Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-20
The Arizona Kicker.

FROM the Detroit Free Press.
We extract the following from the last
issue OF 1.-THE Arizona Kicker"
Always in the Lead.-Last week We estab-
lished a new department in 1.-THE Kicker
that OF answering questions concerning dis
puted points on games of chance, as well as
making decisions thereon These games will
include eucher, old sledge, seven up, pedro,
whist, keno, faro, roulette, &C., taking in, in
fact, each and every game known to the sport.
ing world.
This department. will be edited by an old
gambler Of thirty years experience and who
carries seven knife wounds and the scars OF
four bullets as proofs of his literary caliber.
The fact that such department hit the bulls.
eye is evidenced by the fact that we have added
twenty new subscribers within week and
they are still coming. We were intending to
devote this space to religious news, but after
looking the ground over and discovering that
there was none TO chronicle we gave way to the
urgent demands of the boys and instituted the
new departure. 1t is the general belief that
had secured 0,000 for a new government
building. All communications intended foI
this department should be addressed Gam
bling department of The Kicker" Write only
on one side of the paper and do not attempt to
write with blood.
our popular register of deeds has presented
us with new 38-caliber revolver Of Smith 4
Wesson make, as a token Of his esteem and af-
lection, and we feel as proud as a boy with his
first pair of boots.
We have been, as some of our friends know,
greatly hampered in our editorial work during
the last year by an old fashioned revolver which
could never be depended on in an emergency.
1t was out Of repair all along the line, and when
we brought 1t down ON a man we never felt
sure which of us would get the contents. 1t
was also too large for our pistol pocket, and on
three or four occasions the other man had
opened fire before we could get it out. When
Arkansas Bill met US in front Of Taylor's bank
one day last summer and opened fire he had
pulled the trigger three times before we could
get our old shooting iron on line with his left
lung. We didn't much expect to drop him
then, AS the hammer was out of true, but when
we pulled he tumbled, and he lived long
enough to tell us that he had made the mistake
OF his life when he set out to remove the edi-
torial head Of Arizona's great weekly news
paper.
This new weapon adds to our editorial zeal
and enterprise and puts The Kicker" on a
more certain foundation. We have had only
one weeks practice and yet We can draw it and
send two bullets ripping through fellow-be-
1ngs carcass while an average school boy can
get his mouth puckered to begin the first line
of Henry Clay's great speech. We shall not be
satisfied until we have done little better than
that--fve seconds better. Meanwhile, any one
hankering for our scalp can find US at the usual
place, prepared to do the best we can under
the circumstances
1t Resulted.-We were born with a spirit Of
falr play In our composition, which has never
grown less. We want to see everybody and
everything have fair show For this reason,
when half dozen of our prominent citizens
came to US one day last week and suggested a
necktie party to remove Cowboy Jack" as he
calls himself, from his sphere on earth to one
great deal higher up, we suggested that he
first be given show to inflict his presence on
the people Of Tombstone or Tucson. He had
been with us three weeks, terrorizing old men,
women and boys by his wild shooting and
being too ready with his pop when a dispute
arose in a saloon. The assertion of our lop-
cared contemporary that we wanted to save
him until he had subscribed for The Kicker
is declaration worthy of Satan himself.
1t was suggested that we call upon the gen.
tleman named within the quotation marks, and
throw out a hint that he had better walk We
did SO. He received US with chilling politeness,
listened to our words of wisdom and then gave
us thirteen seconds to get down three pair of
stairs. As he had the drop on us, we got; and
as he didn't shoot. it is likely that Ne saved a
second or two. We warned him what the re-
suit would be, and the result has resulted. On
tuesday night a score or more of us leading
citizens made a call on Cowboy Jack He was
somewhat surprised, but would have done well
enough had he been given time. He was
taken from the o. X. saloon to Hangman's Tree,
given the usual time to undergo a change OF
heart and then hauled up and left to his re-
Elections. We spoke to him personally Just be-
fore he was lifted, referring to our former con-
versation, and it pleased us to hear him reply
that we were dead right in our deductions, and
that if he had his life to live over again he
would subscribe for THE Kicker" and pay at
least two years in advance.