| Show THE ARIZONA KICKER plenty of honors for the editor but no office yet we extract the following from the last issue of the arizona kicker NOT at T in reply to anxious in qu ot philadelphia we would say that we hold no political or appointive office whatever R here it would be very appropriate foi ua to add thai we want nothing of the sort and eliat if the president would tender us a cabinet position we refuse it ave aught to say re don t propose to we have been rady r ady for the last two years to take most anything we coufal get on in the av of an office but the opi 0 tunny faint dropped on nur side of lne fence while we are the editor publisher pu blisner nd pro krietor of a great weekly newspaper and ft bile TO conduct a job office newspaper grocery hardware butcher shop millinery store feed store and bignal station all under one roof there it still an aching void while our may play hypocrite and liar we ee no occasion to conceal our i eal feelings we want office of some kind and well get it or bust a gunj hi ailein is artel last wednesday night when returning home from a all at the two atory adobe of the widow glas fields and aust as we were passing the ruins of old fort todd we were fired upon three times in rapid succession we stop to inquire the gent lemans name nor to ask the occasion of his hilarity but covered the mile of sandy road leading into town in liap fiyo minutes next morning we went down to the ruins to see what we could see and it cost us three minutes time to discover who fired the shots there were the foot paints of a bowlegged bow legged man a man so bow legged that no one could mistake his iden tit we returned to town and set out to hunt up professor alio had been playing an accordion accor deon in come of the first crass saloons and who was gone on the widow without our knowledge we had some music in our hip pocket for his private car but a brief search disclosed the fact that he had skipped the town he had been us boing out to look up hiis tracks and had at onca bolted into the sagebrush sage brush TRY IT ONCE two months ago the postmaster post master of this town lidel saro a jacent whether our mail reached us or not and every complaint we made was i received with ill disguised contempt we brought matters to a climax by encouraging him to attempt to horses hip us as soon as he had struck the first blow we sailed in and his friends say that he was the worst licked man ever heard of in arizona since that date nothing is too good for us HP sends a boy over with our mail twice a day and every one of our subscribers gets his kicker so promptly that the paper feels hot when ft reaches him mem if your postmaster wont travel in the right bridal path baste him it beats appeals to Wn all hollow HAD TO BE DONE six months ago this vas full of hecl lf yi and terrors ev n oio aio d alip and the b eoa got drunk that no 1 elp could be had from him chefe i tl e bowd to day gone dug out disappeared what caused it tha opened on them with out tea or dav or they u ua we joad cd our guns and went out and dropped m baciow with a ball in the jee ann at lon grange and lit tom jacksons Jack pons ear as he turned the postoffice post office corner we cave four of the gamblers a day to pack up in furn frfd the rope that hung jack beavers nd it was our gun that want off when dead wood hank tumbled from the bridde last night the representative citizens of the town tendered us a banquet and presented us with an ice pitcher as a token of their approbation readers may look for full report in our nex thanks gentlemen we dont want to run the town bat weve got a into our haada that it must be made safe fora mule the of Apache avanne day or night westward the star of empire takes its way and we will say light here before we forget it that if charlie bar the gray easle saloon dropout of sight before sator daty hell stand a prime show of a grave anthe sand pit |
