Arizona silver belt., 1894-01-06
MEN WHO HAD LUCK.
STORIES CIRCULATED lNAeRouP OF
 TACOMA SPORTS.

Most of Them Were Told by Professional
 Gamblers and May or May Not Be True,
 but an Affidavit Is Required For the Yarn
 About the Gold Seeker.
 "Well, that was luck"
 The speaker was one of group of half . dozen men who were standing on Pa cifc avenue pufing away at Havanas and | talking just to pass time away and to clear their threats. The conversation had been about the livery stable man, Mar tin. of this city. who had fallen heir to $350, GOO three years ago and didn't find it out until few days ago.
 Talk about luck" said one of the group, who was gambler. "we see plenty of it. Do you know that one day last week man entered one of our gambling houses with nickel and won out 500 in three hours? He had gone clean busted the night before and found the nickel in an out of the way corner in his room the next morning.
 That blokie went to the gambling house with the intention of placing his 5 cent piece on the number B. He got into the room when the roulette ball was l whizzing around on its tour of numbers. l He rushed to the table and got down his nickel on the five just as the game run. ner shouted All dowup In a few sec onds the ball started on its rear end bouncing, and in few seconds more the man shouted 'Fivei That gave the man with the nickel Sl.75 for his cents. | Then he put Sl on No, IT, and that num- Der came up, giving him $35 more. He l continued to play with varying luck until in three hours he had won $400. And the next day he was broke again. He borrowed nickel and tried the game again, but it didn't go"
 ''l can tell story of man who was lucky, said business man. "In the early days of thegold excitementin in Cali fornia. there came into San Diego a man who was ragged and sick almost to death, He was taken in hand and fed and fixed up. Then he told story of a wonder 1 ful find of gold he had made. It was only few days of. he said, and be would take party to the place if they would outfit
 Several men who heard the story of the great gold in the mountains that was theirs to go after got up party of %. l The start was made with that man as leader. After | few days travel it be. came evident that the man had forgotten the way They travelled cn, trusting tc | luck, however. Indians were hostile al the time, and they started in to mow tho gold hunters. They picked of one after another with their bullets. A score wer, i thus taken of. Then a fever struck the l party, and Il moro went the way oi death
 By this time the 19 survivors wert crazy with rage They had been Ii day, out and were travelling in She most arid country. Food was growing less and less, and death faced everybody. On tn, l afternoon of the fourteenth day the lead CT, who had caused 50 much misery, wa, given three days more to find bis gold find If he was not successful by that time. he was 10 hang.
 Well, the three days had alnos | passed, and still there was no sign of tnt 1 find. The last hour was alaost g,, | 1 seemed that the man must harg. Ther, were ouly five minutes m5re, now tw, minutes. now one miaute, now hal minute-then caaic his luck, Just as th, time was up for the hanging that mar dropped doad,
 ''I dou'e see how he was lucky" put 1T the gambler who had told the first story
 ''Why," said the business man. "h, was lucky because if he hadn't died ht would have been hanged
 Another gambler told how few day. ago a green Swede who knew nothini about the game, but deteruined 10 tr1 his luck, had won nearly Slo00. If had been an onlooker once or twice an( seen big winnings. He went to the ron | lette wheel with $20, and in few hour he had won out $500, It seemed that Il, matter what number he put chips on- and he played racllessly, as all new play CTS do-it came up every time. Tha was puro luck. The man played no com binations or arrangements" because hi was as green as grass and knew nothing about the game.
 T have friend" spoke up one of tn group, who is connected with the cit, government, "who by the merest lucl made a discovery that is netting him mil lions. His name is Perkins, and a few years ago back in Minnesota he made hi l discovery. He was travelling man fo q grocery firm. and while walking to train to go from one country town to an other one day he whitfield . stick.
 He had whittled the stick in trian gular shape On the train the idea strucl him that the shape would be just wha was wanted for railroad spikes. Tn square spikes in vogue were not the righ thing because they split the grain of tn, | green ties when driven into them, ant when dry the wood shranS away iron them. The triangle shaped spike woul, not split the grain, and subsequen shrinkage would be done away with Perkins submitted his discovery to Pull man. and now the spikes are being mad by millions at Pullman, Ills, makini millions for Perkins and Pullman"
 Another gambler here chimed in witt tho statement that during the past weel l a gambler from Seattle had won $2 ,30t at faro in Tacoma rooms in two sittings Both sittings occupied 13 hours, and tn, first sitting resulted in the winning o S1 300 and the second $1 900. Durin, the latter game the man was out nearl, the whole $1 300 he had won at sittin, No. 1, but he picked up and won biz money. T suppose he has gone back t Seattle with his dough. said the gam bier, "as l have not seen him for somi days. ."-Tacoma News.