Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-02-07

This dealer took a 'front.'
and In the OF a few hours had nifty
dollars. Then he stopped. He would pass IL
and out dozen times a day. play little here
and some there. but always he would bring up IL
front of the roulette table and more often thar
otherwise left 1t winner. His luck 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 ex-dealer playing, an
old man dropped in and, gancing around the room
for moment, asked:
Who runs this placer"
Il do" answered bewhiskered individual
the cash.
viii you do the favor to tell me where
you got that wheel?" he asked, pointing to the
one that proved such a hoodoo.
Il 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
Returning to the proprietor he said as he
passed out card:
7 represent this house. which. as you see.
sitting at the wheel makes a killing every day?"
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 a
new wheel from me. also"
If you show me, I'm game"
ITS bargain" said the drummer
waking over to the Wheel he waited until the
Dali dropped. stopped 1t. and turning to the pro-
prietor asked:
See anything strange with that wheel?"
Wen. see. there are two nineteens and two
tWenty-tnrees on this wheel. They are unusual
umoers-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 sold to q house by
couple OF sure thing men. who almost broke the
outfit Then lost track Of IT."
We
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 was the big noiae IN the nyo.h
west gambling world. and the primevaI forests
were closer to her DOORS some big games were
played.
One night stranger stepped into one of The
principal houses and took a at a faro table
An hour later he had lost more than Ave tbou
sano dollars. The proprietor him a ffty-
cent cigar few moments afterward the
stranger mad couple of hundred dollars and
within an hour had regained his Ave Thousand
ihen commenced streak OF luck that has sell
dom been witnessed in any gambling house The
roof had been raised ito the ekv. ana NJ
stranger coppered" the king and doubled a hat
OF nVe thousand. He tried 1t again for repeat.
er. with ten thousand. and drew back twenty vol
low chieps. worth one thousand each
After that he made bets of a thousand eacn
$3.50, psors ne NAG smoked the cigar he TWEEN
weight thousand to the goodi Then he quit
W he
went, no one ever knew His coming ana sotn., |
were as mysterious as his winnings were sensa
tionaI. 9"=
PROBABLY one or the greatest stakes ever hung
up was raked down on a mule race In A-,-ara
man owned hole in the ground" He was
salisned that 1t was worth fortune His |
Irienos tnought ne was crazy. He refused to go
TO other "diggings" where the prosnecta No.
better He was more than twenty-five miles |
from water. which had to be carried In ON the |
hurricane oeck OF mule. He worked away |
nursing his claim sticking II ont alone ,rhar
ne went to settlement some distance away He |
became excited over the performances of a nnuIa |
owheo oy announcer man. and in moment of ex- |
uberance bet his claim against one 7uned ~ =
prospector from another section that his mule |
could outrun the other fellows. He lost
lie mad the privilege Of plotting the winner tn
the mine. and saw him take more than seva6tv
dollars worth of silver net out of =
pocket almost on the surface of the eroundf |
SINCE then the property has produced millions
run SO fast another.