The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-02-07

This dealer took seat in front OF the table
and in the course of few hours had won hfty
dollars Then he stopped. He would pass III
and out dozen times 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 it winner. His luck was amazing.
He started a bank account. He was saving his
money to get into business with, he said
He steadily that 1t made the proprietor
of the place shiver every time he came in.
One day, while the ex-dealer playing.
old man dropped in and glancing around the room
for moment, asked:
who runs this placer"
Il do" answered bewhiskered individual
who watching his former empoye rake in
the cash.
viii you do me the favor to tell me where
you got that wheel?" he asked, pointing to the
that proved such a hoodoo.
Il know it's Jonah. That fellow over there
wins all the time"
"So?" said the stranger.
He walked and watched the 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 1t that the man
sitting at the wheel makes a killing every day."
He does, stranger, to the tune of fifty a
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"
IF you show me. I'm game"
Its a 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"
We'll see. there are two nineteens and two
twenty-threes 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 a
regular wheel. We made this wheel more than
thirty years ago 1t was sold to house by
couple of sure thing men, who almost broke the
outfit Then we lost track Of it."
The ex-dealer had noticed the double numbers
and therein the secret of his luck" How
the numbers had escaped attention SO many
years is one of those mysteries OF gambling that
never be explained.
When Seattle the big noise in the North
west gambling world and the primeval forests
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 ia ble
An hour later he had lost more than five thou
sand dollars. The proprietor sent him fifty
cent cigar. A few moments afterward the
stranger had couple of hundred dollars and
within hour had regained his five thousand
Thea commenced streak of luck that has sell
dom been witnessed in any gambling house The
roof" had been raised ito the sky" and Mr..
Stranger "coppered" the king and doubled bet
of five thousand. He tried it again for a repeat
er, with ten thousand, and drew back twenty yell
low chieps worth one thousand each.
After that he made bets OF thousand eacn
and before he had smoked the cigar he was TWEEN
ty-eight thousand to the good! Then he quit.
Who he was where he came from where he
went, no one ever knew. His coming and going
were as mysterious his winnings were sensa
tonal
Probably one of the greatest stakes ever hune
up was raked down a mule race in Arizona
A man owned hole in the ground" He was
satisfied that it worth a fortune Hi.
friends thought he crazy. He refused to &c
to other "diggings" where the prospects wer,
better He was more than twenty-five mile
!, from water, which had to be carried in on tn,
hurricane deck of a mule He worked away
, nursing his claim and sticking it out alone Thel
he went to settlement distance away. HI
, became excited over the performances of a null
owned by another man. and in a moment of ex
uberance bet his claim against one owned by
= prospector from another section that his null
could outrun the other fellows. He lost
9 He had the privilege of plotting the winner L
the mine" and him take more than sevent
thousand dollars worth of silver net out of
E pocket. almost the surface Of the ground
v Since then the property has produced millions
y It all came about because mule could no
run fast another.