Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-17
THE LID WAS PUT ' ON IN DEADWOOD
 Gambling a Thing of the PdSt in Black Hills Metropolis ''''. al
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 The folks that don't betieve the world is gettipg hetter ought % drep in on little old Deadwood one of these days" said Peter English. sold-time gambler and faro 'deaiers,sas he came out of a ticket brokeris cfhce, where he had been oo proe tfansportation ] 10 Denver. For the first time since l have been in the hills the proprie- tors Of the luck mills have been scurrying around trying to find the keys to their, front doerss The lid IS on all right. and I guess we'll have 10 move on"
 This summarizes the situation in DeadwOod today, so-.faEr as j l. Yelates open gambling has IbeRn tie rtle in open gambling has beeR tie rule in this city. Six big and four little joints have been wide open, each class ca tering to a certain element of the pepulatiDn. II BSha ha. hD, .F,z, Deadwood was one of the first gold campsiih the hilIHtafter thesexcitement of 1876 and 1877 got under way. Life was held very cheaply then, and the stable government was long time in coming. Now committee of citizens and the stateasf attorney have cohe 70 the cOncmsioh thstl opeu sanibitng is a bad thing for business as well as morals, and they have bolted the lid down. They notified the gamblers that their limit had expired, and they were, told ia shut, up and ,moE,e on It was a big surprise all around.
 Parker.Sdhe stats's EattorneS, 7, is a4. old westerner. He came here in the staging days, and was one of the law yers who defended the freighters in the dark days of the bullwhackers' strike in the early eighties. He has lived here for twenty-five years.
 T~I closed ui3 theujoin1s, , he 1sRys, mot because of any wave of public sentiment or 1ecause they were get ting too much of thef wealth. simply came. to the conclusion that the town had passed the miHfhg town stage and it was time to move upaAto the de cent city class"
 Gambling has been a public institu- tion for so long that the order to close came as a distinct shock. More than 5000 a month revenue was received by the city for the joint licenses, and Ihis sum paid a considerable portion of the tax budget. Seventy-eight pro- DofrtaTzgI' FaallidI waFel+s. sMere employed inj fie plseasssss and most of them moved to Denver, where the lid IS tilted a little. y7sjfI' @Tuv 2
 DeadwOod is a city of about 5000 people It is situated just where a narrow gorge in the hills widens little and it's houses mostly cling to the sides of the steep hills. Down it's center runs ! a bawIing mountain stream. Out Of the hills all about gold is still being dug. More than half the men in town still work in the mines and the cyanide Imillsfand chlorfnation works. The rest live on
 The open arm polcg&tO@ar gam bling resulted in some curious mix ups g1'Fhe gambling aaea, and the dry goods store. the grocery and the faro layout were to be found next door to one another in the main street. One vas regarded as much legitimate in- stitution as the other The only diff ference was that the dry goods store and the Ercceryf closedeup Sundays. There was no attemptsto conceal tlle character of the business going on The window blinds were up and the doors open, and he who passed might know. sssE.
 One. man in every twenty in the town is a Chinese. 70 Some of them work in the mines, 8 few run laundries and others officiate as cooks. They were all inveteratetgaLnb bleTs.S and. they are now the most discOnsolate fellows Tn town. FRntSn Was open to them, but they generally passed 1t up for poker fare.-- -has-loRg been a story here that the Chinks were nearly all employed by. a. company that financed them a Salary and a share when they, won, which they did more often than they lost. To 'get paid for playing poker was a thing that made them the envy of not a few white, men.
 Deadwood has been the scene oi many a big game. It is just on the edge of the hills, and fthe eattiemen from the country to the north men who have money enough to buy up a town or two and stiQ have capital left 70 start 9 baIik2-7often dropped in and they boosted things 10 tie limit Some times, they broke the bank; 0fteuei they. went broke themselves. Only one rule was laid down for the gam bier in recent yearS-That- was that all games must be on the square. The dealer was entitled to fhis percentage but no more If he tried to ruE brace or deal crooked the place was closed and stayed closed.