Show THE ARIZONA KICKER Notes Social Political ana General From a Wild Western Town We take the following from the last issue of the Arizona Kicker A Dsappointed ManA tough from I j New Mexico who called himself The i j Terror of Bloody River struck our I town the other day with a wild yell J and started in to foreclose on a mortgage mort-gage The boys were mostly asleep or out shooting jack rabbits but ii wasnt I over seven minutes after the Terror uttered his first whoop that he lay a wilted daisy on the street The coroner counted eighteen bullet holes in his body and humbly observed that there was no call for an inquest The age of The Terror has passed There was a time when it was considered consid-ered real fanny for a tough to capture a town and pop over a dozen leading citizens and his picture was certain to appear in some illustrated paper as a hero but mat time has gone by Terrors have become dog cheap and no one wants to buy The coroner has our thanks for his kindness toward us in this particular case We are trying to grow some catnip cat-nip and asparagus in our back yard and he gave us he body of the Terror a fertilizer We should like three or four more and trust that our friends will be on the lookout supply Not Our 1 aultWe want it distinctly understood that we had nothing whatever what-ever to do with the unfortunate incident inci-dent thafoccurred on Jackass Wit last Tuesday evening Mrs General Fea thertone issued cards for a high coffee and most of the elite of the town had gathered at her twostory adobe when the sheriff swooped down and took away seven prisoners mostly charged with horsestealing We neither gave them away nor knew that such a raid was intended but this proves anew the folley of such gatherings gather-ings Society wants to show off of course but whats the use in collecting a crowd for the benefit of the sheriff He Must GoWhile we have no personal per-sonal feelings against Major Bigdon the present postmaster the fiat has gone forth that he must go and it would be useless for us to defend him Indeed when one looks ovex the past year he must conclude that the major has only himself blame Tbe charges against him are 1 Running the offic on the oneman power principle In a new town like this ail the boys want a hand in running run-ning the postoftice 2 Refusing to circulate among the saloons and pokerrooms and show that he didnt feel above the boys 3 Putting on a heap of style whenever when-ever an inspector is here and refusing to introduce the boys He must go He might be an ornament orna-ment to New York or riiiladelphie but he is t ro rich for the blood of a new western town Becoming SariousThose young men who make a practice of firing into the Kicker office on their way up and down at night may be extracting a good deal of fun over it but we are not As long as they fired high no particular damage dam-age was done except to the stovepipe but of late several bullets have whistled too clco to our conch for comfort We have been patient and forbearing not wanting to deprive the boys of any legitimate amusement but this firing must be stopped or we shall take vigorous vigor-ous measures against the shooters Hit Us Wrong We had several times announced that we had our on spells and our off spells in regard to fighting fight-ing and that citizens who tackled us must take their chances Last Friday the old brokenback hyena who edits the opposition sheet saw us get a letter In a mourning envelope at the Dostof fice and he concluded it would be an off day with us and pitched in to get satisfaction The mourning envelope inclosed a letter from the bank at Tucson Tuc-son giving notice that a draft sent for collection had been much to our as on ishment cclhc ei The old reptile above referred to therefore hit us dead wrong and be had no sooner put up his dukes than we went for him and had him hollering for mercy inside of < five minutes He says in his issue of yesterday that he thought we were trying to draw a gun on him but that is too thin What he really thought was that we had hit him with a tn of granite We Had ToWe understand that some of our leading citizens blame us for the arrest of Colonel Jim Drake who was pinched and taken to Omaha the other day We did write a letter to the sheriff that Jim was here and could be had any day in the week but we had to He not only persistently refused to subscribe for The Kicker but he avoided our grocery and dealt with nonadvertisers In addition to this Jim was getting puffed up and conceited con-ceited and he had an idea that he was running the town We want to be friendly with all but we must be used right The first duty of every man in this town who knows he is wanted by the sheriff anywhere is + to come in and subscribe Price 12 per year invariably in advanceDetroit Free Press |