Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-07-27
rae aARIzoNA kIcKER. .

How It's Town Is Booming-TheE o-
TORS Annex-A Jealous contem-
porary,
The Last issue Of the Arizona Kicker
contained the following
| Explanatory: The absence OF our
society column for the last three issues
seems TO call for an explanation. The
trouble was Jealousy among the bon
ton. II we happened TO make a five
line announcement that Mrs. Col
Dash expected her brother-in-law di-
rect from the California penitentiary
on certain date and only four-line
item to the effect that Mrs. Judge De
Soto imported her hustle direct from
Zanzibar, there was an i'll 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 is alright in its
way, but we don't propose 10 come out
with a double-leaded, scare-head arti-
Gle every time citizen hangs a new
front gate. Booms are good enough
in their way, but there must be merit
behind them. With no disposition TO
claim this as the only growing town in
Arizona, and with no desire TO kill the
1 growth of rival towns. we hnmbly call
attention to the fact that since Jan. /
| fourteen new saloons, three poker
rooms, and four retail tobacco stores
have been opened in the place, and at
| the present moment eighteen men are
engaged in building a Jail capable of
accommodating thirty prisoners. We
have done all this without any brag or
bluster, and we propose TO keep right
on in the same quiet fashion, leaving
the outside world TO Judge for itself as
to where it shall seek new homes and
invest it's capital.
1t Pays. Several months ago we es-
tablished a grocery and feed store in
| connection with the Kicker The
effete datlies of the metropolis predict
ed a dismal failure, but the result
1 shows that they were mistaken. We
| figured that this other business would
be just what was needed to distract our
minds from the harassing thoughts of
editorially running this country, and
that we would be all the better and
brighter for being occasionally inter-
rupted in our literary labors. The re-
suit has justified our predictions and
more. We were never in as good men
| tai condition as now, while our sales
have kept increasing week by week
until we have been compelled 10 hire a
clerk to assist us. The editorial en-
titled advice TO the President was
| written with more than a dozen inter
ruptions to measure corn, draw mo-
lasses, and sell clothes-pins, and yet
we will put it against anything which
ever originated from the pen of the
4 stuck-up and exclusive New York edi-
! tors.
/ Our Jealous Contemporary The
/ dyspeptic old excrescence who claims
I to edit the milk-and-mush publication
/ at the corner of Catfish alley is jealous
of our advertising patronage. In a
labored article this week in his poorly
| printed old apology he says we prac-
! ticed bulldozing 70 bring advertising
What a liar! The Kicker practice
] bulldozing, The idea is Imaginable.
\ and if he was worth minding we should
walk down to his shanty and choke
the assertion down his brazen throat
1 There used TO be several firms here
which didn't believe in advertising.
We couldn't make 'em believe in it
until we went at it and found out that
4 they were composed of gentlemen who
I had skipped from the east for barn
burning, horse-stealing, bigamy, en-
1 bezzlement, etc Then we wrestled
with 'em and they came to see that the
/ life of trade was in using printers ink.
\ We simply convinced-not bulldozed.
The efforts of our knock-kneed con-
temporary TO smirch the fair fame of
the Kicker will simply call forth smiles
of pity. Detroit Free Press