The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17
GAMBLING, SUNDAY
SALOONS AND RESORTS
OF ALL KINDS RUNNING
Continued from Page 1

his drinks on Sunday as he does on
the other days of the week.
There are more gamblers, FOUNDERS,
boosters, touts, hop fiends, macque-
TeauX and men of that sort in Salt Lake
today than there has ever been in its
history. They infest the downtown
corners, and are given immunity.
George Sheets, the real head of the city
police department, knows every one of
them, and they all know that they have
to be right with George Sheets to
stay in Salt Lake. There are so many
of them in Salt Lake, and they are so
thick about police headquarters that
Sam Barlow, who poses as police chief
and wears a pretty uniform on swell
occasions, has rented a safety deposit
box in a downtown bank in order to
keep the valuables of the department
safe.
George Sheets. who has bought and
covered himself with diamonds on a
small salary, has even become wary
and has deposited them in safety de-
post box until the election is over, and
some of his friends" leave town. Even
Fire Chief ". II. Glore has asked and
secured a detail of police to protect
his men and their valuableS from the
yeSgmen who gather nightly at the
police station to visit with their friend,
George Sheets.
Poker games are running in nearly
every cigar store and saloon in Salt
Lake. And that has been the case since
Aug. /. Prior to that time there was
attempt to keep 1t quiet. Among the
games that are running nightly is one
in the Wilson hotel, where large sums
are lost and won every day. There is
Gambling Boss" Mulvey on Second
South street, where poker and craps
are dealt. The game in the basement
of the Log Cabin saloon. which was so
sDectacularIy stopped some months ago
is again running full tilt. The Horse
shoe saloon, just across the street, has
a fine game going.
Some Gambling Games.
In the Kenyon hotel in the head
quarters of the ArgOnaut club, they
cater exclusively to stud poker. Above
Reagan's saloon at 237 South Main
Quoted by Butch" Snyder, where they
play for the humble dollar of the work
ingman, and where he seldom if ever
gets away. Across the street at 234
South Main street, upstairs, is another
fulI-fledged club. George Sheets made
grand stand" play last June of ar
resting them, but the case never came
to trial, as some Of the inner circle had
friends there.
Farther down the street, in the bar
of the Cliff house, there is stud poker
game that anyone can see who cares to
go in and look, and upstairs over the
bar are two more, one of which is kept
going night and day. At Sc East Sec
ond South street, where the BOlo club
had its quarters, a splendid club room
has been fitted up. A large assort-
ment of games is carried on there, and
one can lose his money in any way he
desires. There are a number of games
/ in the cigar stores and saloons near the
Rio Grande depot and near the Oregon
| Short Line depot there are a number
/ more. In the LuXus saloon, on State
street, there has been a game all the
| time, and there are others in the cigar
| stores and saloons on State street. ~
/ Conditions on Second South street be-
| tween Main and State streets exceed
| those in any part of the country. The
street is packed with gamblers, tOughS
and suTe-thing men of every descrip-
| ton, and hobnObbing with them all The
time is George Sheets. They are hi:
| friends, and none of them remains il
| Salt Lake without going to George
/ Sheets and getting his permission, be
/ cause George Sheets knows them. II,
/ knows their-line- Of business, and none
of them can do anything in Salt LAX
| without seeing Sheets.
! Worthy of mention in this connection
| is the stud poker game and the poo
/ room in the Fieur de Lis saloon OF
! South Main street. The place is crOwde,
! nightly and is doing a good business
| In the cigar store of A. Bernstein
| game is going on'alf the time, and Their
are many more that are going to ge
attention.