Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-18
THE ARIZONA "KICKER.o
q Few Hints and Other Evidences O
 UnfaiIing Enterprise.

A Few HNnEg ana OGhGr EV10GMCGD OH Unfailing Enterprise. From the Detroit Free Press.l We extract the following items from the last issue of the Arizona Kicker:
 Our Jolly Friends.-When we erected the shanty which has ever served us for an office, Italian marble, Milwaukee brick and plate glass were way up in e." and be- yond our means. That's the reason we didn't put up @ six story temple, and that's the reason we built of sods and boards. We traded our last undershirt for two half-win- dow sashes, which contained six panes of glass each, and for some time these were the only sash on Park Row, and our bosom swelled with pride. Our bosom has, however, ceased to swell.
 Such friends of ours as do not care to go 1 to the trouble of calling upon us in the daytime and punching our head for some | real or fancied grievance, hang off uRt1 the office is closed and we have sought our ! couch. Tben they rock our windows and \ canter away before we can bring our shot | gun to bear. While we have saved enough \ rocks for the foundation of our new office, it l has been hard on our windows. The last bit | of sash went last night, and to-day we are all boarded up in front Sorry to deprive the boys of their fun, but we have got to look out | for winter.
 The Wrong Locality.-Nothing further \ will appear in the Kicker in regard to either Free Trade or Protection. When the cam paign opened we went in heavy for Free | Trade, but we couldn't excite single sub | scriber- Then we turned to Protection but not leaf stirred. We have praised and
 abused both Cleveland and Harrison by | turns, and have clubbed and hattered all parties, but our brilliant talent has gone for naught. It isn't the locality. Five lines regarding 8 doS-fght is worth more to this neighborhood than five tons of political edi- torials. A mention of old Steve Smith | falling in to Dead Horse Creek will excite more real interest than dozen political plat forms. Therefore, hic jacet soils, and SC l forth, which means that we shall not breaE any more suspenders stealing editorials from the Chicago papers
 Explanatory.-Our agricultural editor wa drunk for five days last week, and it was nc \ wonder that he got things somewhat mixed ! Where he eaid "tierces per acre" he mean
 bushels. Where he spoke of turnips weigh ing ton apiece he meant 6 pound. H' spoke of having seen hills of catsup, tree loaded down with lobster salad and the seasoE l being backward for chow-chow. He wal drunk when he traced the words, and in oul hurry to get the forms to press VIC did no
 read his proofs.
 l It's all right, however. The agriculture ol this section is so badly mixed that enougf cannot be said in it's favor. We started thu department in order to help out a tenderfoo ] who seemed to know all about it, and so fa | as we can learn OlQ JOSG blSCrl, nAlL- Dr0et Mexican living over by Buckwkeat Valley, ii the only subscriber who reads the column It may do Jose good, but we doubt it in pow
 erfuI manner.
 More Enterprise.-Three new faro bank
 and two saloons have been established since
 our last issue, and we hear of several othel
 enterprises for the near future. The towI
 is bound to grow. We don't claim tha
 faro bank will add to the population a
 quick as a rolling mill, but it is far hveliel
 institution and doesn't occupy one-tenth O
 the room.
 Passed Over-Old Jim Badlau was found
 dead in his bed last Sunday morning, and
 Coroner's jury returned verdict of to-
 much whisky Old Jim and ourseH wer
 the only two men in town who didn't pu on false whiskers every time the stage can , in, and who dared inquire for their ow1
 mail at the post-offioe. We remember hir
 chiefly as the first who got ahead of U
 in Arizona. We intended to strike him, fo
 the loan of quarter, but he hit us frs
 for the loan of half. Poor old Jiml W are not going to guarantee that he is bette
 of, but will wager two to one that he hs found shortage of saloons in his new stamr ing ground.