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Show The Arizona Kicker. We extract the following items from the last issue Of t the1 Arizona Kicker; says the Detroit Free Press: Last Saturday the Granite Hills Savings Sav-ings bank of this town failed to open its doors, aud a notice was posted up to the effect that it would open up in about a week and pay at least 50 cents on the dollar. Tho boys got together about 10 o'clock and Mr. Duggan, the president, was invited to explain matters. He said he hadn't time jjust thett, but after a rope had been passed over his head he explained that the failure had been caused by-over-contidence in silver mine investments. The boys doubted this, and Mr. Duggan wis taken to the bank and compelled to show his books and his cash. After figuring for about two hours a committee commit-tee found that there was mouey enough to pay every depositor $1.47 on the dollar, dol-lar, and it was accordingly passed out and the bank wound up in ship-shape fashiou. It was no failure, but simply going out of business. Mr. Duggan had calculated on a little scoop, but the boys got ahead of him. lie left town on foot, carrying a spare paper collar in his hind pocket, aud he will probably look for some hayseed town in which to begin life anew. We have a failure here in trade now and then, but we permit no bank to fail unless all depositors are first paid in full. Ex-Judge Jim Harrison who has been a familiar figure on our streets for the last year anil who was supposed to be a retired Hour merchant from Minnesota, Minne-sota, out here to cure his asthma, is with us no more. He departed yesterday yester-day in charge of a detective, and will bring up at Jolict as the end of his journey. Judge Jim objected to the course of the Kicker. He didn't like us one bit, and when he saw us walking to the front he felt it a personal hit to himself. him-self. Ho threw out his hints that we were trying to run the town, but that he would limke us chew cactus before he was done with us. One day two weeks ago ho tried to force us into a personal quarrel, and we learned afterwards after-wards that lie had a derringer in his pants pocket and shapucd it at us, but it failed to go off. I.elicviug that ive could run the town bet ler t ban the judge, we began hunting hunt-ing up his pedigree, aud in tho course of a week discovered that ho was an "escaped gentleman"froiu state prison. He went away saying that ho owed us one, but as he has seven years yet to serve, we shan't begin to worry for some time yet. |