Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-10-04
THE REPoRTRR's FRIEND.
A Prize Fighter who Stands in.

neu- Hnnueu Mike was IN IHE
TIMES Office yesterday. He is a
most welcome visitor, for his upper
vest pocket is always supplied with
fine two-bit cigars and he is IS pleas
ant a talker AS any journalist wishes
to have call upon him. We will
venture to say that no reporter was
ever discorte rus to Mike, and to add
that Mike was never discortaous to
reporter without cause. He I'M
derstauds more clearly than the
average of mankind the position of
an impartial slave Of the pen, whose
duty calls on him to record the
events of the day in full detail.
Mike said yesterday that he never
fell out wi b newspaper man but
once, and that was when the Fenan
excitement was So rife in the East,
At that time he was raising com
pany t. invade Canada and wrench
that province from the iron grasp of
Great Britain. An editor in Iowa
who did not sympathize with the
movement took occasion to brand
Mike in his paper as bloodthirsty
villain, who WIS never AT peace I'M
less he had some fighting to do.
Mike stood his abuse so long that it
became monotnnous. He fully ap-
preciated the lofty aim OF the press
and its noble functions, but he did
not want to lie the object of its aim
indefinitely. Sa one day Mike met
theseditor on the street aud said to
him. "a
LESS take a drink"
NO !, said the ed'aay ~ amt
thirsty"
"Take cigar, said Nike.
81 don't care if l do, - said the
editor.
They stepped inside an adjoining
saloon, and Mike turned the KEY in
the door.
"The rest, said Mike, when he
had proceeded this far, you must
imagine. will assist your imagin-
alton by saying that the original mat
ter in the next issue of that paper
was for the most part cissored out
of exchanges by the foreman.
Mike saw when he related the fate
of the unfortunate editor who in a
moment of thoughtlessness crossed
his path that The TINES reporter
sympathized with his defeated brother
of Iowa and manifested no absorbing
interest in the narrative. So he
quickly recovered lost ground and
placed himself on former terms of
intimacy and respect by saying, a
smile as of inward satisfaction at the
same time overspreading his fea-
lures:
Don't think that l am usually
that Kind of u man. l assure you
that if you ever get into difficulty
where am l will help you out. l
am always at the service of reporters.
You can abuse all the rough men
in this camp in your next issue and
you can count me in when the mat
ter comes down to cases. :"
"Once l kept a reporter from get
ting a fearful thrashing. 1t was in
Fondu Lac, Wisconsin. Brick Pnme-
roy was publishing his hell roaring
paper there. You know Brick is on
it himself. On, yes, I've had the
gloves on with him. He's pretty good
hitter. Well, as said, one of Bricks
reporters one day mentioned promi-
nent citizen in disrespectful con-
nection and was about IL get licked.
The reporter asked me what to do,
and l told him. The prominent citi-
zen had disgraced himself, and the
reporter was right. The prominent
citizen weighed about two hun
bred pounds. always stand in with
a fellow when he is right. put on
the reporters plug hat and coat and
took a Seat at his table with my back
to the door. The office boy went
out and told the prominent citizen
that the reporter was in the office
waiting 10 receive call from him.
The prominent citizen then rushed
in and asked me if was the damned
sun of n gun that wrote that piece.
| didn't say anything. aud he hit me
On the neck aud Knocked me clear
across the room. Then it was nv
turn. When got through with him
he had to be carried home on a door.
They had to get giazier to come
and nix mp the case that the books
were in. There wasn't any whole
glass about the room or anything in
its place when the fun was over.
The prominent citizen sent his clerk
Al.