The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1889-05-31
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
A Western Editor with Great Mas
Things tn Live For.


The last issue OF the Arizona Kicker
contained the following:
EXPLANATORY. The absence Of our
society column for the last three is
sues seems 10 call for an explanation.
The trouble was jealousy among tho
bon ton. II we happened 10 make =
fve-line announcement that Ms.
Colonel Dash expected her brother-in-
law direct from the California peni-
tentiary on n certain date, and only a
four-line item 10 the effect that Mrs.
Judge De Soto. imported her hustle
direct from Zansibar, there was nm ILL
feeling which stirred up the entire
community.
WE BoOA-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
doublc-leaded. scarc-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 10 claim
this as the only growing town in
Arizona, and with no desire 10
kill the growth OF rival towns, we
humby call attention 90 the fact that
since January LIST 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
n jail capable Of accommodating thirty
prisoners We have done all this with
out any brag or blustcr, and We pro-
pose To keep right on In the same quiet
fashion. leaving the outside world 10
Judge for itself as 10 whore IL shall
seek new homes and invest its capital
tr PAYs.-Severul months ago We
established "A grocery and feed store in
connection with the Kicker. The New
York World, Herald, and other cffctc
dailies OF the metropolis predicted "A
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 ~ cditorially
running this country, and that We
would be all the better aud brighter
for being occasionally interrupted in
our literary labors The result has
justified our predictions and more.
We were mover in as good mental con-
dition as now, while our sales have
kept increasing week by week until we
have been compelled to hire n clerk TO
assist us. The editorial entitled "Ad.
vice TO the President was written with
more than dozen interruptions 20
measure corn, draw molasscs and sell
clothes-pi1s, and yet We will put II
against m ything which ever originated
from the pen Of the stuck-up aud cxclu.
sive New York editors.
Our JEALoUs CONTEMrORARY The
dyspeptic old cxcresccncc who claims
10 edit the milk-and-mush publication
down al the corner of Catfish alley IL
jealous OF our advertising patronage.
In labOred article this week in his
poorly printed old apology he says that
We practice bulldozing 20 bring advcr-
tisiug. What liar! The Kicker
practice bull-dozing! The idea II
laughablc and If he was worth mind
ing we would walk down 10 his shanty
and choke the assertion down his
braacn throat. There used 30 bc sew.
cral firms here which didn't believe in
advertising. We couldn't make 'eD
believe In II until We went at IL and
found out that they were composed OF
gentlemcn who had skipped from the
east for barn burning. horse stealing,
bigamy. onbczllcm3nt, etc. Then we
wrestlcd with EN-, and they came 20
see that the lie of trade was in using
printers ink. We simply convinced
not bulldozcd The efforts of our
knock-knccd contemporary 10 smirch
the fair fame Of The Kicker will simply
call forth smiles Of pity.-Dotroit Free
Draag