The Raymer enterprise., 1913-01-30


This dealer took seat In front OF the table
and In the course Of few hours had won fifty
dollars. Then he stopped. He would pass In
and out a dozen times a day. play little here
and some there but always he would bring up In
front OF the roulette table and more often than
otherwise left 1t winner. His luck was amazing
He started bank account. He was saving his
money to get into business with. he said
He won SO steadily that 1t made the proprietor
Of the place shiver every time he came in.
One day. while the exdealer was playing, an
old man dropped in and, glancng around the roo:1
for moment. asked:
Who runs this pace?"
Il do" answered bewhskered individual
who was watching his former empoye rake in
the cash
"Will you do me the favor to tell me where
you got that wheel'" he asked pointing to the
one that proved such hoodoo
i know It's Jonah That fellow over there
wins all the time
"So?" said the stranger
He walked over and watched the man lay his
bets.
Returning to the proprietor. he said. az he
passed out card
! represent this house. which, as you see
deals In gaming devices. take It that the man
sitting at the whee! makes a killing every day."
he does stranger. TO the tune OF fifty or
hundred"
For thousand can tell you how to bust his
luck and make him look the living picture OF re-
morse You would have to agree to purchase
new wheel from me, also"
III you show me, I'm game"
It's bargain" said the drummer.
Walking over to the Wheel he waited until the
ball dropped, stopped 1t. and turning to the pro-
pretor asked
See anything strange with that wheel,"
no"
Well. see there are two nineteens and two
tWenty-threes on this wheel. They are unusual
humbers-so that the fellow who plays them has
ABOUT the same percentage in his favor on those
numbers that you have when a man PLAYS on n
regular wheel We made this wheel more than
thir,y years ago, 1t was sold to house by a
couple OF sure thing men. who almost broke the
OUTFIT. Then We lost track Of It"
The ex.dealer had noticed the double numher.
and therein was the secret OF his luck" How
the numbers had escaped attention an many
years is one OF those mysteries of gambling that
can never be explained
When Seattle was the big noise in the North.
west gambling world, and the primeyal forests
we're closer TO her DOORS some big games were
played.
One night stranger stepped into one of the
principal houses and took a seat at a faro table.
An hour later he had lost more than five tho,,.
sahu COLLARS the proprietor sent him fifty.
cent cigar. Few moments afterward the
stranger had a couple OF hundred dollars md
within an hour had regained his Ave thousand.
Then commenced streak OF luck that has sol.
dom been witnessed In any gambling house Tho
roof had been raised TO the sky" and NJ
stranger "coppered" the king and doubled n hot
OF hve thousand. He tried It again for repeat.
er, with ten thousand. and drew back twenty vol.
low chieps. worth one thousand each
After that he made bets Of thousand each.
and before he had smoked the cigar he was twen.
weight thousand to the good! Then he quit
Who he was where he came from. where be
went. no one ever knew. His coming and poinp
we're as mysterious as his winnings were senss.
tional
Probably one Of the greatest stakes ever hunv
up was raked down on a mule race in Ar,ons
man owned hole In the ground" He wa,
satisfied that 1t was worth a fortune uI.
friends thought he was crazy. He refused 10 %
to other "diggings" where the prospects were
better. He was more than twenty-five miles
from water. which had to be carried In on tho
hurricane deck Of mule He worked away,
nursing his claim and sticking It out alone. Then
ne went 10 settlement some distance away He
became excited over the performances of mu.
owned by another man. and In moment Of az.
uberance bet his claim against one owned nv |.
prospector from another section that his mu.
could outrun the other fellows He lost,
He had the privilege Of plotting the winner N
the mine" and saw him take more than seven,v
thousand dollars worth Of silver net, ont ~ |.
pocket. almost on the surface Of the ground,
Since then tho property has produced million.
1t all came about because one mule could No,
run 30 fast a. another. "''