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'\the high card, Lee watt 1•*ve* ra direful with his money I and hesitated a long time Him! had never gambled, Finally in j ■meaty desperation he partedVwith hih coin and to bin flrnaic-! 1 mont he won $1,50. He quit the game winner then and there and hasn't gambled since. Thener/oiis strain of taking aM chance w an almost too much for lt;him. I*When the panic of 1907 wascoming* L«c sold a hand ofsheep for $53*000* The buyer || gave hi* check on Hill Thompson's bunk in Pendleton, Thepanic hit* Bill also is n careful man with money, and he got 1 busy protecting his bank from I every possible contingency of Ixlram. lie got bold of rath big Idepositor and found out how much he would need and how much money he would leave inthe bank. Among the big depositor* was the tthrep buyer, to whose credit was $51,000. But the buyer insisted he only had on rie(Mait flJNK), H«j checked up his account with I blt;*M»|.xou, and found that Lee's check for fWl.UOO had not beenpresented. And it didn't canie in for weeks. L'Vs explanation was original. ’*1 smelt a put if,” he told Iht* sheep buyer, ''and i thought J would hang on* to this check until it was over, far I knew Bill Thompson nvid ia knew I was taking no chances/* He didn't lose tincheck He carried it next to insunderclothes.Lee was in Portland the,illt.tr 11! i V I I.* . t f uj »t |y Ik tfl.i fie
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Portland Saint Johns Review
Portland, Oregon, US
Fri, Mar 22, 1918
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