Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-01-21
Waco Curiosity Shop.
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
A Few Trenchant Editorials From That
Enterprising Sheet.


Enterprising Sheet.
We take 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 wild yell and started In to fore
close on a mortgage. The boys were mostly
asleep or out shooting jack rabbits, but it
wasn't over seven minutes after the Terror
! uttered his first whoop that he lay q wilted
daisy on tie street. The coroner counted
eighteen bullet holes in his body, and humbly
observed that there was no call for an In.
quest
The age Of the Terror has passed There
was time when 1t 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
DO on the lookout to supply us
Nor Dun TAULr.--We want 1t distinctly
understood that we had nothing whatever to
do with tho unfortunate incident that &C.
CURED on Jackass Hill last Tuesday evening.
Mrs Gen. Featherstone issued cards for
high coffee, and most Of the elite of the town
bad gathered at her two story adobe, when
the sheriff swooped down and took away
seven prisoners, mostly charged with horse
stealing.
We neither gave them away nor knew TINT
such raid was intended, but this proves
anew the folly Of such gatherings. Society
wants to show of, Of course, but what's tho
use In collecting crowd for the benefit of
tho sheriff.
BECOMING SERIOUS. - Those young men
who make practice Of firing into The Kicker
oftice on their way up and down at night may
be extracting great deal Of fun over 1t but
we are not. As long as they fired 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 he
stopped or We shall take vigorous measures
against the shooters
HIT Us WRoNo.-We have several times
announced that we had our ION" spells and
our "off" spells in regard to fighting, and that
citizens who tackled us must take their
chances Last Friday the old broken backed
hyena who edits tho opposition sheet saw us
get letter In mourning envelope at the
postotflce, and he concluded 1t would be an
"ofi" 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 establishment, 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
Nun hoLering for mercy inside Of Ave min
utes. He says In his issue of yesterday that
ne 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. Detroit Free Press.