Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-31

This dealer took seat in front of the table
and in the course of few hours had won nifty
dollars Then he stopped He would pass II
and out dozen times day, play little here
and there. but always he would bring up II
front of the roulette table, and more often thar
otherwise left it winner. His luck amazing
He started a bank account He was saving h1f
money to get into business with, he said.
He won SO steadily that it made the proprietor
of the place shiver every time he came in
One day. while the ex-dealer was playing ar
old man dropped in and, glancing around the room
for moment asked:
who runs this placer"
Il do answered a bewhiskered individual
who watching his former employee rake iY
the cash.
viii you do me the favor to tell me where
you got that wheel?" he asked. pointing to the
one that proved such hoodoo
Il know it's Jonah. That fellow over there
wins all the time
"So?" said the stranger.
He walked and watched the man lay his
bets.
Returning to the proprietor, he said, as he
passed out card:
Il represent this house, which, as you see
deals in gaming devices, take it that the man
sitting at the wheel makes killing every day?'
He does, stranger, to the tune OF fifty or q
hundred"
For Thousand can tell you how to bust his
luck and make him look the living picture of 70
morse. You would have to agree to purchase .
new wheel from me, also"
If you show me, I'm game"
It's bargain" said the drummer
Walking over to the Wheel he waited until the
ball dropped, stopped it, and turning to the pro
prietor asked:
See anything strange with that wheel?"
mo"
Well, see, there are two nineteens and TIVE
tWenty-threes on this wheel They are unusual
numbers-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 j
regular wheel We made this wheel more than
thirty years ago. 1t was sold to a house by Q
couple OF sure thing men, who almost broke the
outfit. Then we lost track OF it."
The ex-dealer had noticed the double numbers
ana therein was the secret of his luck" How
the numbers had escaped attention so many
years is one Of those mysteries of gambling that
can never be explained
When Seattle the big noise in the North
west gambling world, and the primeval forests
were closer to her doors, some big games were
played
One night stranger stepped into one Of the
principal houses and took seat at a faro table.
An hour later he had lost more than five thon
sano dollars The proprietor sent him fifty
cent cigar. few moments afterward +he
stranger had couple of hundred dollars and
Wlthln an nour had regained his five thousand
Inen commenced streak of luck that has sol
dom been witnessed in any gambling house Tbs
roof" had been raised ito the skv" and Mr.
stranger "coppered" the king and doubled = hot
OF nve thousand. He tried it again for ranoa4
er, with ten thousand and drew back twenty vel
low chieps. worth one thousand each
AFTER that he made bets of a thousand each
ana before ne had smoked the cigar he was TWEEN
weight thousand to the good Then he ouit
Who he was whore ba oo,oa
Went, no one ever knew. His coming and oo;no
were as mysterious as his winnings were sensa
tional oo
PROBABLY one of the greatest stakes ever buno
up was raked down on a mule race in Arizona
man owned hole in the ground" He was
satlsned that It worth fortune ais
friends thought he was crazy He refused r. o.
70 otner dlgglngs" where the prosnec+s ,uoro
better He was more than twentv-t7va raiTos
from water, which had to be carried n IN ~
hurricane oeck OF mule. He worked away
nursing MS claim and sticking it out alone Then
ne went 20 settlement some distance away. Ha
became excited over the performances Of ynn1a
owned Dy another man, and in moment of ov
uDerance bet his claim against one owned ~,
prospector from another section that bis 49,
could outrun the other fellows. He lost
He had the privilege OF pilot;np tbo ,,,
the mine" and saw him take more thar .av-a.t -
thousand dollars worth OF silver Mt 80 en'y
pocAes, almost on the surface of the eroundf
since tnen the property has produced millions
= ~ came ABOUT because one mule could MT
run 50 fast as another ~