Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-03-30
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Pleasant Items from tho Glorious West
IO)R SHOOTING.

IoDR SHOOTING.
We extract the following from I'll
last Issue of the ArizOnn Kicker:
As we Were returning to our office
from the Widow Smiths the other
evening 1--WE have been sparkling the
widow for several weeks past, and just
as we came opposite the old Indian fort,
some person whose manners certainly
need pol shing up, fired four bullets at
us from n revolver. The intent, no
doubt, was to kill MS. 1t took rs about
the milionth part of second to re-
alize this fact, and then we opened out
for run and made good our escape.
We don't claim to be great shakes on
shooting, but if we can't hit the editor
and proprietor of the great and growing
weekly at a distance of twenty feet
once in four shots we will leave Ari-
IONA. We don't claim to be n Chester
field, but if our manners permitted us
to hide away behind an old stone wall
and begin popping at gentleman with
ont warming, we'd expect to be men
toned i'll the same line with n hvena.
TOO MUCH TALK.
about that mistake of our popular
young druggist of the Blue Front
which sent Col jim Jackson to his
grave Col. Jim asked for quinine
and got strvchninn by mistake, but
there are good many redeemiug fe,-
lures. The Colonel was old, lazy, and
drunk half his time, and left no one to
mourn his loss. The druggist is a
Young and energetic man, who sold out
a coal-varl in Chicago to come here
and go into the drug business, and it
must be expected that he will make q
few mistakes in the go off. We call at
tcntion to his liberal manner of adver-
Using in the Kicker. He has assured
us that such mistake cannot occur
again, as he has properly labeled the
bottles.
AN DTHER LIE NAILED.
Our esteemed contemporary down
the street charges us this week with
bulldoing the business men of this
town mo advertising with us. We
nail that statement as | O. Our meth
eds of securing advertising have always
been perfectly lie gitimate. If man
who fed from Ohio to escape State
prison for arson opens a grocery here we
drop around fora friendly chat with him,
and we let him know that we are post
ed on him. Then we set forth our cir
culation AMI influence, give him rates,
and if he says he doesn't want to adver-
tisa that ends it. While we advise all
to advertise, we never buldoze, as all
can stify If buldozing would Sc
cure advertising the old clap. trap con-
Germ down the street covered with
mortgages would be quite apt to try it.
APoLOGETICAL.
During our absence last week an item
crept into the local columns which has
stirred up considerable feeling. 1t was
in relation to the death of Judge
Handy, and the writer of it, supposing
truth was demanded, sa d the deceased
was an old loafer, hummer, drnnkard
and deadb a, and that he was found
dead beside a jug of whisky. The
friends of the deceased are Justly indig-
ntnt at tn S expose, although they do
not dispute the charges. We are very
sorry that anything of the sort should
happen, and are Tow preparing an
article for next week, in which the
Judge is c)mplime lted for his sobriety
and love of cold water-praise for his
honesty and Observation-Disclosures
for his public charities, and referred t.
a one of the most upright men west of
Chica 20. While all knew better, and
while the whole thing will be a false
hood We shall be smoothing it over for
his friends. Extra copi $, done up
ready for mailing, only five cents each.
detroit Free Press.