Wichita eagle., 1889-01-15
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
A Few Trenchant Editorials From That
Enterprisins Sheet

A Few Trenchant Editorials From That
Enterprisins Sheet.
We tzlke the following from the last issue
OF The Arizona Kicker:
A DISAPPOINTED MANA tough from
New Mexico, who called himself 1.-THE Terror
Of Bloody River" struck our town the other
day with a wild yell and started in to fore
close on mortgage. The boys were mostly
asleep OF out shooting jack rabbits, but it
wasn't over seven minutes after the Terror
uttered his first whoop that be lay wilted
daisy on the street. The coroner counted
eighteen bullet holes In bis body, and hunbly
observed that there was no call for an In
quest
The age Of the Terror has passed There
was time when it was considered real funny
for tough to capture town and pop over q
dozen leading citizens, and his picture was
certain to appear in some illustrated paper as
hero, but that time has gone by. Terrors
have become dog cheap, and no one wants to
buy.
The coroner has our thanks for his kindness
towards us in this particular case We are
trying to grow some catnip and asparagus in
our back yard and he gave us the body of the
Terror as fertilizer. We should like three
or four more, and trust that our friends will
be on the lookout to supply US
Nor OUR FAULT.-We want it distinctly
understood that we had nothing whatever to
do with the unfortunate incident that oc-
cured On Jackass Hill last Tuesday evening.
Mrs Gen. Featherstone issued cards for a
high coffee, and most of the elite of the town
lad gathered at her two story adobe, when
1he sheriff swooped down and took away
seven prisoners, mostly charged with horse
stealing.
We neither gave them away nor knew that
=uch raid was intended, but this proves
anew the folly Of such gatherings Society
wants TO show OFF, of course, but what's the
use in collecting crowd for the benefit of
the sheriff.
BECOMING SERIOUS. Those young men
who make practice Of firing into The Kicker
office on their way up and down at night may
be extracting great deal Of fun over it but
we are not. As long as they fred high no
particular damage was done except to the
stovepipe but Of late several bullets have
whistled too close to our couch for comfort
We have been patient and forbearing, not
wanting to deprive the boys Of any legiti-
mate amusement, but this firing must be
stopped or we shall take vigorous measures
against the shooters.
HIT Us WRoNG.-We have several times
announced that we had our ION" spells and
our 'off" spells in regard tofghting, and that
citizens who tackled US must take their
chances Last Friday the old broken backed
hyena who edits the opposition sheet saw us
get letter In a mourning envelope at the
postofiice, and he concluded it would be an
off" day with us and pitched in to get salts
faction. The mourning envelope inclosed
letter from the bank at Tucson, giving notice
that draft sent for collection had been, much
to our astonishment, collected.
The old reptile above referred to therefore
hit us dead wrong, and he had no sooner put
up his dukes than we went for him and had
him hollering for mercy inside Of five min
utes. He says In his issue of yesterday that
he thought we were trying to draw gun on
him, but that is too thin. What he really
thought was that we had hit him with ton
of granite. Free Press