Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-01-31

and In the course of few hours had won fifty
dollars. Then he stopped. He would pass In
and out dozen times day, play little here
and 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 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 playing an
old man dropped in and glancing around the room
for moment, asked
WHO runs this placer"
II do" answered a bewhiskered individual
who was watching his former employe rake in
the cash.
viii you do the favor to tell where
you got that wheel?" he asked. pointing to the
one that proved such a hoodoo.
Il know it's Jonah That fellow 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, 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 killing every day ?"
He does. stranger to the tune of fifty or q
hundred"
For a 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 a
new wheel from me. also"
IF you show me- I'm game"
Its 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?"
NO"
We'll. see. there are two nineteeus 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 q
wh sI,tu
thirty 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 numbers
and therein was the secret of his luck" How
the numbers had escaped attention SO many
years is one of those mysteries of gambling tba,
can never be explained.
When Seattle the big noise in the North
west gambling world, and the prmeval forests
were closer to her doors. some big games were
played
One night a 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 thou
sand dollars The proprietor sent him a fifty
cent cigar. A few moments afterward the
stranger had couple of hundred dollars and
within an hour had regained his five thousand
Then commenced a streak of luck that has sell
dom been witnessed in any gambling house The
roof had been raised TO the sky and Mr.
Stranger "coppered" the king and doubled be,
er, with ten thousand. and drew back twenty vel
low chieps. worth one thousand each
After that he made bets of a 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. one ever knew His coming and goinp
mysterious his winnings were sensa
tional/
Probably one of the greatest stakes ever huns
up was raked down on a mule race in Arizona
man owned a hole In the ground" He was
satisfied that 1t worth a fortune al,
friends thought he crazy. He refused to &c
to other "diggings' where the prospects were
better. He more than twenty-five miles
from water, which had to be carried in on the
hurricane deck Of mule. He worked away
nursing his claim and sticking it out alone Then
he went to settlement some distance away He
became excited over the performances of mule
owned by another man. and in a moment of ex
uberance bet his claim against one owned by a
prospector from another section that his mule
could outrun the other fellows. He lost
He had the privilege of plotting the winner tc
the mine" and saw him take more than seventy
thousand dollars worth Of silver, net out of !
pocket, almost the surface of the ground
Since then the property has produced millions
1t all came about because one mule conId mo,
run SO fast another.