Wichita eagle., 1889-12-07
THE ARIZONA KICKER.

| THE ARIZONA KICKER.
| Not Much Money in 1t, but . Good Deal
of HCnor.
We extract the following items from the
last issue of The Arizona Kicker:
ANOTHER Curve desire to announce to
the readers of The Kicker that we have made
another cut in the price of bar soap, and for
the next two weeks shall offer six bars for q
quarter This is one bar ahead of anything
yet offered west of Chicago. and, while it
brings the profits way down to zero, we ex-
pect to reap some little honor from our enter
prise. The grocery which we run in connec-
| ton with The Kicker is coming rapidly to
| the front, and it is only question of few
weeks when it will stand at the head. Our
goods are fresh warranted full weight, and
| prices lower than anywhere else.
He WAS CoRRECT.-There was consider
able establishment exhibited by our people
the other day when the governor Of Arizona
| shook hands with us in front of the post
| Office, and we have noticed a considerable
change in the demeanor of certain people to-
wards us ever since The governor was cor
rect We are no clam shell hidden in the
| drifts, and he appreciates the fact He
He knows that a great paper like The Kick
er, having behind it, but under one and the
| same roof, a grocery, feed store, butcher
shop, harness shop, crockery store and gents
furnishings, must WELD a mighty influence
| for good
The people in this burg who have been
looking upon US as a one mule power had bet
ter get their eyes open.
~ kl>.
Gibbs against US for breach of promise, dam
ages 5000, came up in court last Friday.
This suit was instituted six months ago by
the court house ring, which has sought our
downfall ever since the first issue of this pa
per. That is, they put the widow up to sue
us, and have advanced the money as it was
needed.
When the widow was put on the stand she
testified that on the night of Feb. 81, 1887 we
asked her to marry u.s. She insisted that the
date was correct, and that nothing could
change her mind about it. We then exhibited
the records of the Jail to prove that on that
day and night. and on all next day and next
night, we we're a prisoner, having, as some
| of our readers may remember, departed from
the line of virtue and gone on bender. This
exhibit knocked the widow out in the first
round. and COMPOUNDED her supporters, and
we don't believe they will tackle us again
after that fashion.
As for the widow, she was only a cats
paw, and we have sent to her house basket
OF groceries, clothesline, q set of cups and
saucers and q sack Of -four to prove that we
have no malice.
IT WILL BE VERY QUIET.-Our city cleo
tion, which takes place next Tuesday, will be
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of two tickets almost without candidates
will be presented. AS both tickets were made
up of ring candidates, we felt it our duty to
publish, as far as we could secure it, history
of each. Our biographies included thirteen
out of the sixteen candidates, and the publ
cation was ONLY three days old when most of
them were hunting other localities. They
averaged all the way from murderers down
to barn burners, and we are not likely to be
troubled with them again.
What is left of the two tickets is fairly
clean and honest. We are sorry we had to
interfere, and thus place the parties in such
queer fix, but we felt it a duty we owed to
the public.
A WASTE OF MoNEY-Some person who
has a grievance against The Kicker left an
Internal machine on our doorstep one night
i:ASC week. 1t WAS q StaTcn OOX nIteQ Win
giant powder and two pounds of bullets, and
was so arranged as to explode when the cover
was lifted. We took it in and started to
open it, supposing some modest admirer had
left us q box of fruit or confectionery, but
on second thought concluded to soak it for
while This action saved our life Not only
that, but it prevented the destruction of our
institution and probably of much surround
ing property.
We have made every effort to trace the
tiend VINO put up this job, but so far without
success. We realize that there are many men
in this community who banker for our life,
but we hope to diAppoiut them. II they
feel that they must have it, why not fire
buckshot into our bedroom window. ambush
us at night or pick quarrel on The street,
This plotting 10 scatter our bloody frag-
ulents over our large and excellent stock of
groceries is both unkind and unreasonable.
DED.-In this city, Oct. Is, 1889, Pete Shu-
maker, aged 81 years, S months and IA days
Pete wss the individual who attacked us on
the 2lst in front of the postoflics with a cav
airy saber, being offended at an editorial
criticiziug the policy of the car Of Russia
toward Turkey. We let daylight into him
in four places, and we paid his doctor bill
and funeral expenses. He sleeps we'll He is
better off Death loves shining mark
Eastern papers please copy.-Detroit Free
Press.