Show NO 0 PLACE TO JOKE THE EDITOR OF THE KICKER THINKS A FUNNY MAN 13 OUT OF PLACE alo fol brafio to gartral runny runs up against a rn ii tho first thine A DoUbt doubtful fill experiment peri ment com copioli Co ri lit IM by Cli arles B D lewis Oun FUNNY MAN last arst week a young mall mail camell along jong hero here who clai claimed nied to have been the tunny funny man mall on oil a colorado paper for or two or three benm yc im but had lost bi his job on oil account of tho the suspension of 0 tho the paper lie ile was willing to work cheap in order to get it a new start and wo we took him on trial for li week at A As we had always understood that a 11 funny man lio lie lidd held down like other newspaper biks folk swe we told this chap to slash around on his own look and pick up tip his fun wherever lio lie could find it As lie look like a tenderfoot wo we think it ilece necessary sary to post him on tile the eccentricities of any of our lending citizens I 1 old kill bill jackson who operate 9 tho ferry erry across the little colorado river is invariably picked u up jib by v st strangers rangers as asa a coin comical leal cuss his mouth always wears a grin and there Is a bl ard and look from t the lie end of 0 liis its nose buso to the roots roote of his hiir hair these things thing c r re deceptive however ten years ago eill dill brought lit his wife out here from 1111 ois nis at an all expense of 0 60 arid and she ran off with a hilt half h breed inside ofa of a week lies I 1 pen mad ever since and we wa who know him best would as soon think ft tickling a grizzly under the foro fore leg as to joke with the feri ferryman arnan our tunny funny man had got sight of old bill and estimated that lie ha would pan out about a 0 thousand jokes lie w went ent doar to see him arid and found him as asleep leep on 01 thi the bank of the ri river ver tile the funny man mall awoke lim him by tickling him with a straw ani an whispering in his cars cam the can cankerous tan kerous old critter got up and seized our rising young humorist and flung him hlin up and flung filing him dov n and pitched him around and walked on him till lie have been worse off it if a herd of a thousand mules had passed over him when wo gor possession of the body it was supposed to be lifeless but bat otter after four hours I 1 aard ard work the doctors fanned up tip a little flame and today uie the young mart man lives though he is not conscious it will be six weeks at the least before he can get out of bod bed and probably six moro more before wo we can ship him off to some som other eother paper wanting a funny man we ve hall bo be out of at pocket at and A HE SEIZED oln mr MING TOUNG right here ii a good abood place to give notice that tiie kickert has no lisa fara far u funny man 1 1 I 1 4 there are lots of funny things happening 1 1 g around here and most of our people enjoy a joke but at the same time wo we are aie set in in our ways we shall now and then w write rite and publish something tunny funny but bat tor for three or four days after the paper comes out we shall have our two guns lying where they ran can be grabbed at a seconds notice tho the joke way may be received all I 1 right and bring in beveral invitations to go out and take something or it may be received all wrong and cebu it in half bait a dozen calls from who shoot right and left IM handed ONE 0 OS Us we had a telephone message from clinch valley lust last tuesday to the the people of that town were going to hold a public meeting on oil the subject of admitting arizona to statehood and that we were wanted as one of the speakers we therefore gayly saddled our cayuse cay use put our speech lit in our pocket and started out filst as we were ready to go the city clerk ent bent over to borrow our office dictionary to see how the word eventuate was spelled anti and in fooling around wo we forgot to strap on our gun auni we were two miles out of town when n wo we missed them and then concluded to trust to the speed of our mule in tead tf id of going back it turned out to bo be a vry foolish conclusion on our part wr we r meled the crossing of spike creek without incident but while ascending tho the bank on the north side it a critter stepped out from behind a bush leveled two juns auns cuns at us as and ord ordered tred us to get down we held our arnis arms above our head while be turned our pockets pocket wrong side out we wa had almost 1 dollar in cash but the abari sious critter was di disappointed appointed arid and indignant and made home borne awful threats we lye ried ned koput to put in aw a 6 watch to himat him at 00 30 but be have it ile he was about to let as off 03 when be came across that speech lie Is was one of tile few ew men dealu au this territory who are opposed to admission and or of f course he wanted to make it as hot as po bible sible forus tor us while lie he sat onn on n rock with willia a 9 gun n in either liand hand and ono one ol 01 ol 01 our liest best cigars in his month we were compelled too to deliver the speech lie ile frequently interrupted us to call us a liar and a scoundrel but never to applaud the speech Is timed tor for 20 minutes and the unfeeling scoundrel insisted on our repeating it three times over while ho be thought ho he knew us as as editor of TUE KICK fr ell f R ho he quite aito sure bun and it is needless to say we lied a about out it and claimed to run a poker room wo we returned homo home instead of going to clinch valley WO we have got aur affairs in shape to leave the oll ica for or four or live days and tomorrow we out it if that tinted for a highway robber is in arizona Ario aa we mean to find tim lim the dignity of journalism demands that his scalp ornament our office looking glass and that hla his cars find their way into ito jar of alcohol wherein aro preserved various kindred relics |