The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

prizes of I0OOO are 5000
Prizes Prizes Of sSSS are are. S SSSSS
dO0 prizes OF eO9 are---.-.>--....... S9,0UU
~ prizes OF 3O0 are eg.uyg /
The approximation prizes are as fol
lows:
100 prizes of 81 600, approximating
to $500, 600 prize, are 100000.
100 prizes of $500, approximating to
5000, 900 prize, are $4,000.
100 prizes of $500, approximating to
500, 600 prize, are $4,000.
THREE NUMBER TERMINALS.
80 prizes of $500, decided by $500. 600
prize, are $40, 200.
90 prizes of $400, deciced by 5000, 900
prize, are $50 800.
TWO NUMBER TERMINALS.
900 prizes of 500. decided by $780,
600 prize, are $500
800 prizes of $500. decided by 5000,
600 prize, are $3.50, 900.
And these are explained as follows:
The 800 approximation prizes are
awarded to the series of fifty numbers
on each side of the numbers drawing
the three largest prizes. For example
if ticket No. 81 ,246 draws the $600,0O0
prize, those tickets numbering from
81 1856 to 1926 inclusive, 600 in all
draws the $500, 900 prize. those tickets
numbered from 231, to 331 inclusive
will!be entitled to $500, and so on &C
cording to the above scheme.
Tickets drawing the capital prizes
are not entitled to terminal prizes.
A ticket drawing a three number ter
| minal prize will not be entitled to Il
| two number terminal prize.
| And herein is point that Is over
looked by many, viz: That they tail to
grasp the enormous amount of money
that is distributed in these mammoth
drawings. 1t will be seen that over g.
O00, 0G0, or to be explicit, 80, 11S 800 was
| distributed to-day by the Louisiana
State Lottery company, much larger
sum than ever before. But this, be it
remembered, was the first eXtraordina-
ry drawing in which the grand
capital prize was doubled, placing it at
$500, 900 in place of formerly at $780,
600. And perhaps it may not be in the
very far future when this great insti-
tuition will place the grand capital
prize at 81 100000 Suffice it, at the
semi-annual drawing during the COM
ing year it will remain as now-$6O0,-
900. With such a prospect in view,
| how futile to talk to men and tell them
lottery is a delusion and a snare.
Ninety-nine out of a possible hundred
are ever found to hug such deluSlon,
when it may possibly be embraced at SO
ms ignificant price.
While waiting for the appointed hour
to begin the drawing General Early, in
presence of General Beauregard, ex-
planned to me how the tickets were
counted by himself and his associate
commissioner, with the aid OF ouly
such assistants as selected by them
selves, from to 100, 900, and placed in
the gutta perch tubes described, th&
time consumed in doing SO being usual
ly from five to six days; how, also, the
prize numbers are so counted and SINH
larly encased, then placed in canvas
bags, tied with a-string and this string
wrapped with strong manila paper
on the inside of which the autographs
of General Early and General Beaure-
gard are placed, and then sealed with
wax. upon which the seal ''B and e. is
placed. When thus sealed up they are
placed in a strong box in one of the
company s vaults. and are not touched
by living soul until they are brought
out at the instance of the commission
ers on the day of the drawing to be con
veyed to Academy of Music.
} To describe the manner of draw.
ing may seem like work of superero
CATION to some of our readers, as it has
been so often described before, but
certainly there are some of your pat
rOnS, and without a doubt a certain
lady in Council bluffs. your across-the
little river cousin who " i'll be interest
} cd, tor Mrs. Sallie G.. WhittleseY, No. 81
North Seventh Street, Council Bluffs
was the fortune holder of ticket en-
: titling her to a share in the second
capital prize of $500, 600. Her letter
dated November 80, 1888, was writer
on the letter head of the Globe publish
ing company, Council Bluffs, and en-
closed So for five tickets (fortieths.
A truly. paying investment, for her
So 600 for IS. The Omaha Bee Ger
J tainly congratuiates her on her goot
! fortune.
Well, to the drawings: On ascend
t ing the stage / found placed on thu
= right and left, two wheels, the one OF
the left much larger than the one OF
I the right. 1t is drum shaped in its for
nation, about six feet in diameter anC
perhaps two to two and one-half fee
through, with glass heads, and the sur
z roundings wood. 1t rests on frame
: work so that it can readily be revolveC
0 by means of an iron crank attached II
0 the axle at each end. A door or open
ing is arranged in the side of the circu
l | lar woodwork, perhaps about foo
square, large enough to receive thu
e tickets. which are poured in from TIT
0 bags before mentioned. The smalle
] wheel is similarly constructed, the cir
: cular work being brass instead of wood
|
S ten bags containing the 10O, 900 tickets
e being placed upon the middle of thu
+ stage near the foot lights were care
g fully scrutiniZed by Generals Earl
;, and Beauregard before being emptieC
e into the wheel; then General Early be
g gan the work by breaking the seal. re
0 moving the MANILA wrapper and cut
t handed General Beauregard; noticed
S it was in three folds. and as he laid
{ aside | saw why he examined it 81
:. closely. On the inner fold was the au
: tograph of the two commissioners
q Each bag was thus scrutiniZed before
s being emptied into the big wheel. anC
S then the empty bag itself examined al
g infinitely, to see, as 1 learned, that NJ
: possible tampering had taken place. o
:, that a pin hole even was apparent
e where, by any possibility, a singh
ticket might have disappeared. Whel
y all ten bags had undergone the sam
a careful examination, and had been de
q posted in the big wheel, the bag con
y tanning the 84S prize tickets were ais
, placed in the small wheel, and the
each was rapidly revolved for som
/, minutes. back-and forth, so as to thoI
e oughly mix them up.
n These preliminaries were eagerl,
Il watched by the fifteen or sixteen hur
dred people in the academy, each on
l. wishing and praying that the goodies
II of fortune would favor them by throw
, ing their number under the hand @
d the blindfolded boy, who would pic
}. out the tube, bringing them wealt
/, and happiness. Among the audienc
s noticed many well and Fashionable,
] dressed ladies'. each with slip of pa
y per in front of them, anxiously wait
ing the hour when General Earll
Z, would open that. little door in tn
+ side of the wheel, behind which thei
e heart, of hearts was conferred for tn
time being. Gazing upon this specta
g Gle of ladies and gentlemen in from
t many of them being well known mem
: beTs of exchanges, merchants and pros
: narnIls business men I thnIIOhf tina