Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-09-14
SEPTEMBER Ia, 1915
THE SAN FRANCISCO LOTTERIES

An effort is being made to squelch the large colony OF lotteries
that have their roostng place IN San FRANCISCO.
These vunures have toasted on TIT country Tor about a quarter %
a century or more and suddenly an ehort Is being made 10 eNterhhna
them. these colossal swmdles are iuny protected by the police an-
tnorties and whenever the newspapers begin to light them 1t merely
indicates that the newspapers are o getting as big a dry as they think
they are entitled to. AS the swndle gets bigger and bigger the news
papers demand more money and the game has boone 50 absolutely a
that the press has demanded a rake off best expressed by "nfty-hfty.
is on. 1t will not last long. The lotteries, there are about a dozeh 81
them, will raise the amount demanded and ate the money is paid the
affair will blow over. One OF the big San Francisco dahes Ia pen
the ball and this means that the other papers will join in the a soon,
gambling joints IL in San Francisco at the present time although the
law iorbids it. About the only place in San Francisco where a man
can't gamble appears o be III the "49.lamp.' These lotteries have 10
public drawings and no restrictions hateVer M ame o ue GU
who win the capital prizes are generally bogus Or they are given d
prize OF say $1,000 to sign a statement that they have won $4,000
The drawings, which eve really come off, are conducted o N paper
in the back rooms of the various companies. For every thousan
dollars they take in they don't give up owe $lO
Some times there used to be police raids and the public saw the
officers rush in and grab a lot OF lottery paraphernaia and books and
such junk and publicly burn it.
That's the wind up OF the Metzgar lottery" the people would re
mark. But only the wise nes knew that Metzgar had we sets OF
tools and books that the raid was made o n the set that Metzgar designat-
ed when he telephoned to the chief OF police to come and take it.
Every one with a ounce OF sense knows that the present raid o n
the lotteries is only a grand stand play and that when they have been
shaken down good and proper they will be running a usual.
Some years ago a attempt was made in Nevada to have a lottery
run under the state auspices, just as the recent Reno ace we're un,
but a outcry was made against the idea on moral grounds"
The idea OF a state lottery seemed o be a taking ne until Louis
Metzgars money got busy and that with the allied money OF the small
try lotteries 500 built up a great moral sentiment against lotteries
OF the Nevada brand. The mn VINO were behind the Nevada idea OF
keeping the money a home thought they had a dead thing and the
legislature az about to pass the required bill when suddenly a coala-
ton was formed in the lower house, headed by the immaculate moralst
Van Duser and they passed a resolution to vote for no lottery bill during
that session. That ended the Nevada lottery scheme and the money
across the mountains as before. Louis Mtzgar, however, is quoted IS
saying that the Nevada Legislature mad the cheapest guys he w
dealt with. The lottery men OF San Francisco will probably find that
the present raid o N their cash box IS being handled by ne who are not
cheap guys"