Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-19
The Arizona Kicker


From the Detroit Free Press
We extract the following items from the last
issue of the Arizona Kicker:
QUEER PRoCEEDING.-T other night some
of the boys came around and routed us out of
bed at midnight to go over and see EN- hang
Pete Smith. Pete is the chap who killed Col
Williams in a saloon row last fall and who has
had shot at several other eminent citizens
including ourself. For the last two weeks he
has been unning the town. and his refusal to
take hint resulted in his being waited on by
the vigilance committee. We reached
the grounds to find Pete standing on
barrel with a rope around his neck He
knew his time had come. and was ready to
die game, but no sooner did he learn of our
preseuce In the crowd than he began to pro-
test and object and demanded that we be run
into the scrub. We called his attention to the
fact that he had had two shots at us at close
range and that we were the only party on the
ground who could dish up his obituary in good
English, but the ungrateful rough kept on
Kicking and would not even argue the case A
man In this country can't have everything he
wants, no matter how big buffer he is and
when 1t was seen how unreasonable Pete was
the boys went ahead with the hanging lust the
same, and Mr.. Smith won't sail around our
streets with gun on each hip for many moons
to come. We've seen some queer things out
here, but the idea Of a man like Pete Smith
Directing to a man like us seeing him drop off
barrel rather caps the climax. We are charit-
able enough to believe he was little off,
A CANARD.-The story in certain Chicago
papers that the editor of the Kicker runs a
faro room in connection with the newspaper
bears the ear-marks of our jealous pated con-
temporary. There isn't word of truth in il.
1t was suggested by Col. Kane about month
ago that we give up portion of our Office
pace during the evening to a poker club OF
which we are president, and we cheerfulIy
adopted the suggestion, and game is on every
night from to IL. but poker Isn't faro-not by
long shot. Our enemies will gain nothing by
circulating such absurd stories about our char
acter.
He STRUCK SNAG.-On the LIST day of
April we started Indian Dick out OF town to
see how quick he could make a journey around
the world. To tell the honest truth we hadn't
over ton of confidence i'll Dick but he had 80
much ambition that we gave him dollar and
q half and told him to draw on US for some
more when he reached Yokohama. The other
day we heard of him up at Overton's ranch
only twenty miles away, and that he had been
there ever since the Sd of April. 1t seemed
that he was doing bravely on his trip until he
struck Overton's, where an eastern genius is
making some sort of whisky out of cactus roots
The first taste OF that liquor nailed Dick right
to the spot, and he hasn't moved ten rods
since. Under these circumstances all bets are
loose in the back yard to shift for themselves
DRAWING THE LIyE.-Maj. Atwood Of Tomb
stone came down the other day to ask a great
favor OF us. He wanted US to give HIM one of
the bodies out of our private graveyard as a
starter in establishing one of his own While
the major has been our friend from first to last
and while he always had a dollar for US in the
old days when we were hard up, we must draw
the line somewhere. He can have our shirt,
our rabbits foot, our dream book or our fine
comb, but friendship ceases when he approaches
the graveyard which we have been at SO much
pains and expense to fit up and make feature
OF this section OF the country.
DoN'T SroP HIM.-Last week we engaged a
new arrival from the east to act as local editor
OF the Kicker. He assured us that his name
was Barlow and that he was a close follower in
the footsteps of Horace Greeley. After twenty
four hours trial he got tight, stole our Sunday
boots, gobbled a mule and lit out toward sun
down. Don't stop him on our account. The
owner Of the mule may want to see him, but We
don't. Those boots cost us S12, but if Mr. Bar
low will only keep away we shall consider it a
good bargain. He is about the twentieth dis
ciple of Greeley, Bennett or Raymond We have
tried in the last year, and we are tlred-very
tired.