Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-08
PARKER's pECULuARrTIEs.
A Plain Statement of Tricks that
Are Vain.

Ned Parker is a character %well-known in
this section, and is withal a general favor
lite. We doubt if any man ever tried his
luck in Ned's lottery hat was not con
WINGED before investing his money that
there was a darkey in the woodpile. For
the general edification Of our readers we
publish the following from the Idaho
Avalanche:
Our Tuscarora readers will recollect the
visit of a corpulent gentleman TO that
town during the month of August. We
refer to Professor Parker. He was in the
habit of amusing the people after nightfall
by singing songs, telling funny stories and
! playing the baujo. Being very fluent with
the "gab" he attracted large crowds
around him. While engaged in this diver
sion he was also peddling steel pens, and
for every box thus disposed of the pur-
chaser was given a chance in a lottery,
with a prospect of drawing a prize Of 500
or less. There were many blanks, but oc-
casionally some one of the crowd would
make q successful draw and get his money
on the spot. A gentleman named Winnie
gar in this way drew a prize of 500 one
evening. He was the lucky cuss of the
crowd. We didn't hear Of anybody else
being so Fortunate. The Professor, who,
by the way, is a jolly, fat fellow, promised
us that he would visit Silver City soon, but
it seems he strayed of in the direction of
Montana. He was at Butte a few weeks
ago, and the Miner, after describing the
modus operandi of his enterprise, thus en-
lightens its readers :" OF course the ma
jority of his hearers knew very well that
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the drawing took place and the 500, $50
and S. were drawn by citizens OF the
place, supposed to be above suspicion,
it was hard to see where the
swindle came in, since the remaining tick
cts seemed to have their due proportion of
one dollar bills. But there was a swindle,
for all that, and what makes the matter
worse is that a miserable perambulating
blk could find citizens of Butte who were
willing TO aid him in fleeing their friends.
One prize, a $50 bill, was drawn by one Of
the boys who happened to be a little in
debt, and when his creditors heard of his
good fortune they were not slow in getting
around, each with his little bill. The
lucky man stood the racket for a little
while but finally he weakened, making a
confession which ran as follows The day
before the drawing he had been paid $40
by the Professor with the following under
standing: Five dollars he was to keep in
reward for his services; the other five to in
vest in tickets. One of the tickets was to
draw $50, which, according to agreement,
was to be returned to the lottery man. To
make a snre thing of guarding against mis-
takes the $50 envelope was given into the
hands of the accomplice, who showed it to
two or three Of his confidential friends be-
fore the drawing took place. AT night the
tickets were purchased as agreed upon and
the $50 envelope opened before the row
as an Indictment for them to purchase en-
velopes in which the worthy Professor was
careful to see that nothing above a one dol
lar bill was to be found. Now, this de-
scribes only one case of "capping." The
other gentlemen who drew 500, and $50
while Parker was here may have drawn
their money on the square. We will not
undertake TO say they did not.