Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1894 — A FLORIDA LOTTERY. [ARTICLE]

A FLORIDA LOTTERY.

The Louisiana Concern BM<? to Have Located at Port Tampa City. A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. JO. says: “The Louisiana State Lottery t’ompany, expelled from New Orleans, Dec. 31 last, has transferred its headquarters to Fort Tampa City, in this State. A gambling institution which, for twentyfive years, has been drawing froip the American people from six to ten millions of dollars, and retaining nearly 50 per cent, of the money. Is now In full operation on our soil. Under the name of the Honduras National Lottery Company, U pretended to remove to Hunduras, but its main offices are in Port Tampa City. There its tickets and advertisements aro printed and money is reedved from .it* patrons. From that p!<*ce its lists ot. drawings, tickets and literature are sent out and prizes are paid. The-drawings will probably be conducted In Honduras to evade the law. On Jan. 13 the steamer Breakwater, chartered by the lottery, arrived at Port Tampa, bringing President Paul Conrad, Manager L. L. Davis and Commissioners W. L. Cabeland Colyillere, They brought with them plates of the numbers winning prizes and several hundred thousand copies of the prize lists were at Once striick off. It is learned that no pretense was made of keeping an office staff in Honduras, but that in reality all the business of th** Uiuery except the formal m ntbly drawing 19 carried on in thi* Mate.”