in 1910, ivers opened “poker’s palace,” a saloon in fort meade, south dakota, which offered gambling and liquor downstairs, and prostitution upstairs. the saloon was always closed on sundays, due to iver’s religious beliefs. however, in 1913, some drunken soldiers disobeyed iver’s “no work on sunday” rule and started to get unruly, chaotic, and destructive of the house. it was then that ivers shot her gun, supposedly to quiet the soldiers down. the shot ended up killing one of the soldiers and injuring another, resulting in iver’s arrest, along with the arrest of six of her ‘girls’.