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'Poker Alice' Cashes In at Age of 77 Years Rapid City, S. I)., Feb. 28.?Death, dealing from "a cold deck," flipped tin ace <?f spades for "Poker Alice" ITubbs yesterday. It was her admission card to the big game that is eternity. She was one of the last of a bizarre Loterie of hard living, straight-shooting men and women Who added the fcolor sometimes it was blood-red? |to the old West. "Deadwood Dick", I'Wild Bd!" Hiekock and "Calamity bane" were others. ' Poker Alice wore a gun, smoked cigars and could swear like a trooper; but in all of her years of life she dealt from the^>p of the deck. During a life as adventurous as any man's she gambled for high stakes "without a single betraying quiver of the hand as she dealt; without the ! twitch of a face muscle. Cold as the steel of the revolver she wore, sh? sat in unnum!bered thousands of high stake games. Yesterday she bucked a game that she?that nobody?could beat. Old age and complications following an operation for gall stones, were given by doctors as the cause of her death on a hospital bed. Poker Alice wjpj English born bu: American bred. And always the gambler. She started as a faro dealer. Sj successful was ?he, that soon she was knowi?, not just as a woma^ gambler, but as a winning gambler, man or woman. Colorado, Nevada, Montana, the Dakotas?wherever there was pay dirt and hom/bres with nerve enough to lay it against the turn of a card? Poker Alice was. She took $6,000 in one night's play at Silver City, N. Mex. It seems rather strange in retrospect, that Poker Alice, self-reliant, courageous and able to take cure of herself anywhere?should have had i time for love, yet she three times married. Her first 'husband was a mining engineer, Frank Duffield, then there came W. (J. Tubbs, a gambler J uho despite a wide reputation of his ; own, never could equal Poker Alice at ! the card table. Her third husband was | George lluckert, but when he died , Poker Alice resumed the name of,--her I second husband. Edwin P. Grosvenor, promin6nt j lawyer of New York, and prosecutor j of the night riders of Kentucky in l'J 10, a number of whom were convicted, died at his New York home Friday, aged 54 years. The grand jury of Fulton county, has returned indictments against twenty persons of Atlanta, Ga., in( eluding five councjlmen and aldermen i o ncharges of graft. The mayor and I other city officials were severely criticized by the grand jury. Steam Shovel Wpa Overloaded. Los Angeles, March 1.?-A steam shovel, it appears, cannot disappoint its public day after day without inviting gossip. This steam shovel sat in an excavation here. It toiled and puffed with ifi eat ado, attracting the attention of passers-by just like countless other hard-working steam shovels. In this case, however., there was something wrong with its technique. Kxpert steam shove) watchers observed that, while there didn't sem to he anything wrong with its stance or its putting, it didn't movo much more dirt than the average duffer with a good midiron. The police investigated Friday, arrested four men and reported finding a 1,000 gallon still hitched to the boiler. James Maker, 23, who says he has killed eleven man, was indicted by a New York grand jury Tuesday on a charge of having murdered Henry (Jaw, a night watchmun, in that city on December 27, 1928. 4 LIST OF CLAIMS PASSED BY! HOARD OF DIRECTORS, FKH. 4, 1930 C. A. Johnson, salaries and expenses $ r>23.70 CJyburn Motor Co., auto parts and repairs 21.20 Kershaw Grocery, supplies, meat ' 33.85 C. II. Trucsdale, lumber 21.19 The Peoples Meat Market, sup- I plies - 1.50 Dr. W. B. Turner; post mortem .25.00 i C. A. Croxton, 19 3-10 hu. corn.19.30 J R. C. Bennett, blaeksmth work..3.75] Ira B. Catoe, lumber 107.(54 Kcr.sh*wLumber Co., lumber.408.27 KersKavMMUjy t. & Bkg. Co.. supplies 331.95 Catoe Brothers, su-pplies 194.25 L. D. Hilton, lumber 8(59.55 J..M. Carson Co., tools, etc 2.85 C. R. Bowen, lumber 134.78 II. K. Munn, salary Road Supt. 125.00 J. W. Sowell, salaries and expenses, guards . 412.00 Laurens T. Mills, salary clerk and poor fund 300.00 W. M. West & Son, groceries (Mrs. Stone) 14.00 W. L,.'Mepowell, salary, commitpapers, repair work . . . .65.50 ,'B. MeClain, 200 lbs. carbide .13.00 G. B. DeBruhl or bearer, salary and expenses , . . 15!}.00 S. P. Watkins or bearer, salary and expenses 155.00 II. A. Rabon or bearer, salary and expenses 155.00 J. I,. Hough or bearer, salary and exipenses ..155.00 J. A. Thorn or bearer, salaries maintenance crew 362.50 S. W. Hogue, salary and stamps.80.38 M. H. Deal or bearer, salary bridge foreman .. . 125.00 Kathleen B. Watts or bearer, salary and postage 121.52 H. S. Higgina, trip to Lancaster for prisoner 6.60 J. W. Sowell or bearer, salary Supt. Chaingang 125.00 B. E. Sparrow or bearer, salary and stamps 78.39 S. W. Hogue, Treas., court vouchers, Renistrar Certificates and Highway coupons 370.61 Underwood Typewriter Co 107.50 McCaskill & Lollis, meat 14.20 McCaskill & Lollis, groceries.. 129.59 Arthur Clark, Underwood typewriter 75.00 Hirsch Brothers & Co., clothing supplies 19.00 J. R. West, 20 cords wood at $4.00 80.00 Lena M. Linoberger, salary Deputy Clerk 75.00 Welsh Motor Co.. auto supplies and garage rent .-23.70 Walter M. Jacobs or bearer, salary Janitor 40.00 G. F. Cooley, salary Deputy Sheriff 125.00 Myers Service Station, auto parts and supplies 19.02 J. H. McLeod, salaries self and jailer, jail fees, telephone bill expenses, etc 596.59 L. B. Ogburn, salary bridgekeeper 100.00 Williams' Insurance Agency, bond S. W. Rose 5.00 S. W. Rose, salary bridgekeeper 100.00 City of Camden W & L Dept., water and lights 31.50 Southern Bell T & T Co., telephone rental 43.65 Aussie West, salary bridgekeeper 100.00 Rhame Bros., Inc. hay', oats and collar pads 100.80 A. R. Collins, coffin for Geo. Tucker 10.00 Wolfe-Eichel Co., clothing supplies 29.03 ft. L. Schlosburg. one pair boots 4.50 I. K. Lee, Meat 57.85 VIcDowell Printing Co., stationery supplies f 21.50 Lewis Lomansky, clothing supplies 18.65 3ryant Fuel & Ice Co., 2 tons coal 18.50 J. C. Brannon, hay and corn..93.20 Teff Hunt Road Machinery Co., road machinery parts 276.24 iValker, Evans & Cogswell Co. 2 pencil sharpeners 10.17 fenkins Automotive Parts Service, auto parts & supplies ..80.60 dome Furnishing Co., blankets, mattresses, etc 110.00 lohn Whitakcr, hay and oats..194.49 Burns & Barrett, hardware supplies 180.00 standard Oil Co. of N. J. 90 gallons kerosene 12.54 Jaokey Mercantile Co., hardware supplies 10.41 ""nrolina Motor Co., Inc., .auto supplies and kerosene ...... 11.66 f. M. Moseley. salary Supt. of Distribution 60.00 Wassabonu Brothers, groceries anil meat 133.88 I. E. Munn or l^ar^r, drafts paid by Bank of >C<wmIen .. 1,723.86 fohn M. Villepigue & Co., coal..90.25 ^ion Institutions & Industries, office supplies ..,.12.35 L T. Horton, groceries 10.20 V. F. Russell, salary and stenographer fee .66.67 3. M. Smith or bearer, salary 1 I January ..., 75.00 ,S. W. Ilojuie, Treas., bonds and bond coupons 83,882.12 y<xgtv & DePass, durg supplies. 24.95' . wT(j. McDowell, D. D. S? dental work 3.00 IG. W. Monroe, plumbing work ! at Court House 28.26 [Carlile Courtenay Home, keeping five children'(Jan.) 50.00 j Camden Loan & Realty Co., renewal bond (L. B. Ogburn) ..5.00 : D. C. llinson, dental work (convict) 1.60 George 11. Mowers, K. W. and damages 100.00 S. W. Hogue, Trea#., bond coupons 1,233.80 S. W. Hogue, Treat*., bonds and bond interest 22,631.51 Total $118,683.01 L. T. MILLS, Clerk. Beautiful Bride's Cake at Niagara Fa H i I Iaiiis iruiuy concoction is not me work of a muster French chef, as might bo Imagined, tint was created by King Winter himself In one of that gentleman's inure inspUed moments. The richly decorated platform Is none other than the prosaic Iron and concrete stand from which honeymoon couples are wont to view the wonder's of Niagara falls The swirling torrents may he seen In the background together with one end of the famous suspension bridge. How Much Can I Save? Here is a wise young lady?she is not figuring how she is going to spend her money but HOW MUCH she can spare this pay day to put in our bank. There arelots of things she is going to need later on, and then there is her ''Hope Chest" and when the time comes that money will be available when needed most. Are you tucking money away in our bank regularly? You ought to. You know it. We welcome you. 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