The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 14, 1902, Page 7

1902 THE RCH 14 ATTLE STAR, ynipay. MA THROUGH GAMBLING PASSION «1 ‘ 1 to k ‘ Brought to Light in Seattle Which Reads Like a Romance—Jim Spark Tells of His treet oft ‘Monta near « ; Early Downfall—His Weakness for Poker Table Wrecks Homo and Happi- ek an’ Hit ne car wo! ness—He Is Lucky Mining on French Creek in 1897 —Quits the Green Cloth Forever, and With $160,000 ted S Returns to His Faithful Wife mY purpose of calling, Tt Why aald h All ! from the store un \ time T eaw J s tempted r i to gamble.) well underst fo not'ca I could conceal x lent Ou Blackwell's Isiand a u're t hot was ; Ww I t it w . Ne ' joy fr i . Ny i ’ ! od . y it ko down to U mie 1 4 a North river tub gan a y ta She Had Been Faithtul Li did « Ar as h ay ey he ' hort I t was attracted t t : andi y ! hat wt ‘, ' " t in MeGrath’s & , ¥ 1 falthe , Throw I went ! ‘ nt ar 1 ruck th “ it . taw J ay ha " 1 t 1 h . vod up eé f ‘ us Aw I for t t tw 1898, 1 started down t i ae tea f 4 4 for my pains I Bella and t. Mi- | ne ' \ ' mness until I found my- 4 I took the St. Pa “ ‘ P ' t ahe hal i Forty-se th ' August 23 we ted up at f if t A bat la tee ® with a char tiwor half yen ni 4 now a S remark from a pl rat a! derty ieantast tie ¥ pe tae |g, OR the S4th of A I depoat N * witch 1 bad fant passed ken down to Jeff 1 Mark nw 1 Ww t ? t ot neat ‘ine 0 ‘ nh, and with a 5 In ley + ; dels Judge Patterson gave me 90 days on | @Y Pocket I a ney I ‘ the § h t " - who swore | 2#Ppiners to mak trade ‘ ered Determined to Find Them Last January 1 met 1 A his ay for a IT hada vw and daughter NS ‘ t ' jose to the ta ietr The true | Wt and 1 w fete ned find the Copper r r try that | 4 outing to see a pretty good | story rd, was | them if itt ery t of my ¢ ' to ta p to Alaska mi did, I saw laid down) th 2 the | tune, Some the thoug? viet a. eA vr ite biggest poker hands ever | latt or an © were dea 1 ' of an evening epporty on waa )| ye I never s all thos ears of we ted, b “ r r tng } pen were six playing, and they m i had i the fellow | @ration believed that either had pass t t t t we INE it pretty well! “e had deserted hie famity | ed y La 4 New Yor ! 1 retu t N York tht There was for another womar er knocking | wit " } ‘ ‘ HARRY CF ' P me out the trio ran. @ on the | feare 1 ‘ » th ot patrolman “ghowed up t ardiy | Probab! y¥ * ‘ . you about had r r—his n put ving r Er m “ nds, im gee bun hen in the center of UPA ory to keep his own name off ares harassed 5 y " ar the poltee blotter, I had a duty to perf and I « » what I saw and what I Joiace the Circus eee | HHOUE doing It w ithout delay, The Wonder--Grand Millinory afterward, {ft seems that “I did days over in that Black- I ar a irk was dealing, and when it came} weil but when I came! Mieht y Opening draw cards he de it $15 to met | out for ything. 1/over in I cum ae ia mae ‘The ante man to his left raised | couldn't go hom I wouldn't go any | ™erh t wi ' . f ° Mm hefore Spark had fairly got his ce where I was known, I tramp-/ @Y little home Th i seit? : R ; et of his mouth. A stout, red to Bridgeport, Conn, and got a but sadly In 1 of repairs mye a pay on gan who sat next to the ante,| job with Barnum’s circus, which was They Had Moved J, ¢ * ever bis hand and told every just starting out G< the season 1 T went around and knocked at the Sea “ scares bai $54 would be reautred to| came back to New York with the x Sonar ait abenet oe ce DIAMONDS. FTN® that deal with him. The third outfit and worked with the show pand to the question near D SILVE nvens thought he) during its annual four weeks’ en heart she sald she baa only | At bert Hansen } i 2? vy by #tay-| cagement in Madison Square « here wix nthe a Md The largest jJoweiry house in the " The same) My first job was with the sw the family who had former Sterth west. thought was due the brigade. After the firat week I was he —- hman. He announced what promoted and for three weeks I held thinking about and threw down | banners for t iders to jump over ‘ I was dressed up in a pink suit and All Congressmen Det One looked geyer than I ever did in my Me fifth player, a dark, lean in-| life. Tf ed the cireus until Aug ; just to the right of the | Ust, and was discharged at St. Pau phed another way of looking | Minn.. for accidentally th fines, and said tn a firm ip- | dressing reom on fire whi 9 Concerns the up for the night's performance All that miserable summer I r celved my pay weekly, and no mat ter where I was, I hunted up a « bling game and invari & most unl mpveice that the five numbers he were all congressmen but one Whe conidn® t make an engagement Fach people for less than $109. effect of this lant say was that ed@her three players whe ‘ was abt Mickering” decided each ne Ts @ be had a pretty fair al Masel? and thereupon made | [°% ¢ = i C the centre equal to a "Ma * Scie’ the trawing. Poor | t0 : , perk was dealing. as I said) When I lett rst man wanted two |! Worked in when he got them at street ‘Oer fleshy friend who rat# nto alae acon eM sald he had enough. 7 pes Borg fa man on the right of Johnnie &* of ’ cued, Attar he pe magh to win one night, I would low one himself and « xt. a r down and tried to work Wa pk face. Gave Up All Rope nally I gave up all thought of Piano Club The remarkable record 4 ever going home and I wandered all aa eet ine on Eerie g50 pet | ONT the West. I bated on the M who raised to $4 bet | siasippi; I "longshored In New Or- at them with fifty leans; I farmed in Kansas. I Giird gentieman raised | punched in Montana and | mined in Colorado. But mb all those yea never @ word or t Annie and the wiry did I send to Some of} Rwas up to Spark. and wy cost a hundred to pe had fost a hon-| made by the RICHMOND ven dollars—all| my experiences Were awful, and the | PIANO CLUB, which record means that man . “tes earth. He saw | hardships I have gone through one | ore si Mecano pushed over the | would scarcely belleve. | ple who Intended to join were too late, prompted us niacin, rity it Tee ants | “From Montana I re d to Colo-| é dc oe a ieee | to wire the manufactur king that the club be Payer. Whe ft came pony ih Mpimiro _— Po in Rage ane she Meg ad, pany ‘rs asking that t b he sald: “I / season before I made a falr stake on| enlarged and the price and terms be extended. Here rs doaded front of me. oe Cripple Creek and got to San Fran- ia the reply— e table. cisco without squandering tt all over : ft nid weal tm. Til see the | the green. My object in striking} Pe oer tec an 22 bet either of "Prisco was to take advantage of t + Al Bose oo Klondike excitement which was run- | Richmond, Indiana, March 13, 1902 tome $9, and the red tacea | /™* high in that year Sherman, Clay & Co., ogi med for about $75.| ce er ingore Seattle, Washington that Spark said: “I'm all anded on the coast with $250 In| ais seer emamcen t SB gatiemen. and if you can beat |™Y pocket. This was on the 4th of ite goth Byenve Bichimann ds tahee, (Lar We Whe hand TN never go back to An. | J¥ly, 1897. Ten days later I sailed out | can sell at the reduced price. Ciub positively limited Ble or the Tittle one tilt my tuck |! the Golden Gate a to one hundred. changes’ The poor fellow was beige hous re ag Michael. At RICHMOND PIANO CO. le was not a profeanion- | that place I met Jay Whippie, whom : ; : and hesides the money |1 had known during my cow-punch- Placed in the centre of that ing experience in Montana. He Sees earesented he had tn the | ™¢ @ letter to a man who owned = peat the Joag | “'#im on 3 above Eldorado, I jd up the river on the old boat gave a | Seventy-five people have alrea ty taken advantage of the club prices and terms. The next lot of twenty-five iwhich finally yt thror , Fothing Conia Brat It mt Sein nee 0 planos will be here in about three weeks baht Mats Were shown. The man/ } we nd as an experienced by 7 1 drawn tw ered ' When seventy-five © cards laid down | thos 4 pianos are sold in six daye (the Ss The big and perspiring = wood for thaw Gtpiied three aces and two|. > and I was put on the Job at actual time taken to form the club not counting the a this juncture Johnnie] py sds ns ta thm ce 1 would “Faiting for ae ray and without ways turning over every bean ae thee perloc hipm you ® © sure that such right, said, *T has. er one owner, One night, however, I picked a plan is well worth thinking of and watching for Pas jn clubs "king hig wait,” | UP, piece of gold worth $250. I put é ‘ unmoved player. and he iaid | 2 my pocket and that r ight found The papers will tell when the pianos arrive, WS the table a han’ that nothing can | 228 my accustomed piace at a 4 ata straight flush in diamemta | {ro table. My wages I always Watch, amen squandered in this way, but never age Was & tragedy enacted at before had I used another man’s table, There were two te | money. it etgut, "A wines oe yi You Area Thief ghter's. The father kept|... Vl). I played along for quite a g his thin| While when suddenly I looked around UN ime and there stood my boss, For ike want out into 894 Worked ot Te ~ teenth street » As AN engraver & Carroll's Sherman, Clay & Co LION CLOTHING HOUSE Mad been indust © odin satura tbe Wow in at last acquired ic anedee ining et a sania 4 . He gr cina wi rine sear ‘inated with th 5 711 First Avenue, Seattle nv " - ‘nally + ll ogo he me Pe LS) In Poverty ent back to I » Dempaey & nor did he « again work r young wife struggled in FINE PANTS dee father ome sacteatenned creaming "PAINLESS DEN DENTAL be ast Bu sumer MNorthern to thie ear at the Ho ” The Real Painless Dentists Who Do Exactly as They Advertise. Hh Chiet Clerk ‘McRae ahont NO PAIN, no sleep-producing, These are the only DENTISTS in 4 rainy Weathar tent mala SEATTLE who use ABSOLUTE LY PAINLESS methods and ingredi Be woud fe Deople bax New York A Pair ents to EXTRACT, fill and apply gold crowns and porcelain crowns and ¥ ra the 2 un letectable from natural. pn sush for 9 t Wane THERE 18 NOTHING CHEAP os Stmospheric condition. that ABOUT OUR WORK BUT trumped up re MES 1 Higt T ; THE PRICE a 4 » ackin- ch ere Trousers, ‘ c a Ae oe who w rantne were ; il for $5.00, ALL ese rt te a Cen ter turned to McFtae $6.00 and $7.50 a pair, Pure No Students. ad von vn I left New York French Worsteds, in stripes, Full Set . Mara. jo they were having a checks and hair line New Yor, a Anke d if he fr See display in window. 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