The morning news., 1888-07-26
THE ARIZONA KICKER"
Fresh Society and Other Items from a
Unique Journal.
From the Detroit Free Press.

Unique Journal.
From the Detroit Free Press.
We extract the following items from the
latest issue of the Arizona Kicker.
"IMPoRTANT NorICE.-We shall next
week begin the publication of weekly
column devoted TO society gossip. The
movements of society people, balls, parties,
visits, etc, will be chroncied as far as space
will permit, and this will be done without
increasing the subscription price of the
Kicker, which is 81 per year, in advance.
We hope to receive the assistance of the
ladies in this enterprise. When anything
occurs let them send US an outline of it, say
as follows:
"On Wednesday evening last Mrs. Chuck
A. Luck received a few friends at her ele-
giant abode on Coyote avenue. SeTen-up
and old sledge were INDUCED in (as well as
whisky punches)s suntl late hour, and the
guests departed to their homes III the hap
plest mood. There are no flies on Mrs.
Luck. Her former experience il Chicago
as hash-slinger in cheap hotel fits her to
play the part Of hostess to perfection.
LEFT FOR THE SEAsHoRE.-Sunday
evening last our friend aud fellow-towns-
mad, Col. Biyens, left for the Atlantic sea-
board TO spend the heated term among his
old friends.
He was accompanied by a detective, to
see that lie did not lose his way.
ut is said that he will stop off at Sing
Sing for a time.
"The colonel left in hurry, and had no
time to bid his friends good-by. We wish
him bon voyage, and hope the sea breezes
will Go him good"
LIARS AT WORK-The liar is still with
us, and his venomous tongue is still at work
He has, as his latest trar saction, covered
the town with the report that we attended
Mrs. Maj. Gordons birthday party without
a shirt on, and in coat borrowed OF Sol
jackson, the livery stable man.
"lt Is an Infamous calumny!
1T is a lie stepped in malicel
ut is "A slander worthy of the days of
Nero
1--WE not only wore shirt, but we had
another at the office.
'We not only did not borrow Sol Jack
sons coat, but we wore one which we have
owned for fourteen years. We believe this
lie emanated from the widow Stevens, who
set her cap for us and got left. We are
tracing it home and the authoress of it had
better be prepared to skip"
"ArTEMPTED SUICIDE.-On Saturday
evening last old Bill Towner whose
drunken carcass has OBJ .tructed every gut
ter IN town by turns, got an idea that he
would be better off in heaven. He there
fore went down to the bridge and rolled
himself into the river. 1t was the first
tumber OF water he had struck for thirty
years, and it made him lonesome to get
back to whisky. Some people heard his
yells, and suppoSing that he was somebody
worth saving, they hauled him out. We
hope he will try it again soon. He spoiled
the water for twenty-three miles down
stream, and its no wonder he is ashamed
to show his faco on the streets up to date"
1T HURTS 'EM.-The show of live ads
which the kicker is now making hurts
some Of the newspapers in this locality
awful bad. The BuitlUhocker and others
are charging us with procuring our ads. by
threats and intimidation. 1t is a monstrous
lie. Business men advertise with us be-
cause they know that we are reaching out
after circulation of 100 900 copies, and
that we have already booked 1874 names
toward it. We drop into business house
in business way, explain the advantages
of advertising in paper like the Kicker
and seldom go away empty handed. While
it may have happened that non-advertisers,
! like old Cobb, the grocer, and Dead Beat
| Smith, the druggist, have had their records
| published and been shown up for what
they were, it was only coincidence. Let
the jackals how'll We know our gait and
propose to keep right along"
GONE IN.-Will the individual who tel
| egraphed the st. Louis papers the other day
that we had been cowhided by a woman
please call and see us at an early dates We
want to tell him what we think of his con-
| duct and tlen break HIM in two
THE only foundation for such slander
was the fact that the Widow Briggs, who
runs a cross-eyed eating house on Arkansas
alley, called upon us to say that the Kicker
had belied her. She had a whip in her
| hand. We offered to apologize, and she
playfully hit us about the shoulders Some
base born hyena at once wrote out sensa-
tional dispatch and hurried it off, calcula-
ting to do US all the harm possible. We
have camped on his TRAIL however, and
when sure of his identity will make his
heart ache"