St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Pithy Extracts From the Leading
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Detroit Free Press
We extract the following from the last
issue of the Arizona Kicker:
Don't Blame Him-Last Tuesday
night the city treasurer of this town
jumped out with all the public moneys
he could lay hands on. The aggregate
sum was only S65, but no one should
blame him for skipping out with that
small sum. 1t was all he could get. and
he had become so Disguised at having to
associate with the members of the COM
mon council that he would probably
have gone with $25.
Fun AheOd-Ald. O'Grady didn'tta
our remarks Of last week in the right
spirit. We called him a thief, liar and
dIunkard. and instead of admitting the
charges like a gentleman, he INDUCES
in threats of personal violence. Come
on, Mr.. O'Grady! Well try and make
it lively for you.
And, by the way, while on this sub
ject, we feel disposed to observe that of
all the corrupt, dishonest, knavish,
drunken public bodies ever convened
in room together, Our Town Council
caps the climax. Next week we shall
begin war of determination on these
vipers, and if the fur don't fly it won't
be our fault.
A Novelty-We learn that James
Shields, of Omaha, has purchased lot
on Apache avenue and intends to build
and open hardware store. This will
be novelty. Not that we haven't a
hardware store in town, but the idea of
a man opening a store here instead of
saloon will strike our people queerly.
The saloon interest needn't be alarmed,
however. We know of at least six new
ones which will open this fall to help
control the political campaign.
1t Can't Be Done NOw-For year or
more after we struck this town we
could be kicked and cuffed with perfect
impunity. even by low-dOWn Indian.
We were knocked down, booted up and
down the street, and had our nose pulled
out of shape two or three times per
week, and we never thought of resist
ing. We were tenderfoot of the ten
derfootest sort, and it was a question
whether we should pull through or not.
Let some one attempt to tweak our
nose to-day! The offer of hundred
town to try it on. We are no longer a
tenderfOot. The man who sets out to
''lift" us now has got to beat chain
lightning. Every chap who has piled
into us for the last ten months has had
to be carried off on shutter, and two of
them. as the town records show, sleep
peacefully among the daisies.
1t Melted Us-it is we'll known all
over town we have held mortgage for
the last three months Oh the entire out
fit of our contemporary. 1t covers
everything but his own worthless car
cass, and can be foreclosed any minute.
This being the case, we are often asked
why we don't take possession when that
blotch on journalism refers to us in
such endearing terms as ''jackasS,"
liar" "hy pOcrite,' and so forth.
We did 90 over one day last week cal
culating to turn him out on the sand
hills, but he tell to weeping and melted
us. While it seems hard for a man to
be abused by his own property, we
haven't the heart to kick away the bar
rel. And. beside, he runs such an alb
ject apology for weekly newspaper,
that the Kicker receives hosts of COM
pliments by comparison. We are not
going to be mean with hin-not unless
he quits abusing us and tries to publish
a good paper.
A New Department-As will be no
ticed by all our subscribers, we add a
new department to the Kicker this
week that of forecasting the weather.
We have arranged a signal office on the
roof of our own building, and shall take
observations hourly. We have also pur-
chased map of the Udlted States, and
have arranged programme by which
we expect nine-tenths Of our predic-
tons to be verified. This has been a
Iong-felt want in this locality, and
the enterprise of The Kicker will no
doubt be duly appreciated.
We shall start out at slow pace and
do no rushing until the harness fits
well. Our first prediction: Clearer:
warmer; cloudy: cool; may rain and may
not:" is sort of feeler, and we do not
advise any of our readers to give up
fishing excursion or Sunday school
picnic on account of it. We hope in
time to get used to the hang of the
thing. and after we have we will guar
antee to beat the government out Of
sight or wear one shirt all winter