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FROM FARO TO SENATE. had met the same fato at Reno.
The little ivory ball capered pervornely, skipping with mar-
POST OFFICE.
New Member of Upper. House donio chucklos and chortles over Only fally prepaid letters and post Started at Gambling Table, the "sure" numbers, until at last cards are transmisible by the Sibarian, the young "systematizer" strode Bonts to Europe. Letters for this The United States Senate is forth from the Palace into the indebted to Gov. Oddió of Nevada crisp moonshino pia Nevada ate should be superscribed vin Siberis. for its latest and certainly one of night" dond broke." He was
ita inost picturesque members. standing upon the edge of the The Parcel Post to the Obinete The Governor has appointed pavement gazing gloomily across provincos of Hupsh and Husan le now George Wingfield, who got his the railroad tracks when his eye resumed.
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real start in poker game in fell on a familiar figure and poso. Reno, to sucoood Boaator Nixon. It was United States Senator The new Sonstor is thirty-six George 8. Nixon, the man Wing now succeeds in the years old, and is fortune field
to 'be Baid
between Senate, who
enjoying 20,000,000 and $30,000,000 solitary stroll, and ive years ago ho was a penniless Senator read the story at a glance cowboy, occasionally varying his dropped into the young "man's Occupation by dealing faro and pocket a handful of gold, and ad- tending roulotte wheels. The vised: "Try another game, George, Bon of a aheepherder and and perhaps your star may cattlemon, he had boon brought slip into a happier mansion, up in rugged places and readily The pair had met ensually only fell into the ways of rigged half-a-dozen times wheu Senator people. In Gold Gold, whore Nixon did a small banking busi- Wingfield is rovarencerl both for ness at Hawthorno. On one oc- his wealth and adroitness with a casion before the politician had gun, men whisper in your ear, stake the gun-fightor.
A few moments lator Wingfield poiating out. the quiet, taciturn young man, that lie was a bad dropped into a sixth chair, com- man at the age of fiftoon; that pleting a circle about a bare, pine if notching eapons wore a table, that was cluttered with modern optom, the hills of his little mounds of chips, drifts of personal ordnance would be cut gold and silver. He transferred Away. He is only twenty-nine his entire stake to the bank and years old, and there is no doubt got into the game with the grimsalow. of his prowoss. His reputation as determination of again breaking a gun-lighter extends all the way or making. From Reno lo Bullfrog, and he is known with, respect in many little ranch towns in Washoe County and along the foothills of the California Sierras.
Wingfield's Start..
it
Now Nevada History.
The story of that poker game now Nevada history, for when ended the boy from the Washoe County ranch had trimmied every body at the table down to their bolt-buckles.
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The sun-scorchel, alkali-conted At the time of this poker game, desert of Nevada, however, did Rono was in n fever over stories not spontaneously yield any of high play and high-grade are Aladdin treasure to George Wing- at Tonopah, the booming now! field upon shoe-string in-camp in Nye County, where the vestment, any more than Death hill ranges climb six and sevon Valloy opened a King Solomon thousand feet above the sea level. mine to the notorious" Scotty." The lucky young cattleman, Wingfield's Wonderful Lamp was reckoning that the tide of hi first lighted on a poker tablo in career was in the flood, departed Reno. He begun thoro with an next day to the southern altitudos. unusual ran of luck; and, drifting At the Tonopah. Club Wingfield to the desert, he had even more found a thrilling open gamo with unusual success in "breaking the a "sky-limit." Ho won steadily, bank" of the Tonopah Club, playing with the confidence of which ho afterward bought. I man who believes ho has futo's is one of the largest gambling backing. He got up from the establishments in the West. After table with all the money that had acquiring the "club, Wingfield beon on it. tempted no more this rough-pavad Passing out of the narrow back range of fortune. The "tigor room, followed by the gloomy he vanquished toiled well for him glancos of many pairs of hungry ovor since, and his annual profit eyes, he halted before a faro from the tables was held to be table, at which the proprietor of $200,000. His minos yield him tho placo was dealing, and sat down. Dusk gave way to dawn. a far greater suu).
Five years ago a middle-sized Unnoticed, the sun strode across young man of twenty-four rade the sky and night foll again. The into Reno on a brown pinto. He purple shadows had once more had come down from a Washoe begin their day-break dance County ranch for a "flyer" after when the young man-rose from three months of cow-punching the table. He had broken the
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The hire Lins 6.8. Carmarthenshire
and cattle-herding. Broad shoul bank. The "hous changed dered and well knit, with severe hands, and Wingfield had be- features and steady oyes that come the proprietor. glanced incisively at every After that Wingfield began to Macao-For 'Sai Tai, 24th July, 1.15. abjust worthy of notice, he had speculate in real estate, always all the necessary claracteristics with success, and when he bought Straits and India.vie Caloutts-re Wong Kol, Gar 8.5, 1,116, H. Ol-mm Landoa lot Singapore on the
of even a Bret Harto "bad man," the Mohawk olaim that was devol- Saloon men and gamblers refer oped into the richest mino in red to him as a "bad boy to tackle." southern Nevada, he returned Consequently the majority of Sonator Nixon's loan of a few his encounters were with hoodles dollars that had started him on roisterers or professional
his gam- career, by taking the Sonator blors who did not know his fame into the partnership that made as a faro dealer and poker player millionaires of both."
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New Way of "Toting" a Gùn,
Unlike the majority of cat-1] tlemen, Wingfield never carried a gun in sight, nor did he ever appear at any of the mining or
According to a native paper, range towns in the picturesque l'resident Yuan Shih-kai lime sent Stats garb of the storied cowboy. He his third son to Tientsin to call preferred the unobtrusivo dignity on Tang Shao-yi... The President Japan via of conventional garments and a also sent Liang Shi-yi to Tientsin narrow-brimmed slouch hat. But to persuade him to return to Peking he did give vogue to a new style and take over his new office as of carrying
"alionting irons." It adviser to the President. It is was a simple device consisting of reported that Tang will not return. a small steel ring that revolved to Peking. He will sail for Shang-Shanghai on a swivol in the belt over the hai by the C. M. str. Heinming. right hip. The butt of the "44" With regard to the expenditure is hooked to the ring. The young of the Belgina loan he line re- cowboy's ainowy, long-fingered quosted Dr. Sun Yat-sen to sak hand, resting loosely in the Wang Hung-you, a Vico-Minister pocket over the hip, could exert of Finance in Dr. Sun's Cabinet, a magio influence over the gun to publish the statement of the without the least forewarning expenditure in order to avoid any ostentation. But Wingfield is not misunderstanding. Mr. Wong bas a brawler, and `was never known | announced to the public that Tlà, to shoot unless cornered. He 4,070,000 was received by the made many enemies because of Ministry of Finance, when the crude frontier idea of honesty | Central Government was formed and justice. He is modest, even in Nanking, and this sum was diffident.
deducted from the Belgian loan Wingfield had been working and the remainder was appro out a system "dead sure" to beat printed to Wuchang, Shanghai the roulette wheel. He had al- and other places. He also stated Farmors ways a weakness for "systems" that he would like to publish the until he was finally made. Then statement of expenditure, but it his disposition changed, and he is now in the keeping of the laughed at the "
EyBlends of Ministry of Finance. Therefore Others that were wrecked on the he requeste the Ministry to make Bumita whoals of the Tonopah Club. His it pablio.
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