Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-07-27
TIE ARIZONA KICKER.
Western Editor with q Great MaMy
Things TO Live For.

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Things to Live For.
The last issue Of the Arizona Kicker
contained the following:
EXPLANATORY. The absence of our
society column for the last three Is
sues seems to call for an explanation.
The trouble was jealousy among the
bon ton. II we happened to make q
five-line announcement that Mrs.
Colonel Dash expected her brother-in-
law direct frsm the California peni-
tertiary on certain date. and only n
four-line item 10 the effect that Mrs.
Judge De Soto, imported her hustle
direct from Zansibar. there was an Ill
feeling which stirred up the entire
community.
We BooM.-While the towns about
Us have been Dragging OF their pro-
gress. we have kept quiet and got In
our work without kicking up any cloud
OF dust Brag 10 all right In its way.
but we don't propose TO come'out with
double-leaded, scare-head article
every time a citizen hangs new from,
gate. Booms are good enough In their
way. but there must be merit behind
them With no disposition 70 claim
this as the only growing town IL
Arizona, and with no dosire u
kill the growth OF rival towns, We
humbly call attention 10 the fact tina
since January LIST fourteen now saloons
three poker rooms and four retail TO
bacco stores have been opened In thu
place. and at the present momen
eighteen men are engaged In buildinl
q jail capable OF accommodating thirt,
prisoners. We have done all this with
out any brag or buster. and we pro
pose ~ keep right on In the same quie
fashion. leaving the outside world h
judge for itself as TO where 1t shall
seek new homes and invest Its capital
IT PAYs.--Several months ago W,
established q grocery and feed store Il
connection with the Kicker. The Net
York World. Herald. and other effet
dailies OF the metropolis predicted
dismal failure, but the result show
they were mistaken. We figured this
this other business would be Just wht
we needed 70 distract our mind froi
the harrassing thoughts OF EDITORIAL
running this country. and that "
would be all the better and brighte
for being occasionally interrupted
our literary labors. The result .hf
justified our predictions--and NOR
We were mover In as good mental cor
dition as now, while our sales ha,
kept increasing week by week until "
have been compelled to hire a clerk
assist us. The editorial entitled "a
vice TO the President" was written wit
more than a dozen Interruptions I
{ measure corn. draw molasses and sc
clothes-pins. and yet VIC will put
against anything which ever originals
from the pen Of the stuck-up and excl
sive New York editors.
{ OUR JEALOUS CONTEMPORARY
dyspeptic old excrescenco who CLAIM
10 edit tho milk-and-mush publicatiS
down at the corner OF Catfish alley
Jealous of our advertising patronag
In a labored article this week in h
! poorly printed old apology he says tn
we practice bulldozing 20 bring adve
Using. What iiarl The Kick
practice bull-dozing! The Idea
laughable. and II he was worth 'hiifp
Ing we would walk down to his sharA
and choke the assertion down hi
brazen throat. There used to be SO,
eral firms here which didn't believe 4
advertising. We couldn't make 'er
believe In II until We went at IL an
found out that they were composed q
gentlemen who had skipped from tn
east for barn burning. horse stealing
bigamy. embezziemsnt. etc. Then w
wrestled with EN-. and they came 3
see that the life of trade was In usin
printers ink. We simply convinced
not bulldozed. The efforts OF on
knoek-kneed contemporary to smirc
the fair fame OF The Kicker will simpl
call forth smiles of pity.-Detroit Fra