Show THAT kickers KIC KERl MAN 1 gets after wore of the citizens I 1 roughshod the last issue of alio arizona kicker contains the following Another months have passed those who predicted the demise of the kicker weeks ago havo been badly left wo are still here and here wo shall remain and years after the coyotes have licked the bones of our detractors the kicker will be a power in the land we dont deny that it has been uphill up hill work with us to publish a paper here our whole outfit inventory but forty dollars when we struck the town and we have been wearing the same shirt for seven weeks without a change but the worst has passed this week we have been enabled as our readers will observe to substitute a poem for that timeworn electrotype of lydia and a funny sketch of that column block of tain killer and other great improvements will follow from time to time if all greswell go eswell with us tor the next year wo can throw out nearly all the dead ads we are now carrying and pills and liniments lina ments will dwell with us no more unless paid for our object in coming here was to get a new start in life weve got it and DO thanks to any one we take one hundred and fifty dollars for our plant today to day and the hold we have obtained on the affections of the people could not be bought at any price we dont fling on any scallops as far as dress is concerned and everybody cook and sleep in our office but when we met the governor of dako sa the other duy he seemed glad to itile us wo know we have been criticized criticised for turning our paper collar mending our own clothes and doing our own washing but let the snobs of jackass hill beware george washington began life by peddling roof boer which hib mother brewed in a borrowed chum we admit that we have made enemies by our course politically boutwe were actuated by the best of motives before the richer was established that jim brown thought he owned the earth wo have nad to saw off ms homs before our arrival on the scene that orie horse one eyed lawyer who gave himself the title of green considered that ho run the town and a large share of the surrounding country wo broke his wings in two weeks and ho will never soar again on the first night of our arrival as we were camping under our wagon we were approached by that bowlegged spindle cracked voiced porous plaster who goes by acho name of aex smith and informed as that this was an unhealthy climate for tramps we shall help to make it BO for at least one next ahall publish letters received from the east that this hoenea of a smith 1 who is throwing out his hints that he can name the next governor had to leave ohio to escape the that he has never been divorced from either of hi three anos wo cant brag on our subscription we havo only thirty seven subscribers but they all love us and all haye paid in advance the new yoris herald started on throe our advertising for the last quarter brought us in bix boxes ot pills two bottles of stomach bitters one dozen capucine cap plasters one keg of paint one box of soap and over two dollars in cash this may not equal the income of the new york world but it is a strong proof that brains aro appreciated in any section some of the human squirt guns hanging out around the future metropolis tro polis used to bo bragging about how they were building up the place one issue of the kicker added more to the population than all the brag those pigeon toed diggers had put forth in five years while we return our thanks to those who have stood by us and helped us make the kicker what it is we repeat that we dont care a copper for the who havo criticized criticised and rather have their enmity than their friendship |