The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-18
IT IS A SKIN GAME
The Honduras Lottery" Is Said to
Be Related 10 "CrapS."
NO OUTSIDER EVER WINS
How the Scheme is Conducted
Before the Final Crash 1t Is Pro-
posed to Rake in All the
Money In Sight, and More.

There are many persons in Butte who
make monthly investments in tickets of
the Honduras lottery concern. which has
an agency in this city, who will be inter-
ested in the following from the Chicago
Tribune, as it may be the means of saw
ing them a good many hard-earned dol
lars:
"Once upon a time when a man bought
a ticket i'm the Louisiana lottery he had
some slight show of winning a few dol
lars. To-day he has absolutely none The
game now differs in no way from faro
game where the cards are dealt out of a
sure thing box or a crap game in which
the dice are loaded.
There was a time when the Louisiana
lottery was a square game, although the
odds against the man who bought the
ticket were something tremendous. Still
there was a chance, although extremely
slight of getting $4,000 for an investment
| of $40, and thousands of people every year
| took that chance. Then drawings were
| held every month in New Orleans and
| these drawings were honestly conducted,
Generals Beauregard and Early We're
| hired al a large salary to give the use of
| their names and regulations to the gift
| enterprise and j. A. Morris was presi-
dent. Now no drawings are held. A list of
winners is made out after the same
| fashion in which Bill Skakel arranges
| the quotations for the fictitious stocks he
deals in his grain and stock exchanges
] and good care is taken to see to 1t that
all the capital prizes are won by tickets
held by agents of the company or not sold
at all.
| What first called attention to the
! changed conditions under which the lot
! terry was being conducted was the fact
that Agent Moore. here in Chicago, has
recently been offering 60 per cent. com
mission to the sub-agents throughout the
city who dispose of the tickets for him. 1t
was evident enough no square game
could pay such commissions and live and
out of the inquiry resulting the truth
! gradually leaked out.
After John A. Morris gave up the pres
idency of the lottery A. M. Dauphin of
| New Orleans took charge. Then its char
| ter in Louisiana lapsed and could not be
renewed. and to make matters worse,
congress passed a law putting a heavy
penalty on express companies for hand
ling the mail of the company. All this
drove the lottery out of the United States
and 1t took refuge in Honduras, where
the sentiment of the country was not UNI
| friendly, with an office in Tampa Fla,
through which all the American business
was transacted. President Dauphin died
about this time and 1t was then the new
policy of the lottery was established.
THE claim Ii now makes is the draw
ings are held every two weeks in Hondu-
ras and the numbers of the winning tick
cts sent to Tampa, Fla, whence the mon
ey is distributed to the lucky holders. The
list of alleged winners is made up in
Tampa.
" 1t is just this way said well-knowr
Chicago gambler, who in the past has
been more or less identified with the lot.
terry. AS ii is run now, the Louisiana, or
as they call IL now, the Honduras, is the
surest of dead sure things. They stand
no chance to lose. Their idea is to take al
the money they can and give none of II
back. They recognize the fact they could
not run very long on the square with tn,
stringent laws now in force and so they
are trying for all the money in sight be
fore they have to close up for good
There was what they call a drawing las
Saturday and while thousands of dollars
worth of tickets for IL were sold i'm Chi
cago alone, not winning one was casheC
in.
" No drawings are held and they max,
out list of winning tickets to suit them
selves. There Is never an honest winner
on II. just the numbers of tickets which
have not been sold or those held by tn,
right people. II is like a skin faro game
where the capper gets so per cent. of al
the money the man he brings in loses, ex
cept here the commission is a little high
er. The Louisiana lottery is ended, and al
! there is left of IL is few people who ar
, gathering i'm all the coin they can pu
their hands on before the final smash"
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