Daily Republican., 1890-03-13
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Specimen Briclxs OF Western Editorial
Enterprise.

Enterprise.
We extinct the following from the last
Issue Of the Arizona Kicker:
"A 5TRAw.-We have Just closed q
bargain with Henry Shane, the we'll
known contractor and builder, for q one
story addition to the rear end of our
Office. TO be l1x14 In size. This room will
Be used - eunsmith shop under our
own personal management This Will
give u, under one and the "a me roof. q
great weekly paper, . job and book
Office, grocery, feed store, q hard.
ware store. Q signsl station, and gun
shop. Three years ago, upon our arrival
In this town, We slept under a wagon for
the first three nights, aud the frat money
We had WAS a borrowed dollar.
rs 1t any wonder tina, our moon-eyed.
lahtern-jawed, mule cared contem porary
down the street gDaws file all day and
has tho collie all LightF
ALWAYS AHEAD.-Next Monday
morning an artist and engrayer from
Ch'cago will arrive In town to accept OF
a position rendered by The Kicker. We
are the nrst to Introduce real
artst into Arizona, as we arc the
flrst to lead the way In all other
good things. Hereafter all matters
OF local importance, but more espccially
street rows attended with loss OF lie. viii
be illustrated In the highest style of the
art, thereby Increasing the value of The
Kicker TO subscribers by at least 100 per
cont, while the price Of subscription Will
remain at the old figures"
lHE CALLED JADE.-It has 90 hap
pened, every tims No have been Obliged
10 XIII . man In this town in self-dc.
tense, shat the coroner and every body
else was In . great hurry, and that the
body was buried In the most CON venjent
place. Last week We we're struck with
the idea OF getting them all toRct her In
one common spot, and we bought n acre
OF sand lot Of Col. Hawkins for . ground
work. Our green-eyed contemporary got
hint OF what was up, and he went
blowing around town aud did his best 10
head Us of; he failed, however, aud dur
Ing the thaw We had the five bodies tai ken
up, removed to what is already known as
The Kicker Corral, and each grave des-
ignated with white headboard with the
name painted neatly thereon. In the
spring we shali sec that each grave 10
covered with trailing arbutus-that 10. IL
arbutus will trail In this country. Tho
nAmea as they appear on the hesdbosrds
are; 'Msse. Pete, jim, Sam and Jack. )
We shall probably add couple more 10
that Ia"
THEY DON'T ENTEUsE-Every now
and then some one who Is dissatisfied
with the course OF TLe Kicker boos uD
with proposition to run US out OF the
county by establishing q new weekly, In
opposition. He goes blowing around.
gets out prospectus on q broken back ed
Typewriter, puts HE own name down for
70, and that's the last OF IL. We've seen
twenty such cases In the last three years.
and they 10 longer make our hair etand
on end and chils canter up and down
our spinal column.
"Iwo weeks ago we felt It our duty to
caution the Mayor of this town that he
was riding a high horse, and that he
must come down to mule or we'd take
measures to make him. He carried an
old shotgun around for two or three
days, telling everybody he had camped
on our trail, but II finally got too heavy
Tor him and he sold 1t for e3 and got out
the usual prospectus. We hear that he
has thus far succeeded in raising 81 and
a dog towards establishing great news
paper here. By way of encouragement
we II add second dog, and we hope the
Mayor will push his project for all It's
"NorIoE.-Parties addressing letters
to Tho Kicker will please add: United
States OF America, Western Hemisphere,
to the usual directions. Wanamakeris
pcstD aster In thia town Is never certain
what country Arizona is located In. and
this will greatly facilitate his labors of
The only qualification he
has got for the Office Is bis Ignorance of
orthc graphy and thl O. rapby, and his
theory - to why jsckass rapb,ts were
created bob.tailed."
"Nor GUILTY.-As predicted In our
last issue. Col. McClugg was not held for
The shooting OF Dan Tompkins. As we
were an eye witness to the whole affair,
We felt It our duty to 60 before the cor
oner's jury with our testimony. Our
blink-eyed contemporary down the street |
'Ays we did this hoping to increase the |
circulation OF The Kicker, and he is |
partly correct. We never let slip an op-
portunity to increase our subscription |
list. and are happy to announce that |
.hree members OF the coroner's Jury sub.
Icribed and paid for year in advance,
while the undertaken who furnished the |
'ox has given US . six-inch ad to run
J. 0. d. t. T.
THE colonel was taking . drink at the
'ar OF the Gray Wolf saloon when Temp |
Sins hit him on the chin with an onion. |
t was brutal and uncalled for thing,
md Tompklns pulled his gun to back Il
up. The colonel jumped behind bar
cl, pulled his gun and both fired to- |
sether. While he only Lost q lock OF
iair, Tompkins got It plumb center ard
ell dead. This should be solemn warn
ng to all his class not to monkey with a
when putting away an after
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