The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-02-01
NOT YET OUTLAwED
The Lottery Crowa stn Doing Businsss in
This Country.


This Country.
JAoKs0symLr, Jan. 3l.-1he Fisrida Git
zen will publish to morrow morning psge
Of matter purporting 90 10 an EXPOSE q
the eatabliehmsnt in Florida Of the Louis
iana state lottery. The Citizen will say
The Louiaiana State Lottery company. eH-
pelled from New Orleans. Dec. 81 last hes
transferred lie headquartef 90 Port Tampa
CITY, this state. The gambling Institution
which for twenty five years has been draw
ing from the American people from siH %
ten millions dollafa. and retaining nearly
nfty pef cent of she moneT. ~ now ia iull
operation on our soil, under the name OF /
the Honduras National Lottery company.
10 pretended % remove 90 Honduras. but
its main Offices are in Port Tampa City
There ita tickets and Embellishments are
printed and money received from patrons.
From that place ita lists OF drawings.
tickets and Literature are sent out ana
prizes paid.
The lottery designs 70 make this stats
ita permanent home. The change ia the
lottery laws Of tho state, enacted BY she
Legislature ~ the last session, makes -
existence here permisaable The result of
On invsatigstion. carried on for several
weeks By member OF the Citizen stan.
will DO disagreeable surpriss O. the citi.
z8ns Of this state and tbs whole countrY.'
1T vas believed" continues the CITIZEN.
shat when the lottery vas driven out a.
New Orleans 70 would never again secure
footing on American soil. charter was
secured from the government % Honduras,
lard purchased ~ Puerto COFtfZ. "a small
town near the northeast coast, and an Office
building erected. Bot while this was being
done TO arrest suspicion from its plans a
much bolder scheme had been determined
upon. Agents We sent 10 Flor q and
tract Of land bought az Port ampn City.
small village near the head of Tampa bay,
20 miles southwest % Jacksonville. Here
large brick building $50 feet long and
forty-hvs feet vide VAS built and equip ei
with a costly plant for printing lottery
tickets and literature portion Of the
building was fitted mp for Offices and Oocu-
pied ostsnsibly by the Central America TX
press com pany but in reality by employees
OF the lottery"
Citizen repo ter remained for a week Rt
Port Tampa, became acquainted with the
lottery employees, aud learned that. while
the monthly drawings were to be con-
Quoted in Honduras. all the rest Of the
business would be carried on in this state.
Among other officials Of ths lottery the
reporter met J. II. Morris. OF New York
city who frankly Omitted the nAtars of
the business in which the Central Amerioa
Express comrany ia engaged. and said that
he expected j. weuld be permantly located
ia Port Tampa City.
Jan. l6 the steamer BFeakwater, char
tered by the lottery, arrived % POu Tam
pc. bringing = iesident Paul Conrad, Mana
ager Davis and Commissioners General W.
l.. Cabell und Col. Nillere. They brought
with them plates OF the numbers winning
prizes. and several hundred thousand
copies OF prize lists we're At once struck OF.
The Citizen reporter accompanied she com
missioners to New Orleans and learned
from them that no pretense was made of
keeping an Office staff in Honduras. bat In
reality all the business OF the lottery ex-
cspt the mere formal monthly drawing Is
carried on in this state.