Show THE klekers POSITION he will not be ignored and cannot be ostracized ostracised there is no use in attempting to disguise the fact that certain rings and factions in this gulch for the last three months have made desperate attempts to ignore the existence of kicker having failed to bribe or frighten us ostracism cst racism was their little game we first became aware of this movement throe months ago when mrs judge gildersleeve gave her blowout blow out at that time we received tho following card all gentlemen attending this reception will be expected to wear a white shirt this inference was as plain as the pimples on judge Gilder sleeves nose they thought wed attend with an army blanket thrown carelessly over ur shoulders the object was to let that baj s judge gildersleeve did not look upon us as knowing what belonged to manners it was all right we go As to whether the gildersleeve ring came out ahead opinion differs our account of the party headed gathering of the vultures is still going the rounds of the press in that article we proved judge gildersleeve to be an embezzler and a horse thief and we adducted positive evidence thai mrs judge was a broken down and played out fortune teller who had to skip from SL louis the judge I 1 called at the kicker office next day with a shotgun but when we brought out more letters proofs that he had served time in three prisons and that mrs judge still had the workhouse cut on her hair when she arrived in arizona the judge did not shoot dia jackass hill sot next tried to make us sing small they co km because we puffing them in every issue col docker had two shillings worth of repairs done on his mule harness and the kicker dindot notice it mrs professor frothing ham turned an old silk dress top to bottom and the kicker come out with a notice that she had received another dress from worth major Hom blower put a por celean door knob on the front door of his abode and the kicior did not come out and list it as one of the enterprises bound to bring in new settlers and boom real estate it was therefore determined to down us lily de lisley the redheaded red headed daughter of the one legged county clerk made her debute and wa were not invited to the blowout blow out it was an action intended to break our heart and we promptly countered it was on our trip that the sheriff went up about 10 that evening and gathered in two bigamists biga mists from new england an embezzler from Ohio and a fugitive from chicago all of whom were looked upon as the cream of society and were airing their frills and scallops at the grand debate we are here to stay we put up our own shanty with our own hands we board and lodge our solf and we have not only got the cost of living down so fine but are getting our white paper so cheap that we can make money on a list of thirty subscribers and three pages of dead ads we are going to run the kicker after our own style whether it pleases the big bugs of jackass timor the half starved coyotes in poverty hollow while we dont i banker after invitations to euchre parties and church socia ls we bonc propose to take a snub from any set while we are willing to boom thea town we dont propose to sit up nights to let the outside world know that some citizen has added a bath tub to bis dugout or that some merchant has received a fresh wad of bed ticking there has been hints thrown out by the courthouse ring that we are to be starved out try it on gentlemen we are now 15 ahead of the game havo enough on hand for ten weeks and our living expenses last week footed up only sixty seven cents we came to stick |