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Show Game Keepers Demand $15 a Day and Close Halls of Chance AGUA PRIETA, Sonora, Mexico, April 27. Agua Prlota's gambling houses were closed last night as tho result of a strike of American game keepers In an effort to gain a fifty per cent increase in kages. The gamo keepers, Americans, demanded $15 a day. They were getting $10. Earlier In tho day it had been reported re-ported that Chinese would be employed em-ployed to tako -the place of the Amor-leans, Amor-leans, but last night crowds of sportive sport-ive individuals found the adobe halls of chanco closed. There was no explanation ex-planation and the striking game keopers lolled about tho streets, smoking cigarettes and watching results re-sults of their walkout. Gambling in Agua Prleta Is uniqua ns gambling houses go. There Is none of the glitter of the gilded gambling palace, none of tho lure of hard liquor and familiar women with which the movie fan Is accustomed to associate tho gam b lor of tho west. Saloons havo boon outlawed In Sonora for some timo and gambling Is regulated by tho stato which enjoys a handsome rcvenio from this business. Mexicans In somDreros, smelter workers from Douglas, Arizona, almost al-most across the street, and tourists were accustomed to rub shoulders at tho roulette and crap tables or sit In at any of tho many card games provided pro-vided for tho enjoyment of tho patron and enrichment of the house. Pres-onco Pres-onco of largo numbers of soldiers mobilized to meet the expected invasion inva-sion of Carranza troops helped to make the present season profltablo. |