Daily Republican., 1890-01-31

We extract the following from the last
Issue Of the Arizona Kicker, which was
only half sheet, and which seemed 10
have bseu printed on . cheese prsss:
ExPLANAToEY-Ws owe our readers
IN apology for the shape and appearance
OF the Kicker this week, and shAll pro-
coed to give II. Last Sunday we went
over to Silver Bent to see the boys aud
rake IN few subscriptions. Our Office
was left In charge of = chap just from
the east who claimed to be Gsorge Alfred
TOWNSEND. As We had never met George
We did not feel like calling the stranger
. liar.
We Intended to return Tuesday NOM
ing, but 10 this country man proposes
and mules and other things buck against
him. The Internal, lop cared, stifl-legged,
pig headed, limb-spavined beast which
We rode-a at counterpart Of our con-
temporary down the street-threw US
nine times 10 going thirteen miles, aud
We arrived 1t the bend bad used rp.
We hadn't yet rsked In dollar when
Lew Smith, y pux-ugly whom We assisted
to run ont Of our town four weeks aso,
sounded his war cry and began to encour-
age tho Benders TO hang us. Most Of 'em
wers on drunk that day, and the pro-
position o. once found favor.
Under the pretense that We, ~ editor,
puDi,sher, proprietor ana CITY editor o.
tho greatest weekly IN the west and
which runs % an annex, but under the
same roof, grocery, bu'cher shop. iced
store, shoe store, hssdwsre anI cutlery,
had oecn seeking 10 oreaS Gown tho
SOCIAL barriers OF the mighty west, they
hunted up rope end seieoteo . tree.
| We Appcn,ed' ~. oh'y aaaea 70 tneir
deslie. W. s'iea =, g.. si .g. put .ney
wouidn,t nave u. Our eaitoriai person
was Ie'u hoio o. ana nustisu along 70 .
| rope uAngin9 rom 9 hInD, ana - w
looked over tne CROWD and ia'ied 10 cafch
aeympathetlc eye wo ieit that our time
had come.
The boys were whiic ABOUT one thing.
Drunk ~ they were. they had kense
CROUCH 70 realize that great eiitoi
could not wind up Ms earthiy anairs 10
satisiAct0ry manner unaer hitcen min
utes, ana on motion OF nalI oreeo, whf
once succeeded 10 borrowing nall = doilal
o. us, tno tune was increased 70 twenty
We wanted 10 argue tue case, put u wa
no 60. we started IN on speech, bu
they Whooped u COWS. But Tue tim
thas re got Gown 70 business nve Of Oh
twenty minutes naa nea.
During our editorial career No hAS
assisted at several amateur executions
We had always supposed that II th
crowd were satisfied the victim wa
bound to be. 1t never seemed much o
an effort Tor him to let 60 Of ssrthl
matters. and We have sometimes won
dercd why more Of them didn't com
forward and ask TO be pulled up to
limb. Our iieas underwent q gres
change on We sat on mcat- box under
dangling rope, while the minutes hui
ried away like jackaas rabbit taking tb
lead OF prairie DIRE on . windy dag
Any man who believes he can do bus
uess under such circumstances is IN
taken. He feels restless and unsettled
and his mind seems to be disturbed ov.
acres Of space.
II was ouly after ws had lost twely
minutes of our time fooling around ths
we started In on our last will aud test'
meut, and we hadn't written three line
OF that before we suddenly recollectc
that we were without blood relative o
earth. As to leaving the Kicker aud II
annex to any gafoot in town WAS not
he though t Of, ard we finally made ont
bill OF sale to that individual known I
/ william of the Hill, who has sever
times appeared in our town ard q
tam pied to run the government with
hroncho aud two reyolyers.