Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-14
THE ARIZONA KICKER,
Some OF the Ups and Downs of EdItorIs'
Life In the West,

We extract the following items from
the last issue of the Arizona Kicker:
The LAST STRAw.-For the last si3
months Major Davis. of this burgh
has lost no opportunity of abusing us
and bOasting of what he would do il
we did not step softly. The reason for
this conduct lies in the fact that the
Kicker not only called him horse
thief, but proved him bigamist be-
sides. Last Saturday the Major. who
has no more right to that title than a
mule has to that of professor" bOr-
rowed a shotgun and gave out that he
had camped on our trail and meant to
riddle our system with buckshot on
sight. Word was brought to us, and
although we were very busy at the
time experimenting our combined
weekly newspaper, harness shop, gro
Gerry, bazaar and gun store Gall under
one roof, and the largest retail estab-
lishment in Arizona), we laid aside
our work and went over to Snyder's
saloon in search of the Major. We
found MIN, and we gave him such a
whipping as no man in this town ever
got before. He lies a broken and
stranded wreck on the shores of time
so to speak, and the doctor says it will
be six weeks before he will find any
more trails or do any more camping.
SLIPPED A COG.-In company with
the elite of this neighborhOod we were
invited to the abode of Judge Graham
last Thursday evening to witness the
marriage of County Clerk Dan Scott to
the beautiful Arabella johnson, only
daughter of the aristOcratic widow
johnson, of Bay Horse flights. The
widow had made a spread worthy of
the days of Cleopatra. and Dan had on
new suit sent by express from Omaha
for the occasion. Every thing passed
off pleasantly until eight o'clock. at
which hour the bride was discovered
to be missing, and investigation soon
brought out the fact that she had gone
dead back on Dan and skipped the ira
la, whatever that is, with a bold cow
boy named French jim. She left a
message to the effect that she could
never, never love man with cata-
ract in his left eye, and that meant
Dan. There was feast, but no we'd
ding. and Daniel will have to try again.
EXPLANATORY several versions
of the incident that occurred in our
Office Saturday night are flying around
town and have probably been tele-
graphed all over the world, we deem
it but right to give the particulars as
they occurred. We were seated in the
editorial chair, writing a leader on the
European situation, when a rough
character known around town as
Mike the Slayer called in. AS we
had never had word with the man,
we suspected no evil. AS matter of
fact we reached for our subscription
book, suppOsing, of course, that he
wanted the best weekly in America
for a year. The Slayer then announced
that he had come to Stay us. not be-
cause we had ever done him harm, but
because the influence of the press was
driving out the good old times and
customs. We retreated towards the
door OF our harness department. He
pursued us with a drawn knife. We
then felt it our duty 10 draw our gun
and let six streaks of daylight through
mis- bedy, and as he went down we
stepped to the door and sent boy for
the coroner. 1t was a clear case of
self-defense. and the inquest was
mere formality. We lament the sad
occurrence, but no one can blame us
We paid his burial expenses, and in
another column will be found his obitu-
airy, written in our best vein and with
out regard to space. No other Arizona
editor has ever done half as much.
No HARM DoNE.-The boys got after
stranger the other evening who was
pointed out as horse-thief, and ran
him all over town with the object of
pulling him up to limb. In some
manner he gave them the slip, and in
their zeal they got hold Of Judge Dow
ney and held him up to a limb for over
a minute before the error was discOV-
cred. The Judge is gu-guing around
with a sore throat and stiff neck and
threatens to bring about fifty damage
suits. Take a friends advice, Judge,
and hush up. You got off powerful
easy, considering your general charac-
ter. While it was a mistake, the boys
were not so far wrong after all. We
wish such mistakes would occur oftener.
WE BIDE OUR TIME.-While selling
Mrs. Colonel Prescott four pounds of
prunes for half dollar the other day
Constable Button entered and asked as
to step across the street to the office of
Esquire Williams. We oheyed the re-
quest, and were at once served with a
warrant charging us with keeping
bales of hay on the sidewalk in front
of the Kicker Office to the detriment OF
pedestrians. AS is we'll known, We
run grocery, feed store, harness shop,
bazaar and music house in connection
with the Kicker, and the hay was out
for sign. We were tried. convicted
and fined nine dollars-the grossest
outrage ever perpetrated in the name
of law. We shall bide our time. That
is, we shall begin next week and show
Squire Williams up as a drunkard,
dead-beat, absconder, embezzler and
perjurer. and if we can't drive him out
of the country in six weeks we will
forfeit lung. The man who made the
complaint did it to get even with us
for refusing to lend him our only but