The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-31
1t WAS NOR KILLED.
The Louisiana Octopus Is Now
FIourishing in Florida.

Jacksonville, Jan SO.-The Florida
Citizen will publish tomorrow morning
a page of matter, purporting to be an
expose of the establishment in Florida
Iof the Louisiana state lottery. The
Citizen will say:
1.-THE Louisiana. State Lottery COM
pany expelled from New Orleans ON
December 81 last, has transferred lis
headquarters to Port Tampa City,
this state The gambling institution
which, for twenty-five years, has been
drawing from the American people St.
nearly so per cent. of the money, is
NOW in full operation on our soil under
the name of the Honduras National
Lottery company, 1t pretended to re-
move to Honduras, but its main Of
Ulcers are in Port Tampa City. There
Its tickets and advertisements are
printed and the money received from
patrons; from that place the lists
drawing the tickets and the literature
i are sent out and prizes paid. The
| lottery designs toe make this state
its permanent home. The change in
the lottery laws enacted by the legis-
llature at the. last session makes its
existence permissible here. The re-
suit of an investigation carried on for
several weeks by members of the Citl-
zen's staff will be a disagreeable sur
prise to the citizens of this state and
the whole country"
at was believed continues the
Citizen, that when the lottery was
| driven out of New Orleans, 1t would
never again secure a footing on Ameri-
! can soil a charter was secured from
| the government of Honduras, the land
was purchased at Puerto Cortez, a
small town near the northeast coast.
and an office building. was erected; but
while this was being done to arrest
suspicion from its plans. a, much holder
scheme had been determined upon.
Agents were sent to Florida, and a
tract of land bought at Port Tampa
small village near the head of
Tampa bay, $50 miles southwest of
Jacksonville. Here a large brick build
| ing. $50 feet long and As feet wide
has been built and equipped
with a costly plant for printing the
lottery tickets and the literature A
portion of the building is fitted up for
Offices and occupied ostensibly by the
Central America Express, but in
reality by the employees of the lot
terry. A Citizen reporter remained for
a week at Port Tampa, became ac-
quainted with the lottery employees
anu lSdiucu Llldl Wlllie the monthly
drawings We're to be conducted in Hon
duras, all the rest of the business
would be carried on in this state
Among other officials of the lottery
the reporter met j. H. Morris, of New
York city, who frankly admitted the
nature of the business in which the
Central American Express was en-
Gagged, and said that he expected ii
would be permanently located in Port
Tampa city.
ION Jan. 16, the steamer Breakwater
chartered by the lottery, arrived al
Port Tampa, bringing President Pau
Conrad, Manager Davis and Commits
lsioner General W. L. Cabell an6
Colonel Where. They brought witt
them the plates of a number of win
ming prizes and several hundred thou
sand copies of prize lists were at once
struck off. The Citizen reporter ac
lcompanied the commissioners to New
lOrleans, and learned from them tina
mo pretense was made to keep al
office staff in Honduras, but in reality
all business of the lottery, except tn,
mere formal monthly drawing, would
be carried on in this state"