The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-02-06

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 IN
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 MS
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 exdeaer was playing, an
old man dropped in and, glancing around the room
for moment, asked:
who runs this placer"
81 d." answered a bewhiskered individual
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
II know it's Jonah. That fellow over there
wins all the time
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, 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
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
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-
priotor asked:
See anything strange with that Wheel?
mo"
Well see, there are two nineteens and two
twenty-threes this wheel. They unusual
numbers-so that the fellow who plays them has
about the same percentage in his favor, those
numbers, that you have when man plays on a
regular wheel. We made this wheel more than
thirty years ago. 1t 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 the secret of his luck" How
the numbers had escaped attention many
years is Of those mysteries Of gambling that
can never be explained.
When Seattle the big noise in the North
west gambling world, and the prmeval forests
closer to her doors, big games were
played.
One night stranger stepped into of the
principal houses and took seat at faro table
An hour later he had lost more than five thou
sand dollars. The proprietor sent him fifty
cent cigar. A few moments afterward thu
stranger had couple of hundred dollars. an,
within hour had regained his five thousand
Then commenced a streak of luck that has sci
dom been witnessed in any gambling house. TIL
roof" had been raised ito the sky and MI
Stranger "coppered" the king and doubled be
of five thousand. He tried it again for repeat
err with ten thousand and drew back twenty We
low cheps. worth one thousand each.
After that he made bets of thousand eacl
and before he had smoked the cigar he was twe1
ty-eight thousand to the good! Then he quit.
Who he was, where he from, where h
went, no one ever knew His coming and goin
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tional.
Probably one Of the greatest stakes ever hun
up was raked down on mule race In Arizon
A man owned hole In the ground" He Wa
satisfied that it worth fortune. II
friends thought he was crazy. He refused to
to other "diggings" where the prospects wei
better. He was more than twenty-five mile
from water. which had to be carried in on IL
hurricane deck of a mule. He worked ava
nursing his claim and sticking it out alone The
he went to settlement some distance away +
became excited over the performances of mu
owned by another man. and in a moment of e
uberance bet his claim against one owned by
prospector from another section that his mu
could outrun the other fellows He lost
He had the privilege Of plotting the winner
the mine" and saw him take more than seven
thousand dollars worth Of silver net, out Of
pocket, almost on the surface of the groun
Since then the property has produced mo,
1t all came about because one mule could Il
run 80 fast as another.