Show I 1 GA GAMBLING LING IN LARAMIE THE people of laramie wyoming are afflicted with gamblers it seems that efforts have been heretofore made to partially remedy this evil in the shape of city ordinances restricting the hours for gambling but bat these have not proved satisfactory now a leading business man of that city not a puritan but a thorough the rough man of the world announces through the boomerang that a movement has started to organize a merchants protective association which is intended to operate operated against the gambling fraternity whose name is I 1 legion ebion many family men all through t the h C city y indulging to excess men too who are so situated that they cannot afford to lose a solitary dollar of their salaries without cutting short the absolute necessaries of life from their households of course such men fail to meet the monthly bills of the merchants with whom they deal and it makes the aforesaid merchant sick to listen to the excuses made which he must pretend to believe if he ever hopes to realize anything he says that out of every 1800 due he is fortunate to get aw or in cash at the end of the month the plan contemplated tem plated is to secure the name of avery very man who plays any game of chance for money and place these lists in the hands of the merchants who shall pledge themselves to refuse credit to any man so registered the merchant declares that it is a necessity that he hates to meet it but that he must do so in self defense |