boor christenson and his camp cook arc looking crestfallen today their experience night bay teach then to look not upon when it is hard nor duck the tiger when it Is hungry |