Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-13
FIND A LOTTERY.
Secret Service Agents Raid Cal
ifornia Guarantee Loan
& Trust Co.
DID BUSINESS At CHICAGO
Officers Arrested and Attempt will Be
Made to Prosecute Express Com
panies as Confederates.

Chicago, Nov. I'D. ]. Jones, the
accredited head of the old reliable
Guaranty Trust company, an alleged
lottery enterprise, waived examination
today in the federal court on the
charge of operating lottery. He
was held to the grand jury in bonds
of $4,000.
Place is RaIded.
Chicago. Nov. 13-The biggest lo:-
terry in operation in the United States,
which has been running for more than
20 years with headquarters in Chicago,
was exposed last night by arrests in
this city and other cities of the coun-
try. The United States secret service
men claim that the promoters of the
scheme have made millions of dollars
and that there are big men behind Z
who will be reached through the pros
ecution of the men now under arrest.
Under the name of the California
Guarantee Loan & Trust company the
lottery maintained luxuriously furnish
ed offices at 225 Dearborn street, III
Washington street and II Sherman
street, and large printing establish
ment known as the w. H. Founteir
Printing company at 2G Randolph
street.
Manager Lives In Style.
d. H. Jones, alias of d. H. Kissmar,
who has lived in very expensive style
at the Great Northern hotel and is
well known about the city, was ar
rested as the head of the concern.
He has been in active charge of the
concern since its inception in 1885, and
is said by the secret service men to
have acted as the representative ana
go-between of the men higher up. He
has also grown wealthy out of the
profits of the concern.
John E. Miner of w. Miner & Co.,
was arrested as a partner of the con-
cern. Warrants were issued for Miss
Cora Green, 6627 Champlain avenue,
the confidential secretary of Jones,
and Walter Schimbky, bookkeeper at
the local headquarters.
George E. Geisler, the ST. Louis
agent of the concern, was arrested II
that city, and a large number Of lot
terry tickets and records confiscated.
Frank Falker, agent at Fort Wayne,
was arrested by Agent Donaghy
Charles and Royal Hammer were ar
rested at Indianapolis by Agent Kliu-
Ike, and John T. Markland was arrested
at McKeesport, Pa. All were held
under heavy bonds.
Two Hundred Arrests are Promised.
The secret service men. from the
records that they have obtained, ex-
pect to make more than 200 arrests in
various cities of the country.
An attempt will also be made to in
volve the express companies all ov ,r
the country as agents or accomplices
under the federal act of 1895, forbia-
ding the operation of lotteries, as it is
believed that they handled the busi-
ness of the company with the knowi-
edge that it was lottery scheme in
violation of the law
Commissioner Foote early this mora
ing held Jones without bail. Miner
was held in $4,000 bail and Miss Greal
in $500 BAIL
Under. its various names the lottery
has been conducted on the regular
lottery scheme, except that the prizes
have been all out of proportion to the
receipts and the commissions have
been very heavy, putting hundreds If
thousands of dollars into the pockets
of the promoters yearly. 1t is believ ID
that even with the heavy percentag. /.
in their favor the managers Of the los-
terry company did not live up to their
promises to their dupes and failed to
distribute the percentage of receipts as
advertised.
Sold 100000 Monthly.
Judging from the records now in tn ::
hands of the secret service agents, be-
tween 100000 and 100000 tickets were
sold monthly, and sometimes mors.
Hardly 25 per cent of the sales wen.
back to the purchasers in prizes
DIFFICULT TO FIND