Show THE KICKERS CHRISTMAS NUMBER gulch Is going to be a hot old town on oil Chilst Chil slmaa mas day among the aali offered for the itic day and evening are a horse race a dog doff light fight it scrapping match malch shoot a denro ot of free aco lunches a toot foot ram and a old aldo show of living curiosities its tile best card offered by tiny any town in the territory and mill ill draw like ahot a hot pitch plaster As mayor we havo have in trie the city marshal to give the boys extra rope tin anil help along I 1 thinea flings all all ho he can and if the glass tips lips are shot 0 A V 4 I 1 qa J me A f e I 1 I 1 ila he op opened ed fire ou on Vs Us oft off the top of every telegraph pole in town we shant have it a word to say there ore axe only tour four or five holidays in the year to celebrate and our people believe in vi whooping hooping them up lip G and T d making the mud ny fly Chil atmaa may M ny not have hava had anything to do with his declaration la lar atlon ration of 0 independence but as to ion n g as the boys think it did and delre e to show their patriotism wo we propose to shove things along and give them a good time it will have hava to do the woodcut wood cut of 0 the santa claus winch we published on the fourth page of our christmas number today caroo carac from a chicago chicaro house only three days ago aeo our order was tor for a representing santa claus as a 3 usually ficen been but by some hochl we wore were sent bent a out cut of satan horris horns hoofs and all there was no time to in make ake a change chance and our readers will please dem deceive themselves As for the inno innocent children of f gulch one santa claus picture Is as good as aa another iother nj and their feelings wm WILL not be hurt lost fourth of 0 july we had to uw use a cut of 0 a chinaman to rehren represent tent washington at valley forge find and on thanksgiving day our picture of 0 it a turkey looker looked ous oua 11 llop kr an Town election rooster but theae aro are incidents can call be ba readily ree llly overlooked by an indulgent subscriber K we iid time we should have lopped olt off S santas homa borne hoofs anti and tall and worked in a reindeer bomea some here but as s wv wo have been rushed it will have to do as it Is the cut will be sold hold cheap to any coni contemporary nho mho wishes to use it to represent present the old year or the new A christmas dance As adver advertised used elsewhere lee in ti ahli IR ansue 1 there thera hlll III it a dance at benners tavern taver n four west of tonn lonn on christmas night mr air bannera Ben Ber nera mors place Is it headquarters qu tl for conboyd con boys and it 1111 lie he it cw cowboys cowboy boy donee dance last christmas ince men vele PIC killed and four or five N olin ald fd before the night nigh t was over and we lentil irain ir ain that they hope to do even boiler bettor abi this year jf it any of 0 our people so go out they should go co well heeled and 1 to shoot straight As noor floor lager mr allenne us ua that 1 nil 1 ladles ladies mill m bo be cam carefully fully ruarda r Ru ardd in case any shooting takes place and lie he has very w m isely imely the celt ot of dr thompson to attend fill all gentlemen who may g get et in the lie way of 0 flying but bul getil wo vo h have ave been personally appealed app aled to to lend our presence to tile the affair to arvo it but as we are not yet q quite ruf 1 ta ready ready to lilt an honored gravo grave vc uc r mut t respectfully but firmly decline TI kot for or this dance tire lire on sale nt ILL tin the blue ron hen saloon and joo joe henderson the enterprising gunsmith next nest d doer der er has just received it a fresh supply of pistol cartridges from chicago A santa claus call three or tour four days ago aco while we nere ero busy in our sanctum it 0 critter named jim moes mho halls from montana slid in upon us ua and announced that he hit had it a santa claus gift flit for or our stocking we had scarcely looked up tip v m hen lie he opened tire fire on us find and lie managed to pull five times before we go ot t his ahls guit away and helped him out doors our inkstand ink stand was shattered ered tile the cover of 0 our dictionary badly raked and two bullets lodged in the office clock but no further denial damage was done mr moss mix is 13 a n hard looking man but a poor poo marksman we interviewed him in the lockup lock up later in the day and found him to bo be it a cross eyed rn ann an which doub doubtless I 1 less accounts for his poor luck lucic lie he had no particular grudge against um u he said but wanted to have a little christmas ot of his onn several daa in advance of anybody else N next ext day he was waa firmed 25 and warned out of toun ton but lie ho seem to be a b bad ad n man an at lie heart I 1 lr I 1 it he la Is going coins to become a real dent of 0 f uila this territory he had bettor better have his eyes straightened or fight with ea club ils E got away we understand that mat the enterprising citizens of grass valley were wela calculating to have a little hanging bee bec on christmas night to add to the interest of the oc occasion caslon but they have been grievously disappointed the man they had their eyes cyca on got sl A hint of what was in 6 tore for him and skipped out three days ago there to la no one else in the town who describes descries des cries hanging and unless some entire stranger Is fool enough to come along and make a nul banco of himself the pro gramme of the evening wm will be cut short we believe the vigilance committee of out gulch c h had just such an affair under consideration a few days ngo age but after rl bonx ion talk tile the idea was waa abandoned it would hove have been crowding too in many any good things into one day Chr chrastra istra comes but once a year while we can nans hang a man every week it we eo 90 elect cop right all rights reserved A santa claus governor it got effot noised through the train that the governor of michigan was waa aboard and many of the passengers of both sexes entered ahli cox car to shako hands and have it a word mord with him at length a little old man who evidently classed as A former crime camo forward to say governor Gov Go einor I 1 was waa jest sp eakin about yo you the other day and im awful clad to see you well im also glad to see you re rc plied the th governor yes I 1 was waa speak ln about you and lie eo w waa as tho the old woman continued the man as his 1113 mile grew brew more bland Sp enking well i ell of me I 1 hope we wms waa that yes sir we was batin supper to home and I 1 aez to my old woman marthas martha the governor of MI michigan chidam Is a mighty nice man mighty nice I 1 les hes pot got a a heart as big biff as art an ox I 1 believe hed make us ua a christmas present if I 1 could talk to him debbe I 1 ho 1 a would martha as she bho rea chesi over tur fur another imater F bevc everybody very body aez lies hes e a mighty nice man mighty nice 11 so you are arc after a christmas present laughed tho the governor athams ltv it sir dr you kin give us ono one and I 1 it t wont cost ya IL cent I 1 was waa goin coin to write ye about it but bein byln evve met be jet as aa mell ell to talk right up wed like our son bon bill for it christmas mas inai i present but how am I 1 to give him to you tasy easy its aa pie GoNer goemon Go emor nor jest pardon him hi in out and ill be on hand band to tako tak him hum la is your son in state prison pr laon asked the official on iclal as aa he opened hla his eyes cyca of course went up for five years fur two cows cowa and has alread already r carved six months say ray governor 1 ac t was as fill it fi mistake and he be orter be pardoned out 1 I low how a mistake why my son eon jim stole etolo thorn them cows end and laid it on to bill and as aa bill had bin StO kUln hogs hoga they thought hed steal cows cowa abeln as its cc colln in on christmas and beinas I 1 said to martha that the governor ot of michigan was waa a mighty nice the governor suddenly froze up and rome home one pushed the little old man out of the car and it if bill still servin serving g tame on that sentence it Is because h he e got out by climbing over the atall original and unique lie ile was waa a genial looking bild headed man of 60 5 but aben he heard us talking about christmas gifts he h a sobered up a little lauie and said eald 1 I am also going poli iff to take adv tage of tho flit occasion to make a gift ali ah poor mary the matter with mith mary asked one of the drummers drum mra mary lary waa my wife sir she has haa been dead dand these live years yc ary ohl oh it please excuse me m e 1 I thought perhaps pr liw you were speak in g of a sick or crippled child you are arc excused yes mary wall wag my first wife and she ehe was wag a treasure she m will III not know that I 1 am making her a christmas Chrls imas present but I 1 shell shall so do atas it at a 9 muter matter of duty duly and loved love it la Is anthe in tho baggage bait gase CM eheim that ratler bauc r queer qui verto to make n christmas gift ett to a dead person asked the drummer after a silence burnce last ins ing a minute or two inc 1 I think it Is was the reply but it must serve to lo show how that I 1 treasure her memory jt it cost coat va find and stands four feet high I 1 do not think I 1 could have got a more suitable gift it she eho could peak I 1 know knon that she ah would espre express her great satisfaction illert I 1 ask tho the nature of 0 the gift was the cautious query oh certainly it 11 Is a ine fine italian marble he heu lalone to mark marys I 1 a r y 9 grave I 1 hope to have it bet up 0 on christmas christinas eve you tou you have waited five yeats yeara to ket get that hend henstone lien datona tone yes sir I 1 havo have been busy getting ni married twice again and n ec ond alte m ife and have just pot got around to it next christmas I 1 shelf present ill the other one nith ith a similar sant it claua gift I 1 think tho the iden idea oric mil I 1 and unique dont you no sir stiffly replied the drumiler dru miner as a he rose up tile the mat matter terr 1 11 I am going out tor for n smoke and I 1 had as soon tell you that I 1 think you yet are a blamed moan mean man I 1 suppose youl I 1 buy your third ii wife ife a a conin catlin for or a christmas 9 gift wont youa you no of course not no sir I 1 would do such a thine na an that thal ivo ive already selected her at and may I 1 as aak what it Is Bri the drumri drumma drum mT r as no lie moved away y you 0 u may air you may I 1 have be bought u g h t at a lot in the cemetery and had the deed mado made out in her name and shell bo be tickled hat holt r to death over ever it |