Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-02-05


7 and in the course Of few hours had won nfty
dollars. Then he stopped. He would pass IN
+ and out dozen times a day. play little mere
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
Z He started a bank account He was saving his
money to get into business with. he said. "A
He won SO steadily that 1t made the proprietor
4 OF the place shiver every time he came in.
81 One day, while the ex:dealer was playing. an
old man dropped in and. glancing around the room
for moment, asked: #
1Who runs this place 2" ,t3S * s. SO SS
sS5 IT do" answered bewhiskered individual
who was watching his former employs rake In
the cash. 34
# win you do me the favor to tell mo where
you got that wheel?" he asked. pointing to tina
one that proved such a hoodoo. ~
II know it's Jonah. That fellow over there
wins all the time
81 $50? ?" said the stranger
sSS he walked over and watched the man lay his
bets. 5 81 .$
Returning to the proprietor. he said. a. he
passed out card: 81 .49 q %
# Il represent this house. which, as you see.
deals In gaming devices I take 1T that the man
sitting at the wheel makes a killing every day..
He does. stranger. to the tune OF fifty or =
hundred. s 81 ST ;;8$s
luck and make him look the living picture Of re-
morse. You would have to agree to purchase
new wheel from me, Also s 55S5@ 9*
IF you show me, I'm game" ss
$# Its a bargain said the drumraer. .#$
Walking over to the wheel, he waited until the
ball dropped stopped 1t. and turning to the pro-
prietor asked: 5@s5S
See anything strange with that swheel7'
mo" III 5}ss..s q
Well. see. there are two nineteens and two
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 q man plays on Z
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 numbera.
and 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 b explained. A4.zTs asa
When Seattle was the big noise in the North
west gambling world. and the Drimeval forests
were closer to her doors, some big games were
played. ~ I & sf q 81
One night q stranger stepped into one Of tho
principal houses and took q seat at q faro table
An hour later he had lost more than i've thou.
sand dollars The proprietor sent him nfty-
cent cigar. A few moments afterward tho
stranger had couple Of hundred dollars, and
within an bour had reganed his Ave thousand.
Then commenced streak of luck that has sell.
dom been witnessed in any gambling house. Tho
roof" had been raised ito the sky" and Mr..
Stranger "coppered" the king and doubled a bet
OF five thousand. He tried 1t again for repeat.
er, with ten thousand and drew back twenty vel
low chieps, worth one thousand EACH
After that he made bets OF thousand each.
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 as his winnings were sensa-
tional 555* 4
Probably one of the greatest stakes ever hung
up was raked down on a mule race in Arizona
A man owned a hole in the ground" He was
satisfied that 1t was worth q fortune His
friends thought he was crazy. He refused to go
to other diggings" where the prospects were
better. He was 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
8 he went to a settlement some distance away. He
became excited over the performances of q mule
owned by another man, and in a moment of ex-
Guberance bet his claim against one owned by a
5prospector from another section that his mule
could outrun the other fellows He lost. u,
B He had the privilege of plotting the winner to
the mine" and saw him take more than seventy
thousand dollars worth of silver, net, out Of a
pocket. almost on the surface OF the ground.
Since then the property has produced millions.
It all came about because one mule could NOT
run SO fast as another