American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1913-02-06

Ihls dealer took q seat In front OF the table
and in the course of a few hours had won fifty
dollars. Then he stopped. He would pass in
and out a dozen times a day, play a 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 won SO steadily that it made the proprietor
OF the place shiver every time he came in.
One day, while the ex-dealer was playing. an
old man dropped in and, glancing around the room
for a moment, asked:
Who runs this placer"
Il do" answered a bewhiskered individual
who was watching his former employee rake In
the cash.
VIII you do me 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 a Jonah. That fellow over there
wins all the time"
"So?" said the stranger.
he walked over and watched the man Law his
bets.
returning to the proprietor. he said. as he
passed out a card:
i represent this house. which. as Won 500
deals in gaming devices. / take it that the man
sitting at the wheel makes a killing every day?"
He does, stranger, to the tune of fifty or n
hundred"
For a thousand I 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 a bargain" said the drummer.
walking over to the wheel, he waited until the
oall dropped. stopped it, and turning to the nro.
prietor asked:
See anything strange with that wheel?"
NO"
wen, see, there are two nineteens and two
'"enty-threes on this wheel. They are unusual
humoers-so that the fellow who plays them has
dDOut the same percentage in his foy,r 49, H.
numbers, that you have when a man pIavs y q
regular wheel We made this wheel more than
enirty years ago. 1t was sold to a house by a
ooupne Oh sure thing men, who almost broke the
outht- Then we lost track Of it."
The ex-dealer had noticed the doub,s r,rho..
and therein was the secret Of his .IroL IL
the numbers had escaped attention So many
years Is one or those mysteries of gambling that
can never be explained.
"hen Seattle was the big noise In the North.
west gambling world. and the primeval forests
were closer to her doors. some big games voro
played. ~ we're
one night a stranger stepped into one Of the
principal houses and took a seat at a faro t.h1o
All nour later he had lost more than five tho,,.
oanu oiiar Inc proprietor sent him a ffty-
cent cigar. A few moments afterward the
stranger had a couple of hundred dollars ava
within an hour had regained his five thousand
Ihen commenced a streak Of luck that has col.
uo" oeeh witnessed in any gambling house The
TOOL mad been raised ito the sky" and Mr.
stranger "coppered" the king and doubled q hot
OF hve thousand. He tried it again for a rene.,.
er' with ten thousand, and drew back twenty vel.
low cnleps, worth one thousand each.
AFTER that he made bets of a Thousand 90,
anu oelore ne mad smoked the cigar he was twen.
ty-eight thousand to the good. Then he oun,t
Who he was. where he came from wber. ;,
went no one ever knew. His coming and poino
were as mysterious as his winnings were 800
tional. oeusa-
PROBABLY one OF the greatest stakes ever buro
up was raked down on a mule race in Arizona
"A man owned a hole in the ground" He w :.
sa.sneo mat 1t was worth a fortune. al,
irienus thought he was crazy. He refused to On
10 other "diggings" where the prospects wara
better. He was more than TWENTY-FIVE VII
rom water, which had to be carried in on Tho
hurricane deck Of a mule. He worked au.v
MS claim and sticking it out alone Ther
ne went TO a settlement some distance away ~
oecame excited over the performances Of a mrIo
owned oy another man. and In a moment ~, 49,
bet his claim against one owned hv
prospector from another section that bis rr,.
couid outrun the other fellows. He lost
he had the privilege of plotting the winner 4.
tne mine" and saw him take more than .eve,tw
dollars worth Of silver. NET ont ~
POCKET, almost on the surface Of the eronna,
since then the property has produced m,,uor.
II all came about because one mule could not