Stock Gambling in San Franscisco--A Novel / Clark, J F / (HB/1878-1878/B/USED)

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...I proceed to inform my reader that I have chosen the form of a novel in which to illustrate the evils of a system that is fraught with corruption and injustice, not only in California but in other parts of the United States, as well as in foreign countries.

I have made San Francisco the arena of the exploits and experiences of my various characters because I have had better opportunities in that city than in any I have visited, during the wanderings of many years, of observing frauds and trickeries the ramifications of which I have endeavored to portray. It is but just to state that the same characteristics are to be found wherever stock gambling exists. 

Table of Contents

The Origin of the Society
Introducing the Members of the Society to my Readers
Judge Bland delivers the Inaugural Address
Judge Bland meditates and soliloquizes
General Sterne investigates the Stock Business
How it is done
Judge Bland interviews a Banker
General Sterne on the War Path
Judge Bland receives a dispatch
The Society re-assembles
The Judge's dream, and Wily's trouble
Wily is General Sterne's Prisoner

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