jAY,. APRIL 2, THE MOHNING ASTOMAN, AS'JOIUA, OREGON. 3 RIVER GAMB L it0' the Cotton Planter! Mada :tho Sharpen Disgoroo. A CSAMATIC GAME OF POKER. ThHiind That rouaht Matter to Cfoi and h. Way It Wai Play.d t Finish an a Floating Gambling Paie en th White River. palmy days of .tea oi boa ting 1L boim Tin-) 1IK were some pMlatlal gambling which wre rim on houseboata, Silled the Inland stream, atop- 'or days and wwk at poltita wbtnlth terrllorr was nroinlilnf and good l'lay could be bad, moving on whripia ttrrllory waa cleaned out and all uli. "pigeon plucked." Anuitnramuf UtfJ tuia by a vpft'fii river captain of an Incident bnit4lng to a floating gambling bou itlmt ini accustomed to travel up aud 'luwqjwhlio river In Arkansas ami leecsjtli. opulent planters aad river i ueu methods that were not at all I u keying wltU tli ruli of tttt game, lui icldeut In question occurred at Mm liny, Ark., theu proeperou ' HlMfC At that tlmo ludlnu ltuy waa ( letting metropolis, wlicra all of the nvrr ciuHt'iit luuueu 10 ns:eiv muu dlarltfKt freight aud puwi'iim-m and wbenllie pluntiT of the ferula While rirei bttm laud caaio to buy Uwlr auptta and receive their wail, It b tng 14 only postofflee In a largo torrh toryf TlMfwuseUoat, which waa Otlod op la pnatlal style, with gambling room after he most approved fashion aud Wv that would compare fnvorahly la Vt uiuijtilih-rui of lu mahogany flxtu, with lum of tb Iwxt city tio tula the siune period, waa owned and nw hj two brother. " ' It raa tbe dy of fruom out poker, wbet flakes were a 1ikIi aa one cared to pf and whore one player could .take put without a show down tt be oSf bad eumrlcut coin to lay more ttpouhe tii tile thnn hi oppoutnta could uuter. The brother acorn! tbe ot.t.miary h'iiiMt inert that gum bllnt placce employ and participated tlii-iiwlvp In all of tbe games that wrrvturti-d. Aa a rale, they played I fw ostensibly fair, but It waa wblKd altout that they were wore dtrt tb the card lhatt waa accredit ed tiifiicm by their victims, for they alwnftwon. WH pemon of wnwfjumice they were direful of their Play and to all appfisfiK U,1J trtot1y wltliln the letter ti; iwAe .jich gambler were upr-ofd M nlwer" TVit with twn m trip-yr-,, le were not so pen'r'", aa w ennui wa ui mean to part the. unwary from bis cash. It waa well known fact that the gnme never ran too btuh for them, and rumor had It that there waa for tune In tbe big aafe of tha private of fice of the, brother which opened off the bar. ' There waa a lanky Arkanan planter of uncertain anceetry who rived near Indian Bay, and tuli particular fall be barveated and aold a large cotton crop, reallxlng therefrom aomi f 10,000, wblcb be, a waa then the cnatom, brought back from Nee Orleana, where he mar ketmi hi cotton, In cnah. He waa one of the regular vlctlma of the brothera of the magnificent gambling houaeboat and had contributed many dollar be fore this to the pile of colna etort-4 away In the big afe, Btratghtway upon fata return to tbe bay he aought out tbe light Angered gentry of the houaeboat and, with a few neighboring planter to fill out, etartod a big poker game, which waned and waied and grew apace through taveral daya aud olghta, throughout all of which time tha lanky planter aaw bla cotton money dwindle away In a teady atream acme the table to the opulent pile of cblpa before tbe broth er. 80 ateadlly did be loae that hi auaplctona became arouaed, and on the evening of tbe laat day which tbe boat waa to renmlu at the bay, for tbe brother had announced tbe time of their departure, he eat In the game fully aattafied that be waa dealing with card abarka, and hi mind made op to eecure a aquare deal at any cont Tbe grand coup of the houecboat brotbera'wa to bide their time uutll a victim had aecured an Invincible band, douhtii'M of their own tlx lug-, and then fuoruing it pk'Ken tie ww. Itia f'ir tout-ah the gnme win then ployed a band that could hut be beaten, lie opened, the. put wlih a good atlff but, which waa promptly awa by the other plnyur until It came the turn of the gambler, who aut t tho pliiutor' rlKht. 'llie gtuublw A hi a trtncU of yellow chip, each worth 120, many Incbw In height The pltwtflr, of course, aaw the bet find ralcd for all the mon ey be bnd before him, All the other player threw down thulr card except the KiiuiMcr, who, culllug to a mr porter and whimpering a word In hl enr, t lu atolld liullfTcretice until fie porter rcturtHKl with A heavy etack of gold ateticlled $10,(XW. Thl ha irttnpt ly ahovod to tha contcr of the tnble, ttirtilug with a vnuerlng mlle to tiie planter nml rcijiicntln falm to eeo the bet or lone the pot, ; Thl "wn Jnt the play the planter hitd anticipated, tho grand conp -which the brother hitd employe! with uo ccm at more than one place ting tlio river, for auch . were thr rule of frecjieout pokrr. The Imiky planter reached down Into the pocket of hie rout a If rlu fti' coll of money, Imttend he gave the preconcerted alg nal and came up with a lx ahooter, cockd and alghtcd fairly at tha head of the gnmbler. A If but one tnuid controlled their movemcntft, nil tle other, player, except the two brother. produced In a flaah long, Hungry wok big alx ahixrtcra. It waa a fence moment; not a aoui eeemed to bn-atiie. 1b6 lanky planter wa the ninHter of the attuatlott, and he appreciated tha tact. Without mot Ing from liW aeat or ahirtlng tbe aim of hi murderon looking revolver he called to the men at the other table. after lurlug him on by taiititllxlug twta glug If they had teen anything que- and rni-a to place uwu me lame v-1 tlousble In the play. Two or the ptani- ery cent he icned, to rabe blra tra a tha brotliera allp card further, bringing out a aackful of ! from th bottom of tbe deck, and one, gold from tlio luexhauatible aupply of ! WD0 had been bually counting the deck tbe aafe for tlmt purpose. It uaa been , 0f card upon the table lnce tbe de- a good aeaeon for tbe piautei-a, excel- nouement a unconcernedly aa If lent crop and high price for cotton tragedy waa not In progreM In the giving to all ample futula. and tha j room, now announced that the deck brother had renped a rich harveat. At , w(l nbort four card and that the four Indian Bay alouo they had cleaned up , acM were tha mlaalng ottea. Th aoraethlng over lao.OOO. On thla laat brother at that table waa aearched, night of their etay they expected to j and the four mlaalng ace were found gather In the email leaving which had ! in g little pocket Inalde hi aleera. thua far eacaped them. Two big game At the other, table aeveral crooked were going, each aeven banded, all of , play bad been detected. A cloeo ex tha toalng ptantera having flocked In tmlnatlon of both deck allowed that for a laat attempt to recoup their 'they were aklllfully marked, and the loaaea. four ace were found to be what gum- The lanky planter wn the beavlcot , blera technically call "trlppera." loaer In the neighborhood, and he bad j Each of the planter pmluced mcnio jioetwl hi companion of hi auapl-. rnndura book In which had been kept rlona and cnutUmel them to watch .'a careful account of their lonae carefully the pfy of the brother, one I throughout their play on the houae of wlmm tireelihjd at either table. He ' boat Altogether the loeaea totaled bad planuM hla caplonaije with ex- 178.000. Leaving tbe table for a mo ceding care and bad given explicit In- j nient and forcing on of tbe trembling tructlon to bbi friend to watch mer-' negro attendant to open the big afe Iv and ui nothing, whatever they 1 at tbe muzsle of hi revolver, tbe ji.ui.nn until h n an trimwl . Intilti tilnlp iwturnMt lneddd down alKunl. )wlth ack of gold' and bundle of Stendlty th luck ran agalnet bin ' greenback. Thla amy of wealth he atU avevc towurl 1 a'clock In the piled upon the table and, appointing a grim guard for each of tha gambler, carefully ortcd out the money Into pile of 11,000 each. Then he mad a reckoning of each niau'e kwe and paid to each one the aum bta memo rnwlura book ahowed. v -1 After dUtributlng to each man what wu due to him and carefully counting out hi own money, aomethlng more than $15,000, he turned to th brother, now thoroughly cowed and trembling, fearful of umrnary pnnhthment and delivered to them a final meaaag In an even, omotlonlo voice. lie told them tlmt lie never repudiated a gambling debt or claimed back bla loaee when he bad been beaten by a fair run of tbe carda or the aklll of the player, but fiat ha and hi frlind were not g Ing to auhrnlt quietly to robbery, and crude robbery at tlmt; that they bad taken only what wa due to them and not a dollar more. HI peroration di rected tli gambler to make them elve ecaree In that community and never again to ebow their face on White river under penalty of Intimacy with a hempen tope. Until morning he gave them to take away tbemeelvct and their boat ; Leaving pile of gold and bill, the nrplti from the aafe after deducting the ION"1 of hlminelf and friend, cat tered In confualon over the table, the planter end bt companion etalked In atatcly dignity from the boat It wa lew than an hour before the hottucboat cant off It mooring and floated away with the current negroe aiding with the weep. That wa the IiiBt ever een or beard of the brother or their gambling houteboat on any of the river of Arkansa. Kana City Star. ' ; Before the Day of Envtlope. Ancient peclmen of letter are ahown In the Hof maaeum at Vienna. One la dated 1300. It consist of a large sheet of ribbed white paper fold ed In three. A band of paper wa pnased round the outalde and through a allt In one edge, being then fas tened with aoft wax. A amall piece of thin paper was laid on the wax and the aeat pressed on tbe paper, not directly on tbe wax. A lomewhat similar arrangement U found In a let ter of the year 1W0, which wa writ ten by the town counselor of Munich to th burgomaster of Baatenburg, in the Tyrol, In order to obtain inforaia Uon concerning a man accused of big amy. In the sixteenth century people In the Tyrol and Bavaria used band of vellum or cords, fastened wltn wax Later came separate round and oblong wafer Tbe use of the encircling band continued In Austria generally to 1760, or thereabout and probably reached the last century among con aervatlve people. The Bret envelope of the modern type in this collection belongs to the yenr 1715. 7- jr(- OF Personal Knowledg Pefsonal knowledge it tha winning factor in the culminating contests of rut competitive age ana wnen 01 ampm cntuaaer n mace its lonunaio poHcaior m the front rank of The Well Informed of the World. 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