The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-23

by when the city commission issued
wide sweeping order that after Jan
AIRY /, all raffles. lotteries and
hmbling devices in Keokuk must be
nried.
The order is one made to conform
18th the recent demand made by At
prney General Cosson end is a direct
lap at the petty forms of gambling
racticed il cigar stores and the like.
After January you cannot walk in
cigar store, drop nickle in the
lot machine and call for one or more
igars, just as your luck may be. Nor
IAN stores display chance cards from
hich you tear number and receive
chance on a box of cigars, a couple
Ii pounds of candy, or meerschaum
|ipe.
The action was taken by the city
|ouncil after meeting this morning
u which the circular from Attorney
General Cosson was perused careful
v. The date fixed is to give dealers
IN opportunity of dispcsing of what
(yer they may have along the line af-
ected. The following from the attor-
ley general is self explanatory:
70 the County Attorneys and Mayors
Of Iowa:
Gentlemen: During the past few
months so many complaints have
been made to the Department of JUS
ice and so many requests have been
Received for opinions concerning the
operation of slot machines, gambling
[evices and various other forms of
taffles and lotteries, that feel it in
Eumbent upon me to direct general
letter to each county attorney in the
state and mayor of every city and
town of Iowa, to the end that the
caunty attorney may direct his sheriff
nd the mayor his marshal, chief of
|police and other police officers, with
Reference to these evils.
sSN am pleased to say that Mayor
Hanna of Des Moines, as well aS 9TH
ser mayors and law enforcement Off
GERS of the state have already taken
action, looking to the suppression of
Fall raffles. lotteries and gambling de-
Eyices.
All forms of gambling, gaming and
lottery schemes are made illegal and
prohibited by the statutes of Iowa
See the following sections of the
Code: 1862, 4963, 5000, and T02; also
704 Supplement to the Code, (1907)
Former Attorney General Remley
held, in interpreting these statutes,
that:
ANY game in which person parts
with his money in the hope or with
the expectation of receiving either a
sum Of money or property in return
therefore, the amount of which de
ponds upon some chance or result Of
the game, is gambling. 1t has beer
held by our supreme court that play
Ing at billiards or pin pool with the
agreement that the losing party shall
pay for the games played is gambling
A game of chance resulting upon {
drawing is species of gambling o.
lottery. Slot machines by which one
for given sum, will obtain one eli
gar, or by a lucky turn more thai
one. are unquestionably gambling de
Wees
Attorney Generals report, 1899, p
EOS.
Attorney Generals Report, 1910, p
22S.
n This has been the holding of thu
Department since. that time and it il
clearly in harmony with the decisions
of our supreme court. See
I. State VS.. Maurer, Z Iowa, 406.
State v. Crogan, 5 Iowa. 52S.
State v. Cooster, 10 Iowa, 453.
State v. Leicht, II Iowa, Is.
State v. Bishel, SO Iowa. AZ.
State " Book, Al, Iowa. $50.
State v. Boyer. 70 Iowa, $50.
State v. White, 1928. Iowa, 1875.
Blodgett v. Mcvey, 131 Iowa, $50.
McClain's New Digest. Vol. 1, pag
1885.
Arkansas v. Sanders. 9 L. R. A. N
S.. 913, note.
h Therefore, all schemes or transac
tons for which consideration i
paid, and in which the person payin