The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-12
THE ARIZONA C.
Western Enterprise Continues to Lea,

Western Enterprise Continues to Lead.
We extract the following from the last
issue of the Ariz ma Kicker:
A QUEER PRoCEEDING.-The other night
| some of the boys came around and routed
us out of bed at midnight to go over and
| see 'em hang Pete Smith. Pete is the
chap who killed Col. Williams in a saloon
row last fall, and who has had a shot at
several other eminent citizens, including
ourself. For the last two weeks he has
been running the town, and his refusal
to take a hint resulted in his being waited
on by the vigilance committee.
We reached the grounds to find Pete
standing on a barrel with a rope around
his ne k. He knew his time had C me,
and was ready to die game, but no 0 n
than he began to protest and object and
and demand that we be run il % the
scrub. We called his attention to the
fact that he had had wv 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 IN
grateful rough KEEP: on kicking and would
not ven argue the case.
A man in this country can't have
everything he wants, no matter how big
a buffer he is, and when 1t was seen how
unreasonable Pete was the boys went
ahead with the hanging just the same, and
Mr.. Smith won't sail around our streets
with a gun On each hip for many Don
to Ome 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 a barrel rather caps the
climax. We az charitable enough to
believe he was a httl. ~.
A CANARD.-The story in certain Chi
cagO papers that the editor of the Kicker
runs a faro room in connection with the
newspaper bears the ear, marks of our
jealouS-pated contemporary. Taere isn't
a word Of truth in it.
1t was suggested by Col. Kane about a
month ago that we give up a portion Of
our office space during the evening to a
poker club of which we are president, and
we c~heerfully adopted the suggestion, and
a game is on every night from Z to II,
but poker isn't faro-not by a long shot.
Our enemies will gain nothing by clrcu-
lating such absurd stories about our
character.
He STRUCK A SNAG.-Ol the LIST day Of
April we started Indian Dick out of town
to see how quick he could make a Jour
ney around the world, To tell the honest
truth, We hadn't over a ton Of confidence
in Dick, out he had so much ambition
that we gave him a dOllar-and- a-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 S nee the Sd of
April. It seemed that he was doing
brayely on his trip until le struck Over
tons, where a Eastern genius is making
some sort Of whiskey 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 declared of, and all guesses
have been turned loose in the back yard
to shift for themsel' es.
DRAWING THE LINE.-Maj. Atwood, Of
Tombstone, 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 esta5-
fishing 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 nave
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 a feature
Of this section Of the country.
DON'T SToP HIM.-Last week we en-
gagged a new arrival from the East to act
as local editor Of the Kicker. He as ured
US that his name was Barlow and th>t he
was a close follower in the footsteps Of
Horace Greeley. After tw~enty-four
hours trial he got tight, stole our Sunday
boots, gobbled a mule and lit out towards
shutdown. Don't stop him on cur account.
Toe owner Of the mule may want to see
him, but we don't. Those boots cost US
S12, but if Mr.. Barlow will only keep
away we shall consider it a good bargain.
He is about the twentieth disciple of
Greeley, Bennett or Raymond we have
tried in the last year, and we are tired
very tired.
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