Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-27
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
A Few More of the Pecultar1ties of
 Bright Western Publication.

A Few More of the Pecultarities of a
 Bright Western Publication. From the Detroit Free Press.
 We take the following from half sheet issued last week by the Arizona Kicker: What it means.-This half sheet is no &C., cident. We issued it to save our legal no- tices. Had we had no legal ads we should have skipped publication entirely. When it is cold enough in this town to freeze whisky within ten feet of @ red hot stove there is no call for an editor to get up and hump himself. Our esteemed contemporary down the street calculates to skip two weeks and get drunk at least four times, and we shall be with him in spirit. While we aim to publish the greatest newspaper in the West we can't fight 27 degrees below ze- TO worth .shuchs. Cum dig soils, which means that as soon as the blizzard lets up we will try and do better.
 The Samoa affair.-In case of war count us in We have already arranged, in case war breaks out, to leave the Kicker in good hand, or suspend publication altogether and go to the front. We shall go as a general. We shall be prepared to part with fiber al hard tack, and return to receive the plsudits of the multitude. Letter go, Gallaherl
 Gone to the H. H. G.-An indian named He That Thinks Great Deal drank pint of Bronson's budge the other evening and started for his abode across the creek. Yesterday his dead body was found on the highway near the bridge, frozen so stiff that it broke in two as the boys loaded it up. The spirit had gone to the happy hunting ground, there to know sorrow never again. He That Thinks a Great Deal will think no more. Had he thought great deal more 1oo1 hon whisky he might have pulled through until spring and had another chance to run of 8 horse, but he had become discouraged and wanted to go. He is gone. It is well. We traded him years subscription to the Kick CT for four big jack rabbits, and we are six months ahead of him.
 Molehill vs. Mountain.-There is dispo- sition on the part of few mudsills to mag nifty the little incident which occurred at the post-offce last Tuesday evening. Last week we referred to Colonel Crocker as a thief. We were wrong. He was arrested in Illinois for arson and jumped his bail. He met us in the post office and knocked us down. While down we explained that we were in er- TOT, and he apologized and help brush the dirt off our clothes. That's all there was to it-one of the trifing incidents of everyday life--and that class who are seeking to ex- aggerate the facts will make nothing by 1t. When we call an incendiary a thief, rob-
 
 we shall apologize every time. There is no reason why an editor shouldn't also be a gentleman.
 We'll supplied.-J. NJ. Tompkins, our lead ing and popular druggist, has received from the East fresh supply of arsenic, strych- nine and rough on rats, and any one requir- ing anything in that line will find his goods fresh and his prices exceedingly moderate. Mr. Tompkins uses the poor just as well as the rich, and all who come are made well come.
 In Good Time.-The Rowling Hyena, which boasts of weekly circulation of 125 copies, and whose jealousy of the Kicker's sue cess is a matter of public comment, snser- ingly observed last week that we had not yet secured the right to put "postlnaster" after our name.
 Don't be in hurry gentlemen. We be- gan on the ground floor aud we can't grow nine stories at once. We don't want to be postmaster just at present, being engaged in conducting a great weekly newspaper, grocery, butcher shop and hardware store combined, but when we get more time we may have something to say about even the Governorship. The only pang of sorrow we feel is one for the editor of the Rowling Hy- ena, who will have filled drunbard's grave before our plans are perfected.
 A Correct Version.-There are several yer sions flying around in regard to the unfort- unate affair in the Red Front saloon last Friday night. As we were present and witness we will state that when Major Sha- mocken came in he was inebriated. Some one laughingly asked him how he escaped from Joliet, and the major foolishly insisted that his character had been impugned. As we owed him $15 he did not want to harm us, but passed on to Judge Shocks. The judge also far gone with drink and in bad temper, and the two clenched and rolled on the floor. The stove was upset, and in it's fall the major was mortally injured. This is a plain statement of the case. We all know that the major was horse thief, and he shouldn't have been so thin skinned. We all know the judge as an old bum and corrupt official, and he shouldn't have been so ready to fight. Both were to blame, and yet neither could be held culpable.