Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-09-22
THE KICKING KICKER.
The Boycott That Didn't Works Life
Worth Living?

The following extracts are made from the
last issue Of The Arizona Kicker:
"THEv BoycoTT Us.-The fact that we
have been running the Kicker pretty much
es we pleased since the first number was
issued has given mortal otfense to certain
people in this neighborhood. We have been
kicked, licked, pounded, threatened, shot at
and bluffed right along, and nave grown fat
OH it.
I'VE came to stay
''Fact is. we've got to- We haven't any
thiugto so on.
'Havins tried all other measures to make
us let co. and having failed ingloriously in
each instance, it was determined to boycott
US in n social way. We have been chuck n
luck with the very cream of society since our
advent. In fact, we have been most Of the
cream.
'lt was decided n few days ago by syndi-
cate of the high toned TINT We must he So
cialy snubbed and crushed Accordingly
Mrs. Maj Bazoo, of Grizzly Heights, an
nounced a recherche affair and invited every
body in the set but us. 1t was given out that
she feared our manners would disgrace the
occasion, and il they didn't our clothes
would.
W
LiuT ana went one better On the night of
the uarty the sheriff made haul of three
high toned prisoners ut the house OF Maj
Bazoo, while half dozen Others broke for the
woods. We have got one great advantage
over the other creams of society. We left the
east by daylight aud shoo; hands with the
sheriff rs we started We are neither q
higamist, eloper, embezzler, horse thief, Jail
bird or gambler We don't want to work
this lever u,,ess some ono jumps on our col
lar. We have reduced tony society over half
sncc we came here by giving the sheriff
pointcr2 We can run the other half out o.
Town in week. .~s. Maj. Bazoo has called
10 beg onl pardon and express her deep dis
gust with herself. We nave forgiven her,
knowing it will not happen again. AS for
Judge Cahoots. who inspired the boycott and
S, the crushing machine at work. we bear
HIN no anniosty. We will SIMPLY remark
that he is a b.gamst, iilcendiary, .mbe2Zler.
forgef, pcrjurer and highway robDor and we
have dispatched Plakerton to come and get
him"
"Our anliab!e and Sentlemanly sheriff en-
tered our Office day before Yesterday in his
/ usual urbane manner and announced that he
u ust serve papers on US. 1t was u notice Of
breach of promise suit against us by the
widow CliXby, who alleges that we have been
toying with her heart strings, and that it
viii take 5000 of our cash to settle ler
thoughts back in the old channel
''lt is another move on the part of our en-
e.nes to down u.s.
I've first net the widow Ciixby twenty.
eight days ago in Carriers grocery. She
asked our opinion of herrings, and we asked
hers Of soap. She invited Us TO call at the
/ house and see some poetry she had written
o. the rise and fall of the mastodon. w.
complied. We called there three or fun
times afterwards, but only rs friend. Or
oae occasion the widow showed us u clipping
/ from an eastern paper to the effect that i,
Was better for a man who had passed the nS.
Of - to marry a widow, if he was to marry
but we didn't bite.
I'VE know our gait. II the willow Cliih,
can prove to the world that we have toyct
with her affections we'll cheerfully 90 to jail
We are not on the toy. The widow will fins
Us no jack rabbit, and the enemies who hav,
enc )uraged this new move may hear some
;hilg drop before the trial is over"
"Wednesday evening as we put on OH
Mother Hubbard and s2<down by the opel
widow to get a breath Of air before retiring
a sadness suddenly stole over us and in fey
minutes we found tears in our eyes. The quer,
came to us over and over again; Is lif
worth livingF and as we thought of the oil,
hoAestead-the days of boyhood-the man,
gr.Hes-the changes of thirty years-th
fountains Of the deep were broken up and W.
wcpt.
him nearer heavens gate We don't knoy
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