The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-12-17
JOURNALISM IN ARIZONA.
Red Gulf Ripsnorter, August i.


JOURNALH~M IN ARIZONA.
Red Gulf Ripsnorter, August /.
The circulation of the Ripsnorter is
simply paralyzing. 1t everlastingly
knocks the almighty spots out OF every
thing in this section OF the country and
don't you forget to remember it.
BowieKnife, Augusts
Every saloon keeper in the burg knows
that the bowie-knite gets out more papers
than any other blanket sheet in Arizona.
Ripsnorter, August Is.
When the editor of the skinfnt sheet.
the Bowie-knifr, says he prints more pa
pers than We do We answer that he is
liar and mugwump. We don't want to
seem ungentlemanly and severe, but he is
a white livered-coward and horsethief
and We can lam the bloody eye out of him
in three shakes of pigs ear Our fight
ing hour is a. m., and we can always he
found at that time in Bloody Dicks sa-
loon, where we have rented fighting pen
and private graveyard. All corpses
buried at our expense.
Bowie Kuife Aug ist -
The cowardly cur, the editor Of the
Ripsnorter, can talk fight, but every one
knows what kind of a hairpin he is
Why, an ordinary glass of good bulgt.
will knock him out, and when he tackles
a dose of genuine Rocky Mountain
tangefoot he is laid out stiff as a poker.
He's the worst l"p-sided, cross-eyed, one
cared son OF galoot in these diggingS,
and we warn him that he'd better carry
his shooting irons with him, for we're go
ing to put some holes in his carcass the
first time we see him. Our name is two
fingered Jake, and We are LAYING for him.
Ripsnorter, August 20.
Two-fingered Jake had better have
some more fingers splced on before he lays
for One-eared Billy. We know this cur
and we are coming down to see him.
This apology for mule hangs out at
Red-headed Jimmie's place and if the
boys want to see some fun they had bet
ter drop in there tonight. Jimmie, Old
man, you'd better get your crockery
down behind your breastworks, for well
open just as soon as We lay eyes on that
galoot.
Ripsnorer. September s.
Written by the Office boy.
BULLY FIGHT
The purtiest fight this town ever see
sence Bloody Dick shot Champaign
Charlie was the one where One-eartd
Billy, the editor of this paper, kicked the
bucket. 1t was just a charmer.
The boys had all been warned of the
picnic, so Red-headed Jimmie's whiskey
shop wuz iull-as wuz also the boys.
Jimmie stood behind the bar and took in
the chips and passed out the pizen, wait
in, all the while for Two-fngered Jake to
show up. Purity soon he cum and every
one seed he was ready for bizuess, for he
he'd two Colts and a Bowie. He stepped
up to the bar and ordered drinks for the
crowd, at the same time askin' if his friend
One-eared Billy he'd been round yet.
When he wuz told he hadn't he said he
had little bizness and he guessed he'd
wait for him. Jest then bullet cum tbro
the window aud knocked Jake's
glass outen his hand. Everybody drop
ped, and as Jake cooked his revolver he
said:
"Well, he's derned perlite feller, any
way, for he sends his card in ahead of
him."
Red-headed Jimmie he'd dropped be-
hind his steel-plated bar fer protection,
but he put his head up once aud sed:
"Dont waste no shots, Jake. The
place is purity we'll bunged up now," and
then the door opened and my boss cum in.
Talk about your purity tights. Why,
this was the finest show this town ever
see. Each on 'em got behind table
and then the sport begun. There wuzu't
no bullets wasted. Every time they shot
somebody wuz hit. One-eared Billy goa
his other ear taken off the first blaze and
Two-tngered Jake lost some of his nose.
When their ammunition give ont they wuz
caryin' the bullets in their carcasses. But
the best part OF the show wuz when they
cum together with bowies. That wuz
just purty-no bunglin,' but jest artistic
carvin'. 1t does Teller good to see
flight where both parties understand their
bizness. When they got thro they wuz
so scattered you couldn't tell which be-
longed to which. The only thing identi-
fled wuz Billy's ear and that il on exhibit
ton at this Office. The coroner decided
that they went up the fume by special
dispensashun of Providence. He had to
sit on both bodies at once b. cuz, as | sed,
you couldn't tell which wuz which.
One-eared Billy wuz bully boy and a
hustler. He wuz a good boss, but it wuz
worth while to lose him to see such a bull
lv f;0ht