The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29
TIE ARIZONA KICKER.
Not Much Money In 1t, but Good Dea.
of Honor.

Not Much Money In It, but a Good Deal
of Honor.
We extract the following items from the
last issue of The Arizona Kicker:
ANoTHEs CURVE desire to announce to
tie readersof 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 a
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 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
knows and respects the power of the press
He knows that 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.
CAME To tiRIEF-The suit of the Widow
Gihh- against US for breach of promise. dam.
ages Slt0n. came up III court last Friday
This suit was instituted six months ago by
the cDurt nouse 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 US. 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 were 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 cats
paw, and we have sent to her house basket
Of groceries, clothesline, set of cups and
saucers and sack of flour to prove that we
have no malice.
IT WILL BE VERY QUIEr.-Our city cleo
ton, which takes place next Tuesday, will be
q very quiet one, and the singular spectacle
of two tickets almost without candidates
will I've presented AS both tickets were made
up of ring candidates, we felt it our duty to
publish as far as we could secure it, a history
of each Our biographies included thirteen
out OF the sixteen candidates, and the oil
cation was only three days old when n st of
them we're 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
and thus place the parties in such
a queer fix, but we felt 1t a duty we owed to
the public.
A WASTE OF MoSEY.-Sone person who
has grievance against The Kicker left an
machine on our doorstep one night |
asst week. 1t was a starch box filed with |
giant powder and two pounds of bullets, and |
was so aNanged as to explode when the cover
was lifted. We took it in and started to |
open it, supposing some modest admirer had |
eft US box of fruit or confectionery, but |
IN second thought concluded to soak it for a |
while. This action saved our life. Not only |
hat, but it prevented the destruction of our
and probably of much surround
ne property.
We have made every effort to trace the
lend who put up this job, but so far without
uccess. We realize that there are many men
n this community who banker for our life,
'ut we hope to disappoint them. If they
eel that they must have it, why not fire
,uckshot into our bedroom window, ambush
Is at night or pick quarrel on the street,
his plotting to scatter our bloody frag-
nents over our large and excellent stock of
roceries is both unkind and unreasonable
DED.-In this city, Oct. %, 1889, Pete Shu-
maker, aged "a years. months and IA days
'ete was the individual who attacked us on
he 21st in cont of the postoffice with cav
Try saber, being offended at an editorial
the policy of the car of Russia
oward Turkey. We let daylight into him
i four places, and we paid his doctor bill
nd funeral expenses. He sleeps well. He is
etter off. Death loves a shining mark
.astern papers please copy.-Detroit Free
'reSs.