The Springfield herald., 1913-01-31

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and in the course of few hours had won fifty
dollars Then he stopped. He would pass In
and out a 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 1t winner. His luck was amazing.
He started bank account He was saving his
money to get into business with he said
He won steadily that 1t made the proprietor
of the place SILVER every time he came in.
One day. while the ex-dealer playing. an
old man dropped in and. glancing around the room
for a moment asked:
WHO this placer"
Il do" answered a bewhiskered individual
who was watching his former employee rake In
the cash.
will you do me the favor tell me where
you got that wheel?" he asked. pointing to the
one that proved such hoodoo
Il know it's Jonah. That fellow there
wins all the time"
"So?" said the stranger
He walked over and watched the man lay his
bets
Returning to the proprietor. he said. as he
passed out card
II represent this house. which, as you see,
deals In gaming devices. l take 1t that the man
sitting at the wheel makes killing every day.
He does. stranger. to the tune of fifty or a
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"
III you show me. I'm game"
= ITS bargain said the drummer
Walking over to the wheel he waited until the
ball dropped. stopped 1t. and turning to the pro.
prietor asked:
See anything strange with that wheel?"
NO"
We'll see. there are two nineteens and two
twenty-threes 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 man plays on a
regular wheel We made this wheel more than
thirty years ago. 1t was sold to a 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 doubl. number.
and therein was the secret of his luck" How
the numbers had escaped attention go MANY
years is one of those mysteries of gambling that
can never be explained
When Seattle was the big no,se in tho Mouth.
west gambling world, and the primeval forests
were closer to her DOORS some big games we're
played
one night stranger stepped into one of the
principal houses and took seat at faro table
An hour later he had lost more than Ave thou.
sand dollars The proprietor sent him e,tv
cent cigar. few moments afterward the
stranger mad couple Of hundred dollars and
within an hour had regained his five thousand
!hen commenced streak of luck that has sell
oom peen witnessed in any gambling house The
foof' had been raised ito the sky" and Mr.
Stranger "coppered" the king and doubled a bet
OF nve thousand. He tried II again for a repeat
er with ten thousand. and drew back twenty vel
low chieps. worth one thousand each,
After that he made bets of 4 thousand each
ana before he had smoked the cigar he was TWEEN.
V'eignt 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
we're az mysterious his winnings were sensa
tonal.
Probably one of the greatest stakes ever hung
fAkeO p,,1a t,,
man owned hole In the ground" He was
satisfied that it was worth a fortune His
friends thought he was crazy. He refused to 20
10 other disgings' 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 1t out alone Then
ne went to settlement some distance away. He
became excited over the performances of a mule
owned by another man. and In moment Of cx
uperance bet his claim against one owned by a
prospector from another section that his mule
could outrun the other fellows He lost
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
1t all came about because one mule could not
run fast as another
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