Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-12
CAPRlCI0US FORTUNE.
HOW THE TICKLE MISS FLlRTs WITH
THOSE WHO COURT HER.
The Great Majority of Gamblers Are I'm
fortunate-Big Winnings from Small
stnkes-A Fly Tenderfoot Who Bet
$4,000 on the Black.

fortunate-Big Winnings from Small
Stnkes-A Fly Tenderfoot who Bet
$4,000 on the Black.
"The caprices of chance or fortune,
whichever you may call it, are singular,
to say the least" remarked a well known
gambler to News man, in recounting his
ups and down at roulette, faro, poker
and various other games. mot long age
/ made a nice little winning ut faro, and
was cashing my checks, when a rather
seedy looking fellow, with a gaunt, hun.
CRY face, asked me to give him % cents.
/ didn't know him from a crow, but
having won out pretty well, | tossed
him a white check and told him to &c
and make a winning. What do you sup.
pose that duck done? He cashed the
check, took the quarter, strobe over to
the tub dice game, placed it on the six
rattle and won $45 the first turn of the
wheel. "Give me the money" he ex-
claimed, and away he went to get the
first square meal he had probably eaten
in a week. He might have made that
same play a hundred times again and
lost every bet, but ONE people can fall
into the river and they'll come up with a
fish in both hands,"
"A CONSULTATION NECESSARY.
"That reminds me-" said another
knight of the cloth, ''of an incident that
came under my observation last week at
a gambling house on Sixteenth street.
A fly tenderfoot from the east, who, it is
said, had won SEQ, 900 on election, saun-
tered up to the wheel and asked the
dealer the limit on the colors,
ANY amount you want to stake
was the reply.
IAN right; there's $4,000 said the
sport, putting ten $500 bills on the black.
Just flip the ball and see what she'll do
coolly chirruped the fellow.
THE dealer, who had picked the ball
looked at the money, sized up the player
to see if he was blufing and had q cable
tied to it, and seeing the fellow meant
business and had q big wad left, wilted
and refused to roll. By this time fifty
people had gathered around the table,
those on the outside craning their necks
over the shoulders of those in front Of
the daring stranger, who, with the ut
most sang froid, drew q cigar from his
pocket, asked the dealer for a match,
carelessly scratched it on his pants,
lighted the cigar and looking impatiently
at the dealer, remarked:
go ahead; win or lose. Give us a
roll and see what my luck is today
"The dealer still refused to turn, and
the fellow was about to take up his
money and leave when the proprietor
came over, and after a little meditation
told the dealer to roll the ball and he
would pay the bet If he lost. The little
ivory ball was sent spinning around, and
after making ten or twelve circuits
struck the pockets, skipped over the
metal edges, and finally, after bobbing
first into n and then another. dropped
in three In the odd red. The house had
won the money. The stranger shook the
game, bought $1,000 worth of chips and
tackled faro with Indifferent success.
Another well known gambler bor-
;;o%sdd s iieeee Of "a FRIEND, and sat in o game
OF faro on Holiday street. Before /
o'clock he had won Ss,400, broke the
bank, and would have won the proprie-
tor and dealer had they not closed ND
and jumped the game. Two days later
this same gambler didn't have a dollar,
but the following night he borrowed $50
and won IS, 100"
A CHANGE IN TIME.
"Fhe funniest play ! ever witnessed,
came up the other night" Clipped in a
third party. "a young fellow whose APP
pearance was suggestive Of q railroad
fireman or brakeman boughtS10 worth
hour he had lost S65. He was consider
ably discouraged. and was about to leave
when he turned to the dealer and said:
You can't beat me for S. on the colors.'
He had so cents worthof chips left from
previous deals, and, throwing a So cold
piece on the red, he straddled the double
and single Os with the chips in order to
protect himself against the percentage.
The ball Went spinning around and had
made several circuits when the fellow
switched gold piece to the single o and
transferred the chips to the red. In ten
seconds the ball dropped and caught the
single O. He lost 90 cents In chips and
won SITE off the S.. He exercised a
whole lot CT n then, for he cashed in
and got away with the money!"
However" s~oliloquized the sport,
gambling don't pay. In the instances
stated the parties won by a scratch. but
fifty others lost. These rare winnings
remind me Of the freaks of fortune IN
the gold mines Of California. Every
body heard Of the Floods, O'Briens.
sMackeys, and G. few more fortunates, but
the world never stopped to think of the
thousands upon thousands who lost.
Most Of the money which supports
the ten or fifteen gambling houses
IN Denver is won from poor laborers,
who take $40 OF SIS, the earnings
q q whole week, and try to win a
fortune. The amount they draw is not
enough to protect them. They simply
play their money against the thousands
OF the bank, and they are bound to lose
In the end. Occasionally some fellow
makes a winning, but, il he stays long
enough, 1t will break him. The only
mes who make money out Of gambling
are the proprietors Of the houses. It Is
Q costly amusement for the PLAYERS.
They rustic around for &week or month.
earn $40 Or $40, as the case may be, and
lose II. They might as well march up
sure to gobble it In . few hours.n-Den-
yer News.