Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-12-14
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THE ARIZONA KICKER,
Some of the Things Peculiar to journal
ism In the West.

We extract the following from the
last issue of the Arizona Kicker:
A DOUBLE HIT.-Last week certain
folks who want to see US downed were
chuckling because we were not invited
to the grand autumn soiree given bv
Mrs. Judge Gildersleeve, of Jackass
Heights. 1t was a social snub on us.
We'll admit, but the aforesaid chuck
ling has ceased. 1t broke short of dav
before yesterday when the sheriff ar
rived from Omahaan tapped the Judge
on the shoulder and asked him how the
business of COW stealing got along.
! We've had the biography of the Judge
in hand for some months. He robbed
pOst-otfice in Illinois, stole hogs in
Iowa and embezzled from a toll-bridg.-
IN Indiana. On top OF that he sto.e
cows IN Nebraska, and when his wife
made cold mutton OF us we went down
to the telegraph Office and dispatched
the sheriff to come on. We think we
are about even. 1t is not the policy of
this paper, as we have often stated. to
deplete our population by giving
away" our citizens, but no one must
try any monkey-shines with US. We
are here to stay
He STEPPED our last Issue we
called attention to the fact that Will
lam Parton, familiarly known as Bald
headed Bill" had succeeded in secur-
ing the nomination for alderman of the
Second ward on the Peoples Reform
ticket. We didn't 90 much on the re
form business, to begin with, and we
went considerably less on William.
We kindly mentioned the fact to him
that he was an old soaker, a man who
never paid debt and that he escaped
indictment for stealing the bridge funds
by flaw. In a brotherly way We asked
him 20 step down and out, but instead
of needing our well-meant advice he
came hunting for us with shotgun
Then we had to exhibit certain docu-
nSnts to the good people to prove that
Williams true home was in Stat
prisOn, and it was decided to get Il
move on him. Some one gave the snap
away, however, and he was mile or
more away when the people called at
his cabin and asked MIN to come out
and play pendulum. We are heavy on
genuine reform in politics, but we
can t be made to believe that the way
to begin it is to nominate a thief for
office.
ALWAYS AHEAD.-We take pleasure
in announcing to the public in this
manner that we have established still
another enterprise in connection will.
The Kicker The New York World
has its way of showing its enterprise.
and we have ours. We haven't got
fourteen Webb presses at work, nor
can we afford to send an expedition to
Africa-not yet We have had for
some time under one roof newspaper
office, grocery, feed store, a har
ness shop, candy store and a glove
factory. We have now added butcher
shop. While all these things will he
run in connection with The Kicker, and
by the same editorial staff, subscribers
won't be obliged to take any thing but
the paper. We leave others to do the
Dragging, but we think we can justly
point with pride to this mammoth ag-
gregation Of business, all edited b one
central head, and all steadily improv
ing in genuine merit.
Our WESTERN WAY.-We were one
of three citizens who found our city re
cOrder staving blind drunk the othei
night and helped him home, and be
cause we had something to say, drunk
as he was, of such conduct on the part
of city official, he has been blowing
around that we are his enemy and want
to down him. The truth of the matter
is that he has been on a drunk for the
last six months, and at no time in thai
period has he been fit for his Ofticial
duties, but isn't that the case with al
the rest of them? We've been fighting
whisky ever since our first issue, but
the town now drinks barrel where il
used to a gallon. We haven't an Of
fetal in town who doesn't booze, and
we propose next week to make one last
effort. If they can't brace up We'll see
that every one of them is sent for and
taken back to serve out his unexpired
sentence. We like the West and West
ern ways, but when every body, from
Al. 10 tho N O0a1slynr
gets drunk on the same day change
of some sort is needed.
The WEATHER. - Our subscribers
have been both surprised and pleased
at the way we have hit the weather
for the last two weeks, We didn't ex
pect to do so we'll in the start-off, as
the only instrument we had was an old
horseshoe, a two-fOOt rule and a war
map Of the battle of Gettysburg, but we
made no mistake. Our first prediction
was that the following week would be
cold. clear, cloudy, warm and variable,
with possibly rain. We hit it even to
the variable. She varied from frost
TO such a hot night that every body
kicked the quilts off. The rain didn't
last but three days, but there was sutfi-
Gent to let us out. Our second pre-
diction also hit it pat. We predicted
winds, Gains. sunshine, clouds, high
pressure over the Arctic Ocean. anc
low pressure around the mouth Of the
Amazon, with a considerable wobblt
between here and the Pacific. She
wobbled. We got just what we ex-
pected. and from this out we are goin2
ahead like scared jack rabbit hunting