Show FIGHTING SALOONS of draffin have petitioned county commissioners to withhold liquor licenses the ito citizens of dragon ere are making a fight aagaat isca last the saloon and the karo gam bling joints joint they are determined to sig ri the community of those evils evila if Ves sible and they are going at it in a wy way that weald indicate their ear earnist utts cm A petition pet iUen signed find by the heads of ef fifty soven families has been pro pre to the board of commis it Is claimed that only two or three pias Ts of families in the dragon local ity failed to isan sign amen othor other things this petition eta abts forth that tho the town of dragon is ii corn com feied largely of railroad men man anami and mi am aad that at the present time there are two saloons in the town and that they air are in ovary every way detrimental to ake social elal and moral life of the corn com ratin ity it Is almost alet a daily occurrence says aya the petition to see cee indiana indian on en who aro are under the influence of ef liquor hiuer continuing Cori the petition says lay the saloons also conduct places having roulette wheels and other gambling devices at various times they have had immoral and dissolute persons connected with them we believe that the presence of the saloons is extremely demoralizing and a great biaca to the best interests of the town and we therefore there foia foze respectfully petition your honorable honor ablo body to withhold and refuse to grant any saloon license hereafter to any one who may desire desir the he same in or within five miles milea of dragon utah the law of the state provides that the tha county commissioners of any county insy may at their discretion des refuse refuge for good cause cau to grant liquor and that for good cause they may re revoke after three days notice any liquor license the two paloona in the town of dragon are conducted by henry leo lee and thomia thomax Rosen hauen hatier the news new his hag come to vernal frequently of late that gambling la Is being carried on in the th town the fight ngat against the saloon is not confined to dragon the th commission ors n of wasatch county a few weeks ago affo decided to refuse to borant grant liquor licenses licen ces on en the reservation after af ter those now running shall hays expired which will be about the last of this month but this refusal may not plit a stop to the saloons eft loona on the reservation as aa it is understood that the towns aro are to be incorporated corp orated at any rate roosevelt and theodore are likely to be incorporated in the near future wo havo have nothing definite a av to the other towns this would give those towns the privilege of selling liquor without the consent of the county commissioners tho the commissioners ners of uintah county have been asked to refuse to grant licenses on the reservation but up to the present time they have not taken any action talking about the gambling with the roulette wheel at dragon brings up a little story as to how a tenderfoot beat the cheel out of of course ho he was not a tenderfoot by any means but the three fingered man who runs the wheel thought so BO and it amounted to one and the same thing this tenderfoot would play the wheel a little bit every evening and like many tenderfeet tender feet all the way from cripple creek to monte carlo he had a system by which he could come out winner if he would keep cool and not get in the notion of winning all the money in one night he played his system and every night he won a few dollars do llara it looked as though he could not lose it was easier than getting money from f rom home after awhile he had accumulated quite a wad the three fingered man who runs the joint was vaa laughing in his sleeve all the time because he fie knows s human nature ile he kaev kne v the tenderfoot would not only lose his winnings but that he would part camj tin v ith a great deal more so one ime night he asked the tenderfoot why he did not plunge he told him that the ceiling was the limit the tenderfoot decided that he would plunge and before very long he had of the three fingered mans mana money ile he had no system but he had almost a mortal cinch how do you suppose a man could ever beat a roulette wheel when there is a bigger per cent against the man on the outside of the green cloth than there is in any gambling game known unless it might be craps crap first we shall give you a brief outline of a roulette wheel and then tell you I 1 how the roan man got away with the big wad of the three fingered mans money on a table there are 33 36 members and 0 and 00 the house per cent on a wheel at the th end and of the table there are corresponding responding Bg numbers and the 0 and 00 I 1 the numbers on the wheel are inside of little compartments or stalls A marble la 13 whirled around the rim of the wheel and drops into a number if you have your money on that number i you win thirty five for one but you I 1 most always have your money on some other number how this thia man did it is 13 still a mystery but he did it he sent away and got some numbers just like the numbers on the wheel and one night when the man with three fingers was not looking he blasted a number of the numbers over other numbers until he had made many duplicates the per cent was then in his favor and he raked in the mazuma |