| Show UTAH IS fOR F 9K lEY I Democrats Afraid to Bet that itis Not i THEY SHOW BUT LITTLE CASH I 1 Tho 2500 Deposited With The Tribune to Bet Even tliali IiIcKiu ley Will Carry Utah Has No Takers Ta-kers An Offer of S500 Even that Wells Will be Elected Docs Not Tempt Democrats as They Want Odds on Governorship Betting Story from Ogden I I I There was less DemocratIc money insight I sight yesterday than before during the campaign The Sl500 which was deposited I de-posited with The TrIbune to bet even I that McKinley carries Utah was left untouched Numerous small bets were I made on the streets however Three hundrud and forty dollars was placed through 1 B Jones in small bets that McKnlyc will carry Utah the odds being even Five hundred dollars even on Wells was offered on Joness board with no takers One bet of 5100 to S5 on Wells found a taker Another offer of-fer on Joness board was divided Into three prepositions all three bets to betaken be-taken together The proposItions were that the city county and State would go Republican 100 even on each prop sllion The bet had not been taken at the close of business One hundred even that McKinley will carry Indiana was not taken One hundred to I seventy that Wells will carry Salt Lake county was also left alone Four to one on McKinley was offered and not taken There was some belling done on city precincts Fred Griffiths bet 50 I even with H A Anderson that the i Fifth precinct would give a Republican Republi-can majority larger than the Democratic Demo-cratic majority in the Third One hundred I hun-dred and entyflve dollars more on I thc same proposition was bet In bets of laO i50 and 25 Harry Joseph taking tak-ing the Republican end Mr Griffiths had 100 more to bet this way but could not find takers He also had 20 to bet I that the Sixth district with a registration registra-tion of 427 would give 135 Republican majority Ono small piece of Bryan money 20 to 100 was taken up Henry Pecry offered to bet 200 to 1000 on Bryan but his bet was not taken It was not posted until late In the afternoon after-noon however after most of the betting I bet-ting men had departed One bet of 95 yen that neither Indiana Illinois nor oew ion WOUld go Democratic was made Two other bets 20 to 25 and 1750 to 25 on the same proposition were made Sam Reggel bet 250 with a stockman that the latter could not pick the next Governor and the next President The stockman picked Wells and McKinley S S Dickinson bet Adam Snyder t S1CO that McKinley would poll more electoral votes than In 1896 Mr Dickinson I Dick-inson offered 500 to 250 that McKinley would carry New York Slate and found no takers There was an error made I yesterday In stating W P Lynn bet 100 to 30 that Naylor would be elected Sheriff Mr Lynn onthe contrary offered to take the Republican end of this bet but It developed that the Nay lor man had no money and the bet was not taken Charles Slade superintendent of let tercarriers in the Salt Lake postofflce bet 25 on Wells yesterday J A ErIn Er-In a New York Insurance man bet 60 with Witchcr Jones that McKinley will carry Now York State by more than 50000 I |
