Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-09
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
There u Always something New I'm
the West.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press
We take the following from the last
issue of the Arizona Kicker:
DISAPPOINTED MANA tough from
New Mexico. who called himself 1.-THE
Terror Of Bloody River" struck our town
the other day with wild yell and started
In TO foreclose on mortgage. The bows
were mostly asleep or out shooting jack
rabbits, but it wasn't over seven minutes
after the Terror uttered his first whoop
that he lay wilted daisy on the street
The coroner counted eighteen bullet holes
In his body, and humbly observed that
there was no call for an inquest. The
age of the Terror has passed. There was
time when il WAS considered real funny
for tough to capture town aud pop
over a dozen leading citizens. and his pic
ture was certain TO appear in some illus
trated paper AS hero. but that time hiss
gone by. Terrors have become dog
cheap. ard no one wants to buy. The
coroner has our thanks for his kindness
towards us In this particular case. We
are trying to grow some catnip and as
paragus in our back yard, and he gave US
the body Of the Terror as fertilizer
We should like three or four more, and
trust that our friends will he on the looks
out to supply us.
Nor OUR FAULT. We want it dis
tinctly understood that we had moth
ing whatever to do with the unfor
tunate incident that occurred on Jackass
Hill last Tuesday evening Mrs
General Fe;herstone issued cards for
high coffee, and most of the elite of
the town had gathered at her two story
abode, when the sheriff swooped
down and took away seven prisoners.
mostly charged with horse stealing. We
neither gave them away nor knew that
such raid was intended but this proves
anew the folly of such gatherings. So.
ciety wants to show of, of cour.e. but
what's the use in collecting crowd for
the benefit of the sheriff.
He MUST Go While we have no per-
s0nal feeling against Maj. Bigden, the
present postmaster, the fiat has gone forth
that he must go, and it would be useless
Tor US to defend him. Indeed, when one
looks over the last year he must conclude
that the major has only himself to blame.
The charges against him are:
l. Running the office on the one-man
power principle. In new town like this
all the boys want a hand in running the
postoff1ce.
2. Refusing to circulate among the
saloons and poker>rooms and show that
he didn't feel above the boys.
3. Putting on heap of style when
ever an Inspector is here and refusing to
Introduce the boys.
He must go. He might be an orna
ment to New York or PHILADELPHIA. but
be is too rich for the blood of new
wests<H-town
BECOMING SERIOUS. Those Young
men who make practice of firing into
the Kicker Office on their way up and
down at night may be extracting great
deal OF fun over it. but we are not. AS
long as they fired high no particular
damage was done, except to the stove
pipe, bat of late several bullets have
whIstled too close to our couch for com
fort. We have been patient and forbear-
ing, not wanting to deprive the boys of
any legitimate amusement, but this firing
must be stopped, or We shall take vigor-
Gus measures against the shooters.
HrT Us WRONG We have several
times announced that we had our ION"
spells and our "off" spells in regard 10
fighting, and that citizens who tackled us
must take their chances. Last FRIDAY
the old broken backed hyena who edits
the opposition sheet saw us get letter
In mourning envelope at the postoffice,
and he concluded 1t would be an "off'
day with US and pitched in to get salts
faction. The mourning envelope IN
nlnQQH a latfar from no ~
giving notice that draft sent for collec
ZION, had been, much to our astonish.
ment, collected. The old reptile above
referred to therefore hit us dead wrong,
and he had no sooner put up his dukes
than we went for him and had him hol-
lering for mercy inside of five minutes.
He says In his issue of yesterday that he
thought we were trying TO draw gun on
him. but that was too thin. What he
really thought was, that we had hit him
with ton Of granite.
WE HAD To.-We understand that
some of our leading citizens blame us for
the arrest of Col Jim Drake, who was
pincbed and taken to Omaha the other
day. We did write letter to the sheriff
that Jim was here and could be had any
day in the week--but we had to. he not
only persistently refused to subscribe for
the Kicker. but he avoided our grocery
and dealt with nonsadvertisers. In add
ton to this, jim was getting pulled up
and conceited. and he had an idea he was
running the town We want to be
friendly with all, but we must be used
right The first duty of every man in
this town who knows he is wanted by
sheriff anywhere is to come In and sub.
scribe. Price 81 per year, invariably in
advance.