Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-09-30 | Page 8 | Nevada Closes All Gambling

NEVADA CLOSES ALL GAMBLING Carson City, Nov.. Sept 'JO. For the first lime in fifty years the doors of the gambling houses In this city have been barred by the law. Under the recent action of the legislature, gambling In this state will be prohibited pro-hibited on and after October 1. Despite De-spite traditions, inlluence, argument and politics, the law- stands and the old-lino gamblers have bowed down before It. Although another day of grace remained re-mained for them, the wheels that liae spun since the days of the characters char-acters f Bret Harte and Mark Twain are still and the fr.ro tables have been sioreil away. Gambling is dead. Carson Car-son City, where fortunes have shifted I on the tur nof a card, is "closed." ! A decision rendered by Attorney General Stoddard bdav places whist, bridge whist, five hundred, solo, prog and all either card games phned for memey, property or I lie representatives representa-tives .f value, under the ban. Slot machines also are banished. The law that becomes operative at midnight tonight aims the death blow at every game of chance in Nevada.