Great Falls tribune. [volume], April 16, 1887, Image 7

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A GAME SAVAGE. .
He Plays Poker Until He Hasn't a Rag
Left.
A few days ago, says the Carson Appeld,
some Indians were playing poker in a va
cant lot, when suddenly the best dressed
of the crowd rose up and took off a shin
ing broadcloth coat, that only a week te
fore was presented him by Jewett Adams.
He laid the coat down on the old card
blanket with a great flourish and called
vociferious for a new deal.
The deal went round and his opponent,
who was an old Washoe squaw; laid down
a greasy ace on his king. He then rose
up with a loud oath and peeled off a vest,
presented him last Thursday by the editor
of the Appeal, as a spring benevolence.
The deal went round again and once more
the old squaw terminated the play with an
ace. Again the buck rose up, and, after
invoking the blazing sun, hauled off a
white Shirt; somewhat the worse for wear,
presented him by Bob Keating during the
pendency of the Lottery bill.
Once more the cards were flipped over
the old horse blanket, and that ineyitable
ace was laid down by the skinney-handed
squaw amid a shout of triumph from the
crowd.
The buck, with the' ancestorial vim of
the Washoe tribe flashing in his eye, danc
ed out, and, pulling off Judge Hawley's
pants flourished them in mid air and
stacked them on the turn of the next card.
Amid a murmur of condoling voices he
lost again, and this time pulled off anoth
er pair of pants, the birthday gift of H. 3I.
Terington, on election day.
Again the cards were artistically com
ingled and the old fossil relic of the Win
nemucca war took in the clothes. He still
had an old pair of pants left, a Valentine
present from Joe Douglass, and well worn.
Amid a breathless silence he lost, and,
pealing off his only remaining pants, he
did them up in a small wad and threw
them at the squaw's head. A howl of ab
original laughter went up, and the.squaw
motioning toward the breech-cloth,.began
manipulating the cards. But the buck,.
who still had some living remnants of ac
climated modesty, declined to further de
nude himself, and breaking from the
crowd, ran like a cross-eyed gazzelle up
the street, causing much astonishment to
many households along the line of his
flight. Then the old squaw placed the ar
tic'es of clothing, one by one, upon the
body of her husband, who immediately
began to strut around the ring like a bre
vet lord of creation.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
FProm Ourl Rey ?Ibr UCorrespodent.
W.XaSHIxCTOx, April 1, 1887.
The voice of an auctioneer rang out from
the pulpit of the Metropolitan M. E.
church a few evenings ago, while the pas
tor Rev. Dr. Newman occupied a prace on
the floor. It was the annual sale of pews.
The first choice was knocked off to a gen
tleman who was acting as agent for Sena
tor Stanford, the California millionaire,
and the latter will pay $130 for the privil
ego of using it during the coming year.
The annual rental of the pew is >i100
and the -l0 was the premium paid for the
first choice.
Two other statesmen, Senator Sawyer
and Representative West, took sittings in
this church, which is the same that Gen.
(Gr;ant attended here during all of the
eight years that he occupied the White
House. About twenty-five of the most de
sirable pews are exempted from the an
nual auction, becauge they were sold out
right originally and perpetual deeds were
given to the purchasers, who are required
to pay only half the-yearly rental charged
for other pews in the same localities.
There was a great interest in this hand
some church just after it was erected more
than twenty years ago. One pew was then
purchased by General Berry, of Baltimore
for $.5,000 for the use of President John
son. The latter was not a member of the
Metropolitan church, but the General was
an admirer of Mr. Johnson's policy, and
wanted to do something to testify his ap
proval, while the president expressed his
appreciation of the courtesy by occasion
ally occupying the pew.
The secretary of war and the comman
der-in-chief of the artfy have never seem
ed to be in harmony and conflicts of au
thority between them are becoming coinm
mon ocmrences. While secretary Endi
cott was away a short time since, several
adjutant appointments were made by
colonels, with the approval of Gen. Sheri
dan, of lieutenants serving with light bat
teries. The secretary thought that the
adjutants should be selected from among
the lieutenants doing actual service with
their regiments, in justice to the officers
of the regiments. An order was forth
with issued to this effect,and the objection
able appointments were revoked. Gen.
Sheridan was out west at the time. No
correspondence has taken place between
the two officers, and probably noned -will,
but it all goes to show that they :do not
work well together in-administering the
affairs of the army.
Speaking of Gen. Sheridan reminds me
of the lecturer-not "Little Phil". the I
lieutenant general, but General Geo. A.
Sheridan, who on Wednesday evening, at
the Congregational church in this city,took
the platform to refute the dogmas ot that
moral anarchist, Col. Bob Ingersoll. Wit,
sarcasm, invective, pathos and eloquence
were brought into play with a force and
effect that provoked laughter and tears
alternately.
"The Modern Pagan" was .he. lectqrer's
subject, and he opened with a tribulte to
the fascinating personality of Col. Inger
soll, who, he said, was a fine domestic
character,a staunch friend, a loyal citizen,
a brilliant lawyer, a wonderful orator,
charming by the splendor of his rhetoric
and the beauty of his imagination, but
who, when he approaches the subject of
religion, drops the mantle of his genial
personality and becomes the loudest of
boasters and the most abject of intellect
ual cowards.
One of the hardest blows dealt the dis
tinguished Pagan was through a quota
tion from one of his own lectures. "The
concurrent judgment of mankind," said
the General, "is that their belief in God is
the foundation of all truth, and that a
man will not call upon his Creator to bear
witness to a falsehood. Col. Ingersoll
takes another view of it. He 'thanks
Mother Nature that she has planted suf
ficient ingenuity in the brain of a child to
throw up against the violence of a brutal
parent the little breastwork of a lie.' "
Speaking of the growth of this country
and its institutions, of which Col. Inger
soll is one of the beneficaries, Gen. Sheri
dan said: "The history of America is
simply a grand poem, sounding in im
mortal numbers the praises of Christianity.
The country was discovered by Christians,
settled by Christians, Christians declared
its independence, fought the battles-which
established it, formed its institutions, and
gave it its universities and hospitals and
homes"-and all else that is good.
The Anaconda and Freight Rates.
The past month the Anaconda company
have made their largest run in the history
of the works, everything moving along
with clock-like regularity. The output
has been the largest since the works were
inaugurated. The shipments have all been
made over the Northern Pacific, as the
cars can go straight through to Baltimore.
It was surmised that upon the Inter-State
Commerce bill going into effect, and the
changing of through rates which would
necessarily follow, that it would have a
tendency to stop shipments for a time.
We are therefore doubly pleased to make
the announcement that information has
been received, that a reduction in the
freight rates of the three different grades
of Montana matte will soon be made, and
that the reduction is understood to be
about $2.50 per ton. If this should prove
true, the Anaconda company, by reason of
their recent. improvements which lessen
the cost of production of copper, and the
prospect to obtain coal from either the
Rocky Fork or the Sand Coulee mines on
the Montana Central, make it very evident
that the Lake companies in the East have
now a rival that can produce copper at an
even less price than they can there. This
is good news for the mining district of
Montana.-Reriercr.
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