The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-21
!. RECEPTION WILL BE EXPECTED
4. TO WEAR A WHITE SHIRT.

The inference was as plain as the pim-
Piles on Mrs. Gildersleeve's nose. They
thought we'd attend with an army blanket
thrown carelessly over our shoulder. The
object was to let US know that Mrs. Gill
dersleeve didn't look upon us as knowing
what belonged to manners. 1t was all
right. We didn't go. As to whether the
Gildersleeve ring came out ahead, opin-
ions differ. Our account of the party,
headed Gathering of Vultures," is still
going the rounds of the press. In that
article we proved Judge Gildersleeve to
lie an embezzler and horse thief, and
we adduced positive evidence that Mrs.
Judge was broken-down and played out
fortune. teller. who had been compelled
to skip from ST. Louis. The Judge called
at the Kicker Office the next day with a
shotgun, but when we brought out more
letters--proofs that he had served time in
three prisons, that Mrs. Judge still had
the work house cut on her hair when she
arrived in Arizona, the Judge didn't shoot.
The Jackass Hill set next tried to make
US sing small. They got mad because
we weren't putting them in every issue.
Colonel Decker had two shilling's worth
of repairs made to his mule harness and
the Kicker didn't notice it. Mrs. Prof.
rockingham turned an old silk dress
top to- bottom, and the Kicker didn't
come out with notice that she had re-
ceived another $500 dress from Worth.
Major Hornblower put porcelain door
knob on the front door of his adobe, and
the Kicker didn't come out and list it as
one of the enterprises bound to bring in
new settlers and boom real estate. It
was, therefore, determined to down US.
Lily De Lisle, the red headed daughter
of the one-legged county clerk, made her
debut and we were not invited to the
blow-o out. 1t was an action intended to
break our heart, and we promptly count
cred. 1t was on our tip that the sheriff
went up about 10 o'clock that evening
and gathered in two bigamists from New
England, an embezzler from Ohio, and
fugitive from Chicago, all of whom were
looked upon as the cream of society, and
we're airing their frills and scallops at
the grand debut.
We are here to stay. We put up our
own shanty with our own hands. We
board and lodge ourself, and we have not
only got the cost of living down so fine,
but are getting our white paper so cheap
that we can make money on list of thirty
subscribers and three pages of dead ads.
We are going to run the Kicker after our
own style, whether it pleases the big bugs
on Jackass Hill or the half-starved coy
otes in Poverty Hollow. While we don't
banker after invitations to euchre parties
and church socials, we don't propose to
take snub from any set. While We are
willing to boom the town, we don't pro-
pose to let the outside world know that
some citizen has added bath-tub to his
duqout, or that some merchant has just
received fresh wad of bed ticking.
There have been hints thrown out by
the courthouse ring that We are to be
starved out. Try it on, gentlemen. We
ere cov 6fteen dollars ahead of the game,
have paper enough on hand for ten weeks,
and our living expenses last week footed
up only sixty-seven cents. We came to
atick.--Arizona Kicker.