Show THE ARIZONA KICKER A town where hank r ank depositors may nest hoat rasy A sl rant MISTAKE ij STAKE tuesday forenoon it came to our oara that the great western bank of this town to rs n was on the point ot of closing its doom on there was no time lalic tor for consi tat ion with our friends out in this country a bunk bank tool fool around about closing up ap when it I 1 baa been decided to close the doors are shut hith ith a bang b ilig and after that nil all you ran call hope for or la is to got a shot at some of the officials eliol als through a back window we laid down our pen buckled on our gone gnus and made a run for it sad and got into the bank just jast as tho the janitor had his hands bands on the door As 4 matter of course we at once proceeded to propound various inquiries standing before t the hi vasli cashiers lern window in a position which was doubtless more or less 6 statuesque tatu esque wo we ahkee ked for full information and nd were goon on in possession of it the last monthly report shon ed the ilia bank to have lost and the directors had bad d decided aided to suspend we WB let go of ono revolver to take up a pencil and po go over the i and in five we discovered rediscovered the e there then was a Tal mistake take in adding up instead of losing e the bank lad had made 1000 and tho decision to go right on doing bus waa as three or four customers cama cam in while we were tal talking king but none of 0 them realized that anything I 1 was out of the way they observed 0 our ur guris guns leveled eye led on tile the cashier through iho to window but supposed we were discus in the eatn ot ex chango an on new york whilo we believe we ve saved this town 10 1 from 0 in a 11 financial anal P ancic 0 le alfich would h vo sent pent tho the price of pin gin high bight nod IDI probably prevented the do 0 o fight adae iu iver tiled for saturday nik it we lu do not tako ani n any great credit to 1 I III 11 11 tj the b closed its doors people mould have bust bua 1 fl I them open and had ohp jbf office Is deceli il it a financial failure they would have aileo hung by tile the clovd but it is ia better to avoid public pl alic a excitement cit ement if possible some of our citizens have drown drawn out their bal y f 2 I 1 4 0 WE ASKED FOR FULL IN having become suspicions of the bank but wo we regard this move a as a foo colish lisi one where there is no possible show for IL a bank president or cashier to skip the town and where it is plainly understood that failure means a noosed koosed rope wo we be ueva lieve that depositors may rent real easy we tile the cz cashier shier to tie more careful with his figures ns as some of his bis depositors are men who shoot first firs and hunt for the mistake afterward A FAIR somo some of our oar citizens ere are inclined to criticise criticism critic ise the verdict of the coroners liers jury in the case of tho the scott ver sus BUS thompson affair bat we tail fail to see pee how it could COU id have arrived a rived at any other sion cion we were nn an eyewitness to the whole affair Tue tuesday day afternoon jim thompson the deceased who is generally referred to as cussin jim rode into to town on a any 3 U use so he had lately purchased over in utah jie ile claimed that the cayuse was used to being ridden into saloons and having hit ving the privilege of prancing around while ahil e his rider popped away at the various articles of use and ornament lie ile further claimed that the animal was lonesome and homesick for au an affair of the sort and he set out to ride him into scotts palace saloon mr scott is a genial gop lial whole man and does not object to it little fun on oil several different occasions we have personally rested our guns on the he bar and I 1 stua smashed shed the sto pers of A various decanters decante Is anti and he be has always tl token ell such affairs in good na da ture tore and never sent a bill under 80 30 days day lie ile was willing to allow cussin jimbo enter on foot and shoot at anything ng in the ho place but the man was pigheaded and obstinate ile he must come in ill on his old cayuse or he would raise a row mr scott met him fit at tho the door and warned him away ile ee refused to go and kept urging his animal at the door when mr scott seized the cayuse by the bits biar jim fired at him and fraed gra bcd his left car ho was about to pull trigger again when the patient and lind hearted carted proprietor of the whipped out a d ertinger derringer nod and bored bore a him had tre heen been in n mr scotts pi ye we should I 1 ve bored jun un at al least ive five in minutes utes sooner there were five other person ers in the sa saloon loos and all were agreed that hat ar mr scott used every reasonable effort 0 avoid sending Be iding tile pigheaded men man from goose creel to join the innumerable cara van he will not only bear all tile the tuu fuu eral cral expenses but send a in cash to tho the late lament eds widow indeed lie ile has baa acted so 80 white from 1 bi ginning pinning to pud end that cussin cusin jim ought to estem esteem it I 1 i greit great privilege to hn put out of the w way a y tl through I 1 rough his hia instrumentality |