Soapy Smith gambling house. Legend has it that above the entrance of the stairway leading upstairs to the gambling games was a sign that read "caveat emptor", Latin for "let the buyer beware". Smith's younger brother, Bascomb Smith, joined the gang and operated a cigar store that was a front for dishonest poker games and other swindles, operating in one of the back rooms. Other operations included fraudulent lottery shops, a "sure-thing" stock exchange, fake watch and bogus diamond auctions, and the sale of stocks in nonexistent businesses. Because of bribes, some of the police officers patrolling the streets would not arrest
Beware of the Dog (Millennium) The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen", awarded "Beware of the Dog" one-and-a-half stars out of five. Shearman felt the episode was so similar to "The X-Files" that it gave the impression that "Millennium" had "lost its own identity". He found that the script contained "enough wit in the dialogue" but that its plot seemed too "vague and elliptical". Writing for the "Star Tribune", Bill Ward felt that the episode featured a "lighter" tone than usual, comparing it to "The X-Files". Ward described the episode as taking "some nice turns en route to an ambivalent semiresolution". Beware of the Dog