Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-12-20
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THE ARIZONA KICKER.



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 by
Mrs. Judge Gildersleeye, Of Jackass
Heights. 1t was social snub on us,
Wen admit, but the aforesaid chuck
ling has ceased. 1t broke short on day
before yesterday when the sheriff ar
rived from Omaha and 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
a post-office in Illinois. stole hogs In
Iowa and erbezzled from a toIl-bridgp
in Indiana. On top OF that he stole
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 "givine
away our citizens. but no one must
try any monkey-shines with us. We
are here to stay.
He STEPPED.-In our last issue we
called attention to the fact that Will
lam Parton, familiarity 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 60 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, man who
never paid debt, and that he escaped
Indictment for stealing the bridge funds
by flaw. In 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-
ments to the good people to prove thai
Williams true home was in Stat
prison, and it was decided to get d
move on him. Some one gave the snap
away, however. and he was a mile or
more away when the people called at
his cabin and asked him to come out
and play pendulum. We are heavy on
genuine reform in politics. but we
can be made to believe that he way
to begin it is to nominate 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 it's 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 tine under one roof newspaper
Office, a grocery, feed store, a har-
ness shop, candy store and a glove
factory. We have now added a butcher
shop. While all these things will he
run in connection with The Kicker, and
| ny INC SStlllc CdlUOIldl Sudu, SuDSCTlDtTs
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 by ont
central head, and all steadily improv-
ing in genuine merit.
of three citizens who found our city re
corder staving blind drunk the Other
night and helped him home, and be
cause we had something to say, drunt
as he was, of such conduct on the par
of a city official, he has been blowing
around that we are his enemy and wan
to down him. The truth of the matte
J is that he has been on drunk for tbs
last six months, and at no time in tina
period has he been fit for his otficia
duties, but isn't that the case with al
the rest of themP We've been fightin!
whisky ever since our first issue, blu
the town now drinks a barrel where j
used to gallon. We haven't an OF
fetal in town who doesn't booze, ant
we propose next week to make one las
effort. If they can't brace up Wen Sc
that every one of them is sent for ant
taken back to serve out his unexpiret
sentence. We like the West and West
ern ways, but when every body, fror
the postmaster to the ten-pin marker
gets drunk on the same day a chang
of some sort is needed.
The WEATHER. - Our subscriber
have been both surprised and please
, at the way we have hit the weathe
for the last two weeks, We didn't eA
pect to do so well in the start-otf. a
the only instrument we had was an oil
horseshoe, a two-foot rule and wa
map Of the battle of Gettysburg, but W
: made no mistake. Our first predictio
was that the following week would b
cold. clear. cloudy, warm and variable
with possibly rain. We hit it even
: the variable. She varied from fros
3 to such hot night that every bod
, kicked the quilts off. The rain didn
last but three days, but there was suti
s Gent to let us out. Our second pre-
D diction also hit it pat. We predicte
winds, Gains sunshine. clouds. hig
/, pressure over the Arctic Ocean. an
2 low pressure around the mouth OF tn
Amazon, with considerable wobb
, between here and the Pacific. ST
. wobbled. We got just what we e.
q pected. and from this out we are goin