Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-11-29
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TIE ARIZONA KICKER.
Its Editor Announces That Business II
still Going On at the Old stand.

| announces
still Going On at the Old stand.
DoN'T BLAME HIM.-Last Tuesday
| night the city treasurer of this town
jumped out with all the public moneys
he could lay hands on. The aggregate
sum was only 500. but no one should
blame him for skipping out with that
small sum. II was all he could get,
and he had become so Disguised at hav-
| ing to associate with the members OF
the commencement that he would have
probably gone with $25.
FUN AREAD. Aid. O'Grady didn't
take our remarks OF last week in the
right spirit. We called him a thief,
liar and drunkard and instead Of ad-
hitting the charges like gentleman
he INDUCES in threats Of personal vio-
lence, Come on. Mr.. OGrady! Wen
try and make IL lively for you. And,
by the way while on this subject, we
feel to observe that of all the corrupt.
dishonest. knavish. drunken public
bodies ever convened in room to-
gether our town council caps the eli
max. Next week we shall begin war
OF determination on these vipers. and
II the fur dor ay il won't be our fault.
A NOVELTY. We learn that Mr..
James Shields, OF Omaha, has pur.
chased lot on Apache avenue and
intends to build and open hard ware
store. This will be novelty. Not
that we haven't a hardware store in
town. but the idea OF man opening a
store here instead OF saloon will
strike our people qucerly. The saloon
interest needn't be alarmed, however
We know OF at least six new ones which
will open this fall to help control the
political campaign.
Ir CANT BE DONE Now. -For year
or more after we struck this town we
could be kicked and cuffed with per-
feet impunity. even by a low-dOwn
Indian. We were knocked down.
booted up and down the street, and
had our nose pulled out of shape two
thought OF resisting. We were a tender
foot OF the tenderfootedest sort, and il
was a question whether we should pull
through or not. Let some one attempt
to tweak our nose to-day! The offer OF
hundred dollars in cash wouldn't
tempt mau in town to try it on. We
are no longer tenderfoot. The man
who sets out to lift" us now has got
to beat chain lightning. Every chap
who has piled into us for the last ten
months has had to be carried off ON u
shutter, and two OF them, us the town
records show, sleep peacefully among
the daisies.
IT MELTED Us.--lt Is we'll known all
over town we have held mortgage for
the last three months on the entire out
fit OF our contemporary. 1t covers every
thing but his own worthless carcass,
and can be foreclosed any minute. This
being the case. we are often asked why
we don't take possession when that
blotch on journalism refers to us in
such endearing terms as "Jackass,' y
liar. ''hypocrite' and so forth. We
did go over one day last week calculat-
| ing to turn him out OH the sand hills.
but he fell to weeping and melted us.
| While it seems hard for man to be
abused by his own property. we haven
the heart to kick away the barrel.
| And, besides, he runs such an abieci
| apology for weekly newspaper, that
| The Kicker receives hosts of compli-
meuts by comparison. We are not go.
ing TO be mean with him-not unless
he quits abusing us and tries to publish
Il good paper.
A NEW DEPARTMENT AS will be
noticed by all our subscribers we add
a new department to the Kicker this
week that of forecasting the weather.
We have arranged signal office on
the roof or our own building, and shall
take observations hourly. We have
also purchased map OF the United
States, and have arranged a pro-
gramme by which we expect nine
tenths OF our predictions to be verified.
This has been IL long-felt want in this
locality, aud the enterprise of the
Kicker will no doubt be duly appre-
ciated
We shall start out at slow pace and
do no rushing until the harness fits
well Our first predictions: Clearer,
warmer, cloudy, cool; may rain and may
not" is n sort of Il feeler. and We do
not advise any of our readers to give
up a fishing excursion or Sunday
school picnic on account OF it. We
hope In time to get used TO the hang of
the thing, and after we have we will
guarantee to beat the government out
of sight or wear one shirt all winter
Detroit Free Fress.