The Arvada enterprise., 1913-01-30

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and in the of few hours had won fifty
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 amazing.
He started a bank account. He was saving his
money to get into business with, he said
He won 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 glancng around the room
for moment, asked:
Who runs this place."
Il do" answered a bewhskered individual
who was watching his former employe rake in
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
Il know it's Jonah That fellow over there
wins all the time"
SOP" said the stranger
He walked over and watched the man lay his
bets.
Returning to the proprietor he said as he
passed out a card:
Il represent this house which as you see.
deals in gaming devices. | take it that the man
sitting at the whee! makes a killing every day?'
He does, stranger to the tune of fifty or a
hundred"
For thousand l can'te 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"
It's 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"
wen. see there are two nineteens and two
t"ehty-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 a man plays on a
regular wheel We made this wheel more than
'hlTty years ago 1t was sold to a house by a
cosple OF sure thing men, who almost broke the
OUTFIT Then We lost track Of it."
The ex-dealer had noticed the double numhars
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 noise in the North.
west gambling world and the prmeval forests
were closer 10 her doors, some big games were
played
One night stranger stepped into one Of tho
principal houses and took a seat at n faro tohIa
An hour later he had lost more than five thou.
SAND dollars The proprietor sent him n drtv.
cent cigar. few moments afterward tho
stranger mad couple of hundred dollars and
within an hour had reganed his five Thousand
sol
dom been witnessed in any gambling house The
root had been raised TO the sky" and Mr.
stranger "coppered" the king and doubled n het
OF hye thousand. He tried 1t again for a reneot.
er with ten thousand, and drew back twenty vol
low cheps' worth one thousand each
After that he made bets of a Thousand o,o,
ana before he had smoked the cigar he was tyven.
y-eisht thousand to the good Then he quit
Who he was, where he came from where bo
went, no one ever knew. His coming and roinc
were as mysterious as his winnings were sensa'
tional
Probably one Of the greatest stakes eyer bu,c
up was raked down on mule race in Arizona
man owned hole in the ground" He was
satisfied that 1t worth fortune His
friends thought he crazy. He refused To po
TO other 'diggings' where the PROSPECTS vero
better. He was more than TWENTY-FIVE rniIas
from water. which had to be carried in on tho
hurricane deck Of mule lie worked away
nursing his claim and sticking It out alone Tho,
he went 10 settlement some distance AWAY uo
became excited over the performances OF a mpIs
owned by another man. and in moment Of e,,
uberance bet his claim against one owned nv ,
prospector from another section that his nulo
could outrun the other fellows He lost
He had the privilege OF plotting the winner n
the mine and saw him take more than severtv
thousand dollars worth OF silver. net out or n
pocket, almost on the surface OF the gropndt
Since then the property has produced rniiIio,s
II all came about because one mule could no,