Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1905-04-13
GAMING WAR IN RENO
The Up stairs and Downstairs Gam
| biers will Lock Horns at the Polls


The Up stairs and Downstairs Gam
blers will Lock Horns at the Polls
The coming municipal election N
Reno has resolved Itself into battle
tetween the up-stair and the down
stairs gamblers and all other issues
are relegated to the back ground. It I
promises to be the hottest municipie I
election ever known in Reno and the
emit community have to range them
se'ves on one side or the other.
The Reno Gazette thus sums up the
situa ton:
Tire ordinances regulating gambling
in the city of Reno viii be placed BE-.
fore the voters at the coming city
election. One was introduced last
night at the meeting CT the City
Council by E. L. Bingham and the
other two were filed this morning
with the city clerk by the Good
Citizens Lee que, an organization CON-
posed of B. +. Curler, r. L. Fulton.
Sardis Sum- .erfield. G. L. Mears AMI
others. The ordinances Of the latter
organization were drawn as the result
Of the discussion that began at the
session CT the Reno Young Mems Clue
several weeks ago and have been
largely signed by professional men
and citizens of the residence portions
Of TIE city.
The ordinances Of the League make
no distinction between downstairs and
upstairs gambling, the license fees
being uniform One of them however
strikes at gam bling games carried on
in saloons, it's provisions being that
no game of chance shall be carried on
in any room or building where liquor
is sold unless such room is separated
by another room CT certain dimensions
and construction from the room where
such liquors are sold.
The ordinance filed at the session OF
the COuICll ldSt SNSHihS ny AuA. hi"to
ham provides that gambling games
carried on in upstairs rooms shall be
charged a license fee of $3.50 for the
first quarter and SIS for each succeed
ing quarter This ordinance is ex-
pected to raise the old issue of up
stairs and downstairs gambling and
perhaps divide the vote that was ex
pected to be case in favor of the ordi
nances prepared by the Good Citizens
League. 1t is also a serious question
with the three ordinances in the field
if any Of them can be carried. The
Bingham ordinance makes the license
fer downstairs gambling $500 per gains
for the first quarter and 5000 for eact
succeeding quarter. If this passes the
: upstairs men will have scored agains
, their Donents. 1t is possible tina
the ORD nances segregating saloons
and gambling games will win but i
the other two should carry both wOul,
$ he invalid for the reason that they ar
]. conflicting. 1t is also possible tina
+ through division of opinion. in tn
ranks of those W desire that gam
bling games should be required to pa
a higher license that neither will re
= ceive a majority Of the votes cast b.
: persons voting thereon.
i At present gambling games ar
s licensed by the county and city a
5, the following rates: County license
e First quarter, per game, $500; eac
:. succeeding quarter 1925. City licens
$50 per quarter.
1t is rumored that if the down staii
gamblers lose the fight they will forl
a syndicate, headed by DOlph Shan
and buy the old pavilion in this ci,
and open the most palatial gam lir
resort in the west, making vertib
Monte Carlo of it.
The Appeal can state on behalf
IS the people of this city that the citizel
rs of this city don't want any such :
establishment inside the c ~ limits.
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