The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09


\ Every person who contrives, 2
= prepares, sets up, proposes, or
= draws any lottery, is guilty of a y
= misdemeanor.
y Every person who sells, gives \
= or. in any manner whatever, fur =
= nishes or transfers to or for any
= other person any ticket, chance, =
= share or interest, or any paper,
y certificate or interest purporting =
= or understood to be or to repre-
= sent any ticket, chance, share or
y interest Ia, or depending upon the y
= event of any lottery, is guilty of a =
4 misdemeanor. Revised statutes 4
y OF Utah.
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It is a popularity of policy men and
the sporting fraternity in general that
they will take no mans word; an as
sertion has to be proved before they
will accept it as true. They may be
told that it is unlawful to run lottery
or policy shop but only when the police
stop them from operating will they be-
lieve it-and the police don't stop
them.
There are any number of people in
half-fed in order to invest in gigs"
''horses," saddles" and spiders at
the policy shops. Sometimes they win
a few dollars and enjoy a round of
square meals, but the policy man gets
it all back again in the end, with a
substantial addition.
TWO DRAWINGS DAILY.
Twice each day the drawings are
held here. They are supposed to be
held in Pueblo, or some town outside
of the state. but that is fiction that
deceives nobody, not even the police.
AS a. matter of fact, they are held IN
a building back of the Mint saloon. 1t
opens on the alley Between Second and
Third South, and While admission IS
denied the general public, it is not hard
to obtain by the initiated. Every morn
ing at IL o'clock and every afternoon at
o'clock the wheel is turned and the
twelve lucky numbers drawn out The
main Office of Baldwin and the others
who run the business is in the basement
of building on State street, opposite
the Knutsford hotel. 1t was moved
tn, not long ago from rooms over the
Mint saloon on Second South street.
TICKETS ARE CHEAP.
Anybody can buy policy ticket who
has five cents, which is cheap enough,
the city. One writer holds out in a
room in the rear of the Comstock sa-
loon: another can be found by inquiry
at the Jubilee saloon on Commercial
street, and another in a negro barber
shop on the same street, and there are
others in various parts of the city. They
are most numerous, here as elsewhere
in the localities haunted by the weak
the foolish and the criminal, for those
classes are superstitious, and policy
thriVes on that Its most inveterate
players are women of the half-world
and negroes. The women come and
play the numbers called for and the
negroes play because it's bred in the
bone; the others, the desperately poor,
because they are poor and desperate,
and the weak, because they are weak
and superstitious There are a few of a
better class who play a fixed sum every
day, year in and year out, and play a
system that would puzzle a lawyer to
understand, who may be said to be
even with the game" in that they do
not miss their losses.
POLICY GAME DESCRIBED.
Just a word about policy and the way
it is played. Policy is a lottery-with
additions. The controlling men of the
old Louisiana state lottery were sup
posed to be pupils of the devil; the
man VINO invented policy Is his master.
As played here. seventy-eight numbers.
running from 1 to rs, are placed in a
wheel, and then twelve of these num-
bers are drawn out. Those twelve
numbers win-sometimes, and some
times they Ont-so that gives the OPP
erative a pretty little percentage to
start with.
Printed herewith is the exact repro
duction of ticket sold yesterday.