The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27
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have Ia he examined.
"oONrz."
K~emsucky'. Only Legal Ganabling Gasne
and How 10 is Played.
The Crockford. Turf Exchange, and
other gambling palaces of this city, says
a Louisville letter to tho Cincinnati Conn
merciai Gazette, which were until
about four years x with all the noted
green cloth gentry of the west, have been
closed by law, and their elegant appoint
ments burned in the court house square
by the sheriff. The gamblers have bcen
scattered tn thc four winds; many were
made %pcnniless by enormous fines;
some languished for months i'm
Jail; Others fled to New Orleans,
San Francisco, Denver and other Ravens
of refuge, and u great number turned hon.
est and went to driving street-cars, or pa
trolling u beat as sworn detectives of the
law that had ruined them. The law and
order club, nm organization of
the leading business and professional men
of the city, and which had conducted the
crusade with SO much success, was dis
solved when the Legislature passed am act
supposed tn he so specific as well as gem
eral i'm it's character that no species of
gambling could thrive under its opera
The trainers of the bill. however, never
dreamed that the Kentucky passion for
sa,m %s , Of sn ;,n%,a would drag u; from the e
oontz, and il seems, according to an elab-
crate opinion just rendered by Judge Will
liam Jackson of the jefferson circuit
court that no provision for the punish
ment of it's dcvotecs was made i'm the
gambling act. The legislature, however,
had scarcely adjourned when nh oOntz
game was set up in one of the most fash
ionable quarters of the city, and in n year
Grafton in all parts of the city. The
growth of the game was SO rapid and the
vice became so widespread that the
Newspapers were forced tn begin - war
against it. and the light was kept up with
such persistence that Chief of Police
the games and report the names of the
proprictors tn the grand jury. Indict-
ments were returned about u month ago
with violating the gambling act of 1887.
A test WAS made of the case of Gus kam-
mcrer, AN ex-policeman, who runs n
dcmi-mondc quarter of the city. After a
lengthy trial Kammercr was dismissed,
the court holding that his ,oifense did not
result. about 100 games OF oontz are run
ming with full license, and the fascinating
where il promises to succeed progressive
euclre, whist, and the other intellectual
games II. OF upper snd"m ~, ,,,,;u. a..
game originated, il is said, ON the lcvec i'm
this city about thirty years ago. Ii was
first played by the negro roustabou,s. who
used To congrcgate in the notorious drink
ing dives that still flourish in that tough
annr,er OF the city. l, probably n9t its
o "S s"h w "tbsh tIe
Negro player utters when he casts the
dice and which is very n.uch like the
spsatins pr"fs-~ion"i. '" "sne %iaScu or
pair Of ivory cubes, upon each square of
to six. Amy number may play at the
game; Each player deposits with the
s~i" ks s,a r. or %ds boss" an equal stake,
The positions are determined by lot, the.
man who throws the highest number hav-
stakes: No. 1 takes the two dice between
ainssr-. and. shaking them wildly
same time "a succession OF wild cries,
sends them spinning into the center of the
table. IT they sculn scben" ar scum
'lcben"-that is. IL the sum of the dots ON
the u~ppcrnost faces of the dice are seven
or eleven he wins the .'Pot," or stake, and
less 10 or Is per cent. He is again entitled
to the first throw. the others contributing
until hs m;ss sms s Sr %iiu kn": ne Ss S".x,nuf +
upon the first throw he fails tn
throw the numbers seven or eleven
Der of his first throw being his point. and
he continues casting until he throws that
point, which entities him To the pot" or
until he throws the number ., when he
loses and the throw passes To the next
player. For instance. if. failing on the
Il he '~shoots'' again, and so ON until g is
made. when he wins. or until the result is
., and he must contribute to every pot
until the throw returns tn him. Frequent
ly the throw passes round several times,
each failure swelling the stake to several
times it's original value.
A great many of the points have indi
vidual names. rs for example. four is Lit
tie DOE" five is "Phebe" and Little Dick
six il "Darky hix." ten is "Big Dick
nine is Jo.-Ses -Joc.' the ace is 'Big Mig.
ger Black considered a very lucky point,
the deuce. also ~ lucky point. is big
Eyed Bess." the three-spot, n very unlucky
unbc is Dcbbilt The mum
bier of unique and idiotic expressions
used 10y the players is infinite and wary
with the individual anxiety of the players
Different From Dom.
He climbed IA long stairway i'm the BuhI