The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-12
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
A Western Editor with Great Mans
Things to Live For.

A Western Editor with Great Many
Things to Live For.
The last issue of the Arizona Kicker
contained the following:
ExpLANATORY.-T absence OF our
society column for the last three Is
sues seems to call for an explanation.
The trouble was jealousy among the
bon ton. If we happened to make
fye-line announcement that Mrs.
Colonel Dash expected her brother-ln-
law direct from the California peni-
Tertiary on a certain date, and only
four-line item to the effect that Mrs.
Judge De Soto, imported her hustle
direct from Zansibar, there was an ILL
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 all right in its way.
but we don't propose to come out with
q dOuble-leaded, scare-head article
every time citizen hangs 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 growth of rival towns, we
humbly cali attention to the fact that
since January 1st fourteen new saloons.
three poker rooms and four retail TO-
bacco stores have been opened in the
place. and at the present moment
eighteen men are engaged in building
jail capable of accommodating thirty
prisoners. We have done all this with
out any brag or buster, and we pro-
pose 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.
IT PAYs.-Several months ago we
established a grocery and feed store in
connection with the Kicker. The New
York World, Herald, and other effete
dailies of the metropolis predicted
dismal failure, but the result shows
they were mistaken. We figured that
this other business would be just what
we needed to distract our mind from
the harrassing thoughts of editorially
running this country, and that we
would be all the better and brighter
for being occasionally interrupted ia
our literary labors. The result has
justified our predictiOns-and more.
We were never in as good mental con-
ditiOn as now, while our sales have
kept increasing week by week until we
have been compelled to hire a clerk to
assist us. The editorial entitled "Ad.
vice to the President" was written with
more than dozen Interruptions to
measure corn, draw mOlasses and sell
clothes-pins, and yet we will put it
against anything which ever originated
from the pen of the stuck-up and exclu-
sive New York editors.
OUR JEALOUS CONTEMPORARY The
dyspeptic old excrescence who claims
to edit the milk-and-mush publication
down at the corner of Catfish alley is
jealous of our advertising patronage.
In labOred article this week in his
poorly printed old apology he says that
we practice bulldozing to bring adver-
Using. What a liar! The Kicker
practice bull-dozing! The idea is
laughable, and if he was worth mind
ing we would walk down to his shanty
and choke the assertion down his
brazen throat. There used to be sew
eral 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 they were composed OF
gentlemen who had skipped from the
east for barn burning, horse stealing,
bigamy, embezzlemsnt, etc. Then we
wrestled with EN-. and they came to
see that the life of trade was in USING
printers ink. We simply convinced
not bulldOzed. The efforts of ou-
knock-kneed contemporary to smirch
the fair fame OF The Kicker will simpl,
call forth smiles of pity.-Detroit Free
Press.